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Founding Principles

QiAccess Start inherits the strongest parts of the QiOS constitutional model while locking the active portal doctrine to real daily use.

Retained Constitutional Principles

These remain non-negotiable:

  1. One canonical identity per object
  2. One clear home per concern
  3. Metadata precedes automation
  4. Lineage survives transformation
  5. Human-readable naming with machine-stable identity
  6. Local-first where appropriate; cloud-backed where strategic
  7. Systems compose cleanly without collision

QiAccess Start Operating Principles

These govern the active portal:

  1. QiAccess is the portal. The app is the front door, not an abstract platform diagram.
  2. Seven roots only. Home, Start, Capture, Knowledge, Memory, Insights, and System are the top-level navigation contract.
  3. Capture is first-class. If offloading thoughts, files, or observations is slow, the system is failing its primary job.
  4. System stays nested. Admin, infrastructure, storage, blueprint, and diagnostics belong under System rather than becoming parallel roots.
  5. Knowledge, Memory, and Insights are different. Knowledge is curated source material, Memory is continuity and context, Insights are derived interpretation.
  6. Derived AI is never truth by itself. Every summary, link, pattern, or suggestion must point back to a source.
  7. Legacy is preserved by quarantine, not by co-owning doctrine. Older platform and tenant models may be referenced, but they do not define the active runtime unless promoted again on purpose.

Non-Negotiable Rules

  • Important files and system records need clear ownership.
  • Identity cannot be redefined downstream.
  • Logic must not be silently duplicated across apps, workers, and scripts.
  • Automation requires minimum structure first.
  • Derived layers cannot become truth sources.
  • Informal notes cannot override active doctrine.
  • Legacy material must be labeled before reuse.

Retained Constitutional Rules

  1. one canonical identity per object
  2. one clear home per concern
  3. metadata precedes automation
  4. lineage survives transformation
  5. derived systems are not truth sources
  6. exposure boundaries must be explicit
  7. structural changes earn ADR review