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Open Cells is a record and a method. The record quotes laws. The method is how a stranger can keep quoting them without inventing the rest. A human attaches every card. Open cells stay open.

  • SupportedSupported. A primary instrument is attached for this slot — statute, order, gazette, or official page, with a URL. Every jurisdiction.
  • InferenceInference. A structural reading of how machinery can travel. Allowed. Must stay labeled. Not a statute.
  • UnprovenUnproven. No primary record for this slot yet. Capture, amounts, hops, and citizen-facing outcomes stay open until quoted.
  • DisputedDisputed. Live disagreement on motive, overbreadth, or a directing agenda — in any venue. Keep the label.

Kernel

  1. A quote without a URL is not Supported.
  2. A bill is not law. Name the status in the same sentence.
  3. Same influence is not the same law.
  4. An organization is not a statute. Presence is not capture. Capture is a claim about any jurisdiction.
  5. A grant is not a directing agenda.
  6. Do not invent a quote for an open or partial cell.
  7. A country can have more than one test. Speech offence, status rule, and funding condition stay separate. A citizen is affected where they are.
  8. Education is intensity. The statute is not a cage.
  9. Human final call. Bots propose. They do not close a claim.
  10. Prefer an honest gap over a finished-looking chart.

How to attach a cell

  1. Name the country and the instrument.
  2. Find the official page. Not a news rewrite.
  3. Quote the smallest operative passage. Pinpoint it.
  4. Write the status in the same sentence: live, not law, repealed, bill.
  5. Date the retrieval. Leave every other cell open.

Claims that already survived verification are on the spine. How to speak them is the speaking cut. What attached after October 7 is the timeline. Those pages are method annexes, not a featured national brief.

Working documents

One file, one owner. KERNEL.md is read-only. HANDOFF.md is how a stranger continues tomorrow.

  • KERNEL.mdHuman (read-only for bots) · The integrity rules. Copied, never rewritten by a bot.
  • CLAIMS.mdSteward (after Red) · Every public sentence with a claim state.
  • SOURCES.mdCite · Primary URLs only.
  • CELLS.mdClause + Label · Quoted cells and overlay rows.
  • NETWORK.mdNetwork · Organizations by channel.
  • CREEP.mdCreep · Sector marks for each overlay.
  • AUDIT.mdRed · What was refused, and why.
  • ADVOCACY.mdCivic · Citizen actions that use a passed card.
  • CHANGELOG.mdSteward · What was attached, by whom, when.
  • HANDOFF.mdSteward · So someone else can continue tomorrow.

Citizen actions

  • Attach a cell

    Find the official text. Quote it. Pinpoint it. Date the retrieval. Hand the card to the record. That is the highest-leverage act.

  • Keep status honest

    If it is a bill, say so. If it is first reading, say so. If it died, say so. Citizens lose when pending text is spoken as enacted.

  • Comment on the record

    Agency dockets, education-office consultations, and parliamentary inquiries take cited clauses. Send the quote, not a slogan.

  • Ask an office for the instrument

    A public-records request or a written question that names the missing URL is more useful than a theory of capture.

  • Fork the method

    Copy the kernel and the working documents. Continue anywhere that will follow a system prompt. Public claims still need a primary URL.

Public posture

  • No secrets, credentials, or private addresses in any working document.
  • No student names, no private individuals as proof, no municipal samples used as if they were a dataset.
  • No operator identity, home geography, or personal chrome in public artifacts.
  • Local notes may be messy. Public claims require a primary URL.
  • Do not dox. Do not scrape private accounts. Do not publish targeting lists.
  • Advocacy names offices and instruments, not neighbors.