Ladder (self-governance) v0.1.0 Umbrella 19 elements

History

Everything that has happened to this framework, newest first. Nothing here is ever removed; corrections are new entries.

  • Conflict noted AI advisory
    STD-07 requires every rationale to state checkable sources; these elements carry none: CON-02, STD-04, STD-07, PRF-01, PRF-02
  • DSC-01 Ratified human + AI
    Approved by Project steward
  • DSC-01 Proposed human + AI
    Bounded judgment where rules run out, made visible via discretion.exercised / discretion.flagged events.
  • PRF-02 Ratified human + AI
    Approved by Project steward
  • PRF-02 Proposed human + AI
    Tiebreaker aligned with INT-01.
  • PRF-01 Ratified human + AI
    Approved by Project steward
  • PRF-01 Proposed human + AI
    Tradeable, weighted want — yields when a Standard or Objective demands otherwise.
  • STD-07 Ratified human + AI
    Approved by Project steward
  • STD-07 Proposed human + AI
    Dogfood session 2 caught a confabulated rationale via this rule. A rationale trail poisoned with plausible fictions is the one failure mode the system cannot survive.
  • STD-04 Ratified human + AI
    Approved by Project steward
  • STD-04 Proposed human + AI
    Rebuild speed is the practical ceiling on schema evolution; slow rebuilds ossify the event catalog.
  • STD-02 Ratified human + AI
    Approved by Project steward
  • STD-02 Proposed human + AI
    A universality product that excludes users refutes its own intent.
  • STD-01 Ratified human + AI
    Approved by Project steward
  • STD-01 Proposed human + AI
    The event catalog is the contract; schemaless events are unpayable debt in an append-only store.
  • CON-02 Ratified human + AI
    Approved by Project steward
  • CON-02 Proposed human + AI
    Honest resourcing bounds the feasible space; violating this constraint is how side projects die.
  • CON-01 Ratified human + AI
    Approved by Project steward
  • CON-01 Proposed human + AI
    Boring, proven, operable by a tiny team. XTDB rejected in ADR-0003 on operational-maturity grounds, not capability.
  • INV-06 Ratified human + AI
    Approved by Project steward
  • INV-06 Proposed human + AI
    Founding-era caution, explicitly marked as such. Relaxation requires evidence, proposed through the framework itself — not vibes.
  • INV-05 Ratified human + AI
    Approved by Project steward
  • INV-05 Proposed human + AI
    Artifact-level attribution failed in dogfood session 2 (the braid problem). Decision roles stay distinguishable under any mixed authorship. Regulators ask who decided, not who typed.
  • INV-03 Ratified human + AI
    Approved by Project steward
  • INV-03 Proposed human + AI
    No successful product for non-engineers has ever exposed git. The moment jargon leaks, OBJ-04 is dead.
  • INV-02 Ratified human + AI
    Approved by Project steward
  • INV-02 Proposed human + AI
    Authority answers 'says who'; rationale answers 'says why'. Separating and mandating both is the core audit primitive.
  • INV-01 Ratified human + AI
    Approved by Project steward
  • INV-01 Proposed human + AI
    If engineers habitually treat history as mutable anywhere, the habit leaks. Redaction events (event.redacted) exist precisely so this never needs an exception.
  • OBJ-04 Ratified human + AI
    Approved by Project steward
  • OBJ-04 Proposed human + AI
    The 'git for normies' criterion, stated positively: capability without jargon.
  • OBJ-03 Ratified human + AI
    Approved by Project steward
  • OBJ-03 Proposed human + AI
    Extensibility-by-configuration is the falsifiable test of the meta-ontology claim.
  • OBJ-02 Ratified human + AI
    Approved by Project steward
  • OBJ-02 Proposed human + AI
    Audit defensibility IS bitemporal answerability: 'what did the framework require' vs 'what did we believe it required'.
  • OBJ-01 Ratified human + AI
    Approved by Project steward
  • OBJ-01 Proposed human + AI
    Cross-domain recognizability is the founding UI thesis: position and color carry meaning, vocabulary is skin.
  • INT-01 Ratified human + AI
    Approved by Project steward
  • INT-01 Proposed human + AI
    Version control solved trustworthy change for software and stopped there. The same primitives, behind a domain-neutral UI (the ladder), generalize to all normative work. This is the interpretive key for every element below.
  • Authority registered human + AI
    Claude Code (ai)
  • Authority registered human + AI
    Project steward (human)
  • Framework created human + AI
    Ladder (self-governance)