The Principia Machina/TPS

Instruction artifact; machine-optimized text. Part of the TPM hub. Human-only edit (TPS 5.13). TPS VERSION 0.1.0, proposed, revision 3 of the proposal, landing an external review of 2026-09-17; declaration by H-DECL pending; STATUS: DRAFT until the genesis line is landed. TPS is one artifact, TPS.txt, published here as a root page and 45 section pages, each carrying its text verbatim. The terminal sentinel is the line beginning END OF ARTIFACT; a copy without it is truncated.

File digest SHA-256 of TPS.txt: 01243c3b283f7df7de42c2b59e6630583f25ac19498f6d26175db8e531be01ee. A file fingerprint for provenance only; it is not a TPM digest, which TPX alone computes (TPS 2.5, 5.6). The artifact head below, each part heading and every section page in outline order, then the sentinel, reproduce the file byte for byte.

A map for human readers, with the tables and diagrams: TPS 0.1.0 Contents. Keys and terms: process key, structure key, definition of terms.

Artifact head

THE PRINCIPIA MACHINA SPECIFICATION (TPS)
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TPS VERSION: 0.1.0
(proposed by branch tps_full_specification under DI-1.1; declared by
H-DECL by landing the genesis line; the digest is computed by TPX at
publication, never by hand)

READING CONVENTIONS, for this file
  Rule ID     <page address>.<n>, for example 2.5.3; part 6 keeps AC-n.m.
  Source tag  [I-nnn] [B-nn] [C-nn] cite tps_inventory; [PR-IV] and
              [PR-DP] cite the two profile anchors at tps_inventory
              C-27; [F1] [F2] cite charter findings; [DI-n.m] cites a
              selection; [AUTHORED] marks text with no prior source.
  OWED line   a rule TPS cannot yet state: requirement, kind of block
              (absence, convention, computation), C-ID.
  NOTE line   non-normative.
  BASIS line  a reason, non-normative; the reasons are collected in
              part 8.
  Names       every capitalized name is defined in 1.1 or in the section
              1.1 points to; a name used before its section is defined in
              1.1 first.
Page header, every page: address and title; purpose; governing section
(self); version 0.1.0 (proposed); class instruction artifact; audience.

Outline

Part 0

Front Matter

0.1 Front matter and change record

Part 1

Foundations and Scope

1.1 Vocabulary

1.2 Scope and residence

1.3 System of record and containers

1.4 Design basis

Part 2

The Full Kernel

2.1 The Full Kernel and immutability

2.2 The Prime Kernel

2.3 The Translation Manifold

2.4 The Measure Set

2.5 Digests and the digest gate

Part 3

The Research Register

3.1 Records, prefixes and volumes

3.2 Record fields and regime

3.3 Record classes and schemas

3.4 Inheritance under copy-forward

Part 4

The Congruence Protocol

4.1 The audit and its authority

4.2 Check classes and the check-class matrix

4.3 The strike skeleton

4.4 The strike rule

4.5 TMS compliance

4.6 The strike shape and the known limit

Part 5

The Public Recorder

5.1 The three parts and the placement rule

5.2 The platform

5.3 TPX

5.4 PRB

5.5 The new-container flow

5.6 Certificate, declarations and the build chain

5.7 The lock

5.8 The collaboration page

5.9 Landing, work blocks and post-refusal

5.10 The badge and staleness

5.11 The index of record

5.12 The control panel and its logs

5.13 Permissions

5.14 AI certification

5.15 Help sets, diagrams and the references page

Part 6

Agent Contract

6.1 Scope and conformance

6.2 Untrusted input and authorization

6.3 Decision items

6.4 Working a container

6.5 Certification, agent side

Part 7

Non-Goals and Declared Parameters

7.1 Non-goals

7.2 Declared parameters

Part 8

Sources

8.1 The foundations record as source

8.2 Decision bases and excluded alternatives

8.3 References

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