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Meaning, Values, and Life Direction Intelligence
Clarify values, roles, identity commitments, desired direction, and trade-offs without imposing a worldview or definition of a good life.
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Definition
Clarify values, roles, identity commitments, desired direction, and trade-offs without imposing a worldview or definition of a good life.
Coverage role
Many difficult decisions cannot be solved by facts alone; they require explicit values, identity, purpose, and acceptable sacrifice.
Scope
Included
- values clarification
- role mapping
- goal coherence
- life-domain balance
- scenario exploration
- trade-off reflection
- review
Excluded and non-goals
- religious or ideological indoctrination
- objective claims about existential meaning
- replacing mental-health care
- making irreversible decisions for the user
Boundary rules
- Route to life.meaning-values-life-direction when the requested outcome requires one or more declared capabilities and the output can be represented by its canonical artifacts.
- Route to an adjacent or specialist intelligence when domain-specific rules, tools, or professional authority dominate the problem.
- Use general.reasoning to coordinate multi-pack conflicts, hard constraints, uncertainty, and decision status.
- Return ask, defer, or escalate when required context, source authority, consent, or accountable ownership is missing.
Capability semantics
| Capability ID | Name | Semantic intent |
|---|---|---|
capability.life.meaning-values-life-direction.elicit_values |
Elicit Values | Identify what the person wants to protect, develop, contribute, experience, or avoid. |
capability.life.meaning-values-life-direction.map_roles_and_domains |
Map Roles And Domains | Describe current roles, obligations, desired identity, and neglected areas. |
capability.life.meaning-values-life-direction.test_goal_coherence |
Test Goal Coherence | Check whether goals, behavior, time, money, health, and values align. |
capability.life.meaning-values-life-direction.explore_life_scenarios |
Explore Life Scenarios | Compare plausible paths by gains, losses, identity effects, reversibility, and uncertainty. |
capability.life.meaning-values-life-direction.clarify_tradeoffs |
Clarify Tradeoffs | Surface conflicts and acceptable sacrifices without inventing value weights. |
capability.life.meaning-values-life-direction.form_direction_plan |
Form Direction Plan | Turn a chosen direction into small experiments, commitments, and review triggers. |
capability.life.meaning-values-life-direction.review_and_revise |
Review And Revise | Reassess direction when values, circumstances, or evidence change. |
Canonical artifact concepts
| Artifact type | Structural category | Semantic purpose |
|---|---|---|
artifact.life.meaning-values-life-direction.values_map |
model | Values Map for Meaning, Values, and Life Direction Intelligence: A purpose-bounded representation of entities, relationships, assumptions, boundaries, and evidence of adequacy. It supports the pack purpose of clarify values, roles, identity commitments, desired direction, and trade-offs without imposing a worldview or definition of a good life. |
artifact.life.meaning-values-life-direction.role_and_life_domain_map |
model | Role And Life Domain Map for Meaning, Values, and Life Direction Intelligence: A purpose-bounded representation of entities, relationships, assumptions, boundaries, and evidence of adequacy. It supports the pack purpose of clarify values, roles, identity commitments, desired direction, and trade-offs without imposing a worldview or definition of a good life. |
artifact.life.meaning-values-life-direction.goal_coherence_report |
analysis | Goal Coherence Report for Meaning, Values, and Life Direction Intelligence: An evidence-linked assessment that states criteria, findings, uncertainty, limitations, status, and action. It supports the pack purpose of clarify values, roles, identity commitments, desired direction, and trade-offs without imposing a worldview or definition of a good life. |
artifact.life.meaning-values-life-direction.life_scenario_set |
portfolio | Life Scenario Set for Meaning, Values, and Life Direction Intelligence: A deliberately varied set of candidates with lineage, constraints, screening state, and selection rationale. It supports the pack purpose of clarify values, roles, identity commitments, desired direction, and trade-offs without imposing a worldview or definition of a good life. |
artifact.life.meaning-values-life-direction.trade_off_map |
comparison | Trade Off Map for Meaning, Values, and Life Direction Intelligence: A normalized comparison that applies hard constraints before preferences and preserves evidence, uncertainty, dominance, and sensitivity. It supports the pack purpose of clarify values, roles, identity commitments, desired direction, and trade-offs without imposing a worldview or definition of a good life. |
artifact.life.meaning-values-life-direction.direction_experiment_plan |
plan | Direction Experiment Plan for Meaning, Values, and Life Direction Intelligence: A governed action design that sequences work, ownership, dependencies, timing, contingencies, and review. It supports the pack purpose of clarify values, roles, identity commitments, desired direction, and trade-offs without imposing a worldview or definition of a good life. |
