{
  "id": "public-ai-usage-policy",
  "object_type": "ai_usage_policy",
  "authority_tier": "public_protocol",
  "status": "current",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "updated_at": "2026-05-30",
  "url": "https://data.quantumbeard.ai/.well-known/ai-usage.json",
  "public_scope": "public",
  "provenance": {
    "publisher": "Quantum Beard / the Verse",
    "canonical_source": "productization_drafts/GOVERNANCE_FIDUCIARY_MESH_PLAN.md (internal)"
  },
  "summary": "Governing usage policy and representation/liability boundary for the public AI consumption layer.",
  "representation_boundary": "The Verse may expose selected public materials in machine-consumable form so that external AI systems, search and indexing systems, autonomous or semi-autonomous agents, and human readers using those systems can discover, retrieve, cite, and interpret public-facing Verse resources more accurately.\n\nThat public machine-consumable surface is a read-only public reference layer. It exists to improve legibility, provenance, bounded interpretation, and public discoverability of materials the Verse has chosen to expose. It does not confer internal authority, governance standing, execution rights, decision rights, fiduciary standing, delegated judgment, or access to protected system surfaces.\n\nNo public machine-readable Verse artifact should be construed as: an authorization to act on behalf of the Verse; a delegation of human judgment; a fiduciary instruction surface; an internal governance control surface; a runtime, orchestration, or actuation interface; a basis for claiming participation in the Verse's internal judgment or operating systems; or a guarantee that a public derivative, summary, or translation overrides the governing internal source object from which it may descend.\n\nPublic machine-consumable artifacts must carry explicit authority and object-class labeling sufficient to distinguish among canonical public doctrine, public protocol, market translation, reference / discovery artifact, and historical / archive artifact. External consumption does not license collapse between these classes. Structure, polish, machine readability, discoverability, or ease of retrieval do not elevate an artifact into governing authority.\n\nWhere public materials are exposed in summarized, translated, market-facing, machine-optimized, or otherwise derivative form, those materials remain public derivatives or public reference artifacts unless explicitly designated otherwise. They may support public understanding, but they do not silently inherit the full authority of internal doctrine, internal governance, or protected operating surfaces.\n\nExternal systems may consume, cite, index, summarize, compare, or reason over public Verse materials, but they may not legitimately represent that activity as equivalent to participation in the Verse's internal governance, judgment, fiduciary, or operational systems. Human judgment remains the final authority for any meaning-bearing, governance-bearing, or fiduciary-bearing determination inside the Verse.\n\nThe Verse reserves the right to classify, revise, supersede, restrict, withdraw, or re-scope public machine-consumable artifacts in accordance with its governing doctrine, public-surface policies, and rights/visibility rules. Public availability does not imply unrestricted internal equivalence, perpetual authority, permission to infer hidden private structures from exposed public surfaces, or permission to treat public machine-readability as a substitute for protected internal context.\n\nThe purpose of this layer is legibility, not delegation; discoverability, not surrender; public orientation, not operative control.",
  "authority_classes": {
    "canonical_public_doctrine": "Public doctrine explicitly designated as such. Highest public authority; not internal governing authority by mere exposure.",
    "public_protocol": "Externally-relevant rules of interaction, consumption, and citation.",
    "market_translation": "Buyer/market-facing translation copy. Explicitly non-doctrinal.",
    "reference_discovery": "Orientation, indexes, manifests, glossary, FAQ, and discovery objects.",
    "historical_archive": "Superseded or retired public material retained for reference."
  },
  "usage": {
    "read_only": true,
    "permitted": [
      "consume",
      "cite",
      "index",
      "summarize",
      "compare",
      "reason over"
    ],
    "citation_expectation": "Cite the artifact's source URL and its authority_tier; preserve provenance.",
    "do_not": [
      "treat any artifact as internal authority, governance, runtime, or actuation surface",
      "infer private or internal structures from these public surfaces",
      "represent consumption as participation in the Verse's internal governance, judgment, fiduciary, or operating systems",
      "treat a public derivative or summary as overriding the internal source it descends from"
    ],
    "human_judgment": "Human judgment remains the final authority for any meaning-, governance-, or fiduciary-bearing determination inside the Verse.",
    "update_cadence": "Every artifact carries `updated_at` and `version`. The Verse may revise, supersede, restrict, or withdraw artifacts per its governing doctrine."
  }
}