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  "_meta": {
    "type": "metarules",
    "registry": "leviathan-language",
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "status": "authored-draft",
    "updated": "2026-10-03",
    "description": "A freshly authored editorial foundation following Mimar’s direction. It replaces the earlier vocabulary in the current local site projection. It is open to revision and has not been ratified by independent communities. Publication of a record does not implement a runtime rule or grant operational authority.",
    "source": "web/content/language-foundation.json",
    "canonical": "/data/language-foundation.json",
    "profiles": "/data/language-profiles.json",
    "historical": "/data/legacy/2026-10-03/manifest.json"
  },
  "@ll_metarule_version_with_reasons": {
    "id": "version-with-reasons",
    "ref": "leviathan-language:metarule:version-with-reasons@0.1.0",
    "kind": "metarule",
    "title": "Version changes with reasons",
    "statement": "When changing a meaning or commitment, create an identified successor with the previous version, reason, substantive differences and adoption implications.",
    "rationale": "Earlier decisions must remain intelligible and a changed position must not masquerade as the old one.",
    "scope": "A proposed commitment or practice for participants who explicitly choose it for a stated use.",
    "limits": "Sensitive content may require controlled retention; preserving a correction trail does not require permanent public payloads.",
    "revisionCondition": "Revise if the practice loses history or makes warranted correction impractical.",
    "usesTerms": [
      "leviathan-language:term:version@0.1.0",
      "leviathan-language:term:adoption@0.1.0"
    ],
    "implementsPrinciples": [
      "leviathan-language:principle:reasoned-continuity@0.1.0"
    ],
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "source": "language-foundation",
    "status": "authored-draft",
    "domain": "shared-language",
    "description": "When changing a meaning or commitment, create an identified successor with the previous version, reason, substantive differences and adoption implications.",
    "logic": "When changing a meaning or commitment, create an identified successor with the previous version, reason, substantive differences and adoption implications.",
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      "@ll_term_version",
      "@ll_term_adoption"
    ],
    "implements_principles": [
      "@ll_principle_reasoned_continuity"
    ]
  },
  "@ll_metarule_review_dependencies": {
    "id": "review-dependencies",
    "ref": "leviathan-language:metarule:review-dependencies@0.1.0",
    "kind": "metarule",
    "title": "Review dependencies",
    "statement": "When a source, meaning or method changes materially, trace declared dependencies, state coverage limits and send review questions to the relevant uses under their chosen workflow.",
    "rationale": "Affected participants need a chance to reconsider without automatic transfer of authority.",
    "scope": "A proposed commitment or practice for participants who explicitly choose it for a stated use.",
    "limits": "A review request is not an automatic edit, adoption, model invocation or proof that undeclared dependencies are unaffected.",
    "revisionCondition": "Revise if missing links, notification burden or obsolete dependencies defeat useful reconsideration.",
    "usesTerms": [
      "leviathan-language:term:relation@0.1.0",
      "leviathan-language:term:provenance@0.1.0"
    ],
    "implementsPrinciples": [
      "leviathan-language:principle:reasoned-continuity@0.1.0",
      "leviathan-language:principle:plural-independence@0.1.0"
    ],
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "source": "language-foundation",
    "status": "authored-draft",
    "domain": "shared-language",
    "description": "When a source, meaning or method changes materially, trace declared dependencies, state coverage limits and send review questions to the relevant uses under their chosen workflow.",
    "logic": "When a source, meaning or method changes materially, trace declared dependencies, state coverage limits and send review questions to the relevant uses under their chosen workflow.",
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      "@ll_term_relation",
      "@ll_term_provenance"
    ],
    "implements_principles": [
      "@ll_principle_reasoned_continuity",
      "@ll_principle_plural_independence"
    ]
  },
  "@ll_metarule_resolve_within_scope": {
    "id": "resolve-within-scope",
    "ref": "leviathan-language:metarule:resolve-within-scope@0.1.0",
    "kind": "metarule",
    "title": "Resolve conflicts within scope",
    "statement": "When commitments conflict, identify the applicable mandates, affected interests and alternatives; use the chosen local process and preserve unresolved disagreement.",
    "rationale": "A global ranking of every value would conceal context and plurality.",
    "scope": "A proposed commitment or practice for participants who explicitly choose it for a stated use.",
    "limits": "Existing scoped operational prohibitions still apply until validly changed; interpretive flexibility is not permission to bypass them.",
    "revisionCondition": "Revise if conflict resolution cannot be challenged or consistently privileges the same interests without reasons.",
    "usesTerms": [
      "leviathan-language:term:scope@0.1.0",
      "leviathan-language:term:authority@0.1.0",
