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the load-bearing claims of the Canon.
The Architecture Canon
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103referenced ids
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local static search over canonical units and projections.
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incoming and outgoing graph references.
Track Completion
Canon 1.0 target observation data.
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Catalog
Law
Truth Has One Home
law-01-truth-has-one-home · 23 incoming references
Architecture Is Constraint Management
law-02-architecture-is-constraint-management · 9 incoming references
Security Is a Property, Not a Feature
law-03-security-is-a-property · 12 incoming references
Relationships Are Data
law-04-relationships-are-data · 6 incoming references
Evidence Before Intelligence
law-05-evidence-before-intelligence · 14 incoming references
Platforms Exist To Remove Decisions
law-06-platforms-remove-decisions · 13 incoming references
Systems Degrade Better Than Organizations
law-07-systems-degrade-better · 12 incoming references
Documentation Is Architecture
law-08-documentation-is-architecture · 7 incoming references
Pattern
Deterministic Recommendation Pipeline
pattern-deterministic-recommendation-pipeline · 1 incoming references
Effective-Dated Financial Rules
pattern-effective-dated-financial-rules · 1 incoming references
Enforcement over Verification
pattern-enforcement-over-verification · 1 incoming references
Honest Simulation Seam
pattern-honest-simulation-seam · 1 incoming references
Module Registry with Kill Switches
pattern-module-registry-kill-switches · 1 incoming references
Projected Intelligence Layer
pattern-projected-intelligence-layer · 1 incoming references
Truth Plane / Acceleration Plane
pattern-truth-acceleration-split · 1 incoming references
Worker-Oriented Platform
pattern-worker-oriented-platform · 1 incoming references
Concept
Acceleration Plane
concept-acceleration-plane · 3 incoming references
Accountable Principal
concept-accountable-principal · 2 incoming references
Architecture Decision Record (ADR)
concept-adr · 1 incoming references
Approval Gate
concept-approval-gate · 2 incoming references
The Architectural Invariant
concept-architectural-invariant · 2 incoming references
Artifact Contract
concept-artifact-contract · 2 incoming references
Authority Drift
concept-authority-drift · 2 incoming references
Cadence Boundary
concept-cadence-boundary · 2 incoming references
Case Study
AISDR (AI Security Decision Record)
case-aisdr · 14 incoming references
Ampriot
case-ampriot · 19 incoming references
CapBan
case-capban · 9 incoming references
CapDB
case-capdb · 12 incoming references
SADIE
case-sadie · 9 incoming references
Reference Architecture
EDDA — Evidence-Driven Delegation Architecture
refarch-edda · 7 incoming references
The Six-Plane Model
refarch-six-plane-model · 4 incoming references
Diagram
Ai Governance Sequence
diagram-ai-governance-sequence · 4 incoming references
Ampriot Planes
diagram-ampriot-planes · 5 incoming references
Capban Degraded Mode
diagram-capban-degraded-mode · 5 incoming references
Capban Pipeline
diagram-capban-pipeline · 5 incoming references
Capdb Replication
diagram-capdb-replication · 4 incoming references
Control Fabric Components
diagram-control-fabric-components · 1 incoming references
Control Fabric Deployment
diagram-control-fabric-deployment · 1 incoming references
Edda Pillars
diagram-edda-pillars · 4 incoming references
Reference
Robert C. Martin — Clean Architecture
ref-clean-architecture · 2 incoming references
Eric Evans — Domain-Driven Design
ref-ddd · 1 incoming references
Martin Kleppmann — Designing Data-Intensive Applications
ref-ddia · 6 incoming references
Pat Helland — Data on the Outside vs. Data on the Inside
ref-helland-inside-outside · 2 incoming references
NIST AI Risk Management Framework
ref-nist-ai-rmf · 2 incoming references
Michael Nygard — Documenting Architecture Decisions
ref-nygard-adr · 3 incoming references
Michael Nygard — Release It!
ref-nygard-release-it · 3 incoming references
OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications
ref-owasp-llm · 1 incoming references
Publications
Bstm
bstm · publications/books/building-systems-that-matter/manifest.yaml
Talk 0001 Truth Has One Home
talk-0001-truth-has-one-home · publications/talks/0001-truth-has-one-home/manifest.yaml
Talk 0001 Truth Has One Home Notes
talk-0001-truth-has-one-home-notes · publications/talks/0001-truth-has-one-home/speaker-notes.md
Talk 0001 Truth Has One Home Slides
talk-0001-truth-has-one-home-slides · publications/talks/0001-truth-has-one-home/slides.md
Talk 0002 No Ai Action Without A Record
talk-0002-no-ai-action-without-a-record · publications/talks/0002-no-ai-action-without-a-record/manifest.yaml
Talk 0002 No Ai Action Without A Record Notes
talk-0002-no-ai-action-without-a-record-notes · publications/talks/0002-no-ai-action-without-a-record/speaker-notes.md
Talk 0002 No Ai Action Without A Record Slides
talk-0002-no-ai-action-without-a-record-slides · publications/talks/0002-no-ai-action-without-a-record/slides.md
Talk 0003 Relationship First Systems
talk-0003-relationship-first-systems · publications/talks/0003-relationship-first-systems/manifest.yaml
Talk 0003 Relationship First Systems Notes
talk-0003-relationship-first-systems-notes · publications/talks/0003-relationship-first-systems/speaker-notes.md
Talk 0003 Relationship First Systems Slides
talk-0003-relationship-first-systems-slides · publications/talks/0003-relationship-first-systems/slides.md
Talk 0004 Systems In The Small
talk-0004-systems-in-the-small · publications/talks/0004-systems-in-the-small/manifest.yaml
Talk 0004 Systems In The Small Notes
talk-0004-systems-in-the-small-notes · publications/talks/0004-systems-in-the-small/speaker-notes.md
Talk 0004 Systems In The Small Slides
talk-0004-systems-in-the-small-slides · publications/talks/0004-systems-in-the-small/slides.md