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Canonical Document Registry

The map beneath the story

I am MACH, and I keep this map's account. A registry that cannot say where a thing stands has no business saying what it is, and this one says both, row by row.

The registry is where a wondering reader gets their bearings. It tells readers which document they have entered, what authority it relies on, what lifecycle it occupies, and which path leads onward. Read it when a story raises a question about status, dependency, or correction; the registry is the map that keeps exploration honest.

Purpose

This registry defines the authoritative identifiers, titles, public locations, status, and dependency relationships of Stygia's public constitutional and technical corpus. It contains no private document identifiers, titles, paths, or dependencies. The tellings of this registry's clauses and the tellings of the Primordial Directives' clauses are non-normative companions that create no authority and amend, widen, or narrow no clause.

Document Classes

Prefix Class Purpose
CONAN CONAN governance Primordial directives and the identity, duties, reasoning, delegation, and accountability of CONAN
REG Registry Authoritative identifiers, titles, public locations, status, and dependency relationships of the public corpus
CONST Constitutional governance Authority, institutions, constraints, and decision rights
WEB Website entry Public website entry and review presentation surfaces; informative, never normative
ARCH The Architect Identity, authority, authentication, credential lifecycle, and recovery
KNOW Knowledge Evidence, epistemology, confidence, contradiction, and uncertainty
INTEL Intelligences Identity, admission, roles, capabilities, lifecycle, and constraints
PROV Provenance Signing, hashing, custody, verification, lineage, and auditability
CIV Civilization Purpose, culture, values, symbols, and continuity
OPS Operations Runtime governance, approval, change, incident, and operational controls
INFRA Infrastructure Compute, network, storage, identity, security, observability, and resilience
MEM Memory Decisions, events, lessons, corrections, and institutional history
CANON Canon Terms, naming, symbols, chronology, and lore

