Concept
The shared behavior, interfaces and institutions no single Realm governs, including the Creator's. Not a fourth pillar or an owner of instance data.
Nine · Relationships · In the Covenant · Instances · Source
Proposed wording from the owning Nine source. Proposed component wording grounded in Creator direction; not attributed personal declarations or credential authority proposed
What does it hold to be true?
People and machine Things should be able to choose behavior and resources while retaining control of their own data and credentials.
Why does it exist?
Provide one consistent way to describe parameters, manage chosen values, resolve runtime configuration and request protected credential use.
What does it set out to do?
Reuse the existing Corpus and deterministic execution paths, starting with production Settings and qualifying each missing custody boundary explicitly.
Who chooses and acts?
The owning Thing and its authorized delegates decide within their scope. Definitions, saved values, model output and secret references confer no permission by themselves.
What can it actually do?
Supply revisioned Settings, definition-driven rendering and validation, deterministic configuration resolution, and replaceable protected credential-use interfaces.
What follows from it?
Applications can share behavior without sharing all state or secrets. Uncertain effects, unavailable custody and stale configuration remain visible and cannot silently become success.
Who answers for it?
The relevant Thing owns its records; reBe owns Settings and KeyRing experience, aThing owns portable data/control semantics, and theCy owns concrete configuration and custody providers.
What does it learn and keep?
Preserve failures, context, revisions and receiving evidence. Turn repeated mistakes into checks and retire advice whose conditions no longer apply.
How does it fit with others?
Use shared contracts and interoperable definitions across independent Realms while keeping ownership, admission and failure domains distinct.
Value (assessed separately): Reduce repeated configuration work and accidental disclosure while making source-to-operation behavior understandable and repeatable.
Declared in the Lexicon, with direction.
Not named in the Covenant text.
Instances live in each Realm's own Estate and are not published here.
Decision: none; proposed
Lexicon version 8d67d98ce91b0a2b529d6b30934a77d3a7f2ef09a18b35410afa98c82fb3855a
Nine source: thecy-ascode ascode/architecture/estate/commons/NINE.json