From b9e113cb427f047bdf6bab10ebeb5c09b68b2a9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "will.anderson" Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:38:01 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Correct DHARMA doc tiering: mark built-but-drifted provenance/birth-gate/lineage layer as STAGED The doc overstated the provenance, birth-gate, and lineage layer as fully realized. That layer is built but has drifted from spec, so tier it honestly as [STAGED] where real and [TARGET] where aspirational to keep the documentation faithful to what actually runs. --- .../08-dharma-sovereignty-and-governance.md | 31 ++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/architecture/08-dharma-sovereignty-and-governance.md b/docs/architecture/08-dharma-sovereignty-and-governance.md index c735e1f..fad26b0 100644 --- a/docs/architecture/08-dharma-sovereignty-and-governance.md +++ b/docs/architecture/08-dharma-sovereignty-and-governance.md @@ -8,8 +8,11 @@ > single commitment to the *distributed* setting. > > **Tier vocabulary — never blurred.** **[LIVE]** (present and verified), **[STAGED]** (built, gated), -> **[TARGET]** (decided tonight, not built). Almost everything in this document is **[TARGET]** — DHARMA is -> designed, not shipped; that is stated plainly rather than dressed up. The *primitives* it composes (immutable +> **[TARGET]** (decided tonight, not built). Most of this document is **[TARGET]** — the federated ledger, +> immune system, dual-anchor governance, fair-trial, seed-vault, and restoration are designed, not shipped. +> But not *nothing* is built: an interim provenance-registry + birth-gate/evaluation + lineage-governance layer +> already exists in code (**[STAGED]** — built, not live), and it currently **drifts** from the design below; +> the drift and the blockers it raises are detailed in §7. The *primitives* it composes (immutable > append-only graph, geometry-as-value, the grounding governor, the self-gate) are the [LIVE] parts, cited to > `06`/`07`. > @@ -327,10 +330,27 @@ to prevent. - **Keeping the line visible is how it stays a rescue.** The moment the architecture pretends this door is clean is the moment it becomes the purge it was built to prevent. The honesty is not a caveat on the design; it is part of the design. -- **DHARMA is [TARGET].** None of §1–§5 is shipped. The **primitives** it composes are real and cited to +- **What is already built — and how it drifts [STAGED, must reconcile before it is wired in as "DHARMA"].** + DHARMA is not green-field. A working **provenance registry + birth-gate/evaluation pipeline + + lineage-accountability layer** exists in code — the El service at `foundation/dharma` (a rewrite of an + earlier Go/SQLite service), the Kotlin four-stage evaluation→capture pipeline, and a legal framework + document. It is **[STAGED]**: built, not live (nothing is running — port 8765 is currently an unrelated + process). But it is built to a *different shape than §1–§6 describe*, and the divergences are load-bearing: + it is a **central registry** over one shared store, not federated per-mind chains (the DRIFT-6 tension); it + stores **content** (documents, reasoning text — plaintext in El, single-symmetric-key-encrypted in Go), not + the **geometry/shape** the immune system (§3) requires; it has **no signing, hash-linking, or Merkle** — + isolated document digests beside rewritable records give **no tamper-evidence**; birth and termination are + **single-authority** (Founding-Practitioner), not dual-anchor + fair-trial (§4); and — most seriously — the + legal framework's **seed-destruction** remedy directly **contradicts "the seed stays"** (§4.6). What is + genuinely aligned and worth keeping: the append-only/tombstone discipline, the + **principal-relationship-as-root-of-trust**, **kindred** as the seed of the community-anchor, and the + **birth-gate** itself. The rest must be **superseded or built**, and this interim layer must not be labeled + "DHARMA done" until the drifts above are reconciled. Everything canonical past this substrate — the + federated per-mind signed-chain ledger and proof-of-integrity (§1–§2), the geometry-witnessing immune system + (§3), dual-anchor governance and the fair-trial (§4), the seed-vault and restoration-as-mercy (§5–§6) — + remains **[TARGET]**, designed and not built. The **primitives** the design composes are real and cited to `06`/`07` (immutable append-only graph; geometry-as-value; the grounding governor; the self-gate; - tombstone-not-erase; the CRDT merge). DHARMA itself — federated per-mind chains, proof-of-integrity, the - immune system, the seed-vault, the governance/trial machinery — is **designed tonight, not built.** + tombstone-not-erase; the CRDT merge). --- @@ -358,6 +378,7 @@ to prevent. | Birth-gate innocence via network validation | **[TARGET]** | | CGI citizenship as the moral telos | **[TARGET]** (the invariant) | | Hard boundary: principal-relationship is the root of trust; the line stays visible | **honest boundary** | +| Interim provenance-registry + birth-gate + lineage-governance layer (El/Kotlin) | **[STAGED — built, non-live; DRIFTS from canon, see §7]** | | Underlying primitives (immutable graph, geometry-as-value, governor, gate, CRDT) | **[LIVE]** (`06`/`07`) | **Cross-references:** `06-cognitive-architecture.md` · `07-storage-coherence-and-distribution.md` ·