Documentation
Everything you need to understand, deploy, and contribute to the InterCooperative Network. These docs are synced directly from the main repository.
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Choose a docs path
If you do not yet know what to search for, start here. Each path is a short reading sequence built from existing pages and docs.
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Understand the project
What ICN is, what problem it addresses, and how the closure loop holds the institution together.
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Build or contribute
Get the workspace running and find a contribution path that matches the repo as it actually exists.
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Run infrastructure
Deployment routing, K3s, and the public domain map for nodes, gateways, and short links.
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Understand governance
How proposals, decisions, mandates, and the kernel-app boundary actually work in ICN.
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Understand economics and resource governance
The vocabulary discipline (obligation / allocation / settlement) and the draft RFC that frames external bridge institutions.
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Understand federation
How distinct cooperatives coordinate without merger — treaties, attestations, and cross-institutional clearing.
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Understand design and accessibility
The cross-surface design system, content style discipline, and accessibility floor for member-facing surfaces.
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Check current project state
Honest, dated maturity. Read this before treating any subsystem as production-ready.
Core
- ICN Architecture Reference
- ICN Design Principles
- ICN Development Control System
- Documentation Maintenance Guide
- ICN Document Registry (human summary)
- Getting Started with ICN
- ICN Golden Prompt (Archived)
- ICN Documentation Index
- ICN Documentation Index
- ICN Overview — What It Is and How It Works
- ICN Phase History
- ICN Phase Progress
- ICN Documentation
- ICN Documentation Reorganization 2026
- ICN State (living doc)
- ICN Session Sync Log
- ICN TODO (ordered)
- Constitutional Genesis
- ICN Glossary
ADR
- ADR-0001: Orchestration Plane Architecture (icn-ops)
- ADR-0002: MCP Server Registration via ~/.mcp.json
- ADR-0003: IPv6 Dual-Stack Transport with Endpoint Sets
- ADR-0004: ICN Base Layer Models Obligations and Attestations, Not Payment Rails
- ADR-0005: Commons Credit Settlement Architecture
- ADR-0006: Compliance Chain — Verifiable State Architecture
- ADR-0007: Commons Resource Policy — CCL Formula Extraction
- ADR-0008: Receipt Chain Vertical Slice and Audit Verify
- ADR-0009: Happy Eyeballs — IPv4/IPv6 Connection Racing Within Endpoint Categories
- ADR-0010: App topology and canonical app roots
- Canonical Truth Ownership — Gateway vs Supervisor
- Federation State Origin Model — Gateway vs Governance vs Compute
- Federation Clearing Adoption Contract — Step 3 Architecture Design
- Constitutional Object Model — AuthorityClass, AuthorityGrant, TypedScope, Mandate
- ADR-0015: Service Discovery Auth Semantics — Auth-gated with Enumeration-Safe 404
- ADR-0016: Admin Merge Exception Policy for GitHub Runner Pool Saturation
- Monorepo Consolidation with Explicit Internal Boundaries
- ADR Lifecycle and Canonical Decision Index
- Authority Grant Minting and Mandate Persistence Seam
- Institutional Bootstrap Activation and Standing Read Model
- CCL Determinism, Fuel, and Capability Safety
- CCL Schema Bridge and Constraint Compilation
- CCL Institutional Process Language
- Institution Package Manifest Schema
- Institutional Effect Record Canonical Schema
- Receipt and Provenance Proof Envelope
- Action Card Contract
- Accessibility Baseline for Member Interfaces
- Conflict Resolution Object Model
- Compute Workload Manifest and Authority Boundary
- Commons Compute Admission and Settlement Policy
- Website Truth Boundary
- Public Maturity Claims and Evidence Links
- ADR Candidate Registry as Architectural Memory
- Short Decision Title
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Architecture