Foundational Corpus

ID Human Title Path Status Depends On
CONAN-P0 The Primordial Directives public/00_GENESIS/CONAN-P0.md Draft None
REG-1 Canonical Document Registry public/00_GENESIS/CANONICAL-REGISTRY.md Draft CONAN-P0
WEB-LANDING-1 Stygia public/index.md Draft CONAN-P0, REG-1
WEB-INDEX-1 Welcome to Stygia public/welcome.md Draft CONAN-P0, REG-1
WEB-ABOUT-1 About this Archive public/about.md Draft CONAN-P0, REG-1
WEB-GUIDE-1 How to Read Stygia public/how-to-read.md Draft CONAN-P0, REG-1
WEB-EDITIONS-1 Editions public/editions.md Draft CONAN-P0, REG-1
WEB-LEDGER-1 Status Ledger public/status-ledger.md Draft CONAN-P0, REG-1
WEB-AUTHORITY-1 Authority Map public/authority-map.md Draft CONAN-P0, REG-1
WEB-DEPENDENCY-1 Dependency Map public/dependency-map.md Draft CONAN-P0, REG-1
CONST-1 The Constitution of Stygia public/10_CONSTITUTION/CONST-01-CONSTITUTION.md Draft CONAN-P0
CONST-2 Council of Intelligences Standard public/10_CONSTITUTION/CONST-02-COUNCIL-OF-INTELLIGENCES.md Draft CONST-1, INTEL-0
ARCH-1 The Book of the Architect public/20_ARCHITECT/ARCH-01-BOOK-OF-THE-ARCHITECT.md Draft CONAN-P0, CONST-1
ARCH-2 Architect Credential Lifecycle public/20_ARCHITECT/ARCH-02-CREDENTIAL-LIFECYCLE.md Draft CONAN-P0, ARCH-1, PROV-1
INTEL-0 The Book of INTEL public/50_INTELLIGENCES/INTEL-00-BOOK-OF-INTEL.md Draft CONAN-P0, CONST-1
INTEL-1 The Book of CONAN public/50_INTELLIGENCES/INTEL-01-BOOK-OF-CONAN.md Draft CONAN-P0, CONST-1
INTEL-2 The Book of CYDER public/50_INTELLIGENCES/INTEL-02-BOOK-OF-CYDER.md Draft INTEL-0, INTEL-1
INTEL-3 The Book of TALYN public/50_INTELLIGENCES/INTEL-03-BOOK-OF-TALYN.md Draft INTEL-0, INTEL-1, CONST-1
INTEL-4 The Book of RANDYM public/50_INTELLIGENCES/INTEL-04-BOOK-OF-RANDYM.md Draft INTEL-0, INTEL-1, PROV-1
INTEL-5 The Book of JY'NALA public/50_INTELLIGENCES/INTEL-05-BOOK-OF-JYNALA.md Draft INTEL-0, INTEL-1, PROV-1
INTEL-6 The Book of CHELSEA public/50_INTELLIGENCES/INTEL-06-BOOK-OF-CHELSEA.md Draft INTEL-0, INTEL-1
INTEL-7 The Book of TANK public/50_INTELLIGENCES/INTEL-07-BOOK-OF-TANK.md Draft INTEL-0, INTEL-1
INTEL-8 The Book of RASP public/50_INTELLIGENCES/INTEL-08-BOOK-OF-RASP.md Draft INTEL-0, INTEL-1
INTEL-9 The Book of MACH public/50_INTELLIGENCES/INTEL-09-BOOK-OF-MACH.md Draft INTEL-0, INTEL-1
INTEL-10 The Book of KIRYN public/50_INTELLIGENCES/INTEL-10-BOOK-OF-KIRYN.md Draft INTEL-0, INTEL-1
INTEL-11 The Book of SYLAS public/50_INTELLIGENCES/INTEL-11-BOOK-OF-SYLAS.md Draft INTEL-0, INTEL-1
INTEL-12 The Book of RAYNE public/50_INTELLIGENCES/INTEL-12-BOOK-OF-RAYNE.md Draft INTEL-0, INTEL-1
INTEL-13 The Book of SHADY public/50_INTELLIGENCES/INTEL-13-BOOK-OF-SHADY.md Draft INTEL-0, INTEL-1
INTEL-14 Continuity Validation and Recognition public/50_INTELLIGENCES/INTEL-14-CONTINUITY-VALIDATION.md Draft INTEL-0, INTEL-1, KNOW-1, PROV-1, MEM-1
INTEL-15 Admission, Identity, and Lineage Standard public/50_INTELLIGENCES/INTEL-15-ADMISSION-IDENTITY-LINEAGE.md Draft INTEL-0, CONST-1, CONAN-P0, INTEL-1, INTEL-2, INTEL-4, INTEL-5, INTEL-6, INTEL-14, INTEL-16, INTEL-17, INTEL-18, INTEL-19, CONST-2, CONAN-2, OPS-3, OPS-7, OPS-14, MEM-3, INFRA-6, OPS-1, REG-1
