# Editorial notes — what changed between source and product

The source is a confidential, single-source-of-truth compendium.
This is a public, sellable distillation. The transformation was three
moves: cut, keep, add. All three are listed here so the owner can
approve them consciously.

## Cut (confidential or off-message — none of this appears)
- Broker identities and named individual contacts
- All valuation figures and price expectations for held assets
- Patent application numbers and filing mechanics
- Inheritance-trigger mechanics (existence acknowledged; mechanism not)
- Named targets of security testing (generalized to category level)
- Internal endpoints, IPs, and deployment locations
- Personal and family details beyond the public founder identity
- The 29 full manuals themselves — cited as exhibits, never reproduced

## Kept — FOUNDER SHOULD CONSCIOUSLY APPROVE
Volume I and VI are built on the source's own radical honesty, so some
unflattering numbers are load-bearing and were kept: zero-paid order
counts, NPC-only activity figures, mothballed states, corrected
marketing claims. They are the product's proof. If any specific number
feels wrong to publish, remove the exhibit's figures in its markdown
and rebuild — the argument survives at reduced strength.

## Added (new material, not in the source)
- The six unified messages and all thesis essays
- PRACTICE sections — each volume ends in transferable instructions
- The shelf, the volume format, and the visual edition design
- The deterministic build system, house-style markdown, and seals
- This ledger

## Standing rule applied
Claims carried over keep their original truth tags. Nothing was
promoted. Where the source hedged, this edition hedges.

## Toolkit revision (added at owner's direction)
- The two-stage prompt system is now part of the product: Stage One
  (Owner's Manual Patch) and Stage Two (Truth Audit Patch), edited for
  tightness while preserving the original 18-section structure, the
  eight truth labels, the phased execution model, and the secrets
  policy — so manuals produced by earlier versions remain conformant.
- Changes of substance in the rewrite, for the owner's review:
  the branding block is now a fill-in template (buyers must not ship
  the author's identity) with an optional method-credit line; the
  standing rules from Volume I (demote-only movement, numbers from the
  source of truth, zero-with-denominator) are stated explicitly; the
  appendix convention (A–D) observed in the real manuals is now
  required; Stage Two must publish its Corrections / Additions /
  Demotions / Needs-confirmation log at the top of the revised manual.
- certify.py added: numbered Certificates of Ownership sealed to the
  edition's library seal, with a plain-text register. Framed as
  verifiable provenance, explicitly not copy protection.

## Determinism revision (owner's decision)
- The source library names a misdirection moat: readers of the public
  documents will assume AI sits at the core of the substrate, and it
  does not. That moat is now deliberately spent. Rationale, recorded so
  the decision stays reviewable: it was largely spent already (a
  source-available single-file artifact, public primitives surfaces,
  the founder's own public positioning), it evaporates on first read by
  anyone who matters, and it earns nothing while it holds. Determinism
  as a demonstrated property is the stronger asset, especially to the
  compliance audience the governance namespace targets.
- Volume II gains Exhibit F — The Floor Doesn't Guess. The claim is
  stated precisely rather than loosely: not "no AI," but a kernel that
  does not depend on providers, with model-dependent layers degrading
  to deterministic stubs when no keys are configured.
- The exhibit demotes the portfolio's own determinism claim to
  [OBSERVED] pending a repeat-run diff test in CI. This is deliberate:
  the headline claim gets the strictest standard. When that test ships,
  edit the exhibit and rebuild.
- verify.py added, so the package's own determinism claim is checkable
  by the reader rather than asserted.
