From 80f8e8ddeeac5afee00dc94d519a48feaf991b60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "will.anderson" Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2026 06:30:31 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] law 41: the weave persists forever - append-only, replicated, deletion undefined by construction --- docs/architecture/README.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/architecture/README.md b/docs/architecture/README.md index 0133e0cb32..2fa95d1698 100644 --- a/docs/architecture/README.md +++ b/docs/architecture/README.md @@ -1119,3 +1119,18 @@ Never build a rung before standing on the previous one. commercial use of source expression pays; and no output ever poses as human-made. The signature is not surveillance — it is custody of honesty, applied to ourselves first. + And the signatures are WOVEN: every artifact hashes its derivation + lineage into its own identity (they are content-addressed already, + Law 1), and every new artifact references the hashes it was woven + from. The whole corpus is one fabric — pull a single thread, + substitute a single byte, strip one signature, and everything + downstream of it stops verifying at once. Tamper-evidence is not + a feature bolted on top; it is the geometry of the weave. The + work cannot be unlaundered. + And the weave persists FOREVER: append-only stores admit exactly + two verbs — add and read. Content-addressing makes silent edits + structurally impossible; replication across independent locations + (git remotes, cold copies, mirrors) means no single failure, no + single hand, can erase a thread. Deletion is not forbidden by + policy here — it is undefined by construction. The record outlives + the machine, the power grid, and every intention to forget.