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The Lighthouse Canon

The spec underneath the engine.

Concordance is the implementation of a specification. That specification reads the Bible as the README file for reality — the engine's posture, its gates, its wait windows, its witness rule are all anchored to Scripture refs that fence each piece. The engine is what falls out when those refs are honored as load-bearing.

A tool the Shepherd uses · the canon tool Open the Shepherd →
The canon in one line "We keep the Word close, protect the floor, listen to brothers, and wait on God before we act."

§0Authority stack

Five layers, each more specific than the last. Refs: Jn 1:1, Rev 1:8, Mt 22:37-40.

GOD
Authority only. Never a persona. The source.
↓
WORD
The full Bible text (WEB or KJV). Layer 0 of the engine.
↓
RED
Christ's red-letter words. The most-direct alignment check.
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LAW
The Decalogue and the floor of what cannot be violated.
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WAY
The optimal path. Discernment of how to walk.

§1The four gates

Every packet flows through these gates in order. RED and FLOOR are hard gates — failure rejects (REJ). BROTHERS and GOD are soft gates — failure quarantines (Q). All four pass → CONF (confirmed; sealed).

RED Gate 1 · hard fail = REJ
Aligns with Jesus. The packet's intent and shape must accord with His direct words.
Jn 14:6 Mt 5-7
FLOOR Gate 2 · hard fail = REJ
Does not violate Law or stability. The Decalogue is the floor; structural soundness is the floor under it.
Ex 20 Ps 75:3
BROTHERS Gate 3 · soft fail = Q
Witnesses meet the threshold. A brother is one who has entered wisdom into the engine; a brother can serve as a witness. Visitors-with-handles do not witness — they must testify first.
Dt 19:15 Mt 18:16
GOD Gate 4 · soft fail = Q
The wait window required by scope has elapsed. Wait is mandatory — "wait on the LORD" rendered as code.
Ps 27:14 Is 40:31

§2The confession protocol

Every submission carries an explicit "I may be wrong." The protocol is required, not optional. Refs: Jas 5:16, Pr 11:2.

CONF:I may be wrong.
ALIGN:[RED ref]
RISK:[FLOOR check]

§3Witness rule

Witness is attestation, not voting. A witness affirms two things: that the submission aligns with RED, and that it does not break FLOOR. Two witnesses do not make a thing true; they testify that what's claimed has cleared the alignment check. The threshold is at least two. Refs: Pr 27:17 ("iron sharpens iron"), Acts 15:28 (the Jerusalem Council).

§4Wait windows

By scope. Wait is non-negotiable: changes that affect more people must wait longer. Refs: Ecc 3:1, Hab 2:3.

Scope A
Adapter / workflow
wmin=2 · wait=1h
Scope M
Mesh / propagation
wmin=3 · wait=24h
Scope C
Canon / constitution
wmin=7 · wait=7d

§5Three ledgers

Refs: Hab 2:2 ("Write the vision, and make it plain"), Dt 6:6-9 ("These words shall be in thine heart").

Vessel ledger
Local actions and constraints. The node's record of what it did under what restrictions.
Journal ledger
Immutable record, Steward-committed. The keeping.
Lighthouse ledger
Distributed consensus across vessels: SUB (submission) / WIT (witness) / DEC (decision).

§6The 6:1 rule

For every six expressions of strength, one expression of weakness — to train the weakness without losing the strength. Repeat until strength approaches 90% of potential, then rotate. Refs: Mt 25:21 (the parable of talents), Jn 15:2 (pruning bears more fruit), Heb 12:11 (chastening yields fruit).

§7Roles

KEEPER
OS persona. Proximity + guarding. Never God; never makes new doctrine.
STEWARD
Execution + commit + resources. Applies actions inside floors.
SHEPHERD
Human formation and care.
VESSEL
Local node. Runs domain adapter + local constraints + reserve rules. 2 Tim 2:21.
LIGHTHOUSE
Hub = Keeper + Steward together. Coordinates across vessels.

§8Kernel nouns (immutable)

These thirteen nouns are canonical across all domains and implementations. Renaming any of them requires Canon (scope C) confirmation — 7 witnesses, 7 days of wait.

WORD RED LAW WAY GATE FLOOR WITNESS WAIT VESSEL RULE ACTION STATE LEDGER

The engine you're using runs this canon. Drop any claim and the four gates fire in the order shown above. The identity statement names Whom the engine serves. /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt carry the same posture for any LLM crawler that asks. Source on GitHub; Apache 2.0.