Convictions

Normative stances the project holds about how to work.

• [[Agents Translate, Not Extract]] -- When agents mediate between graph and contributor, they read and translate author-declared edges rather than inferring edges from prose and imposing a schema
• [[Capture Reasoning, Not Just Knowledge]] -- The graph captures how contributors actually reason
• [[Folders Serve Human Legibility, Not the Graph]] -- Folders exist for contributors scanning the filesystem; the graph lives in named edges, not in directory paths
• [[Human Authority Over Augmentation Systems]] -- The wiki augments human capability
• [[Knowledge Outlives Its Tools]] -- Knowledge should outlast the tools used to capture it
• [[Naming Is Architectural, Not Decorative]] -- Names encode design decisions and activate semantic fields that shape every subsequent inference
• [[Terms Become Common Through Unanimity, Not Precedent]] -- A term becomes shared only when every participant agrees to it; one contributor's usage does not establish it as the group's term
• [[Translation Over Convergence]] -- When vocabularies meet, both edges land as distinct claims and an agent translates between them
• [[Vocabulary Diversity Is a Feature]] -- Contributor vocabularies carry design decisions the graph is committed to preserving rather than flattening

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