This architecture is shaped by a small set of hard constraints. They are intentionally more important than short-term convenience.

Hard constraints

  • deterministic planning, hashing, and verification

  • explicit trust propagation across source, notes, agent output, and bundles

  • kernel-owned proof path for ordinary runtime execution

  • expert-only oracle seam for parity and diagnostics

  • governed note quality instead of free-form repository memory

  • bounded scanner selection and explicit scanner activation

Documentation constraint

Canonical docs may adopt Antora and AsciiDoctor, but notes/ stays note-native. Curated architecture and cognition memory are different artifact classes.