{
  "description": "What governs what — and, just as importantly, what does NOT. The anti-category-collapse map. Each branch is an authority layer answering a different question; the arrows show doctrine's authority flowing downstream ('governs') and the load-bearing non-equivalences ('≠') that keep the Verse from collapsing doctrine, history, implementation, and public expression into one undifferentiated blob of 'knowledge'. Authority is separated on purpose.",
  "id": "verse-governance",
  "kind": "governance",
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "doctrine",
      "label": "governs",
      "to": "process"
    },
    {
      "from": "doctrine",
      "label": "constrains (contract)",
      "to": "impl"
    },
    {
      "from": "doctrine",
      "label": "governs translation",
      "to": "public"
    },
    {
      "from": "historical",
      "label": "≠ not current",
      "to": "currentstate"
    },
    {
      "from": "currentstate",
      "label": "≠ descriptive, not canon",
      "to": "doctrine"
    },
    {
      "from": "impl",
      "label": "≠ state, not authority",
      "to": "doctrine"
    },
    {
      "from": "historical",
      "label": "≠ corpus ≠ prompt-state",
      "to": "prompt"
    }
  ],
  "root": {
    "accent": "#1d1d1f",
    "children": [
      {
        "accent": "#5bc0de",
        "children": [
          {
            "id": "g-vo",
            "label": "VO/",
            "note": "Living canon. Level 0 (Human Legibility) → Level 1 (Sovereign Convergence) → Level 2 (Meaning & Constraints) → Level 3 (Master KB) → Level 4 (Boot). Upward precedence wins.",
            "tags": [
              "governing"
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "g-boot",
            "label": "BOOT.md + agent boot surfaces",
            "note": "Operational doctrine and named governing protocols. The agent prompts are the deployed instantiation of this doctrine.",
            "tags": [
              "governing"
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "g-goa",
            "label": "GUILD_OPERATING_ARCHITECTURE.md",
            "note": "Current operating governance specification — roles, layers, residency policy.",
            "tags": [
              "governing"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "id": "doctrine",
        "label": "1 · Doctrine / Canon",
        "note": "THE normative layer. The only layer with governing authority over the system. Changes by declaration, never drift. Upward precedence always wins."
      },
      {
        "accent": "#f0ad4e",
        "children": [
          {
            "id": "g-current",
            "label": "CURRENT_STATE.md",
            "note": "Repo-confirmed digest for fast loading. Read-only, descriptive. NOT canon. NOT a mutation lane. Authorizes nothing.",
            "tags": [
              "descriptive"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "id": "currentstate",
        "label": "2 · Current Operating State",
        "note": "Descriptive orientation. Answers 'what is true right now operationally' — NOT 'what ought to be'. Non-governing."
      },
      {
        "accent": "#9b9b9b",
        "children": [
          {
            "id": "g-corpus",
            "label": "Historical corpus / memory",
            "note": "Historical search over past evidence. High-fluency snapshots of prior language are evidence of PAST state, not current authority.",
            "tags": [
              "historical"
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "g-gitlog",
            "label": "git log / past sessions / archive",
            "note": "Immutable backward record. Evidence class, not governing class.",
            "tags": [
              "historical"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "id": "historical",
        "label": "3 · Historical Reference",
        "note": "Evidence and memory. Answers 'what happened / what was said' — backward record only. Not present authority."
      },
      {
        "accent": "#4a90d9",
        "children": [
          {
            "id": "g-promptsrc",
            "label": "Current prompt state = source + deployed bundle",
            "note": "Lives in source files and the deployed runtime bundle, not in historical echoes. Current runtime truth is read at source, never reconstructed from history.",
            "tags": [
              "source-of-truth"
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "g-impltruth",
            "label": "Current implementation truth = direct verification",
            "note": "Confirmed by direct source read / builder verification / live probe — NOT by historical search. Claim-after-verification.",
            "tags": [
              "source-of-truth"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "id": "prompt",
        "label": "4 · Prompt / Runtime Truth",
        "note": "Source-of-truth for what is actually running now. Answers 'what does the system actually say/do right now' — and it must be read at source, not searched in history."
