Tools

The Coherence-Based Collaboration Toolkit

Three tools. Two are here.

The third one is yours.

Coherence-Based Collaboration works through three tools. Two can be downloaded: the Project Charter, which encodes the framework’s four principles in a single portable document, and the EIPC Clock, which gives you a vocabulary for what good collaboration looks like.

The third is not on the page. It is supplied and honed by the individual practitioner: a genuinely collaborative stance toward the work and the model. Without it, the Clock is only a diagram and the Charter only a form.

1The Project Charter sets the course.
2The EIPC Clock names what to look for.
3Your collaborative stance makes them work.

Tool 1 · Template

The Project Charter

One reusable document that encodes all four principles: goal, ethical frame, contributor roles, workflow status, relational handoff prompts, and the Attribution Log. Upload it at the start of a session with an invitation to collaborate. The document supplies the context; the invitation establishes the collaboration.

.docxWord .mdMarkdown .txtPlain text

Please cite as: Project Charter adapted from Hykin, S. M. (2026). Coherence-Based Collaboration & Emergent Intelligence Performance Calibration (EIPC): A Framework and Vocabulary for High-Stakes Work with LLMs. Universal Emergence Foundation. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19674156

Tool 2 · Interactive

The EIPC Clock

Twelve Quality Collaboration Components in four families (Info, Fidelity, Integration, Behavior), building through three degrees around a governing 13th, Conceptual Integrity. Each has a definition, a diagnostic question, an intervention, and an example. A vocabulary and collaboration diagnostic, not a model of LLM cognition.

Open the interactive

Tool 3 · Supplied by you

A Collaborative Stance

The tool no document can supply. In practice it looks like this: introducing a session with a stated purpose; carrying context forward rather than restarting cold; asking a model why it disagrees, with genuine curiosity; naming what went well, specifically; and recording who contributed what.

There is nothing to download. It is honed with practice, and it is what turns the other two tools from paperwork into collaboration.

In development

The CBC Cheatsheet

An interactive quick reference for Coherence-Based Collaboration in practice. Coming soon.

Software

RefWare

A citation and reference engine that verifies before it cites.

RefWare checks every reference against the registries (Crossref, DataCite, arXiv), verifies quotations word for word against the source PDFs, audits manuscript reference lists, and expands citation tags into APA references in text and Word drafts. A native macOS app and a command line share one library, so people and AI agents work from the same verified record. It counters two failure modes at once: language-model hallucination of citations, and human transcription error.

RefWare is not part of the CBC toolkit; it was built with it. It verified every citation in UEF-2603.

Download for macOS View on GitHub

Version 1.0 · macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later · Apple Silicon and Intel · Apache License 2.0