The Governance
Layer
The anti-founder-capture architecture for the Meridian Codex. Three layers that convert the Governance page's dispositional safeguards into structural ones.
The Codex Governance page carries the published prose and the philosophical commitment. This section carries the operational detail: what triggers deliberation, how the Amendment Log records changes, how the eight seats of the Meridian Council deliberate, and when the full architecture activates. Published during the founding phase for public scrutiny, before the system forces transparency to exist.
Read the SpecificationThree Layers
Each layer does different work. All three are necessary. None is sufficient alone.
The Structural Layer
Trigger conditions (three tiers), the Amendment Log, and the Non-Ownership Clause. Procedural mechanisms that define what requires review, how changes are recorded, and what principle governs interpretive authority.
The Deliberative Layer
The Meridian Council. Eight seats with distinct mandates, producing real disagreement the caretaker must engage. Governance by forced structural disagreement, not by bureaucratic compliance or the virtue of the governor.
The Transparency Layer
The Standing Critique Section and the published deliberation records. It does not prevent capture in real time. It makes capture visible over time. Visibility enables correction.
Published Artifacts
The live specification, standing instruments, case records, and change history of the Codex governance layer.
Standing Instruments
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.
The Aporia Register
The framework's live internal tensions, where both poles are load-bearing. Held discipline, not unresolved confusion.
Changelog
The running record of substantive changes to the Meridian Codex, organized by month.
Case Record
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.
Council Deliberations
Activates at hybrid trigger
Full records of each Tier 1 and Tier 2 deliberation, published unedited after the council activates.