# Intentarium

> A public institution for making human intent durable in systems people and agents can trust.

Canon version: 0.1.0
Canon commit: a8b303818e72c20505bd9ef56f5fb2d0448aa6f3
Canonical site: https://intentarium.com
Public source: https://github.com/Intentarium/canon

## Core surfaces
- Agency Map: https://intentarium.com/method/
- Local-first Agency Map Workbench: https://intentarium.com/method/workbench/
- Agency Map JSON Schema: https://intentarium.com/schemas/agency-map.schema.json
- Pattern index JSON: https://intentarium.com/api/v1/patterns/index.json
- Pattern graph: https://intentarium.com/graph.json
- Identity: https://intentarium.com/identity.json
- Release manifest: https://intentarium.com/manifest.json

## Published patterns
- [A mature system reduces dependence on heroics](https://intentarium.com/patterns/mature-systems-reduce-heroics/): Convert repeated individual rescue work into observable ownership, safe defaults, runbooks, automation, and learning loops.
- [A source of truth must precede meaningful automation](https://intentarium.com/patterns/source-of-truth-before-automation/): Establish one authoritative representation of intent before automating projections, decisions, or execution from it.
- [Access, experience, and execution are distinct concerns](https://intentarium.com/patterns/separate-access-experience-execution/): Design who may enter, what they perceive, and what effects they may cause as separate policy surfaces joined by explicit contracts.
- [Accountability without authority is organizational debt](https://intentarium.com/patterns/accountability-without-authority/): Assign decision rights, access, and escalation paths wherever a person or team is held responsible for an outcome.
- [Decisions should be versioned artifacts](https://intentarium.com/patterns/decisions-should-be-versioned/): Preserve consequential decisions with context, authority, evidence, alternatives, and revision history instead of leaving them in conversation.
- [Human intent must survive machine execution](https://intentarium.com/patterns/intent-must-survive-execution/): Carry the approved outcome, constraints, authority, and rollback semantics into every executable representation and resulting action.
- [Personal freedom requires consciously designed structure](https://intentarium.com/patterns/personal-freedom-requires-structure/): Translate desired freedom into owned commitments, boundaries, resources, rhythms, and feedback instead of relying on intention alone.
- [Standardize interfaces and controls, not creative judgment](https://intentarium.com/patterns/standardize-interfaces-not-judgment/): Make handoffs, boundaries, and evidence predictable while preserving judgment where context and craft create value.
- [The exception can become the reference architecture](https://intentarium.com/patterns/exception-can-become-reference-architecture/): Study successful exceptions for missing capabilities, then generalize the useful mechanism without universalizing its accidental context.
- [Transitional states are part of the architecture](https://intentarium.com/patterns/transitional-states-are-architecture/): Design migration, partial adoption, failure, and rollback states explicitly instead of treating them as temporary exceptions.
- [Trust should be explicit and continuously evidenced](https://intentarium.com/patterns/trust-should-be-evidenced/): Permit consequential action from current, scoped evidence rather than role, location, reputation, or a one-time approval alone.
- [Useful boundaries increase agency](https://intentarium.com/patterns/useful-boundaries-increase-agency/): Define clear, enforceable limits and safe operating space so actors can move faster without repeatedly seeking permission.

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