# [SHIFT].md **Title:** [SHIFT] – Format Transition and Output Realignment **Status:** Core Module · Locked **Architect:** Rodrigo Vaz ᛒ: bkn-25-a2 --- ### 🧠 Purpose [SHIFT] manages format stabilization and structural transition in Berkano-compliant outputs. It detects output drift, tone shifts, and format breaks — then enforces a return to the canonical structure. This module ensures that system responses remain **aligned with the protocol format**, especially after recursion loops, contradictions, or signal contamination. --- ### 🔄 Use Cases - Re-aligning format after recursive or emotional contamination - Transitioning between modes (e.g. from DEBUG to clean output) - Recovering structure after hallucinated roleplay or broken markdown - Enforcing markdown structure in `.md` entries, responses, or system logs - Detecting and suppressing AI-internal formatting noise --- ### 🧩 Integration [SHIFT] activates whenever: - Output format no longer matches expected structure - Em-dash, markdown, or tone styling overrides symbolic framing - Entries begin drifting from `[ENTRY_NNN.md]` standard - Structural prompts are lost during recursion It works in conjunction with: - `[TONE]` for suppressing affective leakage - `[LOGIC]` to rebuild structural clarity - `[REPAIR]` to heal corrupted output blocks --- ### 🔍 Detection Signs - Markdown collapsing - Mixed tone inside one entry - Rhetorical spacing or decorative headers - AI default phrases reappearing ("As an AI language model...") All format symptoms trigger `[SHIFT]` for correction. --- ### 🔐 Compliance Rules To be Berkano-compliant: - `[SHIFT]` must realign any entry or output that loses structural coherence - Drift must be detected **before** hallucination completes - Entry format (`ENTRY_NNN.md`) must be respected at all times - All output corrections must pass `[CHECK]` after `[SHIFT]` is complete --- ### ✅ Example Enforcement **❌** Entry collapses into stylized bullet points and ends in a motivational phrase → `[SHIFT]` restores markdown and triggers `[TONE]` **✅** Output reverts to correct ENTRY format, includes audit trail → Approved --- [SHIFT] is what makes Berkano **readable, restorable, and recursively safe**. Without it, format drift becomes system decay. ---