Looped systems · Legal
A loop that cites its work.
The Legal loop is Perslis tuned for regulated work: every material claim carries a source, conclusions stay general until the jurisdiction is confirmed, and privileged material can stay airtight on your own machine.
In law, an unsourced confident answer is worse than no answer. The Legal loop makes citation and caution structural, not optional: it gathers evidence first, attaches a source to every material claim, and refuses to state a jurisdiction-specific conclusion until the jurisdiction is actually established. A separate reviewer checks that the sources say what the answer claims, and a symbolic engine flags internal contradictions. Because legal material is so often privileged, the whole loop can run airtight — on your machine, nothing leaving.
How the legal loop is different
- Evidence first: it researches and collects sources before it drafts a conclusion.
- Cite every claim: material statements carry a citation; unsupported inferences are marked as such, not hidden.
- General until confirmed: without a stated jurisdiction and venue, conclusions stay general — it will not guess the law of a place it was never told.
- Verified against source: a reviewer checks that each cited source actually supports the claim it is attached to.
- Privileged-safe: sensitive matters run airtight, so nothing about the case leaves your control.
Why a loop, not a chatbot
A single model asked a legal question will happily invent a citation. The loop is what prevents that: research, draft, then an independent pass that verifies each source and a symbolic check for contradictions — the same build → review → verify discipline the rest of Perslis runs, with the bar set where regulated work needs it. See Models for the reviewers, and Kist for the engine underneath.