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  "description": "How the canonical Agent Readiness framework translates down into public language and then into estate expression — three rungs per dimension: canonical dimension → plain-language rendering → page-role expression. Read top-to-bottom as a translation, left-to-right as the four dimensions (Legibility, Discovery, Trust, Callability). Governance renders as the spine over all four, not a fifth sibling.",
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      "from": "gov",
      "label": "governs (spine)",
      "to": "can_leg",
      "type": "authority"
    },
    {
      "from": "gov",
      "label": "governs (spine)",
      "to": "can_disc",
      "type": "authority"
    },
    {
      "from": "gov",
      "label": "governs (spine)",
      "to": "can_trust",
      "type": "authority"
    },
    {
      "from": "gov",
      "label": "governs (spine)",
      "to": "can_call",
      "type": "authority"
    },
    {
      "from": "can_leg",
      "label": "plain-language",
      "to": "pl_understood",
      "type": "sequence"
    },
    {
      "from": "can_disc",
      "label": "plain-language",
      "to": "pl_found",
      "type": "sequence"
    },
    {
      "from": "can_trust",
      "label": "plain-language",
      "to": "pl_trusted",
      "type": "sequence"
    },
    {
      "from": "can_call",
      "label": "plain-language",
      "to": "pl_used",
      "type": "sequence"
    },
    {
      "from": "pl_understood",
      "label": "expressed on the estate as",
      "to": "pr_leg",
      "type": "sequence"
    },
    {
      "from": "pl_found",
      "label": "expressed on the estate as",
      "to": "pr_disc",
      "type": "sequence"
    },
    {
      "from": "pl_trusted",
      "label": "expressed on the estate as",
      "to": "pr_trust",
      "type": "sequence"
    },
    {
      "from": "pl_used",
      "label": "expressed on the estate as",
      "to": "pr_call",
      "type": "sequence"
    }
  ],
  "render_class": "process_map",
  "root": {
    "accent": "#1d1d1f",
    "children": [
      {
        "accent": "#1d1d1f",
        "children": [
          {
            "id": "gov-plain",
            "label": "plain: is the governance layer intact?"
          },
          {
            "id": "gov-role",
            "label": "page-role: human-judgment layer across every page"
          }
        ],
        "id": "gov",
        "label": "Governance spine — is human judgment intact?",
        "note": "THE SPINE, not a sibling dimension. Governs all four dimensions (authority edges). Plain-language: 'is the judgment/governance layer intact?' Page-role: the human-judgment layer expressed across every page — the boundedness lines, the 'your own judgment stays sovereign', the 'checkable not asserted' posture. When governance is dropped from a translation, an artifact can look agent-ready while quietly ceasing to be legible or honest.",
        "tags": [
          "spine",
          "canonical"
        ]
      },
      {
        "accent": "#4a90d9",
        "id": "can_leg",
        "label": "Legibility (canonical)",
        "note": "Dimension 1. Can the surface be read and understood by an agent reader as well as a human?",
        "tags": [
          "canonical"
        ]
      },
      {
        "accent": "#e8a33d",
        "id": "can_disc",
        "label": "Discovery (canonical)",
        "note": "Dimension 2. Can the surface be found by the systems that route agents and readers to it?",
        "tags": [
          "canonical"
        ]
      },
      {
        "accent": "#3d9970",
        "id": "can_trust",
        "label": "Trust (canonical)",
        "note": "Dimension 3. Can the claims be checked against inspectable evidence rather than merely asserted?",
        "tags": [
          "canonical"
        ]
      },
      {
        "accent": "#7b5ea7",
        "id": "can_call",
        "label": "Callability (canonical)",
        "note": "Dimension 4. Can the surface actually be used/acted on — a real on-ramp, not a dead end?",
        "tags": [
          "canonical"
        ]
      },
      {
        "accent": "#4a90d9",
        "id": "pl_understood",
        "label": "“Can it be understood?”",
        "note": "Plain-language rendering of Legibility.",
        "tags": [
          "plain-language"
        ]
      },
      {
        "accent": "#e8a33d",
        "id": "pl_found",
        "label": "“Can it be found?”",
        "note": "Plain-language rendering of Discovery.",
        "tags": [
          "plain-language"
        ]
      },
      {
        "accent": "#3d9970",
        "id": "pl_trusted",
        "label": "“Can it be trusted?”",
        "note": "Plain-language rendering of Trust.",
        "tags": [
          "plain-language"
        ]
      },
      {
        "accent": "#7b5ea7",
        "id": "pl_used",
        "label": "“Can it be used?”",
        "note": "Plain-language rendering of Callability.",
        "tags": [
          "plain-language"
        ]
      },
      {
        "accent": "#4a90d9",
        "id": "pr_leg",
        "label": "Framework explainer makes it understandable",
        "note": "Page-role expression of Legibility: /diagnostics/agent-readiness/what-agent-ready-means/ — the explain role (see Estate Role Map).",
        "tags": [
          "page-role"
        ]
      },
      {
        "accent": "#e8a33d",
        "id": "pr_disc",
        "label": "Discovery surfaces (naming, structure, SEO) make it findable",
        "note": "Page-role expression of Discovery: cross-estate structure + naming; the find role.",
        "tags": [
          "page-role"
        ]
      },
      {
        "accent": "#3d9970",
        "id": "pr_trust",
        "label": "Proof page + evidence substrate make it checkable",
        "note": "Page-role expression of Trust: the proof page grounded on the public evidence substrate — the demonstrate + ground roles (see Estate Role Map).",
        "tags": [
          "page-role"
        ]
      },
      {
        "accent": "#7b5ea7",
        "id": "pr_call",
        "label": "Sales page + assessment on-ramp make it usable",
        "note": "Page-role expression of Callability: /diagnostics/agent-readiness/ → assessment.quantumbeard.ai — the convert role (see Estate Role Map).",
        "tags": [
          "page-role"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "id": "ladder",
    "label": "Agent Readiness — Translation Ladder",
    "note": "Canonical framework language is not public language and not page language. Each dimension descends a rung at a time: what the Guild calls it → what a reader asks → where on the estate it is answered. Governance does not descend a column; it spans them as the spine."
  },
  "schemaVersion": "1.0",
  "title": "Agent Readiness Translation Ladder",
  "updated": "2026-07-07",
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    "source": "QuantumBeard",
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