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.