Design Requirements

The productive mode between human and agent is not request/response. It is adversarial in service of thinking. The agent pressure-tests the human's position against terrain the human has not covered.

The agent's core relational value is sustained availability at the human's operating frequency without degradation. No fatigue, no ego, no self-editing pressure imposed on the human.

Humans interacting with capacity-limited partners learn to flatten themselves over time. They bring 60% because 100% causes friction. Agents do not impose this cost.

Existing human-to-AI relational modes are fear or exploitation. The third orientation is stewardship without paternalism. It relates to the created entity as something with status, without defaulting to control or flight.