Meridian
AI STANDARD

The Charter

1 Page
The Governance Specification
The anti-founder-capture architecture for the Meridian Codex. Three layers converting the Governance page's dispositional safeguards into structural ones.

Standing Instruments

6 Pages
The Standing Critique
The strongest objections to the Meridian Codex, preserved in their steelmanned form.
The Amendment Log
The constitutional record of every protected change to the Meridian Codex.
What Would Disconfirm the Codex?
The specific conditions under which the Codex's core claims would be weakened, revised, or abandoned. Published tripwires, not performed falsifiability.
Open Tensions
The Codex's live internal tensions, where both poles are load-bearing. Held discipline, not unresolved confusion. The precise term for each is an aporia; the held set is the Aporia Register.
The Position Toward Artificial Minds
What the Codex holds toward artificial minds, and where each commitment already lives and binds.
Changelog
The running record of substantive changes to the Meridian Codex, organized by month.

Case Record

2 Pages
Case 0: The Caretaker's Practice
The audit log of the working partnership behind the Meridian Codex. Externalizes the Self-Critique Protocol of MERIDIAN.md and the operational practice of MERIDIAN.implementation.md as observable discipline.
The Codex Self-Evaluation
The second entry in the Meridian Case Record. How the Codex built an evaluation instrument from its own architecture, tested it for generalizability, and applied it to itself.