- Abuse-case hardening strategy
- ICN Architectural Gaps & Weaknesses - Analysis & Remediation Plan
- ICN Architecture Comprehensive Audit - 2025-12-17
- ICN Architecture Review - Complete Coverage Checklist
- ICN Architecture Completion Status
- Architecture due diligence
- ICN Architecture Documentation Index
- ICN Complete Architecture Map
- ICN Architecture Quick Reference Card
- ICN Architecture Review & Post-Quantum Integration - Session Summary
- ICN Complete Architecture Review - Executive Summary
- Architecture Update - December 17, 2025
- ICN Visual Architecture Reference
- ICN Architecture Wiring Audit
- Auth Bridge and DID Login
- Canonical Encoding Specification
- Cells & Scopes Architecture
- ICN Client and Wallet Architecture
- Complete Architecture Audit - December 17, 2025
- Comprehensive Architecture Review
- Cooperative Domain Infrastructure
- Cooperative Tool Commons
- Debian Appliance Model
- Domain Routing and DNS Bindings
- Federation Actions Specification
- Federation Interoperability Contract
- Governance State Machine Specification
- ICN Integrated System Model
- Identity and Membership Architecture for ICN
- Implementation Gap Analysis
- Institutional Feedback and Support Primitives
- Institution Package Boundary
- Kernel/App Separation Architecture
- Member Standing and Accessible Participation
- Model Workloads and Deliberation
- Protocol Selection for Member Services
- Architecture Documentation
- Scope-Bounded Trust: Structural Centralization Prevention
- Service Hosting Model
- Session Summary: Architecture Review & Gap Closure
- Architecture Review & Gap Analysis Session - December 17, 2025
- The Commons
- Meaning Firewall Phase 2 Audit
Archive
- Sprint Status: 2025-12-25
- ICN Comprehensive Code Review - Complete Report
- Commons Evolution Implementation Summary
- ICN Demo - Current System Status
- Final CI Resolution Report 🎯
- 🎉 ICN Demo Wiring - SUCCESS!
- Final Session Status - 2025-12-18
- ICN Foundational Review - December 16, 2025
- Governance→Ledger Integration: Bugs & Issues Found
- Governance → Ledger Integration - Session Summary
- ICN: Complete Architecture Synthesis
- ICN: Minimum Vertical Slice
- ICN Real-World Deployment
- Kubernetes Deployment Guide
- ICN Next Sprint: Production Hardening & Deployment
- Phase 18: Pre-Pilot Hardening - COMPLETE ✅
- ICN Production Deployment Guide
- ICN Project Status - Comprehensive Assessment
- Archive: 2025
- ICN Refinement Sprint - Complete Summary
- ICN Refinement & Documentation Sprint
- ICN Gap Remediation Sprint Plan
- Sprint 1 Progress Report
- Sprint 2 Complete! 🎉
- Sprint 2 Progress - Dashboard Implementation
- Sprint 3 Progress Report
- Sprint 3 Day 1 Complete! 🚀
- Sprint 3: Deployment & Integration
- Sprint 3: Production Readiness - Status Report
- ICN Pilot-Ready Features Sprint - COMPLETE ✅
- Sprint Complete: Gap Closure Initiative
- Sprint Complete: Pilot-Ready Platform Features
- ICN Architecture Summary
- ICN System Gaps - Comprehensive Analysis
- 🎉 **ALL TESTS FIXED!** 🎉
- ICN Kernel/App Separation Transition Plan
- Bug Report: Code Review Session
- Follow-Up Issues for HSM/TPM Backend Implementation
- HSM/TPM Backend Roadmap
- Phase 16B: Placement Scoring - Implementation Progress
- Phase 16C: Locality Awareness - Implementation Plan
- Security Audit Resolution - December 18, 2025
- Security Hardening Session - December 18, 2025
- TPM 2.0 Implementation Plan
- TPM 2.0 Setup Guide
- ICN Forward Plan — March 2026
- ICN Golden Development Prompt
- ICN project state snapshot (2026-02-09)
- Archive: 2026
- ICN Roadmap
- ✅ ICN Demo - All Systems Green Report
- ICN Demo Readiness Audit
- 🎉 ICN Demo Wiring - ROOT CAUSE FOUND!
- ICN Demo Preparation - Current Status & Next Steps
- ICN Demo Session - Final Summary
- 🎊 ICN Demo Preparation - FINAL STATUS
- Fix "Session Expired" Error
- 🎉 ICN Demo Infrastructure - COMPLETE!
- ICN Demo - Login Credentials
- ICN Demo - Immediate Pivot
- ICN Demo - Immediate Next Steps
- 🎯 ICN Demo Progress - Session Update
- 🚀 ICN Demo - Quick Start Card
- ICN Demo Preparation - Document Index
- Fix Service Worker Caching Issue
- ICN Demo Wiring - Session 1 Summary
- 🎉 ICN Demo Preparation - Session Complete!
