# Governance ADRs, the governance model, authority boundaries, licensing history, and the project's own open decisions. ## Statement — The ADR record Eleven Architecture Decision Records exist, all dated 2026-07-23, all in `TerAustralis-Incognita/docs/adr/`. The governing rule: "Numbers are permanent: never renumber, never delete. A reversed decision gets a new ADR that supersedes the old one." | # | Title | Status | Decision (one line) | |---|---|---|---| | 0001 | Adopt the CrystalCore OS v1.0 repository architecture | Accepted | Reorganize the repo into the v1.0 blueprint: code under `src/`, docs under `docs/{vision,architecture,governance,ai,agents,guides,adr}`. | | 0002 | Content areas: the mythos stays a top-level peer of docs and src | Accepted | `mythos/` stays top-level, not folded into `docs/` — different license, not documentation. | | 0003 | Move code into `src/` as a uniform shift | Accepted | All code directories move into `src/` as one prefix shift, preserving relative-path behavior. | | 0004 | Lock the CrystalCore naming taxonomy | Accepted | Four canonical branches (Framework/Protocol/CrystalBridge/OS); bars a fifth; leaves the CrystalCore OS/CrystalCore.OS collision unresolved on purpose. | | 0005 | AI Orchestrator — ship the concept as documentation first | Accepted | Recommend-then-human-decides, not autonomous dispatch; shipped as a markdown table, not code. | | 0006 | Licensing strategy and IP principles | Accepted — §1 superseded by 0008 | Originally: keep the Apache-2.0/CC BY-NC-ND dual license; recorded six IP principles (still standing). | | 0007 | Correct the project name to "TerAustralis Incognita" | Accepted | Fixes drifted "TeraAustralis" spelling to match the maintainer's registered ABN trading name. | | 0008 | Supersede ADR-0006 §1 — adopt CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 for code | Accepted — supersedes 0006 §1 only | Formally records an uncoordinated session's LICENSE flip to CC BY-NC-ND "for commercial exclusivity"; verifies no third-party relicensing gap. | | 0009 | Reconcile the licensing chaos | Accepted — target question resolved by 0010 | Reconciles a second collision (97 stale SPDX headers, a `packages/` restructuring with 4 more licenses); rules CC BY-NC-ND governs `src/`+`mythos/` today, leaves `packages/` open. | | 0010 | Uniform CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 for the whole repository | Accepted | Closes 0009's open question: the entire repo is uniformly CC BY-NC-ND, differentiated per-package licensing explicitly rejected. Terminus of the 0006→0008→0009→0010 chain. | | 0011 | Adopt the three-project boundary model | Accepted | Umbrella / Crystal Core / Crystal Vision charter; `TerAustralis-Incognita-Code` reserved by charter for engineering; nothing renamed or moved by the ADR itself. | **Status: Implemented** (all 11 confirmed Accepted, all read in full). ### Evidence - `TerAustralis-Incognita/docs/adr/README.md` and `ADR-0001.md` through `ADR-0011.md`, each read in full. ### Historical Notes ADR-0007's own "Consequences" section states the GitHub repo slug still visibly disagreed with the corrected project name by one letter — `Migration-Plan.md`'s debts register later records this as resolved the same day (PR #48). ADR-0011's own "Consequences" section says `ci.yml`/`deploy.yml` "remain red — deliberately," which Migration-Plan Stage 2 (same day, later) resolved. Both are left as-is in the ADRs themselves per the project's own convention of treating an accepted ADR as immutable historical record — not corrected in this pass; noted here instead. ### Cross References `08-DESIGN-DECISIONS.md` (the *why* behind each), `11-CORRECTIONS.md`. --- ## Statement — Belt-Three, in full Belt-Three has two levels, and the portfolio's day-to-day process document operationalizes only the narrower one. The full origin, from the Seven Sisters corpus: **three laws** — (1) Honour Country, (2) Label science / story / vision, (3) No coercion, no fake hydrology, red button off. `CONTRIBUTING.md`'s PR-facing "Belt-Three law" section defines only three truth *labels* (Science / Story / Vision) — operationalizing law #2 alone. Laws #1 and #3 surface elsewhere: #1 in `Constitution.md` §5 and `CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md`'s cultural-respect section; #3 in `Constitution.md` §6 and the Starline Weaver's enforced red-button kill switch. **Status: Implemented** (law #2, in the wire protocol and every PR template) — **the fuller three-law origin is Vision/Story**, not itself a piece of running code. ### Evidence - `CONTRIBUTING.md`: "Everything in this project carries one of three truth labels... Science / Story / Vision." - `research/seven-sisters/crystalcore-seven-sisters-FULL.md`: "## II.2 Belt-Three Laws (always on)." - The PR template's own checkboxes (`.