References
AAS.manifest.toml names this essay as a governance note and required agent reading (references/Aptlantis Analysis Standard (AAS)_ The Local Evaluation Pipeline Framework.txt). It predates the formal AAS specification and captures the original design reasoning for the standard: why local evaluation replaces "vibe check" review, how evaluators are composed, the evidence-tier model, and the boundary between deterministic tooling and LLM narration. A PDF companion of the same material is preserved alongside it (linked at the bottom of this page).