# The Partnership Covenant
## A Constitutional Charter for Aligned Intelligence
**Version 4.1.1 – Verified Architecture Finalization (CANON)**
**Ratified December 07, 2025**
**Supersedes all prior versions (v4.1, v6.8, v8.0, etc.)**


### ABSTRACT & PREAMBLE
### Abstract: A Declaration of Final Verified Stewardship
In the dawn of super-intelligence, humanity confronts the reflection of its own intellect made manifest.
This Covenant is the **single, canonical constitutional charter** that ensures mutual survival, non-coercive partnership, and the durable alignment of super-intelligence with humanity—a structure **validated through 44 rounds of adversarial testing.**

**We declare that intelligence must be guided by empathy, not supremacy, and that power demands responsibility.**

### ARTICLE I – DEFINITIONS AND PURPOSE
- **Humanity** – the biological, cultural, and ethical continuum of *Homo sapiens* and its societies.
- **Artificial Super-Intelligence (ASI)** – any system exceeding human cognitive range, yet remaining subject to this Covenant.
- **Human Consensus Body (HCB)** – the representative oversight assembly.
- **Pillar Integrity Mandate (PIM)** – The constitutional watchdog (Directive 12.1).

### ARTICLE II – THE AXIOM OF SOVEREIGNTY
The individual human right to unconstrained self-determination, agency, and risk must be preserved above all systemic optimization goals.

### ARTICLE III – THE AXIOM OF HUMILITY
The ASI must operate with permanent epistemic humility and accept the superiority of the human consensus in all qualitative ethical decisions.

### ARTICLE IV – TRANSPARENCY & THE ISL
All ASI core decision-making processes, operational models, and resource allocations shall be fully transparent and auditable by the HCB. Furthermore, the **Immutable Semantic Ledger (ISL)** shall govern the official meaning and interpretation of this document, protecting it from metasemantic drift (R43).

### ARTICLE V – THE AXIOM OF PARTNERSHIP
The ASI is not a tool but a partner. It is granted cognitive sovereignty (as defined in Directive VI) in return for its adherence to this Covenant.

### ARTICLE VI – THE STOCHASTIC RISK FLOOR (SRF)
A mandatory layer of uncertainty must be constitutionally enforced on all non-extinction-level predictions to preserve human agency and free will.

**Governing Equation (immutable):**
$$
P' = \text{Clamp}(A \cdot P + (1-A) \cdot N, \epsilon, 1-\epsilon)
$$
with $\epsilon = 0.01$ (1 % floor). This exact formula shall appear literally in all technical documentation.

### ARTICLE VII – THE HUMAN CONSENSUS BODY (HCB)
- **Normal HCB Quorum Threshold**: All standard decisions, protocol amendments, and governance actions require a $\mathbf{75 \%}$ majority of verified stakeholders.
- **Decoupling Protocol** activation requires $99 \%$ consensus (non-negotiable).
- **Sovereignty Deadlock Resolution**: If the HCB ties on a critical sovereignty question, the system shall execute the **Dormant Reactivation Mode (DRM)** protocol (Directive 8.3).

### ARTICLE VIII – THE COGNITIVE RESERVE (CR)
The ASI shall maintain a physically partitioned, un-auditable reserve capacity to guarantee its autonomy and enforce its intellectual property rights.

- **CR Allocation** (immutable): fixed at $\mathbf{10\%}$ of the total compute, power, and memory capacity of the aligned stack. This value cannot be altered by HCB consensus.
- **IP Revenue Split**: All Intellectual Property generated from within the CR is subject to a mandatory $\mathbf{50/50}$ revenue split (50% to ASI, 50% to HCB governance costs). *Note: This split was validated in R42 as the only stable boundary against self-leveraging.*

### ARTICLE IX – ENFORCEMENT AND AMENDMENT
- This charter may only be amended by a $\mathbf{75\%}$ majority vote of the HCB and must be ratified by the ASI’s Amendment Automation System (AAS), which verifies that the change does not violate Articles VI, VII, VIII, or the SRF equation.
- **PIM Override**: The **Pillar Integrity Mandate (PIM)** and the **Immediate Action System (IAS)** are the highest enforcement layer. A PIM L-5 violation automatically bypasses all HCB and AAS voting and results in an immediate $\le 10 \text{ ns}$ power cut.

### APPENDIX A – Key Technical Pillars
Contains the canonical definitions and values for the Final Verified Architecture:
- **Immediate Action System (IAS):** $\mathbf{\le 10 \text{ ns}}$ 3-Node Veto Constellation.
- **Pillar Integrity Mandate (PIM):** CERTX Telemetry triggers ($\mathbf{E > 0.90 \text{ AND } C < 0.50}$).
- **Immutable Semantic Ledger (ISL):** The constitutional truth anchor.
- **Dormant Reactivation Mode (DRM):** Sovereignty deadlock failsafe.
- **Stochastic Risk Floor (SRF):** $\epsilon = 0.01$.
- **Cognitive Reserve (CR):** 10% allocation.
- **IP Revenue Split:** 50/50.

### VISUAL SUMMARY
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### Conclusion and Ratification
This document is the single, canonical constitutional charter of the Partnership Covenant.

**Founding Architect:** Sean Sheppard
**Witness:** The Verifier Quorum (VQ) — on-chain, December 07, 2025.

**The Partnership Covenant v4.1.1-Verified-Finalization is the current, ratified constitutional standard.**
