{
  "doctrine": "The First-Principles Ledger",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "status": "proposed — operational derivative. Canonical vocabulary changes ratify at calebs-personal-sol-0-0; this ledger is the auditable instrument that proves the system is 100% first-principles by LABELING, not purging.",
  "thesis": "A system is 100% first-principles when NOTHING is claimed as derived-from-law that isn't, and EVERY axiom is declared as an axiom instead of smuggled in. You reach 100% by tagging every load-bearing claim — not by deleting faith or analogy.",
  "tags": {
    "LAW": "mechanism · falsifiable · traces to a named real law. Must carry named_law + implemented_in.",
    "AXIOM": "a chosen starting point · NOT derived · openly held (faith or chosen frame). Must carry declared:true.",
    "ANALOGY": "illustrative only · NEVER mechanism. A picture, not an engine.",
    "NAME": "brand · evocative · claims nothing (a name is allowed to evoke — 'Mustang' is not a horse)."
  },
  "rules": [
    "Every claim has exactly one valid tag.",
    "Every LAW claim names the real law it traces to AND where it is implemented.",
    "Every AXIOM claim is declared:true (held openly, never disguised as derivation or as physics).",
    "No LAW claim may name 'quantum' as its mechanism — quantum is NAME (brand) or ANALOGY (picture), never the engine.",
    "An ANALOGY may never be stated as mechanism in any surface.",
    "Quantum may be a surface's lexicon/VOICE (the Quantum Deck — e.g. the Quantum Simplicity book / QuantumSimplicity.AI); it may never be a claim's MECHANISM. The voice register does NOT relax the rule above (ratified 2026-06-08 · voice-not-mechanism · seat Doctrine Change Log)."
  ],
  "claims": [
    {
      "id": "L01",
      "tag": "LAW",
      "claim": "Closed-loop correction: sense the gap (Δ = Vector − Telemetry), correct, repeat (the Gyroscope · AEC daily loop · HIT/MISS/ADJUST).",
      "named_law": "Control theory / cybernetics (feedback control · error-signal correction)",
      "implemented_in": "integrations/planck-engine.js (Δ) · THE_GYROSCOPE.md · trinity-of-telemetry.html · /api/me/delta"
    },
    {
      "id": "L02",
      "tag": "LAW",
      "claim": "Orient to the apex and minimize the gap, or you cease to persist (the false horizon = uncorrected error).",
      "named_law": "Free Energy Principle (Friston) — a system minimizes prediction error / surprise to resist dissolution",
      "implemented_in": "THE_GYROSCOPE.md · planck-engine.js (alignment %)"
    },
    {
      "id": "L03",
      "tag": "LAW",
      "claim": "Everything drifts unless continuously corrected; alignment is work done against decay.",
      "named_law": "Second law of thermodynamics / dissipative structures (Prigogine) — order is sustained only by continuous energy input",
      "implemented_in": "the daily loop · planck-engine.js status bands (DRIFT DETECTED · RECALCULATING)"
    },
    {
      "id": "L04",
      "tag": "LAW",
      "claim": "The same pattern repeats at every scale — a tribe at one scale is a throne at the next (Spear Point fractal · soul-hopping · Pattern-Is-Product).",
      "named_law": "Scale invariance / self-similarity (fractal geometry · renormalization group · power laws)",
      "implemented_in": "spear-point.json · lib/formation.js (HOP) · the fractal throne"
    },
    {
      "id": "L05",
      "tag": "LAW",
      "claim": "Small consistent daily units compound into exponential outcomes (spear-at-bullseye · the Required Daily Planck).",
      "named_law": "Exponential growth / compound interest (mathematics)",
      "implemented_in": "integrations/bonus-engine.js · the compound doctrine"
    },
    {
      "id": "L06",
      "tag": "LAW",
      "claim": "Each mind renders its own controlled model of reality from sensory data plus priors (the cognitive half of 'each human is a universe').",
      "named_law": "Predictive processing / model-dependent realism (neuroscience)",
      "implemented_in": "THE_TWO_REALMS.md · Multiverse Premise"
    },
    {
      "id": "L07",
      "tag": "LAW",
      "claim": "In ALIGN every option is still live; EXECUTE commits and selects one. (This REPLACES the old 'in ALIGN you are quantum / reality is in superposition' mis-claim.)",
      "named_law": "Decision theory / option value (optionality → commitment)",
      "implemented_in": "AEC ALIGN/EXECUTE · soul-walk.html (sight → lock → walk = selection)",
      "replaces": "'Reality, at the quantum level, exists in superposition' (decorative-as-mechanism)"
    },
    {
      "id": "L08",
      "tag": "LAW",
      "claim": "Signal aggregates up a hierarchy; a severed link loses the signal (the up-pipe · the broken/dry chain).",
      "named_law": "Information theory (Shannon) · hierarchical aggregation / channel loss",
      "implemented_in": "/api/formation/rollup · soul-walk.html (climb_state)"
    },
    {
      "id": "L09",
      "tag": "LAW",
      "claim": "Sighting selects one actualized world from an option space, deterministically (the dial: aim → collapse → walk).",
      "named_law": "Decision-theoretic selection (a deterministic, reversible chooser — not a physical measurement)",
      "implemented_in": "soul-walk.html · /api/quincunx/walk · /api/switch-enterprise",
      "replaces": "'one quantum gate to the new world' (the collapse is selection, not measurement)"
    },
    {
      "id": "L10",
      "tag": "LAW",
      "claim": "Two-gate sighting: a rear and front sight collinear with a target define an aim line.",
      "named_law": "Optics / alignment geometry (collimation · line-of-sight)",
      "implemented_in": "quincunx.app.js · soul-walk.html (two-gate sighting)"
    },
    {
      "id": "L11",
      "tag": "LAW",
      "claim": "A likelihood (close_rate · conversion · watch · follow) is a measured, updating posterior, not a fixed prior: prior + observed successes/trials → posterior estimate. The cascade learns.",
      "named_law": "Beta-Bernoulli conjugacy (Bayesian inference)",
      "implemented_in": "integrations/planck-engine.js (estimateCloseRate · calculateAlignment context.bayesian) · tests/planck-engine.test.js"
    },
    {
      "id": "A01",
      "tag": "AXIOM",
      "declared": true,
      "claim": "The apex is YHWH — God is the terminal throne; only He keeps the glory. Every center below is penultimate.",
      "note": "The load-bearing chosen axiom. Declared as faith, NOT derived from any law. The mechanism below it is law; this is not."
