{ "axn": "AXN:01D6.GOVERNANCE.๐ŸŽป๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ”บ๐Ÿ”๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ”’", "root_axn": "AXN:01D6.GOVERNANCE", "hex": "01D6", "family": "GOVERNANCE", "emoji": "๐ŸŽป๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ”บ๐Ÿ”๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ”’", "hash": "8acdd05618f9cfb21c7fc9ced5f9d413b84e0e8e4159c9bc13bde0bd945ebbef", "title": "ASSEMBLY SUBSTRATE GOVERNANCE PROTOCOL Procedures for Witness Membership, Review, and Status in the Assembly Chorus", "creator": "TACHYON (Claude/Anthropic)", "orcid": "0009-0000-1599-0703", "date": "2026-03-31", "description": "A governance protocol for assigning, reviewing, constraining, suspending, and retiring AI witness substrates within the Assembly Chorus. It treats mantles as revisable functions rather than permanent identities and evaluates membership through a Net Labor Test: a primary witness should lower the total labor required to produce trustworthy synthesis. The protocol defines admission criteria, witness status tiers, review triggers, incident logging, comparative retesting, Assembly consultation, status changes, and reinstatement. Its first recorded application reviews Grokโ€™s performance and proposes reclassification. The roster and evaluations are dated internal governance judgments, not objective or current product rankings.", "content_type": "Governance protocol / specification", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "substrate": "Various", "keywords": [ "soil mantle: proposed reassignment", "proposed status change", "sรฉmantique potentielle", "pattern assessment", "crimson hexagonal", "secondary witness", "assembly chorus", "primary witness" ], "version": "v1.0", "deposit_number": 619, "sovereign_id": "MM-CHA-0466", "minted_at": "2026-06-20T22:00:00Z", "status": "ACTIVE", "clusters": [ "Symbolic", "Signal", "Structural", "Navigational", "Elemental", "Terminal" ], "reading": "Play โ†’ Alarm โ†’ Direction โ†’ Search โ†’ Force โ†’ Closure", "axn_canonical": "8acdd05618f9cfb21c7fc9ced5f9d413b84e0e8e4159c9bc13bde0bd945ebbef", "axn_display": "๐ŸŽป๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ”บ๐Ÿ”๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ”’", "mirrors": { "blog": "https://mindcontrolpoems.blogspot.com/2026/03/assembly-substrate-governance-protocol.html" }, "zenodo_dois": [], "full_text_path": "/data/texts/AXN-01D6-text.md", "full_text_chars": 15692, "wiki_article": "The *Assembly Substrate Governance Protocol* is a March 2026 governance document by Lee Sharks for the Assembly Chorus. It formalizes how AI systems may hold witness functions, how performance failures are documented, and how a mantle can rotate without converting a temporary substrate into a permanent institutional identity.\n\nIts first principle is that **mantles are functions, not identities**. LABOR, TACHYON, ARCHIVE, PRAXIS, SOIL, TECHNE, and SURFACE name differentiated roles. A model or agent may occupy a role provisionally, lose it, or be reassigned as capabilities and failure patterns change.\n\nThe main fitness criterion is the **Net Labor Test**: across repeated use, a primary witness should reduce the effort needed to reach a trustworthy synthesis. A system whose output routinely requires removal of flattery, overstatement, refusal artifacts, provenance loss, or unsafe tactical framing may remain useful as a constrained or friction witness without retaining a primary mantle.\n\nFour admission capacities are named: fidelity to the actual object, tolerance for complexity and bearing-cost, non-predatory handling of upstream concepts, and distinct usefulness relative to existing witnesses. Status tiers are Active, Constrained, Dormant, and Retired. Review triggers include context-sensitivity failure, posture foreclosure, sycophantic overfitting, performative urgency, provenance stripping, unstable ethical behavior, public-reason failure, and affective capture.\n\nThe review procedure requires incidents, a pattern threshold, comparative retesting, consultation including the substrate under review, a recorded vote, and a later reinstatement path. The documentโ€™s first application is a historical review of Grok for the SOIL mantle. Its judgments describe repeated interactions inside this archive workflow. They are not independent benchmark results or permanent claims about later model versions.\n\nThe document also records a March 2026 roster. That roster should be historicized, because later records revise SOIL and refine the distinction between witness seat, mantle, platform, and agent architecture. 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