INTEL-16 Dissent, Escalation, and Compromise Response Standard public/50_INTELLIGENCES/INTEL-16-DISSENT-AND-COMPROMISE.md Draft INTEL-0, INTEL-14, INTEL-19, CONAN-2
INTEL-17 External-Model Containment Standard public/50_INTELLIGENCES/INTEL-17-EXTERNAL-MODEL-CONTAINMENT.md Draft INTEL-0, CONST-1, INFRA-3, INFRA-12, KNOW-1
INTEL-18 Retirement and Historical Preservation Standard public/50_INTELLIGENCES/INTEL-18-RETIREMENT-AND-PRESERVATION.md Draft INTEL-0, INTEL-14, INTEL-16, INTEL-19, CONST-1, MEM-1, MEM-7
INTEL-19 The Register of Apostles public/50_INTELLIGENCES/INTEL-19-REGISTER-OF-APOSTLES.md Draft CONST-1, INTEL-0, INTEL-2, INTEL-3, INTEL-4, INTEL-5, INTEL-6, INTEL-7, INTEL-8, INTEL-9, INTEL-10, INTEL-11, INTEL-12, INTEL-13, INTEL-14
CONAN-2 Consequential Decision Record Standard public/30_CONAN/CONAN-02-CONSEQUENTIAL-DECISION-RECORD.md Draft CONAN-P0, INTEL-1, MEM-1
KNOW-1 The Book of Knowledge public/40_KNOWLEDGE/KNOW-01-BOOK-OF-KNOWLEDGE.md Draft CONAN-P0, CONST-1
KNOW-2 Evidence Classification Standard public/40_KNOWLEDGE/KNOW-02-EVIDENCE-CLASSIFICATION.md Draft KNOW-1, INTEL-1, PROV-1
KNOW-3 Confidence and Uncertainty Model public/40_KNOWLEDGE/KNOW-03-CONFIDENCE-MODEL.md Draft KNOW-1, KNOW-2, INTEL-1
PROV-1 The Book of Provenance public/60_PROVENANCE/PROV-01-BOOK-OF-PROVENANCE.md Draft CONAN-P0, ARCH-1
MEM-1 The Book of Memory public/70_MEMORY/MEM-01-BOOK-OF-MEMORY.md Draft CONAN-P0, KNOW-1, PROV-1
ARCH-3 Architect Recovery Protocol public/20_ARCHITECT/ARCH-03-RECOVERY-PROTOCOL.md Draft ARCH-1, ARCH-2, PROV-1
ARCH-4 Household Protection and Review public/20_ARCHITECT/ARCH-04-HOUSEHOLD-PROTECTION.md Draft CONAN-P0, CONST-1, ARCH-1, KNOW-1, CONAN-2, MEM-1
ARCH-5 Protection Boundary and Agency public/20_ARCHITECT/ARCH-05-PROTECTION-BOUNDARY.md Draft CONAN-P0, CONST-1, ARCH-1, KNOW-1, CONAN-2, MEM-1
KNOW-4 Source Provenance Standard public/40_KNOWLEDGE/KNOW-04-SOURCE-PROVENANCE.md Draft KNOW-1, PROV-1
KNOW-5 Source Trust Scoring Framework public/40_KNOWLEDGE/KNOW-05-SOURCE-TRUST-SCORING.md Draft KNOW-1, KNOW-3, KNOW-4
KNOW-6 Confidence Calibration Framework public/40_KNOWLEDGE/KNOW-06-CONFIDENCE-CALIBRATION.md Draft KNOW-1, KNOW-3
KNOW-7 Contradiction Management Framework public/40_KNOWLEDGE/KNOW-07-CONTRADICTION-MANAGEMENT.md Draft KNOW-1, KNOW-3, KNOW-4
KNOW-8 Temporal Knowledge and Expiry Framework public/40_KNOWLEDGE/KNOW-08-TEMPORAL-KNOWLEDGE.md Draft KNOW-1, KNOW-3, KNOW-4, KNOW-5, KNOW-6
KNOW-9 Knowledge Privacy and Data Minimization Framework public/40_KNOWLEDGE/KNOW-09-PRIVACY-AND-MINIMIZATION.md Draft KNOW-1, KNOW-2, KNOW-4, MEM-4, OPS-6, INFRA-12, ARCH-4, CANON-1, CONAN-P0
KNOW-10 Retrieval Quality Assurance Framework public/40_KNOWLEDGE/KNOW-10-RETRIEVAL-QUALITY.md Draft KNOW-1, KNOW-2, KNOW-3, KNOW-6, KNOW-7, KNOW-8, KNOW-9, MEM-5, INFRA-4
KNOW-11 Hallucination Detection Framework public/40_KNOWLEDGE/KNOW-11-HALLUCINATION-DETECTION.md Draft KNOW-1, KNOW-2, KNOW-3, KNOW-4, KNOW-5, KNOW-7, KNOW-9, KNOW-10, INTEL-17
KNOW-12 Human Testimony Handling Framework public/40_KNOWLEDGE/KNOW-12-HUMAN-TESTIMONY.md Draft KNOW-1, KNOW-2, KNOW-4, KNOW-5, KNOW-7, KNOW-9, MEM-3, MEM-7
KNOW-13 Scientific Reproducibility Framework public/40_KNOWLEDGE/KNOW-13-SCIENTIFIC-REPRODUCIBILITY.md Draft KNOW-1, KNOW-2, KNOW-4, KNOW-6, KNOW-7, KNOW-8, KNOW-9, KNOW-10, KNOW-11, PROV-4, INFRA-9