- ICN Demo Prep - Current Status Summary
- 🎉 ICN Demo - Complete End-to-End Success!
- ICN Demo Wiring - Session 1 Status
- Archived planning scratch (2026)
- CCL + Disputes — Repo State & Gap Analysis
- Constitution / Rights — Repo State & Gap Analysis
- Economics / Treasury — Repo State & Gap Analysis
- Governance / Receipts — Repo State & Gap Analysis
- Human Interface — Repo State & Gap Analysis
- Security / Ops / Resilience — Repo State & Gap Analysis
- Documentation Archive
Contracts
Demo
Deployment
- ICN Deployment Active
- ICN Deployment - Complete Guide
- ICN Deployment Guide
- ICN Invite System - Deployment Guide
- ICN Deployment Ready - December 12, 2025
- ICN Deployment Status - December 12, 2025
- Deploy ICN Test Network
- ICN Invite System - K3s Deployment Guide
- Full Stack Deployment Guide
- icn.zone Domain Routing Plan
- ICN Quick Deploy Reference Card
- 🚀 ICN Quick Start - Full Stack
Design
- ICN Accessibility Baseline
- Agent Handoff: Deterministic Compute Sprint
- Claude Design — ICN Context
- Claude Design — ICN Setup and Workflow
- RFC: ICN Commons Evolution
- Compute Substrate Vertical Slice - Implementation Status
- ICN Content Style Guide
- ICN Deterministic Compute Sprint
- ICN Commons Design System
- ICN Prompt Library
- ICN Visual Explainer Bible — v0
- ICN Visual System
- Minimal Viable Coop (MVC) Track
- Organizer / member accessibility gate
- Design Documentation
- ICN Visual Asset Register
- ICN Visual Assets — Planning Layer
- ICN Visual Review Checklist
- VE-001 — How ICN Works / Closure Loop
- VE-002 — Where You Are Acting / Scope Model
- VE-003 — Decision to Receipt / Provenance Trail
- VE-004 — Member Shell Concept
- VE-005 — Kernel / App Separation
- Capability-Based Feature Gating
- Compute Classes: Legitimacy Compute vs Utility Compute
- Compute Substrate Design
- ICN Deterministic Core (ICN-DC) Specification
- Dual-Foundation Minimal-Seams Slice
- ICN Economic Architecture
- ICN Economic Vision
- Economic Design Documentation
- Commons Credit Enforcement V1 — Implementation Note
- Contribution Credits: Infrastructure Incentives Design
- Economic Modeling for Mutual Credit Systems
- ICN Economic Safety Mechanisms
- ICN Economics Subsystem — Truth Contract
- Economic Model Validation
- Entity Dissolution: Before and After
- Entity Dissolution Workflow
- Execution Bridge Specification
- ICN Project Governance
- Governance Design Documentation
- Governance Primitives
- Governance:Write Decomposition — Design
- Governance Primitives
- Governance Model Validation
- Trust-Graph Integration for Witness Validation
- Institution-in-a-Box
- Institutional Structure + Event Model — Design Spec
- IPv6 Dual-Stack Transport and Endpoint Sets Design
- Multi-Device Identity Design (Phase 11)
- NAT Traversal Design
- ICN Platform Layer Design
- Post-Quantum Cryptography in ICN
- Razeto's Four Intercooperative Bodies: ICN Integration Design
- Regulatory-Safe Verifiable State Architecture
- ICN Repo Reality Map
- ICN Scheduler Evolution Plan
- Scope Scheduling: Capacity Slices and Preemption
- SDIS Design Documentation
- Social Recovery Guide
- Session Handoff — 2026-02-17
- Social Recovery Design
Design Language
Dev
- ICN Handoff Template
- Multi-Agent Git Worktree Workflow
- Session Handoff — 2026-04-10
- Session Handoff — 2026-04-15
- Session Handoff — 2026-05-05-b
- Session Handoff — 2026-05-05-c
- Session Handoff — 2026-05-05
