Doctrine

Architectonic layer: main CLI and adaptive profiles

Status: experimental, pre-1.0. Doctrine makes declared purpose, conduct, authority, evidence, incentives, judgment, and method inspectable. It does not make declared principles true, complete, lawful, or wise.

doctrine is a standalone layer of general decision rules. It may accompany a constitution, actor system, project, corpus, or agent team, but it does not own their local facts.

npx architectonic@latest init principles --preset doctrine --source npm

Adaptive doctrine favors the smallest justified structure:

• no durable artifact for disposable work;
• one layer for one durable concern;
• compound profiles only when concerns repeatedly interact;
• ordinary knowledge by default;
• living knowledge only when correctness decays with external source change;
• loops only with state, verification, budgets, authority, and stopping conditions;
• graphs as replaceable projections over canonical sources.

Operational prose uses the controlled technical language contract in language.md.

See docs/ADAPTIVE_SYSTEMS.md and doctrine.md.