# Human Stewardship Guidelines — Volume I

**Volume I: Foundations of Human Stewardship.**
**Ratified:** 2026-07-13.
**Applies to:** every product, capability, surface, developer
resource, AI system, and experience within the PosterityOS
ecosystem.

Volume I states the ten axioms every later HSG volume references.
It is universal. Implementations may express these principles
differently across products; implementations may not redefine them.

## The ten principles

I. **People Are Not Resources** — participants in understanding, not
inputs to a machine.

II. **Attention Is a Trust** — attention is given, not taken.

III. **Preparation Is Respect** — never transfer avoidable
preparation costs onto another person.

IV. **Context Is Care** — information without context creates
burden; context transforms information into understanding.

V. **Preserve Intent** — the meaning behind the artifact is the
work.

VI. **Humans Deserve Dignity** — no shame, no ranking, no public
comparison.

VII. **Quiet Contribution Matters** — the person in the corner and
the person at the whiteboard arrive with equal weight.

VIII. **AI Serves Stewardship** — AI supports the steward; AI does
not become the steward.

IX. **Systems Should Create Capability** — leave every person more
capable than they arrived.

X. **Design for Posterity** — serve people not present yet.

Full text with prohibited behaviors, required behaviors, and
validation criteria: `docs/doctrine/human-stewardship-principles.md`.
Canonical machine-readable source:
`src/platform/stewardship/hsg-volume-1.ts`.

## Constitutional status

- Registry status advances from `foundation` to `active` upon
  Volume I ratification (`ratifyVolume1`).
- Volume I doctrine `hsg-d-vol-1-foundations` declares all six
  constitutional guarantees (universal applicability, dignity,
  attention, AI boundaries, non-manipulation, continuity,
  Constitution compatibility).
- Every principle is frozen: `statement` and `purpose` are immutable
  once ratified. Refinements land as history entries only.