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Governance & Scope

How this surface is bounded, classified, and protected from silent drift.

The Sovereignty Path is a human coherence architecture. Its concepts may be applied to adjacent fields, including AI-adjacent human systems, governance, and technology, but current TSP canon does not thereby claim governance over non-human intelligence unless such expansion is explicitly authored, ratified, and sealed.

The human-domain boundary

The Sovereignty Path is a human coherence architecture. Its architecture, language, and developmental claims arise from the lived conditions of embodied human life: embodiment, mortality, lineage, inherited patterning, nervous-system consequence, relationship, meaning, daily structure, repair, choice, devotion, and visible governance of life.

TSP concepts may be applied to adjacent fields — technology, governance, organizational systems, culture, AI-adjacent human systems — provided such application does not convert analogy, interpretation, design principle, or adjacent doctrine into unratified canon. Current TSP canon remains anchored in the human domain unless Dean Hobson explicitly authors and ratifies a canon expansion.

No adjacent-field application implies that current TSP canon governs non-human intelligence, synthetic intelligence, or non-human developmental traversal unless such scope has been explicitly revised and sealed.

The Governance Classification Layer

Every public document carries one classification. The classifications are sealed in Canon v3.1.

Canon

Sealed architectural truth within The Sovereignty Path.

Application

Disciplined application of canon to adjacent domains without implying canon expansion.

Doctrine

Founder-authored argument, interpretation, or position that is owned as such and is not automatically canonical.

Inquiry

Exploratory thought, open question, investigatory framing, or unresolved proposition not yet ratified as canon, application, or doctrine.

Bundle integrity

The AI-Adjacent Doctrine Bundle ships as a single unit. The Manifesto cannot be served, retrieved, or cited without the Red-Team Companion attached. This is enforced as a hard rule of distribution and a non-negotiable acceptance test of the build.

Where the Manifesto appears without the Companion, it has been overread before it was read.

Vocabulary lock

The controlled vocabulary lives in one place — the Glossary — and is reused by reference everywhere. Each term has an operational definition (presence indicators, failure signatures, drift indicators, detection notes) so the vocabulary remains falsifiable rather than rhetorical.

Founder authority

Vocabulary lock, canon boundary, architectural review, adjacent-field scope, and public corpus framing where extension risk exists are reserved to founder authority. Materials that touch any of these require founder review prior to canonical release or public boundary-setting release.