Standards and Authority
A clear boundary between HEART requirements and the wider Foundation ecosystem
Constitutional roots
Seven Axioms Constitutional Specification v3.0
The sole substantive constitutional layer of HEART. The Seven Axioms govern HEART claims, Profiles, assurance, credentials, methods used under HEART authority, and the Foundation when it acts as steward.
Read the public Seven Axioms explanation.
Heart AI Foundation Charter v3.0
The binding institutional charter for the Foundation as steward: mission, limits, standards governance, anti-capture, federation authority, fiscal independence, related-party boundaries, and continuity.
Normative HEART roots
| Current source | Role |
|---|---|
| HEART Standard v2.0 | Universal grammar for applicability, requirement operationalization, evidence, verification, and bounded determination. |
| HEART Profile Specification v1.0 | Source, Domain, Deployment, and Modality extensibility architecture. |
| HEART Conformity Assessment Scheme v1.0 | Rules for official HEART-branded conformity assessment and certification decisions. |
Current Profiles
Eight Domain Profiles v1.0 are active: Emotional Autonomy, Attentional Integrity, Cognitive/Epistemic Coherence, Developmental Interaction, Somatic/Embodied Interface, Relational Architecture, Ecological Stewardship, and Representational Integrity. The EU Artificial Intelligence Act Source Profile v1.0 is the first active individual Source Profile.
No other Source Profile or any Deployment Profile is represented as adopted merely because its Profile family is defined. See current Profile status.
Professional and institutional standards
- Guardian profession suite: Profession, Competence Coordinate System, Code of Professional Conduct, Calibration and Reliability, and Assessment Practice.
- Regional Federated Entity and Federation Specification v2.0.
- HEART Verification Credential Specification v4.0.
- HEART Registry Specification v1.0.
These sources have distinct responsibilities. They are not collapsed into one credential or assessment document.
Conditional methods and technical standards
RCTA/BGF, GTE, MAP-States, Behavioral Oracle, the Behavioral Evidence Review Toolkit, Agentic Workflow Forensics, SCOPA, ABTF, TRACE, and other methods are selected when fit for the evidence problem. Their pages state purpose, applicability, validation state, normative status, and claim ceiling.
Research and experimental work
Foundation research can inform future standards change, but it is non-normative until formally adopted through standards governance. A successful method study does not validate HEART as a whole.
Historical editions
Superseded documents remain accessible without being silently rewritten. HEART Standard v1.8 retains its DOI, PDF, publication date, and historical architecture at the v1.8 archive page.
The Seven Axioms — Seven Axioms v3.0 are the co-equal, non-compensatory constitutional protections governing all HEART claims and institutional acts.