From b979a7318e8284f06b218f530ac7979382917e29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arkadiy Miteiko Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 22:18:28 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] CAT-ALIGN-001: link RAED to the controlling category thesis Add the standard category role block after the core invariant, and name that invariant for what it is: a non-collapse rule of Open Institutional Computation. Storage, copying, summarization, replay and transmission are not sources of truth, authority, scope, currentness or admissibility. RAED preserves the distinction. It does not establish institutional authority, interpret governing sources, or perform institutional admission. Documentation only, additive. No Go code, schema, benchmark, claim or conformance statement changed. Signed-off-by: Arkadiy Miteiko Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Pkw68qW3iRaeJsiMPBEPvW --- README.md | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f4e58cc..27ae32a 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -19,6 +19,18 @@ RAED is not a vector database, a truth engine, an agent framework, a policy engi > **Core invariant:** machine state does not gain truth, authority, scope, currentness, or admissibility merely because it was stored, copied, summarized, replayed, or transmitted. +## Role in Open Institutional Computation + +**Category:** Open Institutional Computation +**This component:** Provenance-preserving semantic state substrate — stable identity, explicit context, provenance, lifecycle and dependency structure for persistent machine state +**Upstream:** Whatever produced the stored state, including any institutional authority or control state established elsewhere; RAED preserves what it is given and does not upgrade it +**Downstream:** Systems that must decide what a stored object is, where it came from, what it depends on, and whether an upstream change should invalidate or re-evaluate it +**Canonical category thesis:** https://github.com/veraxis-protocol/institutional-continuity/blob/main/THESIS.md + +The core invariant above is a non-collapse rule of that field: storage, copying, summarization, replay and transmission are not sources of truth, authority, scope, currentness or admissibility. RAED preserves the distinction; it does not establish institutional authority, interpret governing sources, or perform institutional admission. + +Architectural role does not imply production readiness; see `CLAIMS.md`, `LIMITATIONS.md` and `CONFORMANCE.md` for the exact demonstrated scope. + ## Why RAED exists A simple agent exchange is easy to picture: