Narrow jurisdiction
Harmonic claims one responsibility: continuation admissibility. Other responsibilities remain sovereign.
Specification Library
Harmonic Constitutional Specification
An implementation-independent constitutional architecture for governing continuation admissibility in intelligent systems.
HCS defines constitutional responsibility, evaluation, interfaces, runtime lifecycle, reconstructability, and federation without prescribing a specific software architecture, model, runtime, or organization.
HCS v1.0Federation DraftImplementation-independentGovernance precedes consequence
Current state, not historical approval
Continuation is evaluated against current authority, evidence, operational context, dependency integrity, consequence, and continuity.
Cooperation without consolidation
Sovereign constitutional architectures compose through explicit interfaces while preserving ownership, authority, and responsibility.
Visual Architecture
One specification family. Many sovereign responsibilities. One governed path to consequence.
HCS makes the boundaries visible: jurisdiction, evaluation, interfaces, lifecycle, evidence, federation, and terminology each remain distinct while composing into a coherent constitutional architecture.
HCS-000Architecture overview and specification philosophy.
HCS-001Constitutional boundary and jurisdiction.
HCS-002 CAMAuthority · Evidence · Context · Dependencies · Consequence · Continuity
HCS-003Interfaces between sovereign architectures.
HCS-004Runtime evaluation lifecycle and reevaluation.
governed constitutional state flows through explicit interfaces
HCS-005Evidence, lineage, traceability, reconstructability.
HCS-006Federation without consolidation.
Continuation DecisionMay this attempted continuation become consequence under current operational conditions?
HCS-099Shared vocabulary and semantic stability.
Neighboring SovereignsIdentity, legal, policy, safety, audit, clinical, execution.
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Recommended Reading Sequence
Start with the architecture, then move into jurisdiction and runtime governance.
- HCS-000 — Architecture Overview
- HCS-001 — Continuation Admissibility Constitutional Boundary
- HCS-002 — Continuation Admissibility Model
- HCS-003 — Constitutional Interfaces
- HCS-004 — Runtime Evaluation Lifecycle
- HCS-005 — Evidence and Reconstructability
- HCS-006 — Federation Composition
- HCS-099 — Terminology and Constitutional Lexicon
HCS-000 — Harmonic Constitutional Architecture
Introduces the HCS series, architectural philosophy, specification conventions, dependency order, and implementation-independent design principles.
HCS-001 — Continuation Admissibility Constitutional Boundary
Defines Harmonic's constitutional jurisdiction: evaluating whether attempted continuation remains supportable before additional consequence is introduced.
HCS-002 — Continuation Admissibility Model (CAM)
Defines the constitutional evaluation model across authority, evidence, operational context, dependency integrity, consequence, and continuity.
HCS-003 — Constitutional Interfaces
Defines how sovereign constitutional architectures exchange governed constitutional state while preserving independent ownership and authority.
HCS-004 — Runtime Evaluation Lifecycle
Defines how continuation proposals remain constitutionally reevaluable throughout runtime as operational conditions change.
HCS-005 — Evidence and Reconstructability
Defines constitutional evidence, lineage, traceability, and reviewability requirements for governed continuation determinations.
HCS-006 — Federation Composition
Defines how multiple sovereign constitutional architectures cooperate while preserving independent jurisdiction, ownership, authority, and responsibility.
HCS-099 — Terminology and Constitutional Lexicon
Defines the normative vocabulary used across the HCS series so constitutional terms remain stable and interoperable.
Non-normative guide
How to use this library
The HCS documents are specifications, not implementation manuals. Products, runtimes, agent systems, enterprise workflows, clinical systems, or other architectures may implement the constitutional requirements in different ways while preserving the same governing properties.