# Absent Born Labs

> Independent AI systems engineering. This index covers curated public documentation; it is not a private memory, operational inventory or task API. Last reviewed: 2026-10-22.

## Read first
- [ABL today](https://absentbornlabs.org/docs/pages/current.md): The current ABL implementation, its observed limits, and the evidence still needed before claiming an everyday AI partner.
- [The ABL I want to build](https://absentbornlabs.org/docs/pages/vision.md): The long-term ABL vision: an everyday partner with shared goals, durable memory, bounded autonomy, a drawn campus and a consistent phone experience.
- [A guide to reading the lab](https://absentbornlabs.org/docs/pages/docs.md): Public documentation for people, developers and crawlers: what ABL is, where to find current evidence and vision, and how to interpret capability claims.
- [Build something worth inspecting](https://absentbornlabs.org/docs/pages/work-with-me.md): Explore public AI engineering work, understand the current ABL project, and start a focused technical collaboration through the existing contact route.

## Evidence labels
- Working: Dated observation or implemented public artifact; no universal availability promise.
- Prototype: Isolated or staged work; no installed or production result follows.
- Planned: Intended capability or roadmap, awaiting implementation and acceptance.
- Research: An experiment or open question, with its own evidence limits.

## Machine-readable summary
- [Public status and documentation](https://absentbornlabs.org/docs/public-status.json): the same approved public sections used by the pages. No private API schema is published.