If you are unsure what something is, read the canon; do not guess (guessing is how the fake lith monorepo got fabricated). Start here, then the files named below.
- Holes before anything else — fix soundness holes before features/perf/docs.
- Fixes first, on firm foundations — ground-truth by running the tool, not trusting status docs.
- Fail loudly, seal soundly — no silent green; seams (ABI/FFI) sealed & proven.
- Distrust the neural for exactness — licences/invariants/equivalence belong to PLASMA (formal), not to an LLM. Your edits there are provisional + supervised.
- Squabble, don't bypass — reach green by satisfying the gate, never by admin-override.
- No automated licence edits — ever — manual, owner-only; third-party untouchable.
- No deletion by access-recency — cold ≠ disposable.
- Wire first — unwired is not done.
- Always sign commits (
id_ed25519_signing; verifystatus:G). - Report faithfully — no overclaim (the AFFIRMATION ethos).
- Stop-first when an action is costly to undo or outward-facing.
- Boundaries are real — respect IS / IS-NOT; never assimilate or rename across them.
- Equivalence as identity — the estate's intellectual through-line.
- Solutions at source — fix the canonical/upstream origin, never patch the downstream symptom; trace and respect every up- and down-stream before you act.
CLADE → ANCHOR → AGENTIC → ECOSYSTEM → STATE
The descriptive family (working name descriptiles) describes what-is; the contractiles are the normative set-point.
| File | Answers |
|---|---|
CLADE.a2ml |
Identity / lineage — what this repo IS (registers into gv-clade-index). |
ANCHOR.a2ml |
Semantic authority + golden path — what downstream may extend-not-redefine; if a recognised-drift / re-anchor marker is present, it supersedes accumulated context — read it first. |
META.a2ml |
Concept / constitutional authority — ADRs, what's permitted. |
AGENTIC.a2ml |
May I act now? — permissions, risk gating, fail-safe-deny. |
ECOSYSTEM.a2ml |
Where it sits — estate + external relations, and what-this-is-not. |
NEUROSYM.a2ml |
Meaning of operations — proof obligations. |
PLAYBOOK.a2ml |
How permitted actions run. |
STATE.a2ml |
Where things are now — progress, blockers, next-actions. |
| contractiles | Normative doctrine: Intend (north-star) · Must (invariants) · Trust (security) · Adjust (accessibility / inclusive design) — the integral core that holds strong; plus Dust (exnovation drift) · Bust (failure / breakage, not drift). |
| k9 | Validation. Kennel (data) / Yard (pure eval) / Hunt (guarded exec). |
hyperpolymath/standards— the canon source. ·hyperpolymath/gv-clade-index— the estate map (identity registry). ·hyperpolymath/manifesto— this doctrine.- Before you invent, rename, or consolidate anything: STOP and check the map + IS-NOT.
Deny: Nix, Node/npm, TypeScript, Python, Go, AGPL. (Guix, not Nix.)
- Identity — uuid
a5ea1382-a34c-5334-8a46-a2ebe904c810; claderm(secondarygv); born 2026-03-16; forgehyperpolymath/rsr-template-repo. - IS — Canonical RSR-compliant repository template: scaffolding (CI/CD, AI manifests, ABI/FFI standards, container ecosystem, governance) that new hyperpolymath projects are instantiated from.
- IS-NOT — a project in its own right · Scaffoldia (the full-featured repo designer) · standards (the canon source this template operationalises)
- Where it sits — pipeline position foundation; chain
standards → rsr-template-repo → (every estate repo); coordination =standards. - Constraints here (AGENTIC) — fail-closed; evidence-per-step; no-silent-skip; rerun-after-fix; release-claim-requires-hard-pass. Never: banned langs (above), secrets, state files in repo root, AGPL. Details:
.machine_readable/bot_directives/{methodology,coverage,debt}.a2ml. - Golden path (ANCHOR) —
just test && just quality→ Core tests pass; Quality gates pass; No unresolved critical security findings. - State — phase maintenance; maturity production; 95% complete; status active.