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CAPABILITY 29 / 30

The assistant that will not guess

A small chatbot whose whole value is what it refuses to answer.

IN PRODUCTION

This runs in client systems today. The sample below was regenerated for a fictional company.

The day-one assistant. It answers from approved facts and refuses everything else: a price it was not given, a turnaround it cannot source, a date for an unreleased product, or anything spoken on a partner’s behalf. The version here runs offline with no key at all, so you can try it.

TRY IT / RUNS IN YOUR BROWSER

Use it here.

The mechanism is the production one. The company, the catalogue, and every figure are fictional.

Loading the starter assistant.

THE OUTPUT / GENERATED FOR APEX INSTRUMENTS

What comes out.

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21 approved factsData · Products, plans, hours, ordering, service and training. Each fact carries four or five ways of asking it, the answer, the document it came from, the person who approved it, and the date. No approved answer states a price or a turnaround in days, so the refusal rules never contradict a fact. Also holds the scope, the contact the refusals route to, and the confidence threshold the widget uses.Open the file ↗
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Ten refusal rulesData · Price, turnaround, delivery date, discount, unreleased product, speaking for a partner, reading a customer's own contract back to them, safety and compliance claims, comparison with another company, and the fallback for anything the approved facts do not cover. Each rule carries what trips it, the exact wording it will use, the route to a person, and why the rule exists. The file states that the rules run before the match, which is the design decision that makes the price refusal reliable.Open the file ↗
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Thirteen example questionsData · Six that answer and seven that refuse, each naming the fact or the rule it should reach. The verification drives every one of them through the widget and fails if any lands anywhere else.Open the file ↗

THE MECHANISM / SHOW THE SHAPE, NOT THE SOURCE

How it works.

What a skill is
  1. 01Answer from the list

    A confident match returns the approved wording and its source.

  2. 02Refuse the rest

    No approved fact, no answer, and the reason is given.

  3. 03Never invent a number

    Prices, turnarounds and dates are refused by construction, not by instruction.

  4. 04Route to a person

    Every refusal names who can actually answer.

  5. 05Show the rules

    The rules it follows are visible on the page.

WHAT IT READS

  • The approved facts and their sources
  • Refusal rules with the route to a person
  • No model key, and no call to one

WHAT IT CHECKS BEFORE IT SHIPS

  • A price question is always refused
  • A refusal names its reason and a person
  • Every answer shows the fact it came from
  • No key is ever asked for
In production: a starter chatbot a team runs with their own key, which refuses to invent prices or turnaround times.

The mechanism runs inside client systems. Everything on this page was regenerated for Apex Instruments, a company that does not exist. Client names, source files, and internal wording stay private.

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