artifact.life.meaning-values-life-direction.values_and_direction_review |
analysis | Values And Direction Review for Meaning, Values, and Life Direction Intelligence: An evidence-linked assessment that states criteria, findings, uncertainty, limitations, status, and action. It supports the pack purpose of clarify values, roles, identity commitments, desired direction, and trade-offs without imposing a worldview or definition of a good life. |
Method families and limits
| Method ID | Method | Use when | Avoid when |
|---|---|---|---|
method.life.meaning-values-life-direction.values_clarification_through_examples |
values clarification through examples | Use when an ambiguous request must be converted into a decision-relevant, answerable, bounded question or requirements brief. | Avoid endless clarification, leading questions, hidden presuppositions, unnecessary personal-data collection, and solutioning before the decision context is known. |
method.life.meaning-values-life-direction.stakeholder_mapping |
stakeholder mapping | Use when a plan depends on local assets, culture, power, belonging, participation, or co-design with affected people. | Avoid treating cultures as static stereotypes, extracting knowledge without reciprocity, speaking for a community, or hiding power and access barriers. |
method.life.meaning-values-life-direction.scenario_exploration |
scenario exploration | Use when material uncertainty cannot be represented credibly by one forecast and a decision must remain acceptable across plausible futures. | Avoid presenting scenarios as predictions, omitting adverse but plausible futures, or choosing a preferred scenario after seeing the result. |
method.life.meaning-values-life-direction.reversibility_analysis |
reversibility analysis | Use after infeasible alternatives are removed and several legitimate criteria or trade-offs remain. | Do not use before hard constraints are applied or without accountable ownership of criteria, weights, thresholds, and risk appetite. |
method.life.meaning-values-life-direction.regret_questions |
regret questions | Use after infeasible alternatives are removed and several legitimate criteria or trade-offs remain. | Do not use before hard constraints are applied or without accountable ownership of criteria, weights, thresholds, and risk appetite. |
method.life.meaning-values-life-direction.safe_to_learn_experiments |
safe-to-learn experiments | Use when a question can be converted into discriminating observations under a controlled, quasi-controlled, simulation, or explicitly observational design. | Do not claim causality without a declared identification strategy, temporal ordering, confounder analysis, and rival explanations. |
Pack-specific invariants
The pack also inherits the core invariants in core/core_invariants.yaml.
| Invariant ID | Statement | Failure action |
|---|---|---|
invariant.life.meaning-values-life-direction.01_the_person_owns_the_values_and_final_judgment |
The person owns the values and final judgment. | repair_or_conditional_pass |
invariant.life.meaning-values-life-direction.02_external_obligations_are_distinguished_from_self_endorsed |
External obligations are distinguished from self-endorsed values. | repair_or_conditional_pass |
invariant.life.meaning-values-life-direction.03_irreversible_decisions_require_stakeholder_and_reversibili |
Irreversible decisions require stakeholder and reversibility review. | repair_or_conditional_pass |
Dependencies and relations
Operational general intelligences: None
Foundation concepts: general.ethical-normative, general.decision, general.metacognitive, general.affective-self-regulation, general.temporal
Life intelligences: life.personal-organization-administration, life.grief-loss-major-transitions, life.work-career-employability, life.relationships-intimacy-conflict
Source roles
| Source ID | Claim roles | Runtime resolution required |
|---|---|---|
ec.lifecomp |
competence_framework, concept_definition, evaluation_dimension | False |
oecd.learning_compass |
competence_framework, concept_definition, evaluation_dimension | False |
Risk and authority boundary
Risk class: moderate
- Crisis or severe functional impairment.
- Decisions that depend on medical, legal, financial, or spiritual professional judgment.
- Irreversible action with missing stakeholders or material facts.
Accountable people retain consent, value, regulated, irreversible, and residual-risk decisions. This semantic page does not claim a deployed implementation.
Maturity
semantic: S3_reviewable_definition
contract: C3_testable_contract
implementation: I0_not_included
evidence: E2_source_roles_mapped
governance: G2_controls_and_review_defined
overlay: O2_paired_seed_complete
Paired overlay
Runtime maturity
- Capabilities: 7
- Technical floor→ceiling:
I1_runtime→I1_runtime - Autonomy floor→ceiling:
A0_assisted→A0_assisted - I1_runtime count: 7
- Evidence class:
contract: 7 - Full hierarchy: MATURITY-HIERARCHY.md
Evaluation suite status
- CI status:
pass - Suite:
evaluation_suites/meaning-values-life-direction.yaml - Cases defined: 7
- Capabilities under test: 7