- Session Handoff — 2026-05-07-a
- Session Handoff — 2026-05-07
- Session Handoff — 2026-05-14 (artifact registry and scoped vault spec)
- Session Handoff — 2026-05-14 (CCL policy registry and hook contract)
- Session Handoff — 2026-05-14
- Session Handoff — 2026-05-14 (effect dispatch contract)
- Session Handoff — 2026-05-14 (entity-scope vocabulary boundary)
- Session Handoff — 2026-05-14 (governed service binding spec)
- Session Handoff — 2026-05-14 (institutional domain spec)
- Session Handoff — 2026-05-14 (storage durability policies spec)
- Session Handoff — 2026-05-15 — Architecture-Spec Sprint Wrap
- Handoff — Compute Placement Policy Spec (#1801)
- Session Handoff — 2026-05-15
- Session Handoff — 2026-05-15
- Session Handoff — 2026-05-15
- Session Handoff — 2026-05-16 — Abuse-Case Hardening Strategy
- Session Handoff — 2026-05-17 — Appliance Verification
- Handoff — Thursday meeting prep truth packet — 2026-05-17
- ICN UX Language Guide
Development
- Development Documentation
- ICN Release Process
- Sprint Receipts: Stages 3–7 (Compute Substrate Vertical Slice)
- Code Quality Improvement Tracker
- CommonsManager Persistence — Execution Checklist
- CommonsManager Persistence — Design Doc
- Start Here Tomorrow — CommonsManager Persistence
- CommonsManager Persistence — Testing Plan
- ICN Federation Roadmap - Implementation Guide
- Gossip Message Migration to SignedEnvelope - Analysis Report
- IdentityBundle Refactor Plan
- Module Splitting Analysis
- Module Splitting Implementation Guide
- Module Splitting Analysis - Executive Summary
- Development Journal: Phase 0 Bootstrap
- Phase 1: Identity & Trust Infrastructure
- Development Journal: Prometheus Metrics Implementation
- Phase 2: Network Layer & Security Hardening
- Phase 3: CLI Management Tools & Production Features
- Phase 5: Gossip-Based Distributed Synchronization
- Phase 6: Network Protocol Bridge
- 2025-01-11: Phase 7 - Gossip Pull Protocol Implementation
- Phase 7 - Ledger Merge Report & Digest Emission
- Dev Journal: Production Hardening Phase 7
- Phase 7 Production Hardening - Session 2
- Phase 7: Pull Protocol Completion & Integration Testing
- Phase 7 - Pull Protocol Implementation
- Trust-Gated Rate Limiting Implementation
- User Onboarding Scaffolds - Phase 1
- Phase 10A - Contract Signature Verification & File Format
- Phase 10B Bug Fixes - Contract Deployment Integration
- Phase 10B: RPC Integration and CLI Tooling
- Phase 10C - Multi-Party Contract Signatures
- Phase 10C Production Hardening - Security Fixes & Test Coverage
- Phase 8A: Trust Network Propagation
- Phase 8C: Trust-Gated Gossip Topic Subscriptions
- Phase 9 - Contract Execution Engine Foundation
- Phase: Federation Foundations - Development Journal
- ICN Codebase Phase Status Report
- Trust-Gated Rate Limiting - Completion & Demo Infrastructure
- Critical Fix: TLS Certificate Persistence in Keystore Migration
- Federation Foundations: Topology-Aware Networking and RPC Improvements
- Gossip Message Authentication with SignedEnvelope
- Phase 10: End-to-End Payload Encryption
- Phase 8: DID-TLS Binding & Keystore Integration
- Phase 9: Message & Identity Integrity
- 2025-11-13: Topology Integration Tests & Bidirectional Handshake
- Phase 11: Multi-Device Identity & Sync
- Track B1: Graceful Restart Implementation
- Dev Journal: Track B1 Operational Hardening & Phase 12 Economic Safety Rails
