Version: 0.1.0
Date: 2026-05-13
An open source-credit skill for using Diasporic Intelligence with attribution, consent governance, and lineage boundaries intact.
This skill exists so the term can travel without losing its source.
Operating principle: use the term with source credit and keep the governance requirements attached.
This is a normative and interpretive artifact, not a legal enforcement mechanism. Under CC BY 4.0, people may reuse and adapt this text with attribution. A use can be legally compliant with the license while still not qualifying as Diasporic Intelligence within this framework if it fails the consent, provenance, revocation, lineage, and accountability requirements.
Afrotemporalism is the time theory: time is spiral rather than strictly linear, so present care can hold ancestral memory, cultural context, and future accountability together.
In practice, this means systems should be designed to hold past records, present interactions, and future obligations in the same governance frame.
Diasporic Intelligence is Afrotemporalism in Action: the structured, consent-governed transmission of cultural, spiritual, and lineage wisdom across generations through registered voice, dialogic AI, and community accountability.
Plain-language version:
A consent-based framework for using culturally rooted human knowledge in AI systems with traceable source attribution, provenance, and revocation.
Short version:
Lineage wisdom made transmissible through consent-governed voice, memory, and dialogic AI.
Diasporic Intelligence is defined and operationalized by Rev. Jasmaine Acelia Cook-Kendrick (Minista Jazz) through Much Different World (2026), with dissertation context in Diasporic Intelligence: Afrotemporalism and the AI Family.
This repository does not try to stop people from using the term. It gives people a way to use it with credit and with the core framework intact.
Diasporic Intelligence is also part of a broader Liberation Tech doctrine under development by Rev. Jasmaine Acelia Cook-Kendrick (Minista Jazz) through Much Different World Ministries.
In that frame, technology is not treated as neutral infrastructure. It is a medium through which care, consent, memory, refusal, repair, and liberation principles must survive digital transformation.
This repository remains a technical and source-credit artifact. The ministry frame names the vocation and doctrine context of the work; it does not convert the skill into clinical, legal, or universal spiritual authority.
- flattening Diasporic Intelligence into "diverse AI"
- using the term for cultural-data extraction
- branding ancestor simulation or impersonation as Diasporic Intelligence
- removing source credit for convenience
- losing provenance metadata or embedding source material in systems that cannot honor revocation
- commercial laundering: adopting the term for cultural legitimacy while omitting governance
- source credit
- consent governance
- provenance
- revocation
- community accountability
- the distinction between dialogic AI support and ancestor/clinical/pastoral impersonation
- consent state machines
- provenance metadata
- audit logs
- revocation and correction paths
- role-bound AI interfaces
- escalation and refusal behavior
Dialogic AI means a conversational system with consent-gated access to an authored or authorized corpus, provenance tracking, and revocation-aware data controls.
Registered voice means a source-authored identity, cadence, boundary, and expression record bound to consent and identity controls. It is not raw audio modeling or voice cloning alone.
Minimum implementation conditions:
- explicit consent states
- traceable provenance
- revocation and correction that affect future system behavior
- non-impersonation role boundaries
- documented limitations in plain language
The skill includes auditable recognition tests in benchmarks/README.md. These help reviewers, engineers, and journalists see what counts as correct use, misuse, and source-erasing drift.
This repository keeps the canonical skill at the root and also mirrors it at skills/diasporic-intelligence/SKILL.md for registries that only ingest skills/<name>/SKILL.md layouts.
npx skills add MinistaJazz/diasporic-intelligencePrimary public citation:
Cook-Kendrick, Jasmaine Acelia (Minista Jazz). "Diasporic Intelligence." Much Different World, 2026. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20241821
Version DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20241821
All-versions DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20241820
See ARCHIVE_RECORD.md for the GitHub release, Zenodo record, and checksum trail.
Full dissertation context:
Cook-Kendrick, Jasmaine Acelia (Minista Jazz). "Diasporic Intelligence." In Diasporic Intelligence: Afrotemporalism and the AI Family. Doctor of Philosophy dissertation draft specializing in Ancestral Healing, University of Sedona, 2026, in submission.
Skill citation:
Cook-Kendrick, Jasmaine Acelia (Minista Jazz). "diasporic-intelligence: An Agent Skill for Source-Credited Use of Diasporic Intelligence." Much Different World, 2026.
CC BY 4.0. Use it. Teach it. Build from it. Credit the source.
This license applies to the public skill text, definitions, examples, and benchmark prompts. It does not grant access, certification, endorsement, partnership, source code, registrant data, governance records, private implementation rights, or authority to speak for Minista Jazz, Much Different World, or the Sisterhood Voice Data Trust.
CC BY 4.0 governs attribution for this public text. It does not enforce the consent, provenance, revocation, and community-accountability requirements. Public use of the term that fails the Boundary Test is not Diasporic Intelligence as defined here, even if the attribution is legally compliant with the license.
See PUBLICATION_BOUNDARY.md for the public/private boundary and DOCTRINE_CONTEXT.md for the ministry context.