medicine-wheel-ceremony-protocol

Ceremony lifecycle protocol for Medicine Wheel — manages ceremony state, phase transitions, governance enforcement, and ceremonial review workflows.

Overview

This package provides a protocol for managing the lifecycle of ceremonies within the Medicine Wheel framework. It handles:

• Ceremony State Management — Track current cycle, host sun, and ceremony phase
• Phase Transitions — Manage progression through opening, council, integration, and closure phases
• Governance Enforcement — Enforce OCAP (Ownership, Control, Access, Possession) principles through path-based governance rules
• Ceremonial Review Workflows — Identify changes that require ceremonial review based on governance configuration

Installation

npm install medicine-wheel-ceremony-protocol

Usage

Ceremony State

import { loadCeremonyState, getPhaseFraming } from 'medicine-wheel-ceremony-protocol';
import type { RSISConfig } from 'medicine-wheel-ontology-core';

const config: RSISConfig = { /* ... */ };
const state = loadCeremonyState(config);
const framing = getPhaseFraming(state?.phase);

Phase Transitions

import { nextPhase, PHASE_ORDER } from 'medicine-wheel-ceremony-protocol';

const currentPhase = 'opening';
const next = nextPhase(currentPhase); // 'council'

Governance Enforcement

import {
  checkGovernance,
  isIndexExcluded,
  checkCeremonyRequired,
  getAccessLevel,
  formatGovernanceWarning,
} from 'medicine-wheel-ceremony-protocol';

const config: GovernanceConfig = { /* ... */ };

// Check if a path is protected
const rule = checkGovernance('/sacred/path', config);

// Check if excluded from indexing
const excluded = isIndexExcluded('/node_modules', config);

// Check if ceremonial review is required
const requiresCeremony = checkCeremonyRequired('/src/core.ts', config);

// Get access level for a path
const access = getAccessLevel('/protected/file.ts', config);

// Format a warning message
if (rule) {
  console.log(formatGovernanceWarning(rule));
}

Ceremony Phases

The protocol recognizes four ceremony phases:

1. Opening — What wants to emerge? Focus on intention and vision.
2. Council — Cross-Sun perspectives on code relationships.
3. Integration — Weaving insights into synthesis artifacts.
4. Closure — Reciprocity summaries and seeding observations.

Governance Access Levels

• open — No restrictions
• ceremony_required — Changes require ceremonial review
• restricted — Restricted to specific authorities
• sacred — Sacred space requiring special protocols

Dependencies

• medicine-wheel-ontology-core — Core ontology types and interfaces

License

MIT

Contributing

This package is part of the Medicine Wheel project. See the main repository for contribution guidelines.