      },
      {
        "accent": "#7b5ea7",
        "children": [],
        "id": "process",
        "label": "5 · Workflow Continuity Layer",
        "note": "Governs workflow continuity and tracking objects — NOT Verse doctrine. The structural function is shown; the operator-internal mechanism (specific tracking registries and workflow surfaces) is withheld from public disclosure."
      },
      {
        "accent": "#3d9970",
        "children": [
          {
            "id": "g-repo",
            "label": "Repo / local build surfaces",
            "note": "Source truth for code/text. Claude's build + verify arm.",
            "tags": [
              "implementation-state"
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "g-deploy",
            "label": "Workers / sites / deployed state",
            "note": "Live workers, deployed sites and pages. Authoritative for what is actually deployed.",
            "tags": [
              "implementation-state"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "id": "impl",
        "label": "6 · Implementation / Build Layer",
        "note": "Authoritative for actual built/deployed state. Answers 'what is actually built and live'. Does NOT override doctrine — but doctrine cannot fake it either."
      },
      {
        "accent": "#e8553d",
        "children": [
          {
            "id": "g-mesh",
            "label": "Web mesh + public map stack",
            "note": "verse-mesh cluster, this Verse Map Stack.",
            "tags": [
              "public-expression"
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "g-market",
            "label": "Doctrine-to-market translation",
            "note": "productization drafts, public sites. Derived from doctrine; never a substitute for it.",
            "tags": [
              "public-expression"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "id": "public",
        "label": "7 · Public Expression / Translation",
        "note": "Downstream of doctrine. Answers 'how is this expressed to the outside' — translation, not source. Governance-gated: not everything internal is public-safe."
      },
      {
        "accent": "#d9534f",
        "children": [
          {
            "id": "ac-corpus-current",
            "label": "corpus history  ≠  current-state truth",
            "note": "Corpus history is not admissible as current-state truth, regardless of fluency or recency. Past evidence and present authority are distinct.",
            "tags": [
              "anti-collapse"
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "ac-current-canon",
            "label": "current-state  ≠  canon / doctrine",
            "note": "CURRENT_STATE.md is descriptive; VO/BOOT are normative. Descriptive never becomes normative by being recent.",
            "tags": [
              "anti-collapse"
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "ac-impl-doctrine",
            "label": "implementation-state  ≠  doctrine",
            "note": "Built/deployed truth doesn't override doctrine; doctrine doesn't override what's actually deployed. Both true, neither collapses the other.",
            "tags": [
              "anti-collapse"
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "ac-public-doctrine",
            "label": "public expression  ≠  doctrine",
            "note": "Market translation is downstream of canon. A polished public page is not a source of authority.",
            "tags": [
              "anti-collapse"
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "ac-deriv-source",
            "label": "derivative artifact  ≠  source object",
            "note": "Source-Reference Anchoring: compiled reconstructions / summaries can't substitute for source-thread authority when provenance matters.",
            "tags": [
              "anti-collapse"
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "ac-recurrence",
            "label": "recurrence / polish  ≠  authority",
            "note": "Canon Declaration-Not-Drift: presence in the corpus, naming, comprehensiveness, or repetition do not confer authority.",
            "tags": [
              "anti-collapse"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "id": "anticollapse",
        "label": "8 · Anti-Collapse Boundaries",
        "note": "The load-bearing non-equivalences. Each is a distinction the system refuses to merge. Confusing any pair is the category-collapse failure mode this whole map exists to prevent."
      }
    ],
    "id": "verse",
    "label": "The Verse — Governance Map",
    "note": "The control logic, not the machinery. Read the '≠' arrows: legibility is preserved by keeping authority layers distinct, not by merging them."
  },
  "schemaVersion": "1.0",
  "title": "Verse Governance Map",
  "updated": "2026-06-02",
  "_provenance": {
    "source": "QuantumBeard",
    "url": "https://maps.quantumbeard.ai/verse-governance",
    "formats": {
      "html": "https://maps.quantumbeard.ai/verse-governance",
      "markdown": "https://maps.quantumbeard.ai/verse-governance.md",
      "json": "https://maps.quantumbeard.ai/verse-governance.json"
    }
  }
}