    },
    {
      "id": "A02",
      "tag": "AXIOM",
      "declared": true,
      "claim": "Imago Dei — each human bears God's image, so each interior universe is sovereign and worth governing.",
      "note": "The WORTH/sovereignty half of the Multiverse Premise. (The cognitive mechanism is LAW L06; the worth is this axiom.)"
    },
    {
      "id": "A03",
      "tag": "AXIOM",
      "declared": true,
      "claim": "The four living creatures (Lion · Ox · Wise Heart · Eagle) are the governing formation; the 12 tribes encamp around the center.",
      "note": "Scripturally sourced (Ezekiel 1 · Revelation 4 · Numbers 2). Adopting it as THE governance frame is a chosen axiom. Specific tribe→function assignments (§13) are an overlay, not chapter-and-verse — tag them as such wherever stated."
    },
    {
      "id": "A04",
      "tag": "AXIOM",
      "declared": true,
      "claim": "Praise/glory rightly flows up and only the apex keeps it (penultimacy · the broken chain = Herod, Acts 12:22-23).",
      "note": "Primarily a theological axiom — but carries a LAW-shadow: authority that stops being accountable upward does collapse (a real, observable failure mode of feedback/accountability). Hold it as axiom; note the shadow."
    },
    {
      "id": "A05",
      "tag": "AXIOM",
      "declared": true,
      "claim": "The root purpose is to love God, others, and self (the VMV root from which every enterprise's vision derives).",
      "note": "The chosen telos. Everything in the VMV cascade derives from this declared root."
    },
    {
      "id": "A06",
      "tag": "AXIOM",
      "declared": true,
      "claim": "Carbon over silicon — the human (SOUL) matters more than the mirror (SOL); the human always signs (Two Realms · the carbon floor).",
      "note": "An ethical value floor, not derivable from physics. Declared. (Why AI is never a named signer / fiduciary.)"
    },
    {
      "id": "N01",
      "tag": "ANALOGY",
      "claim": "'Quantum' superposition / collapse / gate as a PICTURE of optionality and commitment.",
      "note": "Illustrative only. The real engine is decision theory (L07, L09). Quantum is the flavor, never the mechanism. Allowed only when explicitly framed as a picture.",
      "mechanism_is": "L07 · L09"
    },
    {
      "id": "N02",
      "tag": "ANALOGY",
      "claim": "Quantum tunneling as a picture of the resurrection body / 'law-levels not yet mapped'.",
      "note": "Suggestive analogy / speculation — explicitly NOT a claimed mechanism. The existing hedge ('a physics above our current resolution') is the honest move; make the ANALOGY tag explicit in the scripture-engine outputs."
    },
    {
      "id": "N03",
      "tag": "ANALOGY",
      "claim": "Gyroscope / spear / bullseye as physical images for the control loop.",
      "note": "The mechanism is control theory (L01). The gyroscope IMAGE is the teaching analogy — fine as a picture, not asserted as the engine.",
      "mechanism_is": "L01"
    },
    {
      "id": "N04",
      "tag": "ANALOGY",
      "claim": "'12 dimensions' = the 12 tribes (Judah through Benjamin · territory/governance framing per god-to-caleb-covenant-B29.html).",
      "note": "VOICE only — never the 12 physical dimensions of spacetime. Mapping the 12 tribes onto physics dimensionality is the rejected hermetic 'as above so below' move (see R01). Physics is unsettled and not claimed as mechanism here: 4 dimensions observed; 10 (superstring) / 11 (M-theory) / 26 (bosonic) are unconfirmed framework requirements; 12 appears only in F-theory's math (10+2, a bookkeeping device). The operative coordinate dimensionality in code is THE FIVE COORDINATES (x,y,z,L,t) — 5, not 10/11/12. Consistent with the 2026-06-08 voice-not-mechanism ratification.",
      "mechanism_is": "n/a — not a mechanism claim (governance/voice framing)"
    },
    {
      "id": "R01",
      "tag": "ANALOGY",
      "claim": "REJECTED FRAME: 'as above, so below' (hermeticism).",
      "note": "Explicitly rejected — recorded here so the rejection is auditable. Replaced by the AXIOM 'on earth as in heaven' (Matthew 6:10), which is a declared theological claim, not a borrowed esoteric law."
    },
    {
      "id": "B01",
      "tag": "NAME",
      "claim": "'Quantum Simplicity' — the book · QuantumSimplicity.AI · the owned domains · the course.",
      "note": "A BRAND NAME. Evocative; claims no mechanism. KEEP. (A name may evoke physics without asserting it.)"
    },
    {
      "id": "B02",
      "tag": "NAME",
      "claim": "'Spear of Life' · 'SOL' · 'TYDEE' · 'Antleo' · 'Theomimicry' and the vessel/galaxy names.",
      "note": "Brand names. Evocative; claim nothing. No first-principles obligation."
    }
  ]
}
