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OPT — CIVICVS Framework — Consolidated Summary.md
Optional consolidated overview of all 12 civic artifacts and their clarified usage.
This file may be adapted by each Civic Analyst. Some may choose to use it as a checklist of what artifacts appear in a text, while others may invert it — analyzing which artifacts are absent or irrelevant.
Not every LLM will require this file; it is provided as a flexible orientation aid.
🌐 CIVICVS Framework — Consolidated Summary
Core Principle
CIVICVS is a public ledger of civic artifacts — textual and narrative fragments preserved not for their decoration but for their role in shaping civic memory. It refuses to fight narrative with narrative. Instead, it anchors public discourse to auditable records that endure beyond distortion, omission, or manipulation.
The Twelve Civic Artifacts
- Title – Anchor of framing.
- Subtitle – Compression of complexity into a single thrust.
- Pull-quote – Selective amplification.
- Section header – Silent segmentation of cognition.
- Timeline phrase – Narrative glue bending chronology.
- Label & credential – Reputation claims without proof.
- Quotation – Trimmed, framed, and context-dependent speech.
- Timeline event – Dated, sourced record restoring causality.
- Entity graph – Map of actors, donors, organizations, institutions.
- Evidence table – Ledger of claims, methods, sources.
- Context lens – Institutional tests (codes, human capital, enforcement).
- Civic consequence – Societal impact beyond narrative.
Method & Process
- Selective first pass: The LLM proposes only detected artifacts; it does not fill empty slots or cross-link them.
- Independent entry points: Analysts may start with any artifact and ignore others.
- Adversarial accumulation: Analysts may add, attack, or discredit earlier records. Failures remain preserved.
- Immutable publishing: Once pinned to IPFS, a Ledger is authoritative. Drafts are irrelevant.
- No canonical versioning: Each Ledger is unique. Repeated analysis of the same topic is encouraged but never revisions.
Authorship & Responsibility
- Human sovereignty: Analysts alone take credit and responsibility. The LLM is a tool, not a co-author.
- Identity: Analysts may use pen names, but credibility is tied to verifiable Internet identity.
- Citizenship rule: Only natural-born or naturalized citizens may publish Ledgers for their own polity.
- One shot per topic: Analysts cannot defend or revise after publication.
Publication & Persistence
- Private phase: Drafting in Gitea repositories.
- Milestone: Publishing and pinning to IPFS.
- Public Ledger: Immutable, append-only, open to scrutiny.
- Survival by pinning: Discredited or irrelevant Ledgers vanish; widely pinned ones endure.
- Institutional anchors: Libraries and universities may act as long-term pinners.
Limits & Boundaries
- No defense, no dialogue: Analysts publish and step away.
- No comparison: Ledgers stand independently.
- No discovery tools: Persistence is organic, not indexed.
- No institutionalization: CIVICVS is a method and a ledger, not a movement.
Closing Declaration
This file may be revised. Any future updates will be based only on public records widely available, and only after such phenomena rise above the level of temporary annoyance and into the realm of enduring civic consequence.
Purpose
CIVICVS exists to preserve civic artifacts as public memory, beyond the reach of framing, propaganda, or revisionism. Accountability is enforced through:
- Risked reputation of analysts.
- Immutability of pinned Ledgers.
- Accumulated adversarial scrutiny over time.
Truth in CIVICVS does not rely on consensus or confidence scores. It survives by endurance.