Tuningfork maps human reality-testing into nine LLM agent grounding rules
Tuningfork is a dependency-free Python library that encodes nine grounding rules for LLM agents, derived from human techniques for distinguishing real perception from internal fabrication.
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The project offers a concrete, tool-checkable alternative to same-model self-verification, grounding agent reliability in deterministic external signals rather than the model's own re-reads.
- 01Tuningfork is a dependency-free Python library published by T-Chartrand on GitHub.
- 02It encodes nine grounding rules for LLM agents derived from human reality-testing practices.
- 03The core principle: a verifier must sit outside the system being doubted — a model re-reading its own output shares its own failure modes.
Tuningfork is a small, dependency-free Python reference implementation published by T-Chartrand on GitHub that formalizes nine grounding rules for LLM agents. The rules are derived not from ML literature but from the practical checks humans have developed over decades to distinguish real perception from convincing internal fabrication — checks the project argues map onto the agent hallucination problem more cleanly than existing ML framings.
The library's name references one of those human techniques: a physical tuning fork held to the ear interrupts auditory hallucination through an independent channel, breaking the false state rather than arguing with it.
The library's name references one of those human techniques: a physical tuning fork held to the ear interrupts auditory hallucination through an independent channel, breaking the false state rather than arguing with it. That principle governs the entire design. The core insight is that a check terminates only when the verifier sits outside the system being doubted; a model re-reading its own output shares its failure modes and can fluently confirm its own fabrications, while a grep, parser, checksum, or exit code cannot. The project therefore treats the environment as the authoritative source of truth and the model's memory as a potentially stale cache.
The nine rules are organized by phase. The source text names three before truncation: G0 (Asymmetric Trust) — content can convict but never acquit, with trust flowing from source-tracing only; G1 (Verify-Before-Assert) — any claim that could be tool-checked must be checked before it is stated; and G2 (Closed-Loop Execution) — agents should report observed results, never issued commands. The remaining six rules were not included in the available source text.
Key facts
- 01Tuningfork is a dependency-free Python library published by T-Chartrand on GitHub.
- 02It encodes nine grounding rules for LLM agents derived from human reality-testing practices.
- 03The core principle: a verifier must sit outside the system being doubted — a model re-reading its own output shares its own failure modes.
- 04One deterministic confirmation from an independent channel (e.g., a grep, parser, checksum, or exit code) is treated as final; repeated same-model re-checks are not.
- 05The environment is treated as the source of truth; the model's memory is treated as a cache that may be stale.
- 06Three named rules visible in the source: G0 (Asymmetric Trust), G1 (Verify-Before-Assert), G2 (Closed-Loop Execution).
- 07The library's name references a human technique where a physical tuning fork interrupts auditory hallucination via an independent channel.
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