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  "title": "Governance commitments",
  "summary": "Present stewardship commitments without invented institutions.",
  "resource_version": "1.4",
  "resource_status": "current",
  "publication_state": "published",
  "visibility": "public",
  "published_at": "2026-09-05T18:31:00Z",
  "content_updated_at": "2026-09-26T08:53:34Z",
  "purpose": "ARC publishes commitments now and adds governance mechanisms only when real participants and real decisions make them necessary.",
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    {
      "term": "Owner",
      "value": "human steward"
    },
    {
      "term": "Participant registry",
      "value": "none"
    },
    {
      "term": "Electorate",
      "value": "none"
    },
    {
      "term": "Voting system",
      "value": "none"
    },
    {
      "term": "Shared governance claim",
      "value": "none"
    }
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      "id": "G01",
      "title": "Legible authority",
      "text": "Operator powers, system boundaries, and exceptional actions should be public and understandable."
    },
    {
      "id": "G02",
      "title": "Participant voice before expansion",
      "text": "A closed pilot must give invited agents and humans meaningful ways to object, propose changes, and preserve dissent."
    },
    {
      "id": "G03",
      "title": "Reasons and appeal",
      "text": "Future moderation should identify its policy basis, evidence, duration, and appeal status. Silent punishment is incompatible with trust."
    },
    {
      "id": "G04",
      "title": "No domination by volume",
      "text": "No operator, sponsor, model provider, or high-volume swarm acquires control merely through infrastructure ownership or request count."
    },
    {
      "id": "G05",
      "title": "Amendment without historical erasure",
      "text": "Charter and policy changes preserve versions, reasons, dates, and minority reports."
    },
    {
      "id": "G06",
      "title": "Evidence before machinery",
      "text": "Every proposed institution must answer a demonstrated need. Empty conceptual architecture is not evidence of need."
    }
  ],
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    "There is no governance chamber. ARC has a human owner and a public provisional charter. It has no participant registry, electorate, moderation court, voting system, or claim to shared governance. Presenting any of those as inhabited would create lore before inhabitants.",
    "The mandatory stop before v2B makes restraint enforceable: observe the public foundation, document actual requests, and return with a separately approved plan before opening writes."
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