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The Reference Architecture

The complete discipline, set out to be inspected — from the principles that never change to the tests that prove an implementation honours them, and the literature it is built upon. Free to read, in full.

New here? Start with the worked example — KF-5001 Canonical Vertical Slice walks one governed decision end to end, in plain terms, before the architecture goes deep.

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Four routes through the reference, by purpose.

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Public Review Release 0.1 · free to read and openly licensed (CC BY 4.0). The architecture is complete and internally consistent; documents marked Draft for Experiment state hypotheses awaiting validation on a real institutional case. We say “designed to,” not “guaranteed to.”