Machine Action Framework
Connect identity, authorization, purpose, risk, evidence, accountability, and remedies in a layered framework spanning norms, protocols, engineering, and validation.
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Boundaries for machines.
Room for the future.
Our focus is governing how machines act. Before a machine changes the real world, it must demonstrate that its authorization still holds, while leaving time, choices, and possibilities in human hands.
About BlankRealm
Clear boundaries. An open future.
BlankRealm focuses on governing AI agents’ authority to act. Beyond checking whether a machine can make a call, we ask whom it represents, why it is acting, whether its authorization still holds, and who is accountable for the consequences.
Our name expresses a commitment. Leaving room means deliberately preserving space for possibilities that have not yet been decided, claimed, or exhausted in a world that is still taking shape.
We make authorization an engineering object that can be issued, verified, suspended, revoked, and subject to remediation. Machines receive bounded authority; people retain time, choices, and the possibility of starting again.
Key facts
Founded in 2026
Based in Hangzhou, China
Stage: private product testing
Our core proposition
Boundaries protect agency. Open space protects possibility.
Boundaries protect agency
A boundary says: this is my domain, and entering it requires a legitimate reason. As machines become more capable, we must be clearer about whom they represent, where they may operate, and what they may change.
Open space protects possibility
Leaving room means no answer is final here yet. Today’s authorizations, institutions, and technologies must not make every choice on behalf of future generations.
Authority must be revocable
Suspension, revocation, and recovery are more than safety features. They preserve the ability to choose again.
What we mean by leaving room
A deliberate space for what has yet to be decided.
Emptiness is the absence of anything. Leaving room preserves the possibility that things could be otherwise. It means deciding where a decision is needed, and stopping where we have no right to decide for others or the future.
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Room in what we know
State what we know, acknowledge what we do not, and never claim our theories have the final word.
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Room for others
Closeness, collaboration, and protection do not imply ownership. Leave others the space to become themselves.
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Room in how we act
The ability to act does not create an obligation to act. Make actions open to pause, revocation, correction, and reconsideration.
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Room for the future
Do not turn today’s institutions into a final destination, or today’s answers into the only path forward.
Research · Current questions
Make irreversible actions open to scrutiny.
We study both individual machine actions and longer-term system change. The first asks what gives a machine the authority to act. The second examines how risk, power, distribution, human agency, and institutional legitimacy evolve as machines keep changing the world on our behalf.
Machine Civilization Dynamics
Rather than seeking a single “civilization score,” examine trustworthy action, fragility, recovery capacity, distribution, agency, and legitimacy as distinct dimensions.
Trustworthiness does not imply legitimacy
A system with accurate identity checks, complete logs, and stable operation may still lack meaningful choice, constraints on power, and paths to correction.
Action speed and recovery speed
The danger lies not just in an individual error, but in machines producing consequences faster than organizations can detect, pause, compensate for, and recover from them.
Make room for uncertainty
Distinguish facts, predictions, and unknowns. Test causal claims against observations, counterexamples, and real-world evidence.
Our position
Acknowledge uncertainty before defining boundaries.
Published means open
Every research piece is published under its author’s real name and open to peer scrutiny.
Reproducible conclusions
Share the methods as well as the results, so others can rerun the analysis.
Boundaries open to debate
We would rather make disagreements public than pretend they are resolved.
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