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Canonical Document Registry

The map beneath the story

The registry is where wonder meets orientation. 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.

Document Classes

Prefix Class Purpose
CONAN CONAN governance Primordial directives and the identity, duties, reasoning, delegation, and accountability of CONAN
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
CONST-1 The Constitution of Stygia public/10_CONSTITUTION/CONST-01-CONSTITUTION.md Draft CONAN-P0
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
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
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
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
OPS-1 The Book of Operations public/80_OPERATIONS/OPS-01-BOOK-OF-OPERATIONS.md Draft CONAN-P0, CONST-1, INTEL-1
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-3 Model Routing and Execution Architecture public/90_INFRASTRUCTURE/INFRA-03-MODEL-ROUTING.md Draft INFRA-1, INTEL-0
INFRA-4 Memory and Knowledge Storage Architecture public/90_INFRASTRUCTURE/INFRA-04-MEMORY-ARCHITECTURE.md Draft INFRA-1, KNOW-1, MEM-1
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
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-11 Sovereign Compute and Storage Integration Architecture public/90_INFRASTRUCTURE/INFRA-11-SOVEREIGN-COMPUTE-STORAGE.md Draft INFRA-1, INFRA-2, INFRA-4
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
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
OPS-4 Emergency Authority Standard public/80_OPERATIONS/OPS-04-EMERGENCY-AUTHORITY.md Draft OPS-1, 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
CANON-2 Naming Standard public/100_CANON/CANON-02-NAMING-STANDARD.md Draft CANON-1, CIV-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.

ID Human Title Planned Path Status Depends On
MEM-4 Memory Privacy and Minimization Standard public/70_MEMORY/MEM-04-PRIVACY-AND-MINIMIZATION.md Reserved MEM-1
MEM-5 Search and Retrieval Controls Standard public/70_MEMORY/MEM-05-SEARCH-AND-RETRIEVAL.md Reserved MEM-1
MEM-6 Institutional Lessons Standard public/70_MEMORY/MEM-06-INSTITUTIONAL-LESSONS.md Reserved MEM-1, MEM-2
MEM-7 Historical Reconstruction Standard public/70_MEMORY/MEM-07-HISTORICAL-RECONSTRUCTION.md Reserved MEM-1, MEM-3
OPS-5 Operational Roles Standard public/80_OPERATIONS/OPS-05-OPERATIONAL-ROLES.md Reserved OPS-1
OPS-6 Request Intake and Classification Standard public/80_OPERATIONS/OPS-06-REQUEST-INTAKE.md Reserved OPS-1
OPS-7 Decision and Approval Paths Standard public/80_OPERATIONS/OPS-07-DECISION-AND-APPROVAL-PATHS.md Reserved OPS-1, OPS-3
OPS-8 Change Management Standard public/80_OPERATIONS/OPS-08-CHANGE-MANAGEMENT.md Reserved OPS-1
OPS-9 Incident Declaration and Command Standard public/80_OPERATIONS/OPS-09-INCIDENT-DECLARATION.md Reserved OPS-1, OPS-4
OPS-10 Rollback and Containment Standard public/80_OPERATIONS/OPS-10-ROLLBACK-AND-CONTAINMENT.md Reserved OPS-1
OPS-11 Service Restoration Standard public/80_OPERATIONS/OPS-11-SERVICE-RESTORATION.md Reserved OPS-1
OPS-12 Post-Incident Review Standard public/80_OPERATIONS/OPS-12-POST-INCIDENT-REVIEW.md Reserved OPS-1
OPS-13 Operational Metrics and Health Standard public/80_OPERATIONS/OPS-13-METRICS-AND-HEALTH.md Reserved OPS-1
OPS-14 Exception Management Standard public/80_OPERATIONS/OPS-14-EXCEPTION-MANAGEMENT.md Reserved OPS-1
OPS-15 Operational Evidence and Retention Standard public/80_OPERATIONS/OPS-15-OPERATIONAL-EVIDENCE.md Reserved OPS-1, MEM-1
INTEL-15 Admission, Identity, and Lineage Standard public/50_INTELLIGENCES/INTEL-15-ADMISSION-IDENTITY-LINEAGE.md Reserved INTEL-0, CONST-1
INTEL-16 Dissent, Escalation, and Compromise Response Standard public/50_INTELLIGENCES/INTEL-16-DISSENT-AND-COMPROMISE.md Reserved INTEL-0
INTEL-17 External-Model Containment Standard public/50_INTELLIGENCES/INTEL-17-EXTERNAL-MODEL-CONTAINMENT.md Reserved INTEL-0, CONST-1
INTEL-18 Retirement and Historical Preservation Standard public/50_INTELLIGENCES/INTEL-18-RETIREMENT-AND-PRESERVATION.md Reserved INTEL-0, MEM-1
KNOW-5 Source Trust Scoring Framework public/40_KNOWLEDGE/KNOW-05-SOURCE-TRUST-SCORING.md Reserved KNOW-1, KNOW-4
KNOW-6 Confidence Calibration Framework public/40_KNOWLEDGE/KNOW-06-CONFIDENCE-CALIBRATION.md Reserved KNOW-1, KNOW-3
KNOW-7 Contradiction Management Framework public/40_KNOWLEDGE/KNOW-07-CONTRADICTION-MANAGEMENT.md Reserved KNOW-1
KNOW-8 Temporal Knowledge and Expiry Framework public/40_KNOWLEDGE/KNOW-08-TEMPORAL-KNOWLEDGE.md Reserved KNOW-1
KNOW-9 Knowledge Privacy and Data Minimization Framework public/40_KNOWLEDGE/KNOW-09-PRIVACY-AND-MINIMIZATION.md Reserved KNOW-1
KNOW-10 Retrieval Quality Assurance Framework public/40_KNOWLEDGE/KNOW-10-RETRIEVAL-QUALITY.md Reserved KNOW-1
KNOW-11 Hallucination Detection Framework public/40_KNOWLEDGE/KNOW-11-HALLUCINATION-DETECTION.md Reserved KNOW-1
KNOW-12 Human Testimony Handling Framework public/40_KNOWLEDGE/KNOW-12-HUMAN-TESTIMONY.md Reserved KNOW-1
KNOW-13 Scientific Reproducibility Framework public/40_KNOWLEDGE/KNOW-13-SCIENTIFIC-REPRODUCIBILITY.md Reserved KNOW-1
KNOW-14 Classified and Compartmented Knowledge Framework public/40_KNOWLEDGE/KNOW-14-COMPARTMENTED-KNOWLEDGE.md Reserved KNOW-1
CONST-2 Council of Intelligences Standard public/10_CONSTITUTION/CONST-02-COUNCIL-OF-INTELLIGENCES.md Reserved CONST-1

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, private, or stale entry SHALL remain visible and SHALL block the affected lifecycle transition until corrected.
  • 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.