If you are unsure what something is, read the canon; do not guess (guessing is how the fake lith monorepo got fabricated). Start here, then the files named below.
- Holes before anything else — fix soundness holes before features/perf/docs.
- Fixes first, on firm foundations — ground-truth by running the tool, not trusting status docs.
- Fail loudly, seal soundly — no silent green; seams (ABI/FFI) sealed & proven.
- Distrust the neural for exactness — licences/invariants/equivalence belong to PLASMA (formal), not to an LLM. Your edits there are provisional + supervised.
- Squabble, don't bypass — reach green by satisfying the gate, never by admin-override.
- No automated licence edits — ever — manual, owner-only; third-party untouchable.
- No deletion by access-recency — cold ≠ disposable.
- Wire first — unwired is not done.
- Always sign commits (
id_ed25519_signing; verifystatus:G). - Report faithfully — no overclaim (the AFFIRMATION ethos).
- Stop-first when an action is costly to undo or outward-facing.
- Boundaries are real — respect IS / IS-NOT; never assimilate or rename across them.
- Equivalence as identity — the estate's intellectual through-line.
- Solutions at source — fix the canonical/upstream origin, never patch the downstream symptom; trace and respect every up- and down-stream before you act.
- Elegance by default — treat the most elegant and correct long-term option as the default arm; when you put a choice to the owner, LABEL which option that is, and if you recommend another, name both arms and say why you depart. Binds unasked design calls too: report the departure, never absorb it.
CHORA → ANCHOR → AGENTIC → ECOSYSTEM → STATE -> NEUROSYM -> PLAYBOOK
The descriptive family (working name descriptiles) describes what-is; the contractiles are the normative set-point.
| File | Answers |
|---|---|
CLADE.a2ml |
Identity / lineage — what this repo IS (registers into gv-clade-index). |
ANCHOR.a2ml |
Semantic authority + golden path — what downstream may extend-not-redefine; if a recognised-drift / re-anchor marker is present, it supersedes accumulated context — read it first. |
META.a2ml |
Concept / constitutional authority — ADRs, what's permitted. |
AGENTIC.a2ml |
May I act now? — permissions, risk gating, fail-safe-deny. |
ECOSYSTEM.a2ml |
Where it sits — estate + external relations, and what-this-is-not. |
NEUROSYM.a2ml |
Meaning of operations — proof obligations. |
PLAYBOOK.a2ml |
How permitted actions run. |
STATE.a2ml |
Where things are now — progress, blockers, next-actions. |
| contractiles | Normative doctrine: Intend (north-star) · Must (invariants) · Trust (security) · Adjust (accessibility / inclusive design) — the integral core that holds strong; plus Dust (exnovation drift) · Bust (failure / breakage, not drift). |
| k9 | Validation. Kennel (data) / Yard (pure eval) / Hunt (guarded exec). |
hyperpolymath/standards— the canon source. ·hyperpolymath/gv-clade-index— the estate map (identity registry). ·hyperpolymath/manifesto— this doctrine.- Before you invent, rename, or consolidate anything: STOP and check the map + IS-NOT.
Deny: Nix, Python, Go, TypeScript, AGPL. (Guix, not Nix.) JavaScript tooling order: Bun (default) > Deno (being removed — owner ruling 2026-08-26, standards#655) > pnpm > npm (last resort, permitted). Use plain JavaScript when this tooling is needed. The "use ReScript" rule is retired — ReScript is no longer used in this estate. Do not migrate Bun to Deno.
- Identity — uuid
7aff6bbd-b776-503f-ba55-3f67c7106886; cladeap(secondary ``); born 2026-03-14; forgehyperpolymath/dicta-task. - IS — Speech-to-do pipeline: portable recorder → transcription → NLP parsing → prioritised task list
- IS-NOT — a cloud dictation service (ASR runs offline; cloud is encrypted backup only) · a general note-taking app · a template (it is minted from rsr-template-repo)
- Where it sits — pipeline position leaf; chain
standards → rsr-template-repo → dicta-task; coordination =standards. - Constraints here (AGENTIC) — fail-closed; evidence-per-step; no-silent-skip; rerun-after-fix; release-claim-requires-hard-pass. Never: banned langs (above), secrets, state files in repo root, AGPL. Details:
.machine_readable/bot_directives/{methodology,coverage,debt}.a2ml. - Golden path (ANCHOR) —
just test && just quality→ Core tests pass; Quality gates pass; No unresolved critical security findings. - State — phase implementation; maturity experimental; 15% complete; status active.