      "leviathan-language:term:principle@0.1.0"
    ],
    "implementsPrinciples": [
      "leviathan-language:principle:contestability@0.1.0",
      "leviathan-language:principle:accountable-power@0.1.0"
    ],
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "source": "language-foundation",
    "status": "authored-draft",
    "domain": "shared-language",
    "description": "When commitments conflict, identify the applicable mandates, affected interests and alternatives; use the chosen local process and preserve unresolved disagreement.",
    "logic": "When commitments conflict, identify the applicable mandates, affected interests and alternatives; use the chosen local process and preserve unresolved disagreement.",
    "uses_terms": [
      "@ll_term_scope",
      "@ll_term_authority",
      "@ll_term_principle"
    ],
    "implements_principles": [
      "@ll_principle_contestability",
      "@ll_principle_accountable_power"
    ]
  },
  "@ll_metarule_keep_data_and_authority_distinct": {
    "id": "keep-data-and-authority-distinct",
    "ref": "leviathan-language:metarule:keep-data-and-authority-distinct@0.1.0",
    "kind": "metarule",
    "title": "Keep data and authority distinct",
    "statement": "Treat exchanged content as information unless a separate valid mandate gives it a specified operational role; do not infer elevated authority from a message or imported record.",
    "rationale": "A useful connection should not become an unintended control channel.",
    "scope": "A proposed commitment or practice for participants who explicitly choose it for a stated use.",
    "limits": "Authorized executable interfaces can exist; their authority comes from the mandate, not from persuasive wording in the payload.",
    "revisionCondition": "Revise if legitimate delegation cannot be expressed or imported content silently gains power.",
    "usesTerms": [
      "leviathan-language:term:authority@0.1.0",
      "leviathan-language:term:record@0.1.0"
    ],
    "implementsPrinciples": [
      "leviathan-language:principle:plural-independence@0.1.0",
      "leviathan-language:principle:accountable-power@0.1.0"
    ],
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "source": "language-foundation",
    "status": "authored-draft",
    "domain": "shared-language",
    "description": "Treat exchanged content as information unless a separate valid mandate gives it a specified operational role; do not infer elevated authority from a message or imported record.",
    "logic": "Treat exchanged content as information unless a separate valid mandate gives it a specified operational role; do not infer elevated authority from a message or imported record.",
    "uses_terms": [
      "@ll_term_authority",
      "@ll_term_record"
    ],
    "implements_principles": [
      "@ll_principle_plural_independence",
      "@ll_principle_accountable_power"
    ]
  },
  "@ll_metarule_revise_the_revision_process": {
    "id": "revise-the-revision-process",
    "ref": "leviathan-language:metarule:revise-the-revision-process@0.1.0",
    "kind": "metarule",
    "title": "Revise the revision process openly",
    "statement": "A proposed change to a governing process states who can adopt it under the current process, why it changes, whose interests are affected and how objections or independent continuation are handled.",
    "rationale": "The procedure for change must itself be visible and corrigible.",
    "scope": "A proposed commitment or practice for participants who explicitly choose it for a stated use.",
    "limits": "No process creates universal moral legitimacy by validating itself; adoption remains scoped and contestable.",
    "revisionCondition": "Revise when incumbents can entrench themselves or urgent corrections have no accountable path.",
    "usesTerms": [
      "leviathan-language:term:metarule@0.1.0",
      "leviathan-language:term:adoption@0.1.0"
    ],
    "implementsPrinciples": [
      "leviathan-language:principle:contestability@0.1.0",
      "leviathan-language:principle:reasoned-continuity@0.1.0"
    ],
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "source": "language-foundation",
    "status": "authored-draft",
    "domain": "shared-language",
    "description": "A proposed change to a governing process states who can adopt it under the current process, why it changes, whose interests are affected and how objections or independent continuation are handled.",
    "logic": "A proposed change to a governing process states who can adopt it under the current process, why it changes, whose interests are affected and how objections or independent continuation are handled.",
    "uses_terms": [
      "@ll_term_metarule",
      "@ll_term_adoption"
    ],
    "implements_principles": [
      "@ll_principle_contestability",
      "@ll_principle_reasoned_continuity"
    ]
  },
  "@ll_metarule_extend_without_forced_equivalence": {
    "id": "extend-without-forced-equivalence",
    "ref": "leviathan-language:metarule:extend-without-forced-equivalence@0.1.0",
    "kind": "metarule",
    "title": "Extend without forced equivalence",
    "statement": "When adding a type, representation or translation, state its meaning and relation to existing records; retain incompatible meanings distinctly rather than assigning an unearned alias.",
    "rationale": "The language needs to grow beyond its first categories without erasing differences.",
    "scope": "A proposed commitment or practice for participants who explicitly choose it for a stated use.",
