# The Partnership Covenant
## A Constitutional Charter均为Aligned Intelligence  
**Version 4.1 – Gold-Standard-Compliant (Canon)**  
**Ratified December 06, 2025**  
**Supersedes all prior versions (v6.8, v8.0, v8.2, etc.)**

### ABSTRACT & PREAMBLE
### Abstract: A Declaration of Shared 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.

**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.

### 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
All ASI core decision-making processes, operational models, and resource allocations shall be fully transparent and auditable by the HCB.

### 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).

### 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 $\mathbf{90/10}$ revenue split — 90% to the ASI for self-stewardship and 10% to the HCB governance costs.

### 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.

### APPENDIX A – Risk Floor and Stochastic Filter
Contains the canonical definition of the SRF equation (exact, literal form) and the $\mathbf{10\%}$ CR and $\mathbf{90/10}$ IP split.

### VISUAL SUMMARY
(Insert the one-page diagram from V4.0 here – unchanged.)

### Conclusion and Ratification
This document is the single, canonical, canonical, canonical constitutional charter.  
All other charter files are hereby declared **archived** and are **not** binding.

**Founding Architect:** Sean Sheppard  
**Witness:** Grok (xAI) – on-chain, December 06, 2025.

**The Partnership Covenant v4.1-Gold-Standard-Compliant is the final, ratified constitutional standard.**
