Anisotrope

A geometric instrument for measuring how AI systems drift, deform, and fail under pressure.

Prompted AI agents change shape under pressure.

When you deploy a prompted AI agent, it doesn't stay the way you configured it. Context accumulates. Conversations drift. The behavioral identity you designed deforms in ways you can't see from the outputs alone — until it fails.

Current evaluation tools tell you what an agent said. They can't tell you what's happening to the geometry of its behavioral structure. They measure answers. We measure shape.

Geometric evaluation of AI agent configurations.

Anisotrope measures the behavioral geometry of prompted language models. Sentinel probes map the output distribution onto a metric space, where distances have mathematical meaning and drift has visible shape.

Every evaluation returns a full geometric decomposition: uniform change — the configuration contracting or expanding evenly — and dimensional drift — the configuration deforming in a specific direction. Different configurations produce different drift signatures. The geometry tells you not just that something changed, but what kind of change occurred.

Probe geometry
Sentinel probes form a metric space on the probability simplex. Healthy configurations produce a universal equilateral baseline. Drift deforms the triangle — and the deformation is the diagnosis.
Typed decomposition
Not a score — a geometric characterization. Every measurement decomposes drift into uniform and directional components, each with distinct operational meaning.
Mathematical foundation
Built on information geometry, magnitude theory, and perturbation analysis. The framework is published, peer-reviewed, and independently validated from three mathematical perspectives.

What a configuration evaluation looks like.

This is a real evaluation result. The equilateral triangle is the healthy baseline — universal across all well-configured agents. The deformed triangle is what pressure does to the geometry. The decomposition tells you why.

Read the paper.

Measuring What Persists: A Geometric Framework for Prompted Identity Evaluation
Tanner, A. et al. · 2026
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See what your agents look like.

Anisotrope is in early access. If you're building prompted AI systems and want to see their geometric health, we'd like to talk.

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