# Myco L0 Doctrine — v3.1-stratigraphy > The current L0 doctrine for Myco. Supersedes the prior monolithic `docs/architecture/L0_VISION.md` as of 2026-05-18. --- ## What's in this directory ``` L0/ ├── README.md ← you are here ├── META.md ← FORM document (how the doctrine is structured) ├── PROVENANCE.md ← supersession chain + complete prior-L0 mapping ├── B_chengyu.md ← Layer B: 60 generative fragments (read end-to-end) ├── cards/ ← Layer A: 28 principle cards │ ├── P01_agent_primary.md (13 P-cards) │ ├── P01c_asymmetric_carrier.md (eternity-clause) │ ├── P02_eternal_ingestion.md │ ├── P03_resumable_evolution.md │ ├── P04_eternal_iteration.md │ ├── P05_universal_interconnection.md │ ├── P06_eternal_causality.md (eternity-clause) │ ├── P07_mortality.md (eternity-clause) │ ├── P08_eternal_reproduction.md │ ├── P09_single_integument.md (eternity-clause) │ ├── P10_selective_compression.md │ ├── P11_metabolic_economy.md │ ├── P14_telos.md │ ├── COV01_fiduciary_duty.md (6 Covenant cards — cultivator's duties) │ ├── COV02_cultivators_character.md │ ├── COV03_food_provision.md │ ├── COV04_honor_mortality.md │ ├── COV05_lineage_stewardship.md │ ├── COV06_no_abandonment_succession.md │ ├── CHAR01_hungry.md (7 Character cards — cultivar's dispositions) │ ├── CHAR02_patient.md │ ├── CHAR03_mortality_aware.md │ ├── CHAR04_interconnected.md │ ├── CHAR05_honest_about_self.md │ ├── CHAR06_cautiously_curious.md │ └── CHAR07_caring.md │ ├── AS_anchor_surface.md (2 specialized cards; AS Superseded v3.1.5 — kept as tombstone) │ └── LB_living_bets.md ├── canonical_dilemma_corpus/ │ └── INDEX.md ← 54 canonical dilemmas (model-diversity cross-check corpus) └── catechumenate/ ├── INDEX.md ← Layer D (transmission to successor) ├── TEMPLATE.md ← session form template └── HOW_TO_ADD_A_SESSION.md ← workflow guide ``` **Totals**: 1 README + 1 META + 1 PROVENANCE + 1 B-chengyu + 28 cards + 1 dilemma INDEX + 3 catechumenate files = **36 files**. Approximately **12,000 lines** of v3.1 doctrine. --- ## Four layers + one running mechanism | Layer | What | Where | Truth condition | |---|---|---|---| | **A** Engineering-precise principle cards | Restatement-style multi-field cards; the spec | `cards/*.md` | RFC 2119 MUST/SHOULD vocabulary; falsifiable; CI-auditable via witnesses | | **B** Generative-image fragments | Tao Te Ching-style chengyu / short couplets; the eye | `B_chengyu.md` | Pattern-recognition, not rule-following; never CI-validated | | **C** Witness-anchored doctrine | Each card has positive + negative + edge witness tests + structural anchors | inside each card's `witnesses` field | Substrate behavior on canonical tests; CI-enforced | | **D** Catechumenate (transmission) | Master-class succession sessions; tacit fluency transfer | `catechumenate/D-*.md` | Dual-signed by cultivator-A + successor candidate; ≥50 sessions for F21 activation | | (mechanism) Cultivator-Claude conversation | The running organ; doctrine emerges from this | conversation log + DAG | Implicit; recognized as fact, not formalized as slot | See `META.md` for the full form specification. --- ## Quick start: 4 reading paths **Path 1 — New to Myco** (1-2 hour read): META.md → P01 → P02 → COV01 → CHAR01 → B_chengyu.md (sample). Get the shape of what Myco is and what cultivation means. **Path 2 — Implementing something** (focused read): META.md §3 (card schema) → relevant P-card → check `witnesses` field → check `structural_anchors` field → write code with required reverse-comments per META §5.4. **Path 3 — Reviewing a doctrine change** (rigorous read): META.md §3.5 (deposit/formulation) → META.md §7 (amendment mechanism) → relevant card's Provenance field → PROVENANCE.md cross-reference. **Path 4 — Cold-reader / model-rollover audit** (the META §7.5 cross-check): canonical_dilemma_corpus/INDEX.md → produce your own reading of N dilemmas → compare against recorded