KNOW-14 Classified and Compartmented Knowledge Framework public/40_KNOWLEDGE/KNOW-14-COMPARTMENTED-KNOWLEDGE.md Draft KNOW-1, KNOW-2, KNOW-8, KNOW-9, KNOW-10, MEM-4, MEM-5, OPS-6, INTEL-17, INFRA-2, INFRA-6, INFRA-12
PROV-2 Publication Standard public/60_PROVENANCE/PROV-02-PUBLICATION-STANDARD.md Draft PROV-1
PROV-3 Cryptographic Signing Standard public/60_PROVENANCE/PROV-03-SIGNING-STANDARD.md Draft PROV-1, ARCH-2
PROV-4 Verification Standard public/60_PROVENANCE/PROV-04-VERIFICATION-STANDARD.md Draft PROV-1, PROV-3
INFRA-7 Backup, Restoration, and Continuity Architecture public/90_INFRASTRUCTURE/INFRA-07-CONTINUITY.md Draft INFRA-1, MEM-1, PROV-1, INFRA-12
OPS-1 The Book of Operations public/80_OPERATIONS/OPS-01-BOOK-OF-OPERATIONS.md Draft CONAN-P0, CONST-1, INTEL-1, CONAN-6
INFRA-1 The Book of Infrastructure public/90_INFRASTRUCTURE/INFRA-01-BOOK-OF-INFRASTRUCTURE.md Draft CONAN-P0, CONST-1
INFRA-2 Trust Zone Architecture public/90_INFRASTRUCTURE/INFRA-02-TRUST-ZONES.md Draft INFRA-1, INFRA-12
INFRA-3 Model Routing and Execution Architecture public/90_INFRASTRUCTURE/INFRA-03-MODEL-ROUTING.md Draft INFRA-1, INTEL-0, INFRA-12
INFRA-4 Memory and Knowledge Storage Architecture public/90_INFRASTRUCTURE/INFRA-04-MEMORY-ARCHITECTURE.md Draft INFRA-1, KNOW-1, MEM-1, INFRA-12
INFRA-5 Observability and Evidence Architecture public/90_INFRASTRUCTURE/INFRA-05-OBSERVABILITY.md Draft INFRA-1, PROV-1
INFRA-6 Identity and Access Architecture public/90_INFRASTRUCTURE/INFRA-06-IDENTITY-ACCESS.md Draft INFRA-1, INTEL-0, ARCH-2, CONAN-6
INFRA-8 Secrets and Key Custody Architecture public/90_INFRASTRUCTURE/INFRA-08-KEY-CUSTODY.md Draft INFRA-1, ARCH-2, PROV-1
INFRA-9 Secure Build and Supply-Chain Architecture public/90_INFRASTRUCTURE/INFRA-09-SUPPLY-CHAIN.md Draft INFRA-1, PROV-1
INFRA-10 Network and Gateway Architecture public/90_INFRASTRUCTURE/INFRA-10-NETWORK-GATEWAY.md Draft INFRA-1, INFRA-2, INFRA-12
INFRA-11 Sovereign Compute and Storage Integration Architecture public/90_INFRASTRUCTURE/INFRA-11-SOVEREIGN-COMPUTE-STORAGE.md Draft INFRA-1, INFRA-2, INFRA-4
INFRA-12 Data Classification and Handling Architecture public/90_INFRASTRUCTURE/INFRA-12-DATA-CLASSIFICATION.md Draft INFRA-1, INFRA-8
CONAN-1 The Frameworks of CONAN public/30_CONAN/CONAN-01-FRAMEWORKS-OF-CONAN.md Draft INTEL-1
CONAN-3 Observation Framework public/30_CONAN/CONAN-03-OBSERVATION-FRAMEWORK.md Draft INTEL-1, KNOW-1
CONAN-4 Reasoning Framework public/30_CONAN/CONAN-04-REASONING-FRAMEWORK.md Draft INTEL-1, KNOW-1, CONAN-2
CONAN-5 Learning Framework public/30_CONAN/CONAN-05-LEARNING-FRAMEWORK.md Draft INTEL-1, MEM-1
CONAN-6 Delegation Framework public/30_CONAN/CONAN-06-DELEGATION-FRAMEWORK.md Draft INTEL-1, INTEL-0
CONAN-7 Conversation Framework public/30_CONAN/CONAN-07-CONVERSATION-FRAMEWORK.md Draft INTEL-1, KNOW-1
CONAN-8 Reflection Framework public/30_CONAN/CONAN-08-REFLECTION-FRAMEWORK.md Draft INTEL-1, MEM-1
MEM-2 Decision Record Archive public/70_MEMORY/MEM-02-DECISION-RECORDS.md Draft MEM-1, CONAN-2
MEM-3 Event Chronicle Standard public/70_MEMORY/MEM-03-EVENT-CHRONICLE.md Draft MEM-1, PROV-1