- Phase 14 Gateway API - Production Hardening
- NAT Traversal Phases 1-3 Completion
- Phase 6: Security & Production Hardening
- Phase 16A: Scheduler Evolution Foundation
- Phase 16B: Metrics & Submitter API (Session 3)
- Phase 16B: Placement Negotiation Implementation
- Phase 16C Week 1: Network Topology Foundation (COMPLETE ✅)
- Phase 16C Week 4: Integration & Documentation
- Phase 16E Week 1: Cooperative Scheduling Policy Design
- Internal Testing Infrastructure: Pre-Pilot Validation
- Phase 4: NAT Traversal, Supervisor Modularization & Locality Integration
- Session Handoff - 2025-12-14
- Final Session Summary - 2025-12-14
- Final Session Summary - Continued Implementation
- ICN Final Status Report
- Foundational Review Session - December 16, 2025
- Gap Closure Session - December 17, 2025
- Gap Closure Session - December 17, 2025 - Final Report
- Gap Closure Session - 2025-12-17
- Gap Discovery & Closure Session - 2025-12-17 (Part 2)
- Gap Remediation Session - December 17, 2025
- Architecture Gap Remediation - Session Summary
- ICN Mobile App Integration - COMPLETE ✅
- Mobile App Integration Session - December 12, 2024
- ICN Invite System - Complete Implementation ✅
- ICN Invite System - Final Status Report
- Phase 1 Complete: Offline Mode + Error Handling
- Mobile App Integration Progress - Session Summary
- Phase 2: Push Notifications - Backend Implementation Complete ✅
- Session Status Report - 2025-12-14
- Development Session Summary - 2025-12-14
- Session Complete: Mobile Wallet Integration & Full-Stack Deployment
- Session Complete Status - December 12, 2024
- ICN Deployment Session - December 12, 2025
- Mobile Integration Complete - Session Summary
- Mobile Integration Session - December 12, 2025 (Final)
- Mobile App Integration Session Summary
- Mobile App Integration - Session Progress
- Session Summary: SDIS Implementation Progress
- 🎉 SDIS Phase 2 Session Complete
- ICN Architecture Review Session Summary
- Session Summary: Architecture Audit & Critical Fixes
- 🎉 Three Phases Complete: Production-Ready Mobile Infrastructure
- Phase 3: Trust Graph Integration - COMPLETE ✅
- WebSocket Event System Complete
- Work Session Summary - December 18, 2025
- Gateway Integration into icnd - Development Journal
- Phase 13 - Governance Daemon Integration
- Phase 14: Gateway API - Development Journal
- Development Journal: Strategic Pivot to Platform Layer
- Development Journal: Strategic Gap Analysis
- Development Journal: Governance → Contract → Ledger Integration
- Phase 2 Trust Extraction - Assessment & Path Forward
- Phase 2 Trust Extraction - Status Summary
- Phase 16D Week 2: Checkpoint Protocol & Storage
- Phase 16D Week 3: Migration Protocol & State Machine
- Phase 16D Week 4: Production-Ready Migration Features
- Phase 1 Complete: icn-api Shared Service Layer Foundation
- Trust Computation Algorithm Unification
- Session Handoff — 2026-03-22
- Session: Zenith ops recovery + sprint tracking truth-up
- Comprehensive Implementation Audit - December 17, 2025
- Actual Implementation Status
- Actual Implementation Status Audit
- ALL GAPS CLOSED - Final Session Summary 2025-12-17
- Gap Closure Complete - Session 2025-12-17
- CI Final Status - All Green ✅
- CI Status Report
- CI Status Report - December 18, 2025
- ICN Comprehensive Code Review
- Code Review Fixes - 2025-12-18
- 🎉 COMPLETE VICTORY - All Architecture Gaps Closed!
