{
  "description": "A navigable city map of the Verse — what surfaces exist, what kind of thing each is, and where it sits. Organized by surface class, not by structural anatomy. Optimized for operator orientation: see the city before the wiring. State tags reflect repo/deployed truth (live / pre-SEO / planned / governing / operational), not aspiration.",
  "id": "verse-surface",
  "kind": "surface",
  "root": {
    "accent": "#1d1d1f",
    "children": [
      {
        "accent": "#e8a33d",
        "children": [
          {
            "id": "ken",
            "label": "Ken",
            "note": "Operator. Owns judgment, meaning, escalation, go-live decisions.",
            "tags": [
              "human"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "id": "operator",
        "label": "Operator / Human",
        "note": "Where the human in the loop sits and acts."
      },
      {
        "accent": "#4a90d9",
        "children": [
          {
            "id": "odin",
            "label": "Odin",
            "note": "Primary reasoning partner / conversational default. Reasons, analyzes, drafts concepts.",
            "tags": [
              "live"
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "claude-code",
            "label": "Claude Code",
            "note": "Builder and implementation keystone — the agent that builds what the Guild designs. Capability-level; tooling internals withheld.",
            "tags": [
              "live",
              "builder"
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "gemini",
            "label": "Gemini",
            "note": "Infrastructure and corpus agent. Powers the memory/retrieval substrate. Not in the active analysis loop.",
            "tags": [
              "live",
              "infra"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "id": "agents",
        "label": "Agent Surfaces",
        "note": "The three agents of the Guild. Strict role boundaries."
      },
      {
        "accent": "#7b5ea7",
        "children": [
          {
            "id": "corpus-memory",
            "label": "Corpus / memory surface",
            "note": "The corpus / memory surface — where Verse cognition is stored and retrieved. Historical search over past evidence, not current-state. Mechanism abstracted (shown structurally on the Process and Topology maps).",
            "tags": [
              "live"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "id": "memory",
        "label": "Memory / Corpus",
        "note": "Where Verse cognition is stored and retrieved. Grouped as one readable surface — the layers underneath are mechanism, shown on the Process/Topology maps."
      },
      {
        "accent": "#3d9970",
        "children": [
          {
            "id": "commerce",
            "label": "Commerce / checkout surface",
            "note": "Public-facing commerce surface: intake, qualification, and checkout. Payment lane live-proven.",
            "tags": [
              "public",
              "live"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "id": "workers",
        "label": "Worker / Runtime",
        "note": "Live edge-compute surfaces (capability-level; runtime and auth detail withheld)."
      },
      {
        "accent": "#e8553d",
        "children": [
          {
            "id": "qb",
            "label": "quantumbeard.ai",
            "link": "https://quantumbeard.ai",
            "note": "LIVE. Cloudflare Pages. The systems / operator / professional half — who I am, what I build. Governance cluster + contact/diagnostic lanes live.",
            "tags": [
              "public",
              "live"
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "data-qb",
            "label": "data.quantumbeard.ai",
            "link": "https://data.quantumbeard.ai",
            "note": "LIVE (Phase A, 2026-05-30). Public AI consumption layer — read-only, machine-consumable reference for external AIs. Static-first, intentionally thin; forthcoming surfaces declared, not silently absent.",
            "tags": [
              "public",
              "live"
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "verse-qb",
            "label": "verse.quantumbeard.ai",
            "link": "https://verse.quantumbeard.ai",
            "note": "Live, custom domain active. Orientation and explanation surface for the Verse.",
            "tags": [
              "public",
              "live",
              "pre-SEO"
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "kb",
            "label": "kensbeard.com",
            "note": "Planned sister site to QuantumBeard; not yet live. Shown for orientation.",
            "tags": [
              "planned"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "id": "public",
        "label": "Public Web Surfaces",
        "note": "Where the Verse meets the outside world. State tags are exact — deployment state is not uniform across these."
      },
      {
        "accent": "#5bc0de",
        "children": [
          {
            "id": "vo",
            "label": "VO/",
            "note": "Living canonical knowledge base. Level 0 (Human Legibility) → Level 4 (Boot files). Changes by declaration, never drift.",
            "tags": [
              "governing"
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "boot",
            "label": "Boot surfaces",
            "note": "Agent boot files and operating doctrine + protocols.",
            "tags": [
              "governing"
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "goa",
            "label": "GUILD_OPERATING_ARCHITECTURE.md",
            "note": "Current Guild operating governance specification — roles, layers, residency policy.",
            "tags": [
              "governing"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "id": "knowledge",
        "label": "Knowledge / Governance",
        "note": "The normative surfaces — doctrine and canon. Slow, governing, upward-precedence. (CURRENT_STATE.md is NOT here — it is descriptive orientation, placed under Operational.)"
      }
    ],
    "id": "verse",
    "label": "The Verse — Surface Map",
    "note": "City map, not blueprint. Each branch is a surface CLASS; each leaf is tagged by what kind of thing it is and whether it is public, internal, governing, operational, or planned."
  },
  "schemaVersion": "1.0",
  "title": "Verse Surface Map",
  "updated": "2026-06-02",
  "_provenance": {
    "source": "QuantumBeard",
    "url": "https://maps.quantumbeard.ai/verse-surface",
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}