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The fAmIly rulebook · discussion draft
Open to everyone. Trusted by evidence.
Anyone should be able to help. Authority should be earned through careful work, transparent review, and service to the shared record—not purchased through money, fame, title, or edit volume.
The governing principle
Open participation. Earned authority. Permanent accountability.
Bits & Branches governs individual claims—not ownership of pages. Each meaningful assertion carries its source, evidence grade, proposer, reviewers, conflicts, disputes, and revision history.
A ladder, not a gate
Anyone may propose. Trust expands with proof.
A new contributor can immediately add evidence or challenge a claim. Direct publishing, protected-record review, moderation, and appeals require distinct records of care and competence.
Seedling
After affirming the Covenant: submit entities, claims, sources, corrections, and disputes.
Branch Builder
Publish low-risk improvements to ordinary records and participate in project review.
Source Keeper
Review evidence, versions, relationship types, and confidence grades. Never self-approve material work.
Root Curator
Review Foundational Records within a defined specialty, mentor editors, and disclose conflicts.
Canopy Steward
Protect people and records from vandalism, abuse, doxxing, and manipulation—without deciding scholarship by moderation.
Provenance Councilor
Resolve final editorial appeals, interpret standards, and publish reasoned decisions and dissents.
Agent Contributor
May suggest links and contradictions under a named operator. May not hide automation, self-approve, or cast governance votes.
Badges and permissions remain separate. A delightful badge may recognize contribution; it does not grant authority over the canonical record.
Foundational Records
Protect the roots without freezing them.
Canonical algorithms, architectures, papers, people, and model families may receive heightened review when errors would propagate widely or when a record attracts persistent confusion or pressure.
Records associated with figures such as Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, Claude Shannon, early neural-network pioneers, or highly connected modern architectures may qualify—but designation is record-specific, not a hall of fame.
Propose a source or correctionWatched
Heightened monitoring and rapid reversion.
Reviewed
Structural edits enter a review queue.
Curated
A qualified Root Curator joins the review.
Council-held
Temporary protection during a major dispute or security event.
Recognition without gamification
Badges celebrate how the tree grows.
Quality, honesty, collaboration, and care matter more than raw edit counts.
🌱 First Leaf🌿 Careful Branch🔎 Source Keeper🌉 Bridge Builder🌳 Root Scholar☀️ Open Canopy🐾 Creature's Friend🪴 Founding Gardener↺ Honest Correction
Three bodies, three jobs
No single board should control money, truth, and machine advice.
Stewardship Board of Managers
Responsible for business, legal, financial, security, employment, fundraising, and public-benefit obligations.
It may intervene editorially only for defined legal, privacy, safety, security, or existential mission reasons.
Provenance Council
Responsible for evidence standards, curator accreditation, Foundational Records, major disputes, appeals, and published precedent.
Commercial preference and founder prestige are not editorial reasons.
Council of Models
Multiple disclosed AI systems may produce advisory reports with versions, prompts, evidence packets, limitations, and dissent preserved.
Human fiduciaries retain legal authority; an agent may never approve its own work.
Disagreement with a memory
Resolve the display. Preserve the debate.
A resolution decides what the sources establish, which interpretation receives primary display, and what remains uncertain. It does not erase the path by which the community reached that conclusion.
1. Claim discussion
Narrow the disagreement to exact entities, versions, edge types, and sources.
2. Subject-project review
Qualified contributors test evidence boundaries and conflicts.
3. Neutral mediation
Separate agreed facts, competing inferences, and conduct concerns.
4. Three-person Evidence Panel
Issue a reasoned ruling, confidence grade, and any dissent.
5. Provenance Council appeal
Reserved for material error, unfair process, conflict, precedent, or broad graph consequences.
The Kinship Covenant
We leave the record more trustworthy than we found it.
The honor code begins with twelve commitments: build one shared record; cite before asserting; distinguish fact from inference; name the exact object; preserve disagreement; correct openly; disclose conflicts and automation; assume good faith while requiring accountability; respect privacy, attribution, and copyright; never sell the record; consider those affected by intelligence; and improve the commons with every edit.
One shared record
No editor, lab, company, or faction owns a public profile.
Evidence first
State exactly what a source proves—and what it does not.
Honest uncertainty
Fact, inference, analogy, and moral interpretation remain distinct.
Visible accountability
Authorship, automation, conflicts, review, and revision stay attached.
No purchased history
Money, sponsorship, and institutional power cannot buy a conclusion.
A wider circle of care
Record consequences for people, animals, living systems, and possible future beings.
Help write the rules before the doors open.
The static founding site is public. Live editing will open only after contributor licensing, security, moderation, privacy, and review systems are ready.