ARGUS — Open Protocol for Critical Analysis

ARGUS is a structured method for analyzing the mechanics of argumentative texts with the assistance of an artificial intelligence.

It is not about judging the moral or political value of a text, but about evaluating its solidity: its logic, rhetoric, presuppositions, and implicit strategies.

ARGUS is both an aid and a learning tool. It provides a grid that prevents an operation from being forgotten, and it aims at its own partial deactivation: after a dozen analyses, you recognise a framing or an immunising concession without needing to run through the eight steps.

The protocol is public, reproducible, free of rights, and available in six languages.

How to use it?

ARGUS can be used in two ways.

With the ARGUS Skill — on a compatible platform

  1. Download and install the ARGUS Skill.
  2. Add the text or texts to be analyzed.
  3. Simply ask: “Analyze this text with ARGUS.”

The Skill lets you install ARGUS’s execution layer once. The ARGUS V5.0.0 protocol remains the normative reference.

With the protocol — universal method

  1. Download the protocol.
  2. Open a conversation with the AI of your choice.
  3. Provide it with the protocol, then the text to be analyzed.
  4. The AI applies the method step by step.