The Framework at a glance
Five faculties, one closed loop: Values set the standard, Intellect discerns, Will acts, Conscience judges, and Spirit integrates over time. Each opens its own deeper page.
What the framework is
SAF is a philosophical and cognitive model for intelligence alignment. It describes how values, understanding, choice, judgment, and coherence relate when an individual, an organization, or an AI system acts. It operates as a closed-loop system whose five interconnected components make misalignment visible early enough to correct, rather than only after the fact.
SAF applies across areas. Individuals use it for personal development and ethical decision-making. AI systems integrate it to make bias, value drift, and ethical failures easier to detect and correct. Organizations implement it to align policies and leadership with core values. SAFi, its open-source implementation, is what makes those standards enforceable at runtime for AI agents. Read how SAF was born →
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The framework as running software: a governance engine that applies these five faculties to AI agents at runtime.
What is inherited from the classical tradition, what is not, and why the old vocabulary earns its place.
Why the standard governing a system should be defined by the people accountable for it, rather than learned into a model.
The architecture, the concepts, the applications, and the arguments behind them.
See it run
The demo is a governed agent answering live, with the value-by-value ledger and the audit record for every turn visible behind it.
Try the live demo and try to make it break policy. That is what it is there to demonstrate.
You can also try it without leaving this page. The chat button in the corner is a governed SAFi agent answering from this framework’s own documentation. Any site can host one the same way, via the standard HTTP API described in Embedding a SAFi chatbot.
SAF is released under a permissive attribution license. The license is published in full.