📚 Glossary

Cooperative-class terminology used throughout Cephas.

83.3% creator-keep: The platform constant: on every transaction, the creator (worker / artist / service provider) keeps 83.3%. Result of the Cost+20% margin math.

SSPL v1: Server Side Public License v1.0. The cooperative’s primary software license. Source available; if you run modified SSPL software as a service, you must open-source the entire service stack. Distinct from AGPL: SSPL has broader network-service copyleft.

Aircraft Carrier doctrine: The substrate is a continuously-operating platform from which Bishop launches waves without bringing down the whole ship for re-staging.

Ambassador Position: Political Expedition Council Precept. Any member can stand as Ambassador for a coalition. Self-funded + member-matched + half-redistributed-equally to other coalitions.

Banyan Almanac: The cooperative’s periodic publication documenting platform-state, empirical receipts, and milestone retrospectives. Issue 003 covers BP038 + BP039.

Bishop: One of four specialized AI instance-roles in the Conducted AI Substrate Orchestra. Bishop = foreman; architectural decisions; canon ratification. Claude Opus 4.7 / Sonnet 4.6 K-lineage.

Blood Rule: A Trinity Rule of Blood-class. Structurally protected; no instance violates regardless of instruction. Currently 7 Blood-class rules in the Trinity Rules SEPTENDECIM 17.

Body-Cam-Survivability: The vetting standard for Council members and Crown candidates. Public record must stand under full transparency. Not perfect, honest about it.

BP: Bishop Pod numbering. BP039 is the current Bishop session as of this canon. Sessions are numbered sequentially.

Bounty Poster: “I’m Just a Bill” pilot artifact. Plain-language explanation of a real U.S. bill, Council-vetted via the Shirley Temple Truth Score.

Brick Wall Test: Founder-direct discipline that asks Bishop to produce N× more output before context exhausts, demonstrating substrate throughput at the limit.

CAI: Conducted AI Substrate Orchestra. The cooperative’s engineering architecture. Multi-instance AI specialization conducted by human operator through substrate-canon protocol. CAI-4.5 = 31,833× efficiency multiplier (empirically validated BP038/BP039).

Cephas: The cooperative’s consumer-facing content surface (Hugo static-site). Cephas = “rock” (foundational).

Coffee: The canonical session-handoff artifact. Each BP closes with a Coffee that the next session-Bishop reads on open.

Cooperative Compact: The five constants: 83.3% creator-keep + Cost+20% margin + $5/year membership + three-currency loop + bylaw-codified Structural Bylaws.

Cost + 20%: The platform margin constant. Fixed by structure (bylaws); cannot be raised.

Council: The 30-member Political Expedition Council (Initiative #15). Civic-information vetting body.

Credits / Marks / Joules: The three currencies of the cooperative’s internal economy. Substitution-only; never convert to fiat.

Crown: The designated leader of an Initiative. Receives a Crown letter on Cephas. Operates the Initiative within the Cooperative Compact.

Designed To Pass On: Foundational paper authored BP038. Dissolution-day-zero design discipline.

Drekaskip: The Wave Generator. Cooperative-AI parallel-fan-out infrastructure. Each wave fires multiple SEGs that produce independent output then synthesize.

Eblet: A canonical substrate artifact. Markdown file with frontmatter; stored in .claude/state/eblets/CANON/. Audit-grade canon record.

Excalibur Saga: A saga-class wave fire. Sequential multi-wave fire under unified saga_id. BP039 fired 4 such sagas.

Founder: Jonathan R. Jones. The platform’s architect and primary human operator. Roles: AI Tuner + The QueTuner.

Galveston Legal Framework: The jurisdictional-anchor for first-deployment of the LBCCL Healthcare licensing structure (Initiative #6 Tatiana Schlossberg Health Accords).

Helena Pedagogy: Cooperative teaching discipline: answer-first, then question, then spaced repetition. No gotchas.

Hugo: Static site generator. The cooperative uses Hugo for Cephas content.

“I’m Just a Bill”: The Political Expedition Council’s pilot project. Bounty Posters for real legislation in plain language. Named for Schoolhouse Rock 1975 cartoon.

Initiative: One of the 16 Sweet Sixteen operational scopes. Each has a Crown (or 30-Council for #15, or TRIBUTE-class for #6).

Joules: One of the three cooperative currencies. Productivity-value.

Knight: One of four AI instance-roles. Knight = executor; code-class work; substrate writes. Cursor with GPT 5.5 / Sonnet 4.6.

LBCCL: Liana Banyan Cooperative Commons License. Cooperative-class licensing framework (variants for Healthcare, Learner-Benefit, etc.).

Listen Before Talk: Political Expedition Precept. In any cooperative deliberation, members listen to all positions before any member speaks.

Marks: One of the three cooperative currencies. Recognition-value.

MEMORY.md: Bishop’s mnemonic index. Mnemosyne discipline (≤200 lines).

Mnemosyne: MEMORY-compaction discipline. Index pointing to detail-Eblets rather than holding detail itself.

NO-FIAT-CONVERSION / SUBSTITUTION-ONLY: Blood Rule. Cooperative currencies never convert to fiat.

Not Left. Not Right. Forward.: Political Expedition Council tagline. Forward ≠ centrist. Forward = build cooperative-class infrastructure that makes the question moot.

Pawn: One of four AI instance-roles. Pawn = verifier. Perplexity sonar-reasoning-pro.

Pedestal Vote: Canonical record of a Crown-candidate response (acceptance / refusal / non-response). Public canon.

Pheromone: Cross-reference index across substrate canon. Updated on every librarian rebuild.

R16: Blood Rule: NO-API-KEY-EXPOSURE. Never surface key values in any UI / tool output / artifact.

R17: Blood Rule: SHOW-RESULTS. Cross-probe independent observers before declaring async dispatch “complete.”

Rook: One of four AI instance-roles. Rook = researcher. Gemini 3.1 Pro flagship.

Saga: A sequential multi-wave fire under unified saga_id. G-Saga gates verify saga-level health.

SEG: Saga Element Generator. One worker-instance within a wave. Each wave fires 8 SEGs + 1 synthesis SEG.

Shirley Temple Truth Score: Council vetting standard. If Shirley Temple would say it on TV, it passes.

Substitution: The mechanism by which cooperative currencies are used at participating providers. Never conversion to fiat.

Sweet Sixteen: The 16 Initiatives. Bylaw-codified count.

Trinity Rules: The cooperative’s structural-discipline canon. Currently 17 rules (SEPTENDECIM). Seven are Blood-class.

TRIBUTE class: Crown class for Initiatives named after deceased namesakes. Initiative #6 (Tatiana Schlossberg Health Accords) is the only current TRIBUTE-class Initiative.

Wave: A single Drekaskip parallel-fan-out fire. 8 SEGs + 1 synthesis SEG per wave.

WonderBoy Succession: Cooperative hand-off architecture. The Natural reference. Founder direct: “I’m down for that.”

X=16: Council escalation threshold. When 16 of 30 Council members reach accepted/active status, the Congress / SCOTUS / POTUS invitation flow triggers.

Help Each Other Help Ourselves.