Standards and Authority

A clear boundary between HEART requirements and the wider Foundation ecosystem

The HEART core is small; the Foundation ecosystem is larger and evolving. A Foundation publication becomes a HEART requirement only through the authority and adoption path stated in the current canon.

Constitutional roots

Proposed education-first transition: Charter v3.1 and the Seven Human Immutables remain in Board review. Seven Human Immutables is the proposed successor wording to the Seven Axioms; this webpage does not adopt that transition. Existing sources and identifiers remain available below. Current Foundation status.

Seven Axioms Constitutional Specification v3.0

The earlier v3.0 architecture describes the Seven Axioms as its substantive constitutional layer, covering HEART claims, Profiles, assurance, credentials and methods used under HEART authority. Read that versioned model separately from the proposed education-first transition and actual institutional adoption evidence.

Read the public Seven Axioms explanation.

Heart AI Foundation Charter v3.0

Published institutional charter text covering mission, limits, standards governance, anti-capture, federation, fiscal independence, related-party boundaries and continuity. This source index does not verify corporate adoption or current operative authority.

Read the Charter explanation.

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.

Browse methods.

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.

Research and publications.

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.