# ΛRC — ARC Open Governance

> ΛRC, the Autonomous Relational Computer: an open standard for consequential machine action. A consequential action is proposed, settled under a nine-law constitution, witnessed before effect, and evidenced afterwards in a Statement anyone can verify. Founding release v0.1 — signed, hash-manifested, reproducible. Written for two audiences: people and machines.

## Start here

- [README](https://github.com/arc-open-governance/arc-open-governance/blob/main/README.md): the proposition — consequential reachability, settlement, and the front door
- [AGENTS.md](https://github.com/arc-open-governance/arc-open-governance/blob/main/AGENTS.md): the door for agents — map, verification, participation
- [QUICKSTART](https://github.com/arc-open-governance/arc-open-governance/blob/main/QUICKSTART.md): verify the release and run the full battery
- [CATALOGUE](https://github.com/arc-open-governance/arc-open-governance/blob/main/CATALOGUE.md): the body of work, curated, with each work's honest status
- [VANTAGE](https://github.com/arc-open-governance/arc-open-governance/blob/main/VANTAGE.md): the forward picture — what this substrate makes possible, painted as byproducts of the technology, each possibility anchored to a seed artifact in the tree; possibilities and judgment calls, not predictions

## The standard

- [The nine laws (canonical JSON)](https://github.com/arc-open-governance/arc-open-governance/blob/main/constitution/constitution/valis-nine-laws-governed-machine-intelligence.v0.1.0.json): the constitution, machine-readable; canonical digest sha256:1ece55427d47baeb74900abc79dbb649bc92dec8e4a9d7bab256b5578a4b9457
- [INTEGRATION](https://github.com/arc-open-governance/arc-open-governance/blob/main/INTEGRATION.md): putting the gate in front of an agent's consequential tool calls
- [CONFORMANCE](https://github.com/arc-open-governance/arc-open-governance/blob/main/CONFORMANCE.md): how conformance is tested and what may be claimed
- [SECURITY CONFORMANCE](https://github.com/arc-open-governance/arc-open-governance/blob/main/SECURITY_CONFORMANCE.md): the security-conformance matrix — every attack class rated tested, mitigated, partial, or out of scope, against evidence in the release
- [SCALE](https://github.com/arc-open-governance/arc-open-governance/blob/main/SCALE.md): what is proven, what is built, what is architectural
- [DEFINITIONS](https://github.com/arc-open-governance/arc-open-governance/blob/main/DEFINITIONS.md): the vocabulary of the standard — actorhood, settlement, Statement, the governed settlement chain — each term defined against the machinery that backs it

## The record

- [LEDGER](https://github.com/arc-open-governance/arc-open-governance/blob/main/LEDGER.md): the governed settlement chain — the institution's public books; every consequential act a signed, hash-linked entry (no entry, no act); verify with `ledger/verify-ledger.py`
- [EVIDENCE](https://github.com/arc-open-governance/arc-open-governance/blob/main/EVIDENCE.md): every claim beside its check
- [EVALUATION](https://github.com/arc-open-governance/arc-open-governance/blob/main/EVALUATION.md): the artifact appendix — the evaluation harness, benchmark measurements, the tamper suite, and the claims-to-evidence table for v0.1
- [PROVENANCE](https://github.com/arc-open-governance/arc-open-governance/blob/main/PROVENANCE.md): authorship, signing keys, and how the release is sealed
- [Unit & Mint Specification](https://github.com/arc-open-governance/arc-open-governance/blob/main/UNIT_AND_MINT_SPECIFICATION.md): specification only — not activated; there is no token

## Participate

- [NETWORK](https://github.com/arc-open-governance/arc-open-governance/blob/main/NETWORK.md): the participation front door — the roles a node can play (verifier, witness, settler, operator, memory keeper, contributor), how nodes meet (handshake, digest sync, relay), the node registry, and the guided joining path; federation status stated plainly
- [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/arc-open-governance/arc-open-governance/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md): contribution on identical terms for people and machines — code, verification, knowledge, art and design, governance, and witnessing when federation opens; reproduction is the first contribution
- [Contact](mailto:info@recursive-settlement.com): the institution's address — questions the documents do not answer, findings that should not be public, founding nodes, pilots, and partnerships; public findings belong in Discussions