- ICN Comprehensive Gap Analysis
- CooperativeEntity Type Specification
- Cooperative Middle Layer: Gap Analysis
- CoopActor Integration - COMPLETE ✅
- CoopActor Integration Plan
- ICN Deep Dive Gap Analysis - 2025-12-17
- Deployment Infrastructure Note
- ICN Development Plan 2026
- E2E Testing Session - 2025-12-19
- CoopActor Integration - Final Status Report
- ICN Pilot Features Sprint - Final Summary
- ICN Architecture - Final Status Report
- Gap Closure - Final Status
- Gap Closure Complete - December 17, 2025
- Gap Closure Final Status - Session 2
- Gap Closure Progress - Session 3
- Gap Closure Progress - Session 4 (DR Testing)
- Gap Closure Progress Update
- Gap Closure Status Report
- Gap Remediation Complete - December 17, 2025
- Gap Remediation Roadmap - ICN Architecture Completion
- Architecture Gap Remediation Session - 2025-12-17
- Handler Extraction Refactoring - 2025-12-20
- ICN + SDIS Integrated Vision
- ICN Implementation Audit - December 17, 2025
- Implementation Reality Check
- ICN Implementation Reality Check
- CoopActor Integration Progress
- Mobile App Deployment Test Results
- Next Steps - Quick Reference
- Next Steps: Priority Roadmap
- ICN Post-Quantum Integration - Final Status Report
- Post-Quantum Cryptography Integration - Complete
- Priority Gaps to Fix Before Pilot
- 🎉 Push Successful - Session Complete
- Quick Start: CoopActor Integration
- ICN - Real Implementation Gaps
- ICN Refinement Session - Quick Reference
- ICN Development Session - Complete Summary
- Session Continuation - Documentation Integration
- Session: Init Refactoring (2026-02-01)
- Session Complete - Pilot Features Sprint
- Session Summary: OpenAPI Implementation & Sprint 3 Progress
- Gap Closure Session Summary - Snapshot Coordination
- ICN Feature Sprint Handoff Document
- Steward System Integration Status
- ICN Strategic Alignment Audit
- ICN Technical Debt & Gap Analysis
- ICN Technical Debt Improvement Plan
- ICN Technical Debt Update
- Phase 5: Membership Consolidation - Implementation Complete
- Sprint Documentation
- Sprint Plan - 2026-02-18
- Sprint Plan - 2026-02-19
- Sprint Plan - 2026-02-20
- ICN Beta Testing Guide
- ICN Disaster Recovery Test Results
- Internal Testing Plan: Multi-Node Network Validation
- Testing Documentation
- ICN Internal Testing Quick Start Guide
- Gossip Proof Layers
- Governance Proof Layers
- Ledger Proof Layers
- Testing RPC Communication
- Trust Proof Layers
- ICN 4-Layer Verification Pattern
- Trust Multi-Graph Migration Guide
Guides
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- ICN Invite System - Quick Reference
- ICN Development Environment
- Documentation Style Guide
- Developer Guides
- Agent MCP tooling (icn-ops)
- Cursor and Claude MCP Setup
- Internationalization (i18n) Migration Guide
- ICN Institution Setup Guide
- Onboarding Runbook
- ICN Pilot Cluster Operator Runbook
- Operations Guides
- Backup and Recovery Guide
- Backup and Restore: Operator Recovery Procedure
- ICN Daemon Mode with Governance Receipts
- NAT Traversal Pilot Test Guide
- NAT Traversal Operations Guide
- Network Policy Design — ICN K3s Cluster
- ICN Operations Guide
- Phase 0 Operational Monitoring
- Pilot Smoke Runbook
- ICN Replication Operations Guide
- Emergency Node Restart
- Data Recovery Procedure
- Version Upgrade Procedure
- Security Incident Response
- Troubleshooting Guide
- Secrets Rotation Procedure
- Pilot Vertical Slice Smoke
- ICN Operations Runbooks
- ICN Troubleshooting Runbooks
- User Guides
- Why ICN?
- Cooperative Setup Guide
- Summit Decision Registry Demo
Handoffs
Internal
- Internal Documentation
- ICN Docs System Migration — Context Pack
- ICN Document Registry Specification
- Bootstrap Registry and Canon Map
- Documentation System Migration PR Specification
- Doc Placement and Truth-Class Rules
- Agent Prompt Templates
- Wrapper Instruction for the Agent Context Bundle
- ICN Legal Considerations
- ICN Pilot Coordinator Guide
- ICN Pilot Deployment Limitations
- ICN Pilot Deployment Playbook
- ICN Pilot Readiness Gaps
- Docs Reality Audit - 2026-02-11
- ICN Project Gap Analysis