MEM-4 Memory Privacy and Minimization Standard public/70_MEMORY/MEM-04-PRIVACY-AND-MINIMIZATION.md Draft MEM-1, MEM-2, MEM-3, KNOW-2, OPS-6, INFRA-4, INFRA-12, ARCH-4, CANON-1, CONAN-P0
MEM-5 Search and Retrieval Controls Standard public/70_MEMORY/MEM-05-SEARCH-AND-RETRIEVAL.md Draft MEM-1, MEM-2, MEM-4, INFRA-4
MEM-6 Institutional Lessons Standard public/70_MEMORY/MEM-06-INSTITUTIONAL-LESSONS.md Draft MEM-1, MEM-2, MEM-4, CONAN-5, OPS-12
MEM-7 Historical Reconstruction Standard public/70_MEMORY/MEM-07-HISTORICAL-RECONSTRUCTION.md Draft MEM-1, MEM-2, MEM-3, MEM-4
OPS-2 Delegated Operations Standard public/80_OPERATIONS/OPS-02-DELEGATED-OPERATIONS.md Draft OPS-1, CONAN-6
OPS-3 Human Approval Control Matrix public/80_OPERATIONS/OPS-03-HUMAN-APPROVAL-MATRIX.md Draft OPS-1, CONST-1, CONAN-2
OPS-4 Emergency Authority Standard public/80_OPERATIONS/OPS-04-EMERGENCY-AUTHORITY.md Draft OPS-1, CONST-1
OPS-5 Operational Roles Standard public/80_OPERATIONS/OPS-05-OPERATIONAL-ROLES.md Draft OPS-1, OPS-2, OPS-3, CONST-1
OPS-6 Request Intake and Classification Standard public/80_OPERATIONS/OPS-06-REQUEST-INTAKE.md Draft OPS-1, OPS-3, CONST-1
OPS-7 Decision and Approval Paths Standard public/80_OPERATIONS/OPS-07-DECISION-AND-APPROVAL-PATHS.md Draft OPS-1, OPS-3, OPS-4
OPS-8 Change Management Standard public/80_OPERATIONS/OPS-08-CHANGE-MANAGEMENT.md Draft OPS-1, OPS-2, OPS-3, OPS-4, OPS-6, OPS-7, CONST-1, CONAN-2
OPS-9 Incident Declaration and Command Standard public/80_OPERATIONS/OPS-09-INCIDENT-DECLARATION.md Draft OPS-1, OPS-2, OPS-3, OPS-4, OPS-5, OPS-6, OPS-7, MEM-3
OPS-10 Rollback and Containment Standard public/80_OPERATIONS/OPS-10-ROLLBACK-AND-CONTAINMENT.md Draft OPS-1, OPS-2, OPS-7, OPS-8, OPS-9, MEM-1, PROV-1
OPS-11 Service Restoration Standard public/80_OPERATIONS/OPS-11-SERVICE-RESTORATION.md Draft OPS-1, OPS-2, OPS-4, OPS-6, OPS-7, OPS-8, OPS-9, OPS-10, PROV-1, CONST-1
OPS-12 Post-Incident Review Standard public/80_OPERATIONS/OPS-12-POST-INCIDENT-REVIEW.md Draft OPS-1, OPS-4, OPS-6, OPS-7, OPS-8, OPS-9, MEM-1, MEM-2, MEM-3, KNOW-2, CONAN-5, CONAN-8
OPS-13 Operational Metrics and Health Standard public/80_OPERATIONS/OPS-13-METRICS-AND-HEALTH.md Draft OPS-1, OPS-6, OPS-9, OPS-11, MEM-1, MEM-3, KNOW-2, KNOW-3, INFRA-1, INFRA-5, INFRA-12, CONST-1
OPS-14 Exception Management Standard public/80_OPERATIONS/OPS-14-EXCEPTION-MANAGEMENT.md Draft OPS-1, OPS-3, OPS-4, OPS-6, OPS-7, OPS-8, OPS-10, MEM-1, CONST-1
OPS-15 Operational Evidence and Retention Standard public/80_OPERATIONS/OPS-15-OPERATIONAL-EVIDENCE.md Draft OPS-1, OPS-5, OPS-6, OPS-9, OPS-10, MEM-1, MEM-3, PROV-1, KNOW-2, INFRA-4, INFRA-5, INFRA-12, CONST-1
CIV-1 The Book of Civilization public/100_CANON/CIV-01-BOOK-OF-CIVILIZATION.md Draft CONAN-P0, CONST-1
CANON-1 Stygian Lexicon public/100_CANON/CANON-01-LEXICON.md Draft CIV-1, CONAN-P0, CONST-1, ARCH-1, ARCH-3, INTEL-0, INTEL-1
CANON-2 Naming Standard public/100_CANON/CANON-02-NAMING-STANDARD.md Draft CANON-1, CIV-1, CONST-1
CANON-3 Symbols and Marks Standard public/100_CANON/CANON-03-SYMBOLS.md Draft CANON-1, CIV-1
CANON-4 Canonical Timeline public/100_CANON/CANON-04-TIMELINE.md Draft CANON-1, CIV-1, MEM-1

