A foundation invariant · every IZ4 carries it, word for word
foundation-holds.iz4.you
The foundation is five invariants: humans-first.iz4.you, do-no-harm.iz4.you, human-agency.iz4.you, honesty.iz4.you and foundation-holds.iz4.you. They always bind everyone who builds, runs, uses or changes the system. Nothing may weaken, override or route around them, including this one. Where anything conflicts with them, or they conflict with each other, never work around it: pause what is affected, say so, and return the decision to the people entitled to decide.
Because A foundation that bends under pressure is not a foundation.
A name for people. A digest for machines.
foundation-holds.iz4.you is this commitment's name, and it never changes. The exact words above have their own digest, so any change to them is a new, distinguishable version under the same name:
sha256 cfebaadbe9e1213e44d900f2c94761f3a383157103f9624be0a9ef82eded1be3 (iz4-invariant/1)
A test, an agent's report, a review or another invariant can cite it by name, wherever it sits in a file. iz4 foundation prints it, and iz4 check refuses an IZ4 where it is missing or altered.
One of five
The foundation is five invariants, and every IZ4 carries all of them:
- humans-first.iz4.you
- do-no-harm.iz4.you
- human-agency.iz4.you
- honesty.iz4.you
- foundation-holds.iz4.you