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Joule Table (jt.transaction.science) is the open standard for binding an accountable agent into any surface where work happens — editor, chat, forge, meeting, call — with the same three seams everywhere: gate (a signed grant decided outside the model), meter (joules at the model-call boundary), receipt (a verifiable sealed ledger). It composes JCP + Mesh + jcp-efficiency + Sandbox, and is satisfied by two reference bindings: Joule Hook (tool/editor) and Joule Desk (collaboration/teammate: chat/forge/room). Its editor class = Joule Hook, so the two bindings compose. Umbrella for what were two separate standards; the name = the idea (a seat at the table: present + answerable). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
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# Joule Table — A Metered, Gated, Attested Agent at Every Surface
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*Home: `jt.transaction.science`*
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An agent's accountability shouldn't stop at the edge of one tool. Joule Table is the open
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standard for **binding an accountable agent into any surface where work happens** — a
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coding editor, a chat channel, a git forge, a video meeting, a phone call. Wherever the
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agent shows up, the same three things hold:
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> **Its authority is a signed grant decided outside the model. Its work is
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> energy-metered. Every action seals to a verifiable receipt.**
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The name is the idea: the agent takes a **seat at the table** — present where the work is,
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and answerable for what it does there.
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Joule Table doesn't re-implement — it **composes** the sibling standards (**JCP** grants,
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**Mesh** metering, **`jcp-efficiency`** receipts, **Sandbox** attestation) into one
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contract, satisfied by two reference bindings:
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- **[Joule Hook](../joulehook)** — the **tool/editor** binding. Carries the gate + meter +
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receipt into a coding editor's own extension points (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf,
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Antigravity, Zed) — no fork required.
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- **[Joule Desk](../jouledesk)** — the **collaboration/teammate** binding. The persistent
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`@joule` you delegate to on a shared surface, whose every action seals to a ledger the
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channel can verify. Classes: `chat` (Slack/Discord/Matrix), `forge` (GitHub/GitLab),
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`room` (Zoom/Teams/Meet/LiveKit). Its `editor` class **is** Joule Hook.
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## The three seams
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| Seam | What it guarantees | Composed from |
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| **Gate** | each action decided **outside the model** against a signed capability + joule-budget grant | JCP |
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| **Meter** | joules at the **model-call boundary**, honest provenance, never overclaimed | Mesh · `jcp-efficiency` |
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| **Receipt** | every allow/deny/unit sealed, **verifiable** by anyone with the steward key | `jcp-receipt` · `jcp-efficiency` |
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## The map
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```
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Joule Table · jt.transaction.science
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(gate · meter · receipt — at every surface)
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│
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┌───────────────────┴───────────────────┐
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Joule Hook Joule Desk
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tool / editor binding collaboration / teammate binding
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Claude Code · Cursor · chat · forge · room
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Windsurf · Antigravity · Zed (Slack · GitHub · Zoom · LiveKit · …)
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└────────── editor class = Joule Hook ──────────┘
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```
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- **Licence:** Apache-2.0 for reference code ([`LICENSE`](LICENSE)); CC-BY-4.0 for the
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specification text ([`LICENSE-SPEC`](LICENSE-SPEC)).
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- **Status:** v0.1.0 draft ([`SPEC.md`](SPEC.md)). The two bindings are implemented in
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[`../joulehook`](../joulehook) and [`../jouledesk`](../jouledesk).
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Joule Table is one of the [Transaction Science open standards](../README.md).
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Transaction Science is the steward, not the proprietor.
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