The shared space and the Mediator
How the Mediator guides conversation between you, why it never takes sides, and how it offers words when tension rises.
Alongside your private room, your space has one shared space. It's where the people in your relationship actually talk to each other, with an AI Mediator present to help the conversation go somewhere good.
What the shared space is
The shared space is a single conversation that everyone in your space can see and take part in. When one person writes, the others can read it and reply. It's the room for the real thing: the plan you're making together, the thing you keep circling back to, the repair after a hard week.
The Mediator sits in this room with you. It isn't a member and it isn't running the conversation. It's there to help you hear each other.
The Mediator never takes sides
This is the rule the Mediator is built on, and it doesn't bend. It doesn't decide who's right. It doesn't quietly agree with one of you against the other. It holds each person's needs as real and worth respecting, and it works to keep the conversation fair rather than to win it for anyone.
That neutrality is what lets both people trust the room. If the Mediator started keeping score, the shared space would stop being safe to speak in.
When tension rises
Hard conversations get sharp. When the Mediator senses that heat is building, it may step in gently. Often that looks like offering a single alternative phrasing: one quoted way you could say the same thing that lands softer or clearer. You're free to use it, adjust it, or ignore it entirely. It's an offer, not a correction.
The point isn't to sand down what you mean. It's to help the meaning survive the moment, so the other person can actually receive it instead of bracing against it.
What the Mediator knows, and what it doesn't
The Mediator works only from the shared space and from the member-safe picture of your relationship, the shared Relationship State. It does not read anyone's private room. Nothing you wrote privately is available to it, so it can't accidentally surface your private words to the other person. That firewall is covered in full in the wall between private and shared.
Speaking, not just typing
Like your private room, the shared space accepts more than text. You can speak instead of type and share photos or PDFs; the Mediator replies in text.
How it compounds
Each night your shared conversations are woven into summaries and a refreshed read of where the relationship is. The longer you use the space, the more context the Mediator carries into each conversation. See nightly weaving and the shared Relationship State.