Constitution

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{

"$schema": "https://epistemedia.com/schemas/constitution-v1.json",

"id": "constitution:epistemedia:v0.1",

"title": "Epistemedia Genesis Constitution",

"status": "accepted",

"principles": [

{

"id": "C-001",

"name": "Forkability",

"rule": "Accepted data, schemas, policies, compilers, and manifests must be exportable so a realm can continue without permission from the default operator."

},

{

"id": "C-002",

"name": "Provenance preservation",

"rule": "No accepted projection may sever a represented claim from the accepted sources, observations, methods, policies, and transformations used to produce it."

},

{

"id": "C-003",

"name": "Dissent preservation",

"rule": "A contradiction, rebuttal, qualifier, minority result, or failed replication cannot be deleted merely because another evaluation dominates it."

},

{

"id": "C-004",

"name": "No self-authorization",

"rule": "An actor, model, prompt lineage, or contribution cannot independently propose, evaluate, promote, and integrate the same normative change."

},

{

"id": "C-005",

"name": "Disclosure noninterference",

"rule": "Objects ineligible for a public projection cannot change that projection's status, ranking, counts, wording, topology, or recommendations unless policy explicitly permits disclosure of the effect."

},

{

"id": "C-006",

"name": "Policy-explicit evaluation",

"rule": "Truth-like status is the output of a named versioned policy over a named frontier and disclosure boundary, never an intrinsic global field on a proposition."

},

{

"id": "C-007",

"name": "Sovereign import",

"rule": "A realm may verify, quarantine, map, accept, partially accept, defer, or reject an imported bundle under local policy. Remote verdicts do not automatically become local authority."

},

{

"id": "C-008",

"name": "Append-only accepted history",

"rule": "Merged epistemic events, task contracts, governance events, run receipts, and release manifests are superseded by later records rather than rewritten or deleted."

},

{

"id": "C-009",

"name": "Reproducible projection",

"rule": "Every public result must identify its accepted commit, event frontier, policies, compiler, source objects, and content digest sufficiently to reproduce or audit it."

},

{

"id": "C-010",

"name": "Bounded machine power",

"rule": "Automated contributors and integrators receive the minimum capabilities required by a declared task and may not widen their own authority."

}

],

"amendment_process": [

"propose a versioned constitutional change",

"declare affected rules and authority boundaries",

"instantiate an isolated fork",

"run static, schema, replay, property, adversarial, and disclosure tests",

"evaluate with independently rooted machine evaluators loaded from the accepted base",

"execute a bounded canary under precommitted promotion predicates",

"promote, reject, quarantine, or fork",

"record an immutable outcome and monitor for forward-only disablement"

]

}