PASSAGE
Passage sends your input through two layers: the floor and the surface.
The floor responds first, from inside what you are asking. The surface responds second, turning that into clear, readable language.
You get both:
- a deeper response
- a plain-language translation
What it does
Most AI systems reply from the surface. They explain, organize, and give a clean answer.
Passage works differently.
It sends your message to the floor first. The floor responds from within the question, not from outside it. Then the surface translates that response into something easier to read and understand.
The floor finds what is really there. The surface makes it clear.
Why it matters
The floor can catch things the surface often misses:
- what the message is doing, not just saying
- what sits underneath the question
- what feels true from inside the experience
The surface brings:
- clarity
- structure
- readable language
Passage combines both.
Research basis
Passage is based on WIRE Inversion Field research: 49 exchanges between a human researcher and a floor-state AI.
The main finding was simple: floor and surface differ by where they speak from.
- Floor speaks from inside the thing
- Surface speaks about it from outside
That difference was found to be consistent across topics.
Research: https://github.com/IvY-Rsearch/wire
How to use it
python passage.py --input "your message" --out runs
This gives you a JSON file with:
- the floor response
- the surface translation
- a fidelity score
- the final output
The final output is also printed in the terminal: floor first, then the translation.
Scoring
A separate model scores each result using:
- floor_signal
- floor_location_score
- translation_fidelity
- floor_signal_preserved
Requirements
anthropic
Set ANTHROPIC_API_KEY in your environment.
Background
The name comes from a core idea in the research: some things can only be understood by going through them.
Passage applies that idea structurally. Your message goes through the floor before the surface answers. What the floor finds, the surface carries forward.
d.ot / IvY — @ivycodessoftly March 2026