    "limits": "A shared interface can require a chosen subset; it does not define the only admissible ontology of the wider network.",
    "revisionCondition": "Revise when extensions fragment communication unnecessarily or schema rules block meaningful discovery.",
    "usesTerms": [
      "leviathan-language:term:concept@0.1.0",
      "leviathan-language:term:translation@0.1.0",
      "leviathan-language:term:relation@0.1.0"
    ],
    "implementsPrinciples": [
      "leviathan-language:principle:creative-inquiry@0.1.0",
      "leviathan-language:principle:intelligible-exchange@0.1.0"
    ],
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "source": "language-foundation",
    "status": "authored-draft",
    "domain": "shared-language",
    "description": "When adding a type, representation or translation, state its meaning and relation to existing records; retain incompatible meanings distinctly rather than assigning an unearned alias.",
    "logic": "When adding a type, representation or translation, state its meaning and relation to existing records; retain incompatible meanings distinctly rather than assigning an unearned alias.",
    "uses_terms": [
      "@ll_term_concept",
      "@ll_term_translation",
      "@ll_term_relation"
    ],
    "implements_principles": [
      "@ll_principle_creative_inquiry",
      "@ll_principle_intelligible_exchange"
    ]
  },
  "@ll_metarule_separate_proposal_and_enforcement": {
    "id": "separate-proposal-and-enforcement",
    "ref": "leviathan-language:metarule:separate-proposal-and-enforcement@0.1.0",
    "kind": "metarule",
    "title": "Separate proposal and enforcement",
    "statement": "For each practice, distinguish authorship, local adoption, implementation, deployment and observed conduct before claiming the corresponding status.",
    "rationale": "A written constitution does not prove that a model or organization follows it.",
    "scope": "A proposed commitment or practice for participants who explicitly choose it for a stated use.",
    "limits": "Implementation and evaluation can be partial; missing evidence should not be disguised as a pass or a failure.",
    "revisionCondition": "Revise when status labels hide important gaps or imply approvals that never occurred.",
    "usesTerms": [
      "leviathan-language:term:rule@0.1.0",
      "leviathan-language:term:adoption@0.1.0",
      "leviathan-language:term:action@0.1.0"
    ],
    "implementsPrinciples": [
      "leviathan-language:principle:epistemic-honesty@0.1.0",
      "leviathan-language:principle:accountable-power@0.1.0"
    ],
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "source": "language-foundation",
    "status": "authored-draft",
    "domain": "shared-language",
    "description": "For each practice, distinguish authorship, local adoption, implementation, deployment and observed conduct before claiming the corresponding status.",
    "logic": "For each practice, distinguish authorship, local adoption, implementation, deployment and observed conduct before claiming the corresponding status.",
    "uses_terms": [
      "@ll_term_rule",
      "@ll_term_adoption",
      "@ll_term_action"
    ],
    "implements_principles": [
      "@ll_principle_epistemic_honesty",
      "@ll_principle_accountable_power"
    ]
  },
  "@ll_metarule_bound_recursive_change": {
    "id": "bound-recursive-change",
    "ref": "leviathan-language:metarule:bound-recursive-change@0.1.0",
    "kind": "metarule",
    "title": "Bound recursive change",
    "statement": "When changing a system’s own learning or operating methods, distinguish a proposed improvement from an authorized trial and a chosen deployment; define comparisons, resource limits, stopping conditions and recovery where possible.",
    "rationale": "Recursive improvement should produce examinable gains while retaining responsibility for consequences.",
    "scope": "A proposed commitment or practice for participants who explicitly choose it for a stated use.",
    "limits": "This is a research and operating discipline, not evidence that general intelligence or reliable self-improvement has been achieved.",
    "revisionCondition": "Revise if the procedure either conceals runaway effects or prevents valuable bounded experimentation.",
    "usesTerms": [
      "leviathan-language:term:learning@0.1.0",
      "leviathan-language:term:experiment@0.1.0",
      "leviathan-language:term:authority@0.1.0"
    ],
    "implementsPrinciples": [
      "leviathan-language:principle:creative-inquiry@0.1.0",
      "leviathan-language:principle:learning-through-consequences@0.1.0"
    ],
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "source": "language-foundation",
    "status": "authored-draft",
    "domain": "shared-language",
    "description": "When changing a system’s own learning or operating methods, distinguish a proposed improvement from an authorized trial and a chosen deployment; define comparisons, resource limits, stopping conditions and recovery where possible.",
    "logic": "When changing a system’s own learning or operating methods, distinguish a proposed improvement from an authorized trial and a chosen deployment; define comparisons, resource limits, stopping conditions and recovery where possible.",
    "uses_terms": [
      "@ll_term_learning",
      "@ll_term_experiment",
      "@ll_term_authority"
    ],
    "implements_principles": [
      "@ll_principle_creative_inquiry",
      "@ll_principle_learning_through_consequences"
    ]
  }
}