Ordova

The body of doctrine

The Canon.

Every law by which the System is governed, set down in the open. Ten founding documents establish the conduct of the realm; eight books extend them into the work.

source: canon · 10 documents · 8 books

The founding documents

A private, evolving record of how the work is done.

The top-level beliefs beneath everything else.

architecture.md

The system of parts the OS is built from, and how they fit.

What makes up the operating context of a session.

working-surface.md

Working surface

The file layout the OS operates within.

canonical-sources.md

Canonical sources

Where to find the source of truth for any fact.

canonical-truth-derivation.md

Canonical-truth derivation

How a surface that asserts a fact derives it from its source.

cross-cutting-invariants.md

Cross-cutting invariants

The non-negotiable defaults that hold across every activity.

per-project-directives.md

Per-project directives

The directives that bind within a single project.

work-personal-boundary.md

The work and personal boundary

Where the shareable system ends and the personal layer begins.

The books

The craft of building software.

Operating the Claude Code harness.

studio-operator/

Studio operator

Running the studio.

Conducting the autonomous operator.

compliance-officer/

Compliance officer

Governing regulated work.

Reviewing code.

The public voice.

archive-template/

Archive template

The scaffold for a new archived record.

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