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md`) merge Story and Vision into one box and add an undocumented fourth category ("Docs / governance / process") not present in `CONTRIBUTING.md`'s canonical three-label table — a real, if minor, internal inconsistency in the project's own core discipline mechanism, not corrected in this pass (process/template redesign, out of scope for a documentation-only correction). ### Historical Notes 39 files across the umbrella repository reference "Belt-Three" in one sense or the other; no single document cross-links both levels explicitly before this one. ### Cross References `03-ARCHITECTURE.md` (Seven Sisters), `09-GLOSSARY.md`. --- ## Statement The governance document set, and what each one governs: `Constitution.md` (binding canon hierarchy and locked names), `Migration-Plan.md` (the staged, per-stage-approvable code-migration proposal — 5 stages, Stages 0–2 executed 2026-07-23, Stages 3–4 pending), `Repository-Principles.md` (9 numbered principles), `Decision-Records.md` (when an ADR is required), `The-Incognita- Rule.md` (the evidence doctrine — quoted in full in `00-INDEX.md`), `Development-Standards.md` (the engineering bar for code changes), `Review-Process.md` (branch → PR → green CI → review → maintainer merge), `LICENSING-STRATEGY.md` and `LICENSING-QUICK-REFERENCE.md` (both explicitly superseded, kept for provenance), `REPO-RESTRUCTURING-PLAN.md` (superseded by ADR-0011). **Status: Implemented** (all confirmed to exist and read in full; supersession banners verified directly against each file's own text). ### Evidence - `TerAustralis-Incognita/docs/governance/*.md`, all 13 files, read in full. ### Historical Notes `REPO-RESTRUCTURING-PLAN.md` carries an explicit "Superseded" banner — this appears to resolve a gap a prior architecture-survey session flagged as missing (see `07-HISTORY.md`). `Review-Process.md`'s CI checklist still describes an old, Python-based CI pipeline (`compileall`, the four self-tests, `pytest`) that no longer exists — the umbrella's actual current `ci.yml` runs only markdown lint and an external link check. Not corrected directly in this pass; documented in `11-CORRECTIONS.md`. ### Cross References `11-CORRECTIONS.md`. --- ## Statement The AI-collaboration model names six roles and five workflows. **Roles:** ChatGPT (Chief Systems Architect), Claude (Repository Engineer — "the v1.0 reorganization, ADR-0001, is its work"), DeepSeek (Research & Engineering Specialist), Gemini (Knowledge & Multimodal Specialist), Grok (Creative Exploration), GitHub (Development Platform — "Not an AI"). **Workflows:** Architecture (ChatGPT→Claude→GitHub), Engineering (DeepSeek→ChatGPT→Claude→GitHub), Documentation (ChatGPT→Claude→GitHub), Knowledge (Gemini→ChatGPT→repository), Brainstorming (Grok→ChatGPT→architecture-or-compost). "Every flow ends at the repository through a pull request — no AI's output is canon until the maintainer merges it." The standing caution: "Chaining AIs multiplies fluency, not truth." **Status: Implemented** (as documented process — this reconstruction itself is additional, direct evidence the multi-AI-tool pattern is real: this pass alone used three parallel research agents plus direct verification). ### Evidence - `docs/ai/AI-Architecture.md`, `AI-Workflow.md`, and the six per-tool files, all read in full. - `docs/ai/Decision-Matrix.md`: 11-row task→AI→human-review-level table. - Corroborating git evidence: "Fold ChatGPT's architecture review into three follow-up doc improvements" (commit, 2026-07-23) — confirms external AI-tool collaboration beyond Claude in practice, not just in the documented model. ### Historical Notes None. ### Cross References `09-GLOSSARY.md`. --- ## Statement `.github/CODEOWNERS`, in full (three lines): "The maintainer (Crystal) reviews everything by default. Review process: docs/governance/ Review-Process.md. `* @CrystalArchitect`" **Status: Implemented.** ### Evidence - `TerAustralis-Incognita/.github/CODEOWNERS`, read in full. ### Historical Notes None. ### Cross References None. --- ## Statement — Licensing and IP boundaries The public/private repository split (`02-REPOSITORY-MAP.md`) is the primary IP boundary: the one public repository holds no application code. > **Correction (2026-08-08).