Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-16
TemperPass: a temper mill for AI judgment
An installable protocol that makes AI agents state their assumptions before answering, with passes for clarification, red-teaming, scope control, and tradeoff analysis.
Why it surfacedTemperPass is unusually specific about when an agent should slow down: ambiguity matters most when the work is hard to undo. Its four passes are documented with explicit triggers, negative cases, validation status, and failed runs in the repository—more protocol engineering than prompt advice.
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The 240-Material Organ
August 16’s newborn domains include a 240-material perfume organ, a repeatedly saved JPEG cat, a ski tracker designed by a 15-year-old, and a searchable page claiming to contain 148,303 prescription records.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-16 Domain Arrivals issue.