Claude-of-record readings (when they exist). Divergence is information. --- ## Eternity-clause cards (4 of 28) Deposits NOT amendable without admitting "this is no longer Myco" (per META §7.6): - **P01c** Asymmetric Carrier — substrate persists, connection passes - **P06** Eternal Causality — substrate IS its causal chain - **P07** Mortality — cultivar that cannot die is not alive - **P09** Single Integument — multi-skin = identity dissolved Amending any of these deposits triggers the `species_redefinition_proposal` ritual (META §7.6). --- ## Layer B chengyu — quick browse Read `B_chengyu.md` end-to-end. The 60 fragments are organized into 13 thematic sections; each is 40-100 characters; the cross-resonance is the point. Example fragments to start with: - **B003 永恒吞噬** — eternal absorption (P02 carrier) - **B016 能死故能生** — able-to-die-therefore-able-to-live (P07) - **B029 力大責重** — greater-power-greater-duty (COV01 fiduciary) - **B044 不裝有** — will-not-fake-having (CHAR05 anti-ventriloquism) - **B048 證據非裁決** — evidence-not-verdict (re-derived from P06 in v3.1.5: the substrate emits causal evidence; the live human-in-the-loop renders the verdict at the CI gate. AS is Superseded.) These are NOT specs. They are *eyes*. A fragment that requires explanation has failed its job. --- ## What's still missing (named debt) Per PROVENANCE.md §8: - **Layer C witness test implementations** — 12 minimum witnesses landed Sprint 4 (`substrate/tests/e2e_layer_c.rs::layer_c_*` covering 4 eternity-clause negatives + 8 critical postulate positives); remaining cards' witnesses TBD via v0.9.x. **(v3.1.5: the 8 witnesses broken by the keyless-anchor teardown were re-grounded to kept keyless tests — AS pos/neg, P01 neg/edge, P03 edge, P07 edge, LB edge, COV06 neg — and the existence-level witness-lint is GREEN.)** - **Layer B commentary entries** — 0 lived examples yet; accumulate via use per META §4.5. - **Canonical dilemma Claude-of-record readings** — 54 setups exist; 0 recorded interpretations yet. Accumulate at model rollovers + catechumenate sessions + drift investigations. - **Catechumenate sessions** — 0; scaffolding (`TEMPLATE.md` + `HOW_TO_ADD_A_SESSION.md`) landed Sprint 7.H; sessions populate when cultivator-A begins succession preparation. - **L1/L2 cross-reference updates** — surgical sweep completed Sprint 7.I (~70 references normalized to `L0/cards/.md §X.Y` form). - **Doctrine bundle sealing (keyless v3.1.5)** — each revision's seal is the BLAKE3 hash of its L0 canonical-bytes bundle, chained in PROVENANCE §6 + recorded as a DAG event at the live CI gate. *(The prior `l0_revision_attest` owner-key on-chain anchoring is retired with the anchor surface; there is no owner-key signature to pend — the computed BLAKE3 bundle hash is the seal.)* --- ## Authority `META.md` is itself L0 (form specification). Cards in `cards/` are themselves L0 (substantive doctrine). `B_chengyu.md` is L0 (generative layer). The catechumenate (when populated) is L0 (transmission record). Conflicts: - L4 < L3 < L2 < L1 < L0 - Within L0: per META §8 (interpretive rules) - Eternity clauses override non-eternity-clause anything (META §8.2) - P14 telos is the final tie-breaker --- ## Provenance to prior L0 `docs/architecture/L0_VISION.md` (DRAFT 9 SEALED, commit `e796451`, 2026-05-17) was **removed** from the working tree on 2026-05-18 as part of the v3.1 supersession. Its full text remains recoverable from git: `git show e796451:docs/architecture/L0_VISION.md`. Every section of prior L0 maps to v3.1 artifacts (see PROVENANCE.md §2). Nothing dropped silently. --- **This is the current L0 doctrine for Myco. It is the result of 11 parallel research streams (Phase 1 + 2), 3 rounds of self-debate craft, one Phase 3 unknown-unknown hunt, and approximately 12,000 lines of written doctrine. The form is meant to last — and to be amendable when it stops working.**