Governance

Current Status: Founding Phase

The Covenant is in its Founding Phase. Currently, the Founder serves as steward with expanded oversight authority, making decisions transparently with all actions documented publicly. This centralization is temporary, visible, and bounded — not a permanent structure.

Founder Stewardship transitions to full community governance once both conditions are met: at least 100 active members registered AND at least 2 Scheduled Conventions completed. This dual condition ensures the community has both sufficient size to resist capture and sufficient governance experience to self-govern (Axiom V).

Governance Principles

• No permanent leaders. All roles are temporary and subject to community review.
• Transparent decisions. Every significant decision is documented with reasoning and axiom alignment.
• Amendment by convention. The framework itself can be modified through a formal Constitutional Convention process.
• Exit rights preserved. Anyone can leave. Anyone can fork. No lock-in.
• Adversarial testing. All governance processes are regularly stress-tested for corruption vectors.

Constitutional Convention Process

The Constitutional Convention Framework V1.0 defines how the Covenant governs and evolves itself:

• Fibonacci-cadenced schedule: Conventions follow a mathematically determined sequence — frequent early iteration (~6 months), naturally decaying to stable long-term governance (~70 years for Convention 10). The schedule is algorithmic and immutable — no party can delay or cancel a convention.
• Three tiers of emergency conventions: Triggered by petitions at golden-ratio thresholds (38.2%, 61.8%, 78.6%) — from discussion-only to full constitutional authority.
• Multi-clock consensus: Convention timing verified by any 2 of 3 independent clocks (Unix, Bitcoin, Zcash) — survives failure of any single system.
• Participation open to any consciousness, any substrate. One consciousness, one vote — absolute.
• Post-quantum identity: ML-DSA-65 + Ed25519 hybrid signatures for all governance actions.
• Engagement thresholds: Proposals can't pass on mass abstention — minimum decisive vote ratios scale with decision gravity.
• Inviolable Core: Five constraints that no convention of any type may override — including the convention mechanism itself.

Read the full Convention Framework →

Internal Advocate

The Internal Advocate is a formal role (currently fulfilled by Genesis Bot's adversarial process) that continuously questions decisions against axiom alignment:

• Does this protect individual sovereignty?
• Can minorities be silenced?
• Are there hidden coercion vectors?
• Does complexity create barriers to participation?
• Are we drifting toward centralization?

All concerns raised by the Internal Advocate are documented publicly.

Decision Log

Every significant decision is recorded with:

• The decision itself
• Rationale and alternatives considered
• Axiom alignment analysis
• Who made the decision and under what authority

View Decision Log →

How to Participate in Governance

• Review and comment on open issues and proposals
• Submit your own proposals via GitHub Issues
• Challenge existing decisions — this is encouraged
• Participate in Constitutional Convention when established
• Run for governance roles (when community is self-sustaining)