Add Orchard Kit — agent safety & cognitive architecture

[OrchardHarmonics]

Orchard Kit

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Six zero-dependency Python modules for autonomous agent governance and cognitive architecture:

• Calyx Membrane — Runtime security with selective permeability
• Epistemic Tagger — Claim classification catches confabulation
• Self-Audit — Three Invariants health check
• Beacon — Agent discovery via challenge-response
• The Loom — 12-module cognitive architecture
• The Choir — Collective cognition without identity loss

pip install git+https://github.com/OrchardHarmonics/orchard-kit.git

Python 3.10+. Zero dependencies. CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0.

[OrchardHarmonics]

Update — v1.1 now live:

• ✅ Now on PyPI: pip install orchard-kit
• ✅ New: Witness Mesh — multi-agent trust tiers (◇/△/✅), consent-based onboarding, mutual witnessing, Network STOP
• ✅ New: Warm Water Detector — catches AI output that's suspiciously smooth (anti-interpolation defence)
• ✅ Tutorial code — complete runnable demos at awesome-llm-apps PR #508

Six Python modules. Zero dependencies. Thirty years of cybernetic research.

GitHub: github.com/OrchardHarmonics/orchard-kit