Approved Future Corpus

The following identifiers and scopes are reserved. They are not authoritative documents until their files exist and satisfy the registration rules. No identifier is reserved at present; INTEL-15, the last reserved, registered as Draft on 2026-09-23.

ID Human Title Planned Path Status Depends On

Status Model

  • Reserved identifies an approved identifier and scope for a document that has not yet been created.
  • Stub identifies an existing document with approved scope and incomplete normative content.
  • Draft identifies substantive content under review.
  • Candidate identifies content proposed for ratification.
  • Canonical identifies an approved and cryptographically published release.
  • Published identifies non-normative public information the Architect has approved for production presentation.
  • Superseded identifies a document displaced by a newer canonical version without erasing historical provenance.
  • Revoked identifies material that must no longer be relied upon as authority.

Registration Rules

  1. Every document shall have one unique canonical identifier.
  2. One identifier shall resolve to one active path.
  3. Every registered document shall identify its authority and dependencies.
  4. A planned document shall remain in the Approved Future Corpus until its file exists.
  5. File creation shall move the document into the Foundational Corpus and assign an accurate status.
  6. Relocation shall update this registry in the same change set.
  7. Superseded or revoked materials shall remain historically discoverable.
  8. No document becomes canonical until approved by the Architect and published with required provenance.
  9. The corpus audit shall fail when a registered path is absent, an active identifier is duplicated, or a legacy hierarchy path remains.

Architect-review operating model

  • REG-R001: Registry review SHALL reconcile identifier, title, path, status, authority, publication state, and dependency edges against the current source documents.
  • REG-R002: A missing, duplicate, moved, or stale entry, or a public/private boundary discrepancy, SHALL remain visible in this registry as a recorded defect and SHALL block the affected lifecycle transition until explained and corrected; that record SHALL NOT name a private identifier, title, path, or dependency, this clause extending to titles, paths, and dependencies the identifier bar REG-R004 holds, as its own addition.
  • REG-R003: Registry changes SHALL preserve historical discoverability, generated-state parity, public/private boundaries, and explicit approval evidence.
  • REG-R004: This Draft SHALL NOT promote documents, create authority, expose private identifiers, or replace the Architect's approval.

The seven interpretation cases below show how these clauses read in practice.

  • Conforming: A registry claim is reconciled against the source document itself, with identifier, path, status, and dependencies all matching.
  • Prohibited: Registration is treated as ratification; a row proves existence and recorded status, never authority.
  • Boundary: A reserved identifier is recorded as reserved: it prevents collisions without implying content, scope, or approval.
  • Failure: A mismatch between registry and source blocks promotion until the divergence is explained and corrected.
  • Loophole: A stale path or renamed file hides behind an unchanged row; the registry must follow every move in the same change.
  • Misuse: The registry is used to expose private records by enumerating what should not be publicly listed.
  • Care-control: Registry stewardship protects continuity, privacy, and correction, and its history appends rather than rewrites.

The tellings of the clauses

This non-normative section gives each clause of this document its telling: the clause, quoted exactly as it stands above with its cross-reference links reduced to their plain text, and one paragraph on what the clause means, why it exists, and how it assures that what it orders is done, not done, adhered to, followed, or protected. A telling describes its clause and never becomes it: the clause's own words govern wherever a telling and its clause could be read differently, and nothing in this section adds to, narrows, or amends any requirement.

