The Vexometer: Irritation Surface Analyser (ISA)
Quantifying irritation across 10 dimensions for LLMs and related tools, with standardised, reproducible metrics.
MPL-2.0 RSR-compliant
This monorepo contains ISA core, its satellite intervention system, the Lazy Eliminator completeness enforcer, and the Vext verifiable communications protocol. ISA is irritation-surface instrumentation — measurement and mitigation of annoying LLM output patterns — not safety-alignment work.
Components
| Directory | What it is |
|---|---|
| vexometer/ | The Vexometer (ISA) — irritation surface analyser core (Ada). 10 dimensions, standardised metrics. |
| vexometer-efficacy/ | Efficacy evaluator (Rust) — scores satellite interventions against baseline measurements; monotone frontier records. |
| vexometer-satellites/ | ISA Satellites — umbrella documentation and coordination hub for the satellite intervention system. |
| satellite-template/ | Satellite Template — scaffolding template for new ISA satellite projects. |
| verbosity-compressor/ | Verbosity Compressor (Rust) — first satellite: information-density analysis of LLM output; filler, hedges, redundancy, padding. |
| lazy-eliminator/ | Lazy Eliminator — completeness enforcement for LLM-generated code; detects and eliminates lazy patterns. |
| vext/ | Vext — verifiable, extensible communications protocol with cryptographic proof of algorithmic neutrality. |
| vext-email-gateway/ | Vext Email Gateway — email bridge for Vext interoperability (prototype). |