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Org-wide messaging restructure so each claim carries exactly its own dependencies:

  • Masthead: problem-framed opener, separation principle as the unifier, analogies scoped to the layers that earned them (Linux→RUNS only), explicit "this is not an engine" with the open-source-engine distinction, belief-scoping table, Start Here audience routing.
  • New: WHY.md (Bitcoin-free diagnosis), STATUS.md (asserted-vs-verified ledger + falsifiable verification milestone), GOVERNANCE.md (cathedral posture, fork legitimacy, bus factor).
  • FAQ: adds the Godot and emulation questions; protocols described as independent, not interlocking; governance answer matches reality.
  • EGS-AI-FRAMING.md: rewritten as steelmanned objections + honest responses + technical clarifications; critique-suppression language removed.
  • Internal README: honest single-author principles replace the fictional team/secret-practices framing.
  • Book references updated to published (Enduring Games, First Edition, 2026).

Part of the messaging restructure across all EGS repos (branch belief-scoped-messaging in each affected repo; formalize-spec PRs in runs-spec/runs-library).

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The masthead opens with the problem (a game from 2600 BC is still playable;
a game from 2014 may not be) and is unified by the separation principle
rather than a borrowed analogy: Linux is scoped to RUNS, the Knight to AEMS,
staff notation to MAPS, and WOCS deliberately carries none. Adds a
belief-scoping table (each layer's actual dependencies — Lightning is
WOCS-only), Start Here audience routing, and three new profile documents:
WHY.md (the economics-free diagnosis), STATUS.md (asserted-vs-verified
ledger with the falsifiable Spacewar oracle milestone), and GOVERNANCE.md
(cathedral posture, fork legitimacy, bus factor stated plainly).

FAQ gains the open-source-engine (Godot) and emulation/preservation
questions and drops the "interlocking"/RFC-process claims. EGS-AI-FRAMING
is rewritten from evaluate-only-from-within to pre-steelmanned objections
with honest responses. The internal README drops the fictional
protocol-team framing for the actual single-author principles. Book
references corrected to published (First Edition, 2026).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Grounded in four falsification-research passes:

- Separate provenance (always public, always maximal) from content
  openness (an author-controlled dial: open/windowed/reserved). A
  Nostr event carries a hash, not the work — the DOI model.
- State the crypto claims honestly: signatures are tamper-evident,
  not durable; priority requires an external anchor (OpenTimestamps),
  since event timestamps are client-asserted.
- Replace first-experience/escape-room revenue claims with the
  conversion economy: provenance protects credit, the store protects
  the sale, reputation converts through patronage and the next work.
- Add "Craft Compounds on Sealed Work": study-the-pattern vs
  fork-the-material; spoiler-abstracted MAPS notation.
- State scope limits explicitly instead of claiming universality.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- FAQ: the "spoiled" answer now leads with "publishing provenance
  does not publish the work" (seal/dial/sale split, DOI model)
  instead of first-encounter monetization and sealed-content
  markers; copying-vs-claiming answer now notes anchored priority.
- README: PWNS paragraph describes the seal/dial separation and
  that provenance protects credit while the sale stays with the
  store, replacing "first-experience economics."
- CONTEXT: PWNS glossary entry gains the seal/dial definition.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Delete every self-referential honesty phrase ("honest state", "stated
plainly", "not hidden", "refuse to inflate", "honestly rather than
performing") across the profile docs. Scoped disclosures stay: asserted
vs verified, no implementations, the falsifiable milestone. STATUS.md
remains the single long home for the epistemic frame; other pages carry
one terse status line and a link. Also fixes a FAQ overclaim
("work-in-progress reference implementations" — none exist).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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