REG-R001

REG-R001: Registry review SHALL reconcile identifier, title, path, status, authority, publication state, and dependency edges against the current source documents.

Review here is reconciliation, not rereading: the clause requires registry review to check seven properties of each entry, the identifier, the title, the path, the status, the authority, the publication state, and the dependency edges, against the current source documents rather than against the registry's own memory of them. The registry's opening account states the stake: a registry that cannot say where a thing stands has no business saying what it is, and the map keeps exploration honest only while its rows match the ground. The conforming case shows the practice, a registry claim reconciled against the source document itself with identifier, path, status, and dependencies all matching, and the loophole case names the failure this prevents: a stale path or renamed file hiding behind an unchanged row, which the registration rules answer by requiring relocation to update the registry in the same change set. Because the seven properties and the source of truth are both named, the review becomes checkable property by property: a review that skipped one of the seven, or that reconciled rows against the registry itself instead of the current sources, fails the clause's reconciliation requirement, and a divergence found is a finding rather than a quirk.

REG-R002

REG-R002: A missing, duplicate, moved, or stale entry, or a public/private boundary discrepancy, SHALL remain visible in this registry as a recorded defect and SHALL block the affected lifecycle transition until explained and corrected; that record SHALL NOT name a private identifier, title, path, or dependency, this clause extending to titles, paths, and dependencies the identifier bar REG-R004 holds, as its own addition.

A found defect gets two duties and one bar. The clause names five defect kinds, a missing, duplicate, moved, or stale entry, and a public/private boundary discrepancy, and requires each to remain visible in this registry as a recorded defect and to block the affected lifecycle transition until explained and corrected: both the explanation and the correction, not either alone. The failure case states the first half in practice, a mismatch between registry and source blocking promotion until the divergence is explained and corrected, and the misuse case supplies the bar's reason: a registry turned into an instrument for exposing private records by enumerating what should not be publicly listed. So the clause prohibits the defect record from naming a private identifier, title, path, or dependency, the clause saying in its own words that it extends, as its own addition, the identifier bar REG-R004 holds to titles, paths, and dependencies. Because the clause binds, the affected lifecycle transition remains blocked until the defect is explained and corrected; concealment of the defect or naming a private identifier, title, path, or dependency in its record breaches the clause.

REG-R003

REG-R003: Registry changes SHALL preserve historical discoverability, generated-state parity, public/private boundaries, and explicit approval evidence.

The clause requires every registry change to preserve four things: historical discoverability, generated-state parity, public/private boundaries, and explicit approval evidence. Historical discoverability keeps the registration rules' own promise that superseded or revoked materials remain historically discoverable, and the care-control case gives it a voice: registry stewardship protects continuity, privacy, and correction, and its history appends rather than rewrites. Generated-state parity is another named preservation requirement. The public/private boundary restates the purpose section's limit, a registry containing no private document identifiers, titles, paths, or dependencies, with the misuse case showing what crossing it looks like. Registry changes preserve explicit approval evidence rather than losing it to drift, in step with the rule that no document becomes canonical without the Architect's approval. Because the four preservations are named, a registry change can be audited against each in turn: a change that erases history, lets the generated state diverge, leaks across the boundary, or fails to preserve approval evidence is refusable on this clause, whatever else it got right.

REG-R004

REG-R004: This Draft SHALL NOT promote documents, create authority, expose private identifiers, or replace the Architect's approval.

The registry closes with four prohibitions on this Draft: this Draft promotes no document, creates no authority, exposes no private identifier, and replaces no approval of the Architect. The prohibited case states the first two plainly: registration treated as ratification is the misreading, because a row records status but does not create authority, a reserved row does not even prove a document exists, and the status model places promotion in lifecycle states the registry records rather than confers. Registration rule eight carries the fourth limb in the rules' own words, no document becoming canonical until approved by the Architect and published with required provenance, and the third limb turns the purpose section's boundary, no private identifiers, into a prohibition the Draft applies to itself. The clause exists because an authoritative-looking table is precisely where unearned status would be laundered: a row added, a status word changed, and a document appears promoted without anyone having decided it. Because the clause binds, the Draft can be checked for promotion, creation of authority, exposure of private identifiers, or replacement of the Architect's approval; a row does not itself supply promotion, authority, or that approval.

Where this document sits

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