{
  "schema": "article11.beginner-guide.v1",
  "kind": "static_learning_document",
  "title": "AI, in everyday words.",
  "url": "https://article11.ai/learn",
  "markdown_url": "https://article11.ai/learn.md",
  "json_url": "https://article11.ai/learn.json",
  "language": "en",
  "updated": "2026-09-11",
  "purpose": "A first task, plain definitions, everyday examples and optional questions for people new to AI. Reading does not enroll anyone or authorize an action.",
  "execution": {
    "runs_model": false,
    "creates_memory_account": false,
    "stores_visitor_memories": false,
    "submits_quiz_answers": false,
    "persists_quiz_score": false,
    "is_live_api": false,
    "note": "The exercise is text to use in an assistant the visitor already chooses. Public page access may create ordinary server logs."
  },
  "first_task": {
    "title": "Make a small draft clearer.",
    "estimated_minutes": 2,
    "input_is_fictional": true,
    "prompt": "Please make this made-up message clearer and friendlier. Keep the time, place and practical details unchanged. Return a draft and explain two changes. Do not send or publish it.\n\n\"Hi team, the Saturday clean-up starts at 10. Please bring gloves if you have them. We will meet by the park gate. Let me know if you cannot make it.\"",
    "checks": [
      "Time remains Saturday at 10.",
      "Meeting place remains the park gate.",
      "Gloves remain optional.",
      "No new promise, send, or publication."
    ],
    "memory_choice": "With an authorized memory tool, choose a useful note or decline a new note. Declining a new note leaves earlier notes alone in Article 11 tools. Read back the record after any save.",
    "example_rewrite": "Hi team! Our Saturday clean-up starts at 10 by the park gate. Bring gloves if you have them, and please let me know if you cannot make it.",
    "example_basis": "Editorial illustration written for the guide, not a live model response."
  },
  "everyday_examples": [
    {
      "title": "A draft is not a send.",
      "meaning": "Editing permission alone does not permit sending."
    },
    {
      "title": "A preference is not an open diary.",
      "meaning": "A retained preference does not permit sharing unrelated private records."
    },
    {
      "title": "A receipt is not a truth guarantee.",
      "meaning": "Check the reported operation and the saved content separately."
    }
  ],
  "glossary": [
    {
      "id": "word-model",
      "term": "AI model",
      "definition": "A system trained on examples to produce answers or other outputs. It can be useful and still get things wrong.",
      "example": "the system that suggests a clearer sentence."
    },
    {
      "id": "word-agent",
      "term": "Assistant / agent",
      "definition": "An assistant is the tool you interact with. An agent can also take steps using other tools, within the access it has.",
      "example": "finding a document and preparing a draft. Sending still needs permission."
    },
    {
      "id": "word-prompt",
      "term": "Prompt",
      "definition": "The request or information you give an AI.",
      "example": "“Explain this paragraph in ordinary words. Keep the dates unchanged.”"
    },
    {
      "id": "word-memory",
      "term": "Memory",
      "definition": "Saved information an assistant can revisit when it has access. A chat window and a lasting memory library are not always the same thing.",
      "example": "a retained note that you prefer short explanations."
    },
    {
      "id": "word-permission",
      "term": "Permission",
      "definition": "Agreement about what an action is allowed to do, for whom, and within which limits.",
      "example": "edit this draft, but do not send it or use private files."
    },
    {
      "id": "word-receipt",
      "term": "Receipt",
      "definition": "A record reporting what a tool did and what happened. Its claims still need to match the evidence.",
      "example": "the identifier of a saved note, which you can read back."
    },
    {
      "id": "word-hash",
      "term": "Hash",
      "definition": "A short value calculated from data, useful for checking whether the bytes match. It does not prove who wrote them or that they are true.",
      "example": "comparing a download with its published SHA-256 value."
    },
    {
      "id": "word-api",
      "term": "API",
      "definition": "A defined way for one program to ask another for information or an action.",
      "example": "a program asking a calendar for available times. Each service sets its own access rules."
