Adam Straughn
Founder, Verifiable Proof Systems • Florence, Oregon

Building infrastructure for safe AI execution. Former systems engineer. Focused on verification, accountability, and workforce development for the next 20 years of computing.

Local-first No cloud dependency No proof, no execution Ghost Protocol Offline-First PWA

We are done trusting AI outputs.

VibeKLR is not a chatbot, a copilot, or a creativity tool. It is a verification-first execution system for AI-assisted work.

If an action cannot be proven safe, correct, and authorized, it does not execute. There are no exceptions.

The problem

Modern AI systems are probabilistic. Enterprises deploy them as if they were deterministic.

This mismatch has created a growing liability gap across software, finance, healthcare, infrastructure, and government.

Hallucinated code, fabricated citations, unsafe automation, and unverifiable decision paths are not edge cases. They are structural failures.

We do not attempt to make AI "smarter."
We make execution conditional.

What VibeKLR does

Unknown or ambiguous actions default to stop.

No proof, no execution.
No signature, no irreversible action.

Execution model

This is enforced in code, not policy documents.

Execution roadmap

This roadmap reflects committed execution phases. Each phase advances only if its verification gates are met.

Q1 — Verification Floor

  • Deterministic CLI (local-first)
  • Side-effect ontology enforcement
  • Human-gated irreversible actions
  • Immutable audit artifacts

UI quality is secondary. Correctness is not negotiable.

VPS Radio
A Verified Christmas — VPS Studios
Select a track to play
VPS Studios
VPS Radio • 128kbps
0:00 / 0:00
🔊

Privacy by construction, not by promise

VibeKLR does not require surveillance to increase safety.
The system becomes less invasive as safety increases.

This is possible because we verify actions, not people.

What we explicitly do not collect

Biometric Data
❌ None
Location Tracking
❌ None
Behavioral Scoring
❌ None
Hidden Telemetry
❌ None
Trust Scores
❌ None
Continuous Monitoring
❌ None
Technical mechanism: How this actually works

1. Action-Centric Security (Not Identity-Centric)

Most systems ask: "Who is doing this?"

We ask: "What would happen if this executes?"

Every proposed action is classified into exactly one category:

  • Epistemic – read-only, no state change
  • Mutable – reversible state change
  • Effective – irreversible state change

If an action is Effective, it is blocked by default. This is enforced in code.

We don't need to monitor users continuously if the system cannot execute irreversible actions silently.

2. Zero-Knowledge Authorization

When human approval is required, the system does not store:

  • the human's identity
  • their history
  • their behavior profile

Instead, it stores a cryptographic proof that:

  • a valid authorization existed
  • at a specific time
  • for a specific action hash

"Prove that authorization occurred, without revealing who authorized or why."

3. Audit Without Surveillance

The audit log records: action hash, classification result, gate decision, proof reference.

It does not record: keystrokes, content of private communications, user intent beyond the formal action contract.

Auditors can verify correctness of enforcement without inspecting human behavior.

4. Local-First Execution

The system is designed to function offline, air-gapped, without cloud dependency.

If the system can't phone home, it can't spy.

Cited technical foundations

Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Goldwasser, S., Micali, S., & Rackoff, C. (1985). "The Knowledge Complexity of Interactive Proof Systems." SIAM Journal on Computing, 18(1), 186-208.

Used in production: Zcash, zk-SNARK compliance systems, privacy-preserving authentication.

Proof-Carrying Code

Necula, G. C. (1997). "Proof-Carrying Code." Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages.

Standard in avionics, medical devices, and safety-critical systems.

Capability-Based Security

Dennis, J. B., & Van Horn, E. C. (1966). "Programming Semantics for Multiprogrammed Computations." Communications of the ACM, 9(3), 143-155.

Foundation for object-capability systems, used in Chromium sandboxing, seL4, and modern isolation architectures.

Local-First Computing

Kleppmann, M., et al. (2019). "Local-First Software: You Own Your Data, in Spite of the Cloud." Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software.
Safety does not require surveillance.
Surveillance is usually a shortcut taken when systems cannot prove correctness.
We chose the harder path.

Join the mission

We are building infrastructure for the next 20 years of safe AI execution. This is not a startup hobby. This is a long-term commitment to accountability.

📋 Waitlist

Access is staged. Teams with real execution risk are prioritized.

💰 Support the Mission

Fund independent verification infrastructure. No VC strings. No donor influence over technical decisions.

Donations support:

  • Open verification tooling
  • Workforce training programs
  • Public-sector safety pilots
Sponsor on GitHub Investment Inquiries

🤝 Partner With Us

Active collaborations with re-entry programs, public-sector infrastructure, and oversight organizations.

Current areas:

  • Verified workflows for supervision systems
  • ZK audit proofs to reduce administrative burden
  • Accountability without expanded surveillance
Partner Inquiries

Ways to help right now

Execution protocols

VibeKLR supports multiple execution protocols, each optimized for different requirements. Select based on your privacy, speed, and verification needs.

👻 Ghost Protocol

Zero-trace, fully local inference. No data leaves your device. Uses Phi-3 Mini from local R2 storage.

Status
✓ Active

🎯 Sniper Protocol

Precision targeting. Routes to the optimal model based on task requirements. Claude, GPT-4, or local.

Status
Coming Soon

⚡ Rapid Protocol

Speed-first routing. Lowest latency inference via Groq and local ONNX models.

Status
Coming Soon
Zero-egress by default.
Ghost Protocol is the default. Your data stays on your device unless you explicitly choose a remote provider.

Workforce development & re-entry programs

We believe verification is a learnable skill, and meaningful work reduces recidivism more reliably than punishment.

We are building training pipelines for:

This is not charity. It is capacity building.

Current partners include workforce development organizations and re-entry programs in Oregon and beyond. If you work in this space, reach out.

What we will not do

If that is what you are looking for, this is not the right project.