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Living documents · Governing law · Verified reality

Every document that runs the organism, kept alive.

This is the registry for Sovael's governing documents: the PDRs, gate documents, constitutions and execution specs that define what the organism is, what it may do, and how it proves it. A living document is one that is owned, versioned, verified against reality and updated when the world changes. A dead document is a liability. This registry exists to tell the difference.

The World Glass mission

PDR-WG · RATIFIED 2026-08-15

World Glass PDR v2.1

PDR-WGReality observation · provenance · canonicality · verification24,472 bytes · 482 lines

Ratified

The constitutional reality layer. World Glass is not a super-PDR and never becomes the boss of the PDRs. It is the glass between the PDRs and reality: it observes, verifies and reports COMPLIANT / NON-COMPLIANT / UNKNOWN / CONFLICTED, and routes required changes through each PDR's own change authority. Fifteen guarantees across three layers, each with a mandatory 12-field schema.

Mission results: guarantee status (all evidence filed)

Guarantee	Duty	Status
G-01	Identity: observe and attribute every action	PASS
G-02	Authority and control: verify every mutation is authorised	PASS
G-03	Provenance: maintain the event-chain query surface	PASS
G-04	Causality: emit presence flares, answer causal questions	PASS
G-05	Topology: live surface registry, registry equals reality	PASS
G-06	Canonicality: authority-based canonical per state class	PASS
G-07	State convergence: projections converge to canonical	PASS
G-08	Ingress and egress: every channel has a consumer	PASS
G-09	Kanban authority: verify dispatch authority	PASS
G-10	Evidence: completion claims carry attributable evidence	PASS
G-11	Continuous verification: certification battery framework	PASS
G-12	Drift detection: loops, surface loss, stale consumers	PASS
G-13	Self-description: answer the 8 organism questions live	PASS
G-14	Governed self-modification: 13-stage chain, no self-certify	PASS
G-15	Observability completeness: knows what it cannot see	PASS

evidence: /root/.system/runtime/batteries/battery_world_glass_g01..g15.json · boundary battery 16/16 (BAT-M PDR-boundary, BAT-N LLM-authority-resolution)

PDR registry

the map of the law, not the law

ID	Name	Domain	Status
PDR-000	Sovael Master PDR	Constitutional and programme hierarchy	Ratified
PDR-001	Sovael Organism PDR	Organism behaviour, identity, cognition, autonomy	Ratified
PDR-002	Network PDR	Network architecture, connectivity, topology	Proposed
PDR-003	Security PDR	Security controls, cyber boundaries	Existing
PDR-004	ERI-CAP PDR	Environmental reality, infrastructure, connectivity	Ratified
PDR-005	Work / Control PDR	Kanban, work-control, execution authority	Ratified
PDR-006	Transport PDR	Communications, transport, model routing	Existing
PDR-007	Certification PDR	Certification, batteries, verification regime	Existing
PDR-008	Autonomy Constitution	Human boundary, three human gates	Ratified
PDR-WG	World Glass PDR	Reality observation, provenance, canonicality, verification	Ratified

Living document assessment

which documents are alive, and which are not

Every document in the library carries a living assessment: whether it is currently owned, versioned and verified against reality. 46 of 48 are living. The two that are not, and why:

StaleMemory ConstitutionCONST-MEM

Not currently a living document: last touched 2026-06-19, predates the unified memory architecture and the P0 memory-backend workstream. It describes a memory model that no longer matches the running system. It should be re-baselined against the canonical memory service before it can govern again. This is a debt item, not a dead document: the constitution's intent (memory is written, owned and forgotten with discipline) is still law, but its implementation details are stale.

SupersededHandshake PDR v2PDR-H-v2

Replaced on 2026-08-15 by HANDSHAKE_PDR.md. Retained in the registry for provenance so the lineage is visible; it is not a governing document anymore.

Assessment is per-document in registry.json, refreshed on every build. A document is living when it is owned, versioned, sha256-pinned and updated when the world changes. The registry itself is a living document: it states its own status, its own sha256, and the evidence that it reflects the canonical sources.

Operating principles

from the World Glass constitution

World Glass is not a super-PDR. It never supersedes, absorbs, duplicates, or replaces a specialised PDR. Each PDR remains sovereign within its declared domain.

World Glass must never certify its own blind spot as healthy. Knowing what it cannot see is a core duty, not an embarrassment.

PDRs govern their domains. World Glass observes reality. Certification verifies claims. No layer silently absorbs another layer's authority.

The ten-state distinction is never collapsed: reality, observation, interpretation, authority, intent, action, mutation, evidence, verification, certification.

No material change is governance-closed until its impact on all relevant PDRs has been assessed. No-impact-assessment is never evidence of no impact.