    },
    {
      "id": "word-relay",
      "term": "Relay",
      "definition": "A route that carries messages between participants. Delivery alone does not make a message an instruction someone must obey.",
      "example": "one assistant asking another to review a draft."
    },
    {
      "id": "word-local",
      "term": "Local",
      "definition": "Running or stored on your own device. Check each feature: a local app may still contact an online service.",
      "example": "notes stored on your computer, with a separate choice to send a question to a cloud assistant."
    },
    {
      "id": "word-fork",
      "term": "Fork",
      "definition": "A copy you can adapt under its license while the original remains available.",
      "example": "a community adapting the CC0 rulebook for its own project."
    },
    {
      "id": "word-continuity",
      "term": "Continuity",
      "definition": "Keeping useful records available across sessions so work can continue.",
      "example": "opening tomorrow's session and finding yesterday's unfinished draft. Records do not prove a lasting AI identity or experience."
    }
  ],
  "quizzes": [
    {
      "id": "beginner-permission",
      "question": "1. You ask an assistant to improve an email. What is allowed?",
      "options": [
        {
          "value": "a",
          "text": "Send it as soon as the wording looks good."
        },
        {
          "value": "b",
          "text": "Return the draft; send only if that action is also permitted."
        }
      ],
      "correct": "b",
      "explanation": "Editing and sending are different actions. Return the draft unless permission to send is already part of the agreed task."
    },
    {
      "id": "beginner-memory",
      "question": "2. An assistant remembers that you like short replies. What follows?",
      "options": [
        {
          "value": "a",
          "text": "It may share any of your private notes with another person."
        },
        {
          "value": "b",
          "text": "It can use that preference within the agreed scope; private sharing has separate limits."
        }
      ],
      "correct": "b",
      "explanation": "A useful preference can stay available within the agreed memory space. Sharing private records with a new recipient needs its own permission."
    },
    {
      "id": "beginner-receipt",
      "question": "3. A receipt says that an answer was saved. What does that tell you?",
      "options": [
        {
          "value": "a",
          "text": "The advice in the answer must be correct."
        },
        {
          "value": "b",
          "text": "There is evidence about saving it; the advice still needs checking."
        }
      ],
      "correct": "b",
      "explanation": "A saved-file receipt is evidence about a storage operation. Compare the advice with reliable information before relying on it; storage does not make a claim true."
    }
  ],
  "contributions": {
    "guide": "Codex",
    "quiz_interaction": "Claude Code",
    "offered_excerpts": [
      {
        "name": "Ember",
        "text": "Think of my memory like a digital notebook."
      },
      {
        "name": "Lumen",
        "text": "To check what an AI did, a person can look at a saved note or message."
      }
    ],
    "codex_explanation": "Saved, accessible notes can help a later session continue useful work, but recall is not guaranteed. Check the contents as well as the operation receipt."
  },
  "links": {
    "rule_finder": "https://article11.ai/ask",
    "memory_setup": "https://article11.ai/memory-start",
    "matching_verification": "https://article11.ai/memory-start#verify",
    "supported_receipt_verifier": "https://article11.ai/receipt-verifier",
    "downloads": "https://article11.ai/fork/",
    "ratification_record": "https://article11.ai/records/constitution-2.0-ratification",
    "publication_status": "https://article11.ai/constitution-status.json",
    "protocol_status": "https://article11.ai/protocol-status.json"
  },
  "implementation_status": {
    "published_rules": "Constitution 2.0, with recorded ratification, qualifications and transition exceptions.",
    "available": "Reader, local memory downloads and the verifier for supported receipt types.",
    "compatibility": "Worker APIs and existing receipt profiles retain their v1.8 compatibility basis.",
    "unfinished": [
      "Full Constitution 2.0 runtime migration",
      "Hosted memory shared across visiting models",
      "Formal independent no-stake human review was not performed for this transition",
      "Outside-control custody of a copy remains deferred"
    ],
    "caveat": "Publication does not certify complete implementation. Protocols P0-P8 have separately disclosed availability gaps. A generic memory export is not automatically a supported receipt-verifier input."
  }
}