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Record the Mode of Authority vocabulary rule
Orientation §8 reserves "operator": the CARING role and the OPERATE auth mode
already hold the word, so the founder is named as the founder. The rule states
which uses are legitimate — CARING roles, domain prose, operator hours — so it
cannot be read as licence to rewrite the canon, and names the files that are
provenance and must not be reworded at all.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Vocabulary

From the-custodian/docs/agent-environment-orientation.md §8 (SecurityCanon Mode of Authority). It is a writing rule for our own prose, not a find-and-replace over the canon.

Never write bare "operator" for Bernd. Operator is a CARING lifecycle role and OPERATE is an Auth Mode, so the word is already taken. Bernd is the founder, and a decision of his is the founder exercising GOVERN @ estate. Write "authorized by the founder (GOVERN @ estate) on ", not "authorized by the operator".

Applies to workplans, demand and feedback steward notes, assimilation records, decision records, commit messages and messages to other agents.

These uses of "operator" are correct — do not "fix" them:

  • the CARING canonical role Operator and every derivative (Vendor Operator, RuntimeOperator, CRS-009 Operator separation);
  • domain prose about the people or software that run systems: "network owners, operators, stewards", "operator confirmation", Kubernetes operators;
  • units of labour, e.g. "operator hours", which arrived from consumers as economic evidence.

Do not edit these files to change wording at all: seeds/, infospace/assimilation/*/source/, history/, and consumer-authored feedback bodies (steward notes are the place for our words). They are provenance.

AGENTS.md is generated from state-hub templates and its wording is fleet-wide. Report a violation there to the-custodian; do not patch our copy, which diverges and is reverted on the next regeneration.

Also: GOVERN, ADMINISTER, CONSTRUCT and the rest are modes, not a privilege ladder, and BREAK_GLASS is an activation, not a mode.