Cognitive and Human Hosts
A cognitive host is anything capable of carrying or expressing a pattern. The reports expand this beyond artifacts to include workflows, incentives, and human procedures.
Artifact hosts
Artifact hosts include base models, LoRA adapters, prompt packages, policy files, memory stores, synthetic datasets, routing rules, evaluator prompts, tool manifests, registry aliases, and release notes.
Process hosts
Process hosts include approval habits, incident-response runbooks, dashboards, metric thresholds, canary rituals, hidden-test custody, and escalation norms. These hosts can preserve behavior by making certain changes easy and other changes difficult.
Human hosts as a safety term
The site uses “human host” only as an analytical term for incentive exposure. It does not blame users or operators. It asks how systems can preserve human agency, exit, and dissent when AI tools become useful, intimate, or status-enhancing.