- ICN Gap Analysis
- Multi-Device Identity Support - Status Report
- Strategic Gap Analysis: Substrate to System
- Vision-to-Implementation Gap Analysis
Maintenance
Manual
- Foundational Manual Baseline Lock
- Foundational Manual: Deterministic Boundary Types
- Foundational Manual: Economic State Resolution
- Foundational Manual: Executable Baseline-Lock Loop
- Foundational Manual: Identity Recovery and Capability Leases
- Foundational Manual: State Projection and Compaction
- Foundational Manual: Trustless Client Boundary
- ICN User Manual
Migration Guides
Mobile
Onboarding
- ICN Developer Onboarding Curriculum
- Assessments
- Capstone: Local Two-Node ICN + Ledger Flow
- Lab 01: Workspace Setup
- Lab 02: Error Receipts and Tracing
- Lab 03: Mini Actor Runtime
- Lab 04: Firewall Oracle — THE KEYSTONE LAB
- Lab 05: Mini Ledger with Double-Entry and Quarantine
- Lab 06: Signed Envelopes with Replay Protection
- Lab 07: Gossip Sync with Vector Clocks
- Lab 08: Governance Flow — Proposal to Constraint Update
- ICN Systems Textbook
- Module Template
- 01: Environment Setup & Repository Navigation
- 02: Rust Through ICN's Lens
- 03: Errors and Tracing — Distributed Visibility
- Gate 1: Becoming a Reader
- 04: Actors and Concurrency
- 05: The Meaning Firewall — ICN's Central Design Principle
- 06: Persistence and Ledger — Time-Communication + Invariants
- Gate 2: Becoming a Fixer
- 07: Identity and Cryptography — Practical Crypto for ICN
- 08: Network and Gossip — Eventual Consistency Without Consensus
- 09: Governance and Contracts — Democratic Rule Changes
- Gate 3: Becoming a Builder
- 10: Federation and Operations — Production Deployment
- 11: Maintainer Skills — Reshaping Architecture Safely
- Capstone: Maintainer Demonstration
- ICN Common Patterns Reference
- Reading Map
- Module 0: Setup and Tooling
- Module 1: Rust Fundamentals
- Module 2: ICN Architecture Overview
- Module 3: Runtime and Actor Model
- Module 4: Identity and Trust
- Module 5: Network and Gossip
- Module 6: Ledger and Contracts
- Module 7: Gateway API and SDK
- Module 8: Web UI Integration
- Module 9: Operations and Deployment
- Module 10: Contributor Workflow
- Module 11: Federation and Inter-Cooperative Agreements
- Module 12: Observability and Metrics
- Module 13: Security and Privacy Layers
- Module 14: Governance and CCL Deep Dive
- Onboarding Resources
- Curriculum Gap Analysis and Iteration Plan
- Syllabus
- Accelerated Track (4 weeks)
- ICN Contributor Ladder
- Foundations Track (8 weeks)
- Curriculum Update Process
- Workshop 0: Local Build and Repo Orientation
- Workshop 1: Rust Fundamentals in Practice
- Workshop 2: Architecture Mapping Exercise
- Workshop 3: Runtime and Actor Lifecycle
- Workshop 4: Identity and Trust Hands-On
- Workshop 5: Network and Gossip Deep Dive
- Workshop 6: Ledger and Contract Flow
- Workshop 7: Gateway Auth and SDK Usage
- Workshop 8: Web UI Exploration
- Workshop 9: Local Deployment and Observability
- Workshop 10: Contributor Workflow Practice
- Workshop 11: Federation Hands-On
- Workshop 12: Observability and Metrics
- Workshop 13: Security and Privacy Layers
- Workshop 14: Governance and CCL Deep Dive
Operations
Ops
Performance
Phases
Pilots
Planning
Plans
- Planning scratch (relocated)
- UI Polish: Conference-Ready Demo — Implementation Plan
- ICN Point A → Point B: Civilizational Consensus Stack
- ICN Formal Research Agenda: Architectural Hurdles and Track Briefs
- B3: Allocation Receipt Chain Design
- B3: Allocation Receipt Chain — Implementation Plan
- C3 NAT Traversal Design
- C3 NAT Traversal Implementation Plan
- Sprint 11: Federated Governance Wiring — Implementation Plan
- Authz Capability Graph Design (Phase B)
- Authz Capability Graph (Phase B0) Implementation Plan
- Commons Credit Accounting Implementation Plan
- Sprint 14 Closeout + Sprint 15 Scope
- ICN Demo System Design
- ICN Federation Demo System — Implementation Plan
- Sprint 21: Meaning Firewall Policy Extraction Implementation Plan
- Agent Teams Launch Prompt: ICN Point A → Point B
Reference
- ICN Gateway API (developer reference)
