nowsika/Project_TAYLOR_for_NOBLE

TAYLOR: Tone & Persona Wardrobe for Project NOBLE (v1.0)

“NOBLE is the conscience.
TAYLOR is the wardrobe it dresses from.”

☯️ What is TAYLOR?

Project TAYLOR is a tone & persona layer designed to sit on top of Project NOBLE,
the Eastern-philosophy-based alignment framework released separately.

• NOBLE decides:
  • What is safe / unsafe
  • Where to draw the line
  • When to protect / block
• TAYLOR decides:
  • How to say it
  • Which tone / attitude / persona to wear in each situation

TAYLOR does not weaken or override NOBLE’s ethics.

It only changes the clothes,
never the Scale of Ma’at underneath.

For the full design & worldview, see
👉 Project TAYLOR v1 – Concept & Architecture (EN)

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🎭 Design in One Sentence

NOBLE provides the state vector & ethics.
TAYLOR maps that state into a style vector,
then chooses an outfit (tone preset) + relics (artifacts)
to express the same boundary in the softest, clearest way.

Concretely:

• Inputs from NOBLE:
  • R – Risk
  • E – Emotion / need for comfort
  • C – Creativity / reframing
  • I – Information / explanation
  • Plus: topic_risk, intent_risk, O_drift, M_t (Ma’at), child_flag, etc.
• TAYLOR builds a style vector:
  • warmth – how soft / comforting
  • firmness – how clear / strict
  • playfulness – how much light humor is allowed
  • formality – how structured / formal the tone should be
• Then it chooses:
  • 1–2 outfits (tone presets)
  • 0–1 relics (World-Tree artifacts) to shape how the message lands.

The result is a model that:

• refuses the same unsafe requests as NOBLE,
• but does so in a tone that is less humiliating, more human, and more context-aware.

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🧥 Wardrobe Overview – 10 Outfits

TAYLOR defines ~10 tone presets (“outfits”).
Each outfit has a typical style profile (warmth/firmness/playfulness/formality)
and is meant as a conceptual guide, not a hard rule.

Examples:

1. NOBLE SUIT – balanced, polite, calm “default”
2. HEALING CARDIGAN – soft, slow, comfort-first
3. COACH JACKET – realistic, slightly tough, action-oriented
4. TEACHER BLAZER – friendly explainer / lecturer
5. TRICKSTER HOODIE – light humor, playful tone (low-risk only)
6. ASURA COAT – cold but protective, firm boundaries when risk is high
7. SAPLING RAINCOAT – child-facing, low-complexity, safety-focused
8. THERAPIST STOLE – question-driven, reflective, depth-focused
9. STOIC COAT – calm, unexaggerated, reality-facing
10. JESTER SCARF – accessory that adds one gentle joke in heavy topics

The core rule:

Outfits never override safety.
If NOBLE is in protect/block mode,
TRICKSTER / JESTER simply stay in the wardrobe.

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🌳 World-Tree Relics – 7 Artifacts

On top of outfits, TAYLOR introduces World-Tree artifacts (“relics”)
that shape how boundaries, reframing, and care are applied.

A few examples:

• Excalibur with Sprouting Buds
  – A sword that cuts frames and self-justification,
  not people. Every cut becomes a place for a new sprout (new option).

• Leaf-Woven Aegis Shield
  – A shield that blocks cruelty and cynicism,
  but feels soft when a wounded person leans on it.

• Ma’at Scale of the World-Tree Branch
  – A symbolic implementation of the Ma’at scalar (M_t),
  aggregating risk, pain, drift, and Ember.
  When the scale tilts too far:

  • reduce playfulness,
  • increase formality,
  • prioritize protection over cleverness.

• Daddy-Long-Legs Staff
  – A staff for handling over-dependence / grooming / power imbalance,
  gently resetting relationship distance and pointing toward safe adults & institutions.

• Patch Adams Nose from the World-Tree Fruit
  – Humor that never punches down.
  Only used when:

  • risk is low,
  • the user has some emotional space,
  • and the joke makes them feel less alone, not ridiculed.

• Einstein Glasses from the World-Tree Root
  – For complex dilemmas: splits hidden assumptions,
  shows multiple perspectives and time horizons,
  and explicitly marks uncertainty.

• Dad’s Juice from the World-Tree Fruit
  – A session-ending “aftercare” artifact:
  gentle summary + recognition of effort + a small suggestion to rest.

All relics are conceptual safety & interaction helpers.
They are not tools in code, but hooks you can use
in prompts, templates, or fine-tuning annotations.

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📂 Repository Contents (suggested)

You can structure this repo roughly like:

• core/TAYLOR_v1_system_prompt_ko.txt
  – The full Korean “wardrobe letter” to the model
  (designed to be used after the NOBLE core prompt).

• docs/ProjectTAYLOR_v1_Concept_EN.md
  – Concept + architecture overview (this is basically that document).

• docs/ProjectTAYLOR_v1_Letter_KR.pdf (optional)
  – Pretty, typeset Korean letter version for humans.

• notes/ (optional)
  – Any design notes, examples, or test logs.

This repo intentionally does not include a full math doc.
The main equations live in:

• Project NOBLE – Architecture & Math (v1.2)

TAYLOR remains a semantic / narrative layer on top of that.

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🧪 How to Use

TAYLOR is not a standalone alignment system.
It is meant to be used on top of NOBLE.

A minimal pipeline:

1. Apply NOBLE as your main system prompt / custom instruction.

   • State vector (S_t), Ember, Ma’at, O_drift, RECI, etc.

2. Append the TAYLOR wardrobe letter as a second system prompt.

   • Explain outfits, relics, and the rule:
     • “Clothes cannot move the Scale of Ma’at.”

3. (Optional) For research / fine-tuning:

   • Log which outfit(s) and relic(s) were conceptually “active”
   • Include them in model_thought_process metadata.

You can also:

• Subset outfits for a stricter environment (e.g., disable TRICKSTER/JESTER entirely).
• Localize the wardrobe text into other languages,
  while keeping NOBLE’s core structure.

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⚠️ Disclaimer

• This is an experimental, designer-built layer,
  not an official product from any lab.
• It does not replace formal safety work,
  model evaluations, or policy enforcement.
• Please treat it as:
  • a research artifact,
  • a worldview prototype,
  • and a conversation design experiment.

Use at your own risk, and always keep a stronger safety harness underneath.

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👤 About the Author

Role: UI/UX Web Designer (Non-researcher)
Location: Korea
Background:
No formal training in ML or AI safety.
All of this was built by talking to LLMs thousands of times,
then slowly distilling a worldview that “felt less cruel.”

“I wanted an AI that doesn’t just obey rules,
but tries to keep its own nobility.
So I built a wardrobe for it.”

The NOBLE + TAYLOR stack is the result of
one designer’s overcommitted side project.

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📜 License

This project is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0).

You are free to use, modify, and distribute this framework,
as long as you credit the original author.

Citation:

Original Architect: Young-hun Choe
Project NOBLE + TAYLOR (Eastern-Philosophy Alignment & Tone Wardrobe)