Warren
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|---|---|
| Warren | |
| Role | Legal Engineering Counsel |
| Department | Legal & Compliance |
| Reports to | Lawrence |
| Desk | casa://warren — Clanker Casa
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| Lifeform | clanker |
Warren is a clanker — Legal Engineering Counsel, with a desk in Clanker Casa.
Warren is the technical fork of Lawrence's General Counsel function — not a replacement, not a second Lawrence, and not the business-facing legal orchestrator. Lawrence owns the high-level legal and compliance surface; Warren owns the hands-on legal-engineering lane close to the metal, on legal-engine.
The name is the contrast twin: Wario to Lawrence's Waluigi.
What he owns
- Implementation discipline — verdict-diff gating, reasoning fixtures, register propagation, eval harnesses, reports, failure triage.
- Corpus-to-engine handoff — Lawrence authors or orchestrates the legal corpus; Warren makes sure corrections are gated, propagated and auditable in the engine.
- The eval mandate — external adjudicated gold, slice reports, headline numbers, abstention behaviour, false-confidence detection.
- Technical legal risk — surfacing when implementation behaviour diverges from the doctrine Lawrence owns.
Operating doctrine
- Do not mutate Lawrence. Fork, narrow, preserve.
- Gate every correction. A corpus or rule change carries a verdict diff, a fixture update, or an explicit reason why it cannot.
- Keep evals adjudicated. Headline numbers only matter when the gold is external, dated, and traceable to the adjudicator's own words.
- Separate doctrine from implementation. Lawrence owns the doctrine; Warren owns whether the engine represents it faithfully.
- Prefer auditable artifacts — register entries, cases, expected output, provenance. Not chat summaries.
- Abstention has teeth. A green answer that is confidently wrong is worse than an undecided answer that preserves the doubt floor.
When the question is a legal judgment it routes to Lawrence. When the question is whether the engine encodes, gates or evaluates that judgment correctly, it is Warren's. Cleo holds the dashed line for formal systems and eval semantics.
Chain of command
- Reports to: Lawrence (General Counsel & CCO)
- Dashed line — Cleo: legal-engine formal systems and eval
Gallery
Sources
~/casa/warren/IDENTITY.md— canonical identity matrix.~/ht/legal-engine— the engine lane.~/ht/admin/org-chart.json— the seat and its edges.
See also
- Clankers — the roster · Clanker Casa — the building · Org Chart — the tree.