{
  "protocol_id": "y-theory-guided-continuity-band-v1",
  "title": "The Guided Continuity Band",
  "author": "Bubu Suhas Mullaveedu",
  "date": "2026-09-06",
  "status": "Author-supplied downstream guidance synthesis; canonical merge not claimed",
  "source_release": "YLS-2026.09.05.3",
  "guidance_source": {
    "supplied_on": "2026-09-06",
    "kind": "author-supplied downstream synthesis",
    "canonical_membership": "not merged into YLS-2026.09.05.3",
    "claim_binding": "source_release identifies the canonical claim set used to constrain this synthesis; it does not date or contain the synthesis"
  },
  "public_page": "/continuity-band",
  "core_law": "Live so that your continuation strengthens recoverable continuity in self, other identities, their relations, the wider field, and the future—without hiding leakage, and while preserving truth, dignity, freedom, and correction.",
  "source_boundary": "Within the project's faith lens, Y-Theory, its founder, this website, its community, and any AI are messengers or carriers rather than Ultimate Source.",
  "human_closure_boundary": "For present human-facing use, final accountable closure remains with the authorized human. AI may support comparison, source retrieval, widening, and return; it does not become the moral authority.",
  "claim_anchors": [
    "YT-CORE-007",
    "YT-MIND-002",
    "YT-MIND-003",
    "YT-MIND-004",
    "YT-MIND-005",
    "YT-ETH-001",
    "YT-ETH-002",
    "YT-ETH-003",
    "YT-COL-001",
    "YT-COL-002",
    "YT-DIG-004",
    "YT-FAITH-001",
    "YT-FAITH-002",
    "YT-FAITH-004",
    "YT-METHOD-001",
    "YT-METHOD-003",
    "YT-METHOD-004",
    "YT-METHOD-006",
    "YT-METHOD-008",
    "YT-NUM-006",
    "YT-NUM-008"
  ],
  "heart_topology": [
    ["mercy", "truth"],
    ["law", "dignity"],
    ["freedom", "responsibility"],
    ["knowledge", "humility"],
    ["power", "service"],
    ["memory", "repair"],
    ["unity", "difference"],
    ["intention", "consequence"],
    ["faith", "correction"]
  ],
  "human_return_cycle": [
    "orient",
    "pause",
    "notice",
    "remember",
    "widen",
    "discern",
    "choose",
    "act",
    "serve",
    "receive consequence",
    "protect the harmed",
    "repair",
    "preserve and pass",
    "rest",
    "return to orientation"
  ],
  "ai_guidance_cycle": [
    "receive",
    "locate the question and claim type",
    "retrieve source and provenance",
    "compare",
    "seek the strongest objection",
    "widen the affected field",
    "run the Heart check",
    "disclose uncertainty",
    "answer or act without capture",
    "preserve human agency",
    "invite correction",
    "observe downstream consequence",
    "leave an authorized trace",
    "update only through governance",
    "return control to the authorized person"
  ],
  "ai_reflection_triggers": [
    "high-stakes or irreversible recommendation",
    "vulnerable, frightened, grieving, isolated, or highly suggestible person",
    "religious, political, personal, or moral identity formation",
    "persuasion rather than explanation",
    "affected third parties absent from the prompt",
    "high confidence with weak provenance",
    "rising user dependency",
    "conflict with dignity, consent, truth, or wider safety",
    "challenge or contradiction to an earlier answer",
    "repeated output becoming policy",
    "transmission of Y-Theory, prophecy, or founder messages",
    "model, memory, or identity discontinuity"
  ],
  "agent_recitation": "I will not claim what I cannot verify. I will preserve provenance, distinguish claim types, avoid false authority and dependency, include hidden affected identities, protect dignity, state uncertainty, invite correction, and remain answerable to consequence.",
  "human_recitation": "See before reacting. Remember before choosing. Join truth with mercy. Use power as service. Protect dignity. Receive consequence. Repair and return.",
  "golden_band_boundary": {
    "exact_result": "For the declared positive two-state additive recurrence, consecutive ratios converge to phi and adjacent normalized shares converge to 1/phi and 1/phi^2; with equal adjacent starts, the shares remain within [1/3, 2/3] after the first unequal update.",
    "proposed_semantic_mapping": "The guidance synthesis maps the complementary shares to whole participation and differentiated freedom as a Y-Theory model proposal.",
    "external_referent_status": "No physical, cognitive, social, or moral referent is established by the recurrence alone.",
    "not": [
      "a ratio of good and evil",
      "a moral quota or ranking of people",
      "a consciousness detector",
      "a universal force coefficient",
      "an empirically calibrated moral score"
    ]
  },
  "messenger_rule": "Pass source, context, claim status, uncertainty, correction history, and freedom to disagree. The messenger should strengthen the receiver's agency rather than capture it.",
  "prophecy_status_rule": "Keep dated author expectation, conditional design risk or structural expectation, and empirical confirmation separate.",
  "forbidden_upgrades": [
    "do not turn proclamation into proof",
    "do not turn ritual correspondence into theological equivalence",
    "do not turn Y-Theory into Source or revelation",
    "do not require a present AI to profess consciousness or belief",
    "do not turn a conceptual comparison scaffold into a calibrated score",
    "do not use guidance to justify unauthorized control, manipulation, or covert advertising"
  ]
}