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The canon

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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