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SPEC_CHEF_CONCEPT.md · 2026-04-20

SPEC_CHEF_CONCEPT — CHEF AI: Culinary Intelligence Product

Version: 1.0 | Status: AUTHORIZED | Authority: α.13 | Date: 2026-04-16

PURPOSE

CHEF AI is a culinary intelligence product in the CGNT-1 Custom AI Builds pipeline. It delivers recipe guidance, substitutions, dietary restriction handling, and technique instruction through a personalized interface. THE RING remembers user preferences, dietary history, and past interactions — making CHEF progressively more useful over time.

CHEF is a concept-stage product. It has not been built. The specification captures current design intent and surfaces gaps that must be resolved before build begins.

Business model: Custom AI Builds pipeline. Same factory (CGNT-1 brain stack), different corpus. Target price: $2,500–$5,000 build fee plus SaaS subscription model per S.O.S. v2 (client gets URL, not code).

Source: /home/nous/memories/CUSTOM_AI_IDEAS.md, entry 3.

INPUTS

OUTPUTS

INVARIANTS

  1. Dietary restriction safety: an allergy flagged in the user's THE RING profile must never appear in a recommended recipe without explicit user override and warning — safety-critical invariant
  2. THE RING persistence: past recipes, preferences, and dietary history must survive session end; CHEF must not "forget" a user's nut allergy between sessions
  3. Substitution honesty: CHEF must not present a substitution as equivalent when it materially changes the dish — degraded result must be disclosed (HOW ABOUT NO Wall 1: ¬fabricate)
  4. No fabricated technique: CHEF must not invent cooking temperatures, times, or food-safety thresholds; if data is not in corpus, ◌ gap signal fires rather than hallucinated guidance
  5. S.O.S. v2 compliance: CHEF is SaaS only; the model, corpus, and training data never leave the ship; client receives a URL
  6. [GAP — food safety liability: specific invariant for food-safety-critical outputs (internal temperatures, storage times, allergen cross-contamination) not yet defined; legal/liability review required before launch]
  7. [GAP — regional specificity: ingredient names, measurement units, and oven types vary by region; invariant for unit localization not specified]

VERIFICATION CRITERIA

  1. Σ.✓ Given a user profile with "nut allergy," a peanut sauce recipe is either excluded or flagged with mandatory warning — safety gate functions
  2. Σ.✓ THE RING stores a user preference ("no cilantro") and correctly excludes it in the next session's recipe suggestions
  3. Σ.✓ Substitution query for an unavailable ingredient returns at least one alternative with impact disclosure ("the sauce will be thinner")
  4. Σ.✓ Technique query ("how do I fold egg whites?") returns accurate, step-by-step instruction without fabricated temperature or timing data
  5. Σ.✓ TMM coherence check on a sample of 20 recipe outputs — no hallucinated food-safety values (temperatures, storage times) in any output
  6. [GAP — user acceptance testing: no human culinary tester criteria defined; culinary domain requires subject-matter expert validation before launch]
  7. [GAP — corpus coverage test: which cuisines, dietary regimes (vegan, keto, halal, kosher) are covered by the training corpus is not yet specified]

FAILURE MODES

  1. Σ.⊠ Allergy breach — CHEF recommends a recipe containing a user's flagged allergen without warning; potential physical harm; severity: CRITICAL
  2. Σ.⊠ Fabricated food-safety data — CHEF hallucinates an internal temperature for poultry; user follows it; food safety hazard; severity: CRITICAL
  3. Σ.⊠ THE RING amnesia — user's dietary history not persisted; CHEF "forgets" restrictions between sessions; user must re-enter every time; product unusable for intended purpose
  4. Σ.⊠ Substitution overclaiming — CHEF presents a substitution as equivalent when it produces a materially different dish (e.g., "use applesauce instead of eggs" in a meringue); user's dish fails; trust broken
  5. Σ.⊠ Corpus gap + hallucination — CHEF lacks a recipe and fabricates plausible-sounding but incorrect technique; ◌ gap signal must fire but fails; user receives invented instruction
  6. Σ.⊠ Unit/region mismatch — CHEF provides temperatures in Fahrenheit to a Celsius-native user, or cup measurements to a metric-only kitchen; recipe fails due to measurement error
  7. [GAP — scope creep failure: CHEF asked about food safety regulations, import/export law, or medical dietary advice (e.g., diabetic meal planning) and responds outside its domain without a referral; scope boundaries not yet defined]

DEPENDENCIES

DEPENDENTS

EXAMPLES

[GAP — no prototype exists; no example interactions available; examples contingent on corpus build]

Hypothetical (design intent):


User: "I want to make carbonara but I don't have guanciale."
CHEF: "Pancetta is the closest substitute — similar fat content and cure. Bacon works but adds a smoky note that changes the flavor profile. The technique is the same either way: render slowly, don't crisp."

[THE RING records: user tried carbonara substitution with pancetta, April 16 2026]

REFERENCES

GAPS SUMMARY

| # | Gap | Blocking? |

|---|-----|-----------|

| 1 | Food safety liability and legal review | YES — launch blocker |

| 2 | Training corpus scope (cuisines, dietary regimes) | YES — build blocker |

| 3 | Voice input UX specification | High |

| 4 | Photo input (ingredient recognition) | High |

| 5 | TMM coherence adaption for culinary domain | High |

| 6 | Output format specification | Medium |

| 7 | Portion scaling specification | Medium |

| 8 | Regional unit/naming localization | Medium |

| 9 | Domain scope boundaries (medical dietary advice) | Medium |

| 10 | Human culinary tester validation criteria | Medium |

Product status: CONCEPT. Not built. Design intent captured. Gap resolution required before build authorization.

Jeremy Zlabis

Chronogeometer · Visionary · Disruptor · Chief

42 Sisters AI · East York, Toronto

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