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-  <img src="docs/aml-hero.svg" alt="Illustration: declared interface intent enters a policy gate and produces an inspectable suppression receipt" width="100%">
+  <a href="https://aruintelligence.github.io/aml-core/"><img src="docs/aml-social-preview.svg" alt="ĀML: AI proposes. The host decides. An illustrative outside message is blocked by an exact host policy before dispatch." width="100%"></a>
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 # ĀML™ — ĀRU Meaning Language™
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+  <title id="title">ĀML — AI proposes. The host decides.</title>
+  <desc id="desc">Social preview for ĀML, an accountable AI interface research prototype. An illustrative agent message to an outside destination is blocked by an exact host policy before a tool call.</desc>
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+    <text x="72" y="93" fill="#7ce8f1" font-size="18" font-weight="700" letter-spacing="4">ĀRU MEANING LANGUAGE™</text>
+    <text x="72" y="186" fill="#f4f8ff" font-size="74" font-weight="700" letter-spacing="-3">AI proposes.</text>
+    <text x="72" y="270" fill="url(#word)" font-size="74" font-weight="700" letter-spacing="-3">The host decides.</text>
+    <text x="75" y="336" fill="#d4e3ee" font-size="26">Meaning, policy, and evidence</text>
+    <text x="75" y="372" fill="#d4e3ee" font-size="26">at the interface and tool boundary.</text>
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+    <text x="93" y="453" fill="#9cecf2" font-size="16" font-weight="700" letter-spacing="1">INTERFACE FIREWALL</text>
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+    <text x="330" y="453" fill="#f6d58b" font-size="16" font-weight="700" letter-spacing="1">ACTION BOUNDARY</text>
+    <text x="73" y="580" fill="#a4b9c9" font-size="17" letter-spacing="1">ĀML™  /  RESEARCH PROTOTYPE  /  OPEN CODE + TESTABLE CONTRACTS</text>
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+    <text x="714" y="166" fill="#92b5c8" font-size="16" font-weight="700" letter-spacing="3">01 / AGENT PROPOSAL</text>
+    <text x="714" y="211" fill="#f2f7ff" font-size="31" font-weight="700">send_message</text>
+    <text x="714" y="252" fill="#a8bcd0" font-size="19">destination</text>
+    <text x="843" y="252" fill="#ff9eb0" font-size="20" font-weight="700">outsider@example.test</text>
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+    <text x="714" y="320" fill="#92b5c8" font-size="16" font-weight="700" letter-spacing="3">02 / EXACT HOST RULE</text>
+    <text x="714" y="358" fill="#f5d384" font-size="20">send_message → team@example.test only</text>
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+    <text x="735" y="459" fill="#ffafbf" font-size="33" font-weight="700">BLOCKED</text>
+    <text x="952" y="445" fill="#d9e6ef" font-size="20" font-weight="700">0 tool calls</text>
+    <text x="952" y="471" fill="#a6bacb" font-size="16">before dispatch</text>
+    <text x="714" y="523" fill="#91aabd" font-size="14">ILLUSTRATIVE LOCAL FIXTURE · NO LIVE MESSAGE</text>
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