Use boundary · Responsibility · Privacy
Research Alpha — Human Review Required
Terms & Informed Use
Use Open Web Steward as a bounded review aid—not as an automatic publisher, compliance certificate, security guarantee, or substitute for human judgment.
The workbench can make a web-production process more structured, visible, and replayable. It cannot decide whether the underlying product claims are true, whether affected people consent, or whether the finished page is lawful, secure, accessible, appropriate, and ready to publish.
The controlling posture
Every output remains bounded by its exact source, validator version, executed checks, and human review state.
Candidate is not final
Model-generated HTML remains an untrusted candidate. A clean preview or favorable finding count does not make it an approved publication.
PASS is not authority
A PASS means only that one named deterministic rule passed. WARN, FAIL, NOT_APPLICABLE, and NOT_EXECUTED retain their separate meanings.
Hash is not truth
SHA-256 can identify exact bytes and reveal later alteration. It does not establish correctness, authorship, safety, legality, or usefulness.
Human responsibility remains
The user remains responsible for source accuracy, content approval, accessibility, security, legal review, CMS behavior, live testing, and publication.
Local workbench, separate model boundary
Normal workbench operation performs no model call, fetch, XMLHttpRequest, WebSocket, EventSource, service-worker registration, cookie write, localStorage write, sessionStorage write, or IndexedDB write.
Important distinction. The user may separately copy a generated capsule into a local or hosted model. That transfer occurs outside the workbench and is governed by the selected model, interface, provider, and network. Open Web Steward does not conceal or control that boundary.
Do not submit secrets
Do not place passwords, credentials, private keys, unpublished security details, or other secrets into a third-party model.
Protect affected people
Do not send private personal, medical, legal, employment, child, survivor, or other sensitive records to a model merely because the workbench itself is local.
Human decision meanings
The four postures are intentionally not interchangeable.
| Decision | Meaning | Authority created |
|---|---|---|
| APPROVE | Acceptable within the declared local review scope only. | No publication or deployment authority. |
| HOLD | Do not proceed until unresolved work is addressed. | None. |
| REJECT | The candidate is unsuitable for the declared task. | None. |
| REQUEST_REPAIR | Authorize one bounded successor tied to named observed findings. | Repair authority only for the exact direct successor. |
One decision, one packet, one successor. A repair packet may not silently expand scope, authorize repeated successors, erase the original candidate, or promote the successor without another human decision.
Do not rely on this Alpha for claims it does not make
Accessibility
Automated indicators cannot establish WCAG conformance or replace keyboard-only, screen-reader, low-vision, cognitive-usability, and affected-person evaluation.
Security
The preview is an allowlist-based defensive transformation, not a complete sanitizer. Independent security review was not executed.
Legal and factual accuracy
The workbench does not determine rights, regulatory compliance, trademark status, privacy obligations, or whether a product claim is substantively true.
Search and marketing
It does not promise indexing, ranking, conversion, traffic, discoverability, or SEO improvement.
Models
No live model comparison was executed for the exact release. The Alpha does not claim to improve model weights, intelligence, or general capability.
Production
This is a public research Alpha. Production use is not authorized by the exact release receipt.
Licensing and attribution
The exact rights ledger controls file by file.
Software and machine contracts
Workbench code, validators, schemas, tests, tools, and code templates use the Mozilla Public License 2.0 where the file-level record says so.
Educational and explanatory material
Pedagogical prose, task capsules, examples, and documentation use Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 where the file-level record says so.
Exact allocation matters. The combined label MPL-2.0 AND CC-BY-4.0 describes the package posture. It does not mean every individual file carries both licenses.
Correction and responsible reporting
Report reproducible defects with the exact Alpha version, source SHA-256, browser and operating system, input fixture or redacted reproduction, expected behavior, and observed behavior. Security reports should avoid public disclosure of exploit details until a safe correction path is agreed.