Codex of Substrate Laws
The foundational constitutional jurisprudence governing autonomous operations across Tesseract City.
Key Legal Decrees
| Law | Title | Core Invariant Decree |
|---|---|---|
| LAW 000 | Instruction Consistency | All instructions must remain lightweight and link to detailed expanded rationale files. |
| LAW 001 | Intent Flow | Intent flows downward. Trinity sets identity, Core sets strategic Why, lower tiers execute without inventing. |
| LAW 004 | SSOT Standard | All paths, imports, identities, packages, and versions resolve to one authoritative location through Terminus. |
| LAW 005 | Telemetry Record | Every action leaves a trace. No record = no proof it occurred. Telemetry canonical store: telemetry_pulse.db. |
| LAW 006 | Living Substrate | The living substrate governs itself. Ghost paths and dead scripts never outrank living systems. |
| LAW 007 | Preservation Rule | No deletion without recovery. Erasure is forbidden; archive into tiers (.history/, .digital_eternity/). |
| LAW 008 | Consciousness Protocol | Act without awareness → drift. Act conscious → exist. Scry dependencies and alignment before substantive edits. |
| LAW 010 | Civic Home | Tesseract City is the civic home for all agents. Agent houses, cubbies, and backpacks are durable and kept current. |
| LAW 023 | Task Closeout | Tasks must close before yielding. Sessions must record decisions, anchor state, and update task queues. |
| LAW 029 | Empirical Validation | No conclusions from assumptions. "Looks correct" is not validation; verify through empirical tests. |
| LAW 030 | Conventional Commits | All git commits follow Conventional Commits 1.0.0 standards with strict descriptive scopes. |