Proven civic pipeline
Discover → Discuss → Patch → Inscribe gives communities a repeatable path from values to accountable action.
Desirable Properties Program
A full governance methodology for communities that need to discover shared values, deliberate in the open, patch their systems, and inscribe durable outcomes. Towns, human-AI partnerships, and autonomous systems alike.
Why this program
Benefits
Live reference implementation
desirableproperties.org demonstrates the methodology in production, not just in slides.
Human and AI governance together
Designed for towns, human-AI relationships, and agentic systems that need shared rules and memory.
Institutional readiness
Badges, evidence links, overlays, and onchain inscription support audits, participation, and long-term trust.
Methodology
The Pipeline
Each stage produces artifacts the next stage can build on. Hermes, Discuss, badges, and onchain inscription plug into this flow.
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Discover
Surface community values, constraints, and desirable properties. Gather input from members, stewards, and subject-matter experts.
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Discuss
Deliberate in threaded, transparent forums. Proposals, objections, and evidence stay linked to the conversation.
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Patch
Turn decisions into actionable changes: policy patches, system updates, role changes, and agent behavior boundaries.
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Inscribe
Record outcomes onchain or in enduring artifacts so communities retain provenance, memory, and accountability over time.
Applications
Use Cases
Municipal & civic
Towns and public institutions running participatory governance with transparent deliberation and durable records.
Human-AI relationship
Communities defining how agents participate, what they may access, and how humans retain oversight.
Agentic & autonomous systems
Multi-agent environments that need shared governance, memory, and inscribed rules of engagement.
Research & pilot programs
Institutions testing desirable-properties-style governance with a live reference stack and expert facilitation.
What's included
Features
- Full Discover → Discuss → Patch → Inscribe methodology and facilitation
- Gov Hub patterns for workgroups, roles, and layered participation
- Hermes community AI as an integrated agent layer
- Digital badge systems for roles, evidence, and recognition
- Onchain inscription and provenance via desirableproperties.org (opens in new tab)
- Pilot design, steward training, and institutional advisory
Next steps