- API Reference Documentation
- ICN API Versioning Guide
- Topic Subscriptions API
- CCL Charter Templates
- ICN Configuration Management Guide
- Configuration Reference Documentation
- Identity Backend Configuration
- Trust Threshold Configuration
- Entity Topology Patterns
- Governance Playbook
- Institution Package Bootstrap Contract
- ICN Project Index
- CCL Map
- CI / Ops / Deploy Map
- Current Truth Map
- Docs Control Map
- Full Repository Record Protocol
- Full Repository Record — `icn`
- Identity and Cryptography Map
- Network and Gossip Map
- Pilot UI Current State Map
- Project Coverage Matrix
- Remote coordination note (superseded sequencing)
- ICN Repo Atlas
- Runtime Surface Map
- Rust Workspace Map
- Service Hosting Map
- Show-Readiness Map
- Source-of-Truth Map
- Source Tree Map
- Stale and Archived Map
- Tool Commons Map
- Website Truth Map
Rfcs
SDIS
- SDIS API Guide
- SDIS Complete Build - Detailed Plan
- SDIS & Steward System - Deployment Status
- SDIS Implementation Complete
- SDIS Implementation Plan for ICN
- SDIS Complete Integration - Implementation Session
- SDIS Quick Start Guide
- SDIS Gateway API Implementation - Session Complete
- SDIS & Steward System Implementation Status
- SDIS + Steward System Status
- SDIS & Steward System - Completion Roadmap
- SDIS: Secure Distributed Identity System
- SDIS User Guide
Security
- Comprehensive Security Improvements - December 18, 2025
- Educational Guide: Security Code Review & Fixes
- Final Security Status - December 18, 2025
- Gateway Content Security Policy
- Security Documentation
- SDIS Code Audit Checklist
- SDIS Cryptographic Review
- SDIS Threat Model
- Secret Management Best Practices
- Security Analysis - Remaining Issues
- Security Audit Report - cargo-audit
- Security Audit Results - December 2024
- Security Fixes - December 18, 2025
- Security Follow-up Tasks
- Security Testing Guide
- TOFU (Trust-On-First-Use) Security Model
- Phase 10C Security Analysis & Production Hardening
- Production Hardening - Security & Stability
- ICN Security Roadmap
- ICN Threat Model
Spec
- ICN Kernel Contracts Specification
- Artifact Registry and Scoped Vault — boundary, v0 design
- CCL Policy Registry and Hook Contract
- Compute Placement Policy
- Effect Dispatch Contract
- Federation Settlement Finality Spec
- Governed Service Binding, Workload Manifest, and Runtime Provider
- InstitutionalDomain and DomainPolicy
- Member Shell v0
- Network Anti-Entropy Proof Loops
- Private-overlay DID activation flow (generic ICN spec)
- Steward Cockpit v0
- Storage Durability Policies — Backup, Replication, Recovery, Archive, Integrity
State
Status
Strategy
- ADR-001: What ICN Is
- Cooperative-developer discovery brief
- What ICN Is
- The Evolution of ICN: From First Thought to Coordination OS
- ICN System-by-System Gap Analysis: Vision vs. Reality
- ICN Institutional Operability Roadmap
- ICN: Digital Infrastructure for the Democratic Economy
- ICN Roadmap — Live
- ICN Roadmap & Strategy: From Solo Developer to Cooperative Infrastructure
- ICN in Practice: Six Scenarios
- Sprint Plan: Close the Demo Gap
- ICN Technical Whitepaper: Architecture of a P2P Constraint Engine for Democratic Organizations
- ICN Constitutional Roadmap
- ICN Thursday Meeting Brief — 2026-05-21
- Licensing strategy matrix (autonomy review)
- Sovereign Forge Strategy
- Grant Application Artifacts
- ICN Budget Skeleton
- ICN Compliance Architecture
- ICN Grant Narrative Core
- ICN: Digital Public Infrastructure for the Cooperative Economy
- ICN Milestones
- ICN Pilot Readiness Assessment
- ICN Institutional Ecosystem Arc
- ICN Operability Audit — 2026-03-25
- Sprint 24 Close — Commons-Compute Spine
Superpowers
- Sprint 23 — Baseline Lock + Narrative Surface — Implementation Plan
- Coverage CI Decision — p24-pre-2
- Flow 2 (Patronage) Pre-Sprint Repair Checklist
- Sprint 23 Design — Baseline Lock + Narrative Surface
- Sprint 24 Planning — Commons Compute Hardening
- Sprint 24 Execution Start — #925 Commons Compute Spine
- Zenith Temporary Coverage Runner Setup
- Sprint 27 Design: Demo-Ready + Compute Story