People
Protect human agency, dignity, privacy, opportunity, and the ability to make meaningful decisions alongside AI.
Open research · An emerging protocol
Let intelligence grow.
Keep what sustains it thriving.
MCP gives AI access to capabilities. SAP explores how AI can understand the consequences of using them—so people, the planet, and our shared future remain part of every decision.
An open-source, provider-neutral experiment. Not a centralized authority or mandatory system.
A living system, not another silo.
01 / What sustainability means
Intelligence should sustain
what makes it possible.
Just as sap moves resources through a living tree, Sustainable AI Protocol aims to connect the signals and choices that keep a growing AI ecosystem viable.
Planet
Bring energy, emissions, water, hardware use, and ecological consequences into view—without pretending estimates are measurements.
Prosperity
Favor durable value over waste: task quality, affordability, access, efficiency, and responsible use of shared resources.
Evidence is the connective tissue.
SAP should preserve where a claim came from, what was measured versus estimated, and what remains unknown. Human rights and dignity are not reducible to a single impact score.
02 / Built to connect, not replace
The ecosystem
is already growing.
We don't need another walled garden. SAP's proposed role is to let existing capabilities, measurements, and human choices inform one another.
MCP helps AI connect.
OSF helps AI explore.
SAP helps AI steward.
Phewsh helps work endure.
OSF helps AI explore.
SAP helps AI steward.
Phewsh helps work endure.
These are complementary roles, not a required stack or a claim of live integration.
01
Discover and connectExisting protocols and capability catalogs reveal what an application could use.
02
Bring evidence togetherObservability, independent environmental methods, provider disclosures, and user preferences supply their own signals.
03
Compare viable pathsSAP's prototype keeps quality and privacy constraints visible while comparing disclosed cost and energy tradeoffs.
04
Preserve context and consequencesExisting workflow and provenance systems can record what was chosen, attempted, and verified.
SAP / EXECUTION LABFICTIONAL EXAMPLE
Task: summarize a private document
Local inference · privacy-preservingEligible
Remote model · unknown energyCompare
Conventional extraction · quality dependentReview
What SAP should surface: available evidence, meaningful tradeoffs, and uncertainty—not a made-up universal “green score.”
03 / See the idea in action
Invisible by default.
Transparent on demand.
The current SAP Lab is a working, browser-local comparison prototype. Try Balanced, Eco, and Performance; require local-only processing; and inspect why a hypothetical execution path was chosen.
Important: The lab uses fictional figures and runs no AI inference. It demonstrates decision logic, not real-world energy savings or platform-wide enforcement.
04 / An open invitation to builders
A protocol earns adoption by being useful.
SAP v0.2 is a reference implementation, not a ratified standard. Developers can run the comparison core today and help test whether a shared cross-system contract adds something existing standards don't already provide.
- Use what already exists. Connect to established tools for model access, telemetry, carbon methodology, and verification rather than cloning them.
- Make claims inspectable. Carry measurement quality and uncertainty alongside every metric.
- Keep people in charge. No mandatory centralized tracking, moral scoring, or invisible policy overrides.
- Next milestones: real measured pilot, adapter experiments, independently tested benefits.
sap-core.js / experimental API
// No account, remote service, or model required.
const SAP = require("./sap-core");
const plan = SAP.evaluate(options, {
mode: "balanced",
minimumQuality: 0.80,
localOnly: true
});
// The host decides whether and how to execute.
// A plan is not proof of actual energy saved.
console.log(plan.selected, plan.reason);A living, open research effort
Helping intelligence grow without exhausting what sustains it.
For intelligence to flourish, the people and planet sustaining it must flourish too. Let's build the connective tissue—not another competing ecosystem.