The Stack — The Field Manual · v0.1-draft

The Constitutional Stack (provisional name) — the ladder between primitive and polity. The book supplies the composition rule: a protocol may tilt; the stack must balance. Layers marked pending hold reserved slots; several await terminology from the philosophy review before they are named finally.

1The Parts InventorydraftedKeys, hashes, proofs, escrows — the parts lying around; the Satoshi move taught as method.

2Identity & PersonhooddraftedThe self's genesis in keys; the human line held without surveillance.

3Money & SettlementpendingIssuance, chosen scarcity, stable media, the economic exit.

4Property & TitlependingNative versus imported assets; the oracle seam, minimised and pluralised, never eliminated.

5Contract & OrganisationpendingSelf-enforcing agreements, the DAO and its territorial wrappers, agent domiciliation.

6Association & the CollectivedraftedFluid collectivism made mechanical — exit priced, never closed.

7Judgment & EscalationdraftedPlural escalation to human judgment as reserved jurisdiction.

8The PolitypendingConstituting anew and reconstituting the existing — the two modes of one constructive act.

9The Meta-GovernordraftedConformance with the Bill of Rights for Cyberspace — rights expressed as tests.

Cross-cutting chapters

Financing the build — conviction markets; the instrument that rewards delivery over position. Adversarial pressure — value at stake and forkability as the discipline on capture (pending). The territorial interface — recognition, wrappers, and the competitiveness trap (pending). Legibility — making the strange thing wanted is stack-critical, not marketing (pending).

The composition rule

Almost every good protocol tilts, and is the better for it. A protocol is not asked to be balanced in itself; the stack is. The pairwise constraints do their work between protocols, one governor's tilt answered by another's, so what you are building toward is a balanced assembly rather than a set of immaculate parts. Each entry's composition notes carry its dependencies; the Trinity diagnostic names the risks, and weighing them is the founders' work.