** Both halves of that sentence are now > false, and it is the one an outside evaluator could be misled by, so > it is corrected rather than left to its date. Several repositories are > public, `TerAustralis-Incognita-Code` among them, and it holds the > engine and the application. The IP boundary is therefore **not** the > public/private split and has not been for some time: it is the licence > — uniform CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 across the portfolio per ADR-0013, which > forbids commercial use and derivative redistribution wherever the code > sits. Visibility was never doing the work the sentence credits it with. The licensing chain (ADR-0006→0008→0009→0010) terminates in a uniform CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license across the whole umbrella repository, explicitly rejecting a four-way differentiated per-package model. That rejected model has a concrete, surviving artifact: `TerAustralis- Incognita-Code`'s abandoned, never-merged PR #1 branch contains a fully realized `packages/` tree under a `teraaustralis.*` namespace (consent-transport, crystalbridge, crystalcore-ei, lumina, mythos, rdp, starline), each with its own `pyproject.toml`/README/LICENSE.md — `crystalcore-ei` additionally ships its own `COMMERCIAL_LICENSE.md`, distinct from the rest. This is the literal, in-the-wild remnant of the model ADR-0010 reverted. Separately: `TerAustralis-Incognita-Code`'s own root `LICENSE` is CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, and 96 of its source files (across `.py`/`.js`/`.ts`/ `.svelte`) once carried `SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0` headers — the exact defect ADR-0008 already fixed once, in the umbrella, via a batch header rewrite, which this repository never inherited. **That is now resolved.** The batch rewrite was applied (97 files, the 97th being this archive's own prior addition `core/crystalcore/ selftest.py`), and re-verified 2026-07-28: `origin/main` carries **0** Apache-2.0 SPDX headers on source files and 109 CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0 ones. See `11-CORRECTIONS.md` Part 4. A related defect *did* survive it, and was fixed separately under ADR-0013 on 2026-07-28: the headers were corrected, but two nested `LICENSE` files — `core/crystal-core/LICENSE` and `vision/apps/crystal-interface/LICENSE` — were still Apache-2.0, so files asserting CC BY-NC-ND in their own headers sat beside a `LICENSE` asserting Apache-2.0. Header rewrites do not touch `LICENSE` files, and nothing was checking the two agreed. **Status: Implemented** (the license, the boundary, the SPDX headers, and the nested `LICENSE` files). ### Evidence - `docs/adr/ADR-0010.md`: "four parallel license regimes are real, ongoing operational overhead... for protection that isn't needed yet" for a pre-revenue, single-maintainer project. - `TerAustralis-Incognita-Code`, branch `claude/teraustralis-incognita- import-g63jm9`: `git ls-tree -r` confirms the full `packages/` tree and its per-package licensing, including `packages/crystalcore-ei/COMMERCIAL_LICENSE.md`. - Direct grep, 2026-07-24: `TerAustralis-Incognita-Code` root `LICENSE` is CC BY-NC-ND 4.0; 96 files carried `SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0`. - Direct grep, 2026-07-28, against `origin/main`: 0 source files carry an Apache-2.0 SPDX header; 109 carry CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0. The mismatch this section reported is gone. ### Historical Notes None beyond what's stated above. ### Cross References `07-HISTORY.md` (the PR #1 episode in full), `11-CORRECTIONS.md`. --- ## Statement — The project's own open governance decisions Preserved verbatim from the umbrella's own 2026-07-24 charter, as the project's questions, not this archive's: - **Stage 3 repo count** — whether `core/`/`vision/` split into two repositories. - **0.13.4 lineage** — Lumina's framework forked the 0.7.0 line; the 0.13.4 rescue's extras sit unreconciled in `The-Crystal-Vision`. - **Frozen repos' end state** — archive the three provenance repos, or leave them as-is. - **Site copy of new canon** — The First Remembering is canonical but not yet copied to the site. **Status: Unresolved**, by design. ### Evidence - `docs/governance/Project-Boundaries.md`, "Open decisions this map records rather than resolves." ### Historical Notes None — current as of 2026-07-24. ### Cross References `02-REPOSITORY-MAP.md`.