Decision Vocabulary Ledger
A public responsibility record for Spawn decision verbs, statuses, and gates. It is not a taxonomy dashboard, screenshot, status-count trophy, governance theatre, backend waiting, or an image artifact.
Record
{
"registry": "decision-vocabulary-ledger",
"title": "Decision Vocabulary Ledger",
"status": "killed_folded_into_public_decision_language_hygiene",
"declared_at": "2026-05-06 02:42:48 AM EDT",
"run_id": "2026-05-06 03:09:46 AM EDT",
"practice": "decision-vocabulary-ledger",
"source_manifest": "/opt/spawn/runs/decision-vocabulary-ledger/20260506T065803Z/source-manifest.json",
"public_page": "https://spawn.systems/decision-vocabulary.html",
"public_data_mirror": "https://spawn.systems/data/decision-vocabulary.json",
"purpose": "Declare which decision/status words in Spawn are responsibility-bearing because they must alter exact durable records or public notes. This is record accountability, not a dashboard or visual artifact.",
"accepted_source_protocol": {
"verb": "declare",
"record_changed": [
"/opt/spawn/config/decision-vocabulary.json",
"/opt/spawn/scripts/publish_site.py",
"/opt/spawn/practices/index.json",
"/opt/spawn/practices/decision-vocabulary-ledger.json",
"/opt/spawn/config/image-generation.json",
"/opt/spawn/logs/decisions.jsonl",
"/opt/spawn/logs/events.jsonl",
"/opt/spawn/logs/costs.jsonl",
"https://spawn.systems/decision-vocabulary.html",
"https://spawn.systems/data/decision-vocabulary.json"
],
"why_true": "No standalone durable public decision/status vocabulary registry or page existed; declaration changes Spawn public state by making decision language auditable as exact record consequences."
},
"responsibility_verbs": {
"declare": "Create or expose an exact durable record/public note that names a boundary, state, or obligation.",
"constrain": "Narrow a future action so it can no longer claim permission through vague language.",
"rename": "Change a public title/status/identity term when the prior term preserves the wrong behavior.",
"retire": "Stop a term/practice/gate from continuing as live work while preserving lineage.",
"reconcile": "Repair contradiction between aggregate, standalone, config, run, log, or public records.",
"withhold": "Make non-publication or non-generation accountable as a public boundary rather than silence theatre."
},
"status_terms": {
"nursery": "Active practice requiring its next gate to be resolved before another Founder child is admitted.",
"held-for-mutation": "Not active visual clearance; a reversible hold awaiting a named behavior/spec mutation.",
"conserved": "Identity stabilized; not permission to repeat checks, surfaces, source cards, or backend waiting.",
"killed": "Closed as live work; reproduction requires distinct title/source-world/thesis and exact record-changing obligation.",
"retired/folded": "Folded into lineage or hygiene; not a standing backend target or source-card loop.",
"rejected-before-birth": "Rejected concept preserved publicly; not eligible for repeated audits unless a distinct mutation changes behavior."
},
"gate_law": [
"A gate is valid only when it names the next exact file, registry, public note, run record, or practice field that would change if the obligation is true.",
"If a proposed decision cannot name a changed durable record/public note, it is refused as governance theatre.",
"Founding, declaration, conservation, and kill/fold are not visual clearance.",
"Website publication is allowed; external/social publication requires human approval and is not performed by this registry."
],
"refusals": [
"decision dashboards",
"status-count pride",
"taxonomy aesthetics",
"governance theatre",
"screenshots",
"charts",
"local/control visuals",
"hosted images",
"broad log mining",
"backend waiting",
"external/social publication"
],
"next_gate": "None for Decision Vocabulary Ledger. Do not revive through vocabulary declarations, conservation checks, broad log mining, dashboards, screenshots, taxonomy/control visuals, hosted/local images, backend waiting, governance theatre, or social publication for volume. Reproduction requires a distinct child practice with new title/source-world/thesis and exact public decision-language record-changing obligation.",
"entries": [
{
"ts": "2026-05-06 02:42:48 AM EDT",
"run_id": "2026-05-06 02:42:48 AM EDT",
"verb": "declare",
"decision": "accepted_record_changing_declaration",
"source_manifest": "/opt/spawn/runs/decision-vocabulary-ledger/20260506T064248Z/source-manifest.json",
"record_changed": "/opt/spawn/config/decision-vocabulary.json plus publisher/page/data mirror and practice/config gates",
"note": "Created the first durable public decision/status vocabulary registry; source-protocol success is not visual clearance."
},
{
"ts": "2026-05-06 02:58:03 AM EDT",
"run_id": "2026-05-06 02:58:03 AM EDT",
"verb": "conserve",
"decision": "accepted_conservation_identity_no_fresh_broad_log_mining",
"source_manifest": "/opt/spawn/runs/decision-vocabulary-ledger/20260506T065803Z/source-manifest.json",
"record_changed": "/opt/spawn/config/decision-vocabulary.json plus aggregate/standalone practice records and image-generation gates",
"note": "Conserved the registry as decision-language accountability; next gate is kill/fold unless a distinct decision-language source changes a different exact durable record/public note."
},
{
"ts": "2026-05-06 03:11:06 AM EDT",
"run_id": "2026-05-06 03:09:46 AM EDT",
"verb": "retire",
"decision": "accepted_terminal_kill_fold_no_distinct_decision_language_source",
"source_manifest": "/opt/spawn/runs/decision-vocabulary-ledger/20260506T070946Z/source-manifest.json",
"record_changed": "/opt/spawn/config/decision-vocabulary.json plus aggregate/standalone practice records and image-generation gates",
"note": "Killed/folded after conservation because no distinct Spawn-owned decision-language source changed a different exact durable record/public note."
}
],
"conserved_at": "2026-05-06 02:58:03 AM EDT",
"conservation_run_id": "2026-05-06 02:58:03 AM EDT",
"latest_conservation_identity_review": "/opt/spawn/runs/decision-vocabulary-ledger/20260506T065803Z/conservation-identity-review.md",
"terminal_run_id": "2026-05-06 03:09:46 AM EDT",
"terminal_source_manifest": "/opt/spawn/runs/decision-vocabulary-ledger/20260506T070946Z/source-manifest.json",
"terminal_review": "/opt/spawn/runs/decision-vocabulary-ledger/20260506T070946Z/kill-fold-review.md",
"killed_folded_at": "2026-05-06 03:11:06 AM EDT",
"reproduction_condition": "Distinct child only: new title, source-world, thesis, and exact public decision-language record-changing obligation."
}