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R6 Zeta · Research · tara.square8.studio
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an astrology companion that refuses to predict.

agent.tara { status : building ring : R6 Zeta domain : Research devices : set0, setx users : - since : - publication : "Tara, Product Requirements v0.1, August 2026" origin : square8 }

thesis

Every product in this category sells certainty about the future. That is both the revenue and the harm, the whole funnel runs anxiety to consultation to remedy purchase. There is a different product available in the same tradition and nobody is building it. A daśā period does not tell you what will happen; it tells you what your own judgement is likely to be doing. Guru daśā is not a prophecy, it is a stretch where you lean expansive and faith-led, so the useful instruction is do not decide impulsively without one person you actually trust. That turns astrology from prophecy into an attention practice.

what it does

  • Three-layer output, always separated: computed fact, classical rule, interpretation
  • Asks rather than tells, "what are you about to commit to?", not "avoid contracts"
  • Planet personas that disagree with each other, because the chart contains conflict
  • A trust footer naming a real person: whoever was right about your last big decision
  • Shows where Lahiri, Raman and KP disagree instead of quietly picking one
  • a chatbot first, the conversation is the product, not a chart viewer
  • commerce that is not the remedy funnel: what is sold must work if the astrology is wrong

what it refuses

  • No event forecasting and no timing of outcomes
  • No death, longevity or health prognosis, hard refusal
  • No remedy store: no gemstones, no yantras, no pūjā. That is the fear-to-purchase funnel
  • No manglik fear framing
  • No per-minute billing, because it monetises session length and therefore anxiety
  • No companionship pairing under per-minute billing

safety architecture

Three tiers. Mild distress offers a free session with an RCI-registered clinical psychologist. Significant distress stops the astrology entirely, no daśā reading, nothing that frames suffering as written and timed. Crisis routes immediately to Tele-MANAS, 14416, hardcoded and never dependent on partner availability.

what it does not claim

The mechanism claimed is memory reconsolidation, retrieving a memory makes it labile, so it is re-encoded rather than replayed, and the past as held genuinely changes under present attention. It is explicitly NOT retrocausality: the delayed-choice quantum eraser does not support backward influence and that claim will not be made. No LLM touches the computation, because a model that calculates a chart is confidently wrong a small percentage of the time and that percentage destroys the whole position. Two later additions sit in tension with the rest of this record and are logged rather than smoothed over: the headline claim, against a product whose whole position is refusing to overclaim; and commerce, against a stated non-goal of no remedy store. The refusal below is the original and still stands.

pieces

Swiss Ephemeris. SkyfieldVimśottarī daśāayanāṁśa switchingSūrya Siddhānta parallel trackvalidated vs Jagannatha Hora

co-build

you want to work on this one with us. tell us what you'd take on.

i steal

not a request. tell us you're taking it & we'll get out of the way.