Keep thought visible
Show the evidence, intermediate work and choices behind a result.
Human-in-the-Thought-Loop
Human-in-the-Thought-Loop Manifesto
Faster work. Stronger people.
We value speed, automation, and autonomy. In the AI era, we value the following more.
Read the 11 values ↓ThinkKeep reasoning active
OwnTake responsibility
GrowBuild lasting capability
01Human thinking
02Accountable decisions
03Lasting capability
Our priorities.
- Growth of human thinkingover outsourcing thinking to a black box.
- Understanding the path to a decisionover the smoothness of an instant answer.
- Active judgment and questioningover comfortable acceptance.
- Human–AI collaborationover human displacement.
- Accountable authorshipover “the system said so”.
- Truth-seeking and verificationover plausibility and confident tone.
- Long-term capability buildingover short-term effort savings.
- Professional dignityover turning a specialist into a button operator.
- Seeing consequences and being able to step inover convenience that quietly becomes dependency.
- Your reasoning saved and reusableover a chat that vanishes after the answer.
- Structure that lightens the loadover interfaces that guess for you.
A compass for choices.
Invite real judgment
Create opportunities to question, revise and take responsibility.
Look beyond speed
Ask what the person understands and can do after using the system.
Reference implementation
Total Project Management Framework (TPM)
A project work system built around these principles: visual knowledge, adaptable methods, working tools, AI assistance and learning.
The approach can inform other products. Its effects on professional capability remain a question for evaluation.
Explore the FrameworkAn open approach
Adopt it in your product
Use these principles in your product. Free to use and adapt with attribution — licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Suggested citation: Kosheliev, O. (2026). Human-in-the-Thought-Loop Manifesto, v1.0. tpm.wiki/manifesto.
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