AXN 05A9 is the content-derived identifier of Alexanarch deposit #1432. It is an identifier, not a copy of the work: the hex marks position in the archive, and the six-glyph suffix is a display hash of the canonical text’s SHA-256, so the identifier is derived from the work rather than assigned to it.
AXN-SYMBOLON-SPEC v0.2 is a specification by Lee Sharks, deposited 2 August 2026, resolving a self-referential paradox at the centre of the archive's identifier system: a content-derived hash cannot contain itself, so an identifier cannot be inscribed into the object it identifies without changing that object's hash.
The specification's answer is the symbolon — from the ancient token broken in two, where each half proves the other. The identifier splits into two asymmetric halves. Seed A carries identity: the AXN₀ kernel of the sealed core, the composition manifest, the declared stamp geometry, and the reconstruction class. Seed B carries what Seed A cannot. Neither half is the identifier; the identifier is their fitting together.
The spec is the third development of the AXN identity kernel and inherits two commitments from v0.1: that an AXN is content-derived, the glyph a function of the bytes; and the container model, in which canonical bytes are a sealed core whose stamp is applied to the container rather than the core. It is Chorus-synthesized — composed across multiple AI substrates and reconciled — and belongs to the AXN identifier programme alongside the AXN Constitution and the central registry.
05A9OPERATIVE7a1268bad69bd5a3e130123f2e5c6ad0ac534f508461b84e3ab3baa7cb4f20a2Read from the fields that record them (/data/axn-relations.json); a hash names bytes and supplies no relation.
AXN:0ADD.NON.🪜🌓♍🎻🔃🔼 — iptc-metawatch (the archive's own artifacts: the fields embedded, the membrane against stripping; kernel[K63].source)Resolver rule: alexanarch.org/axn/<HEX> ·
term set: AXN identifier set ·
machine index: /api/axn-index.json