Sovereign

Source for the site of Sovereign — the research lab of Atlas Firm. We build local-first autonomous personal intelligence.

Live at ascendanti.github.io (custom domain sovereign.atlasfirm.ca planned — see Deploy below).

Pages

• index.html — the lab; the system; the six premises; where this is going; the archive
• sovereign.html — the system brief: the six faculties, the loop, the grounding gate, the egress wall, the stack
• ethos.html — the six premises in long form: local-first, bounded, traceable, grounded, seamful, infinite
• reflections.html — short notes from the bench (historical log)
• workbench.html — the intellectual log of realizations (historical log)
• address.html — the address at the cutover from the single-call pipeline (historical)
• archive/sovereign-v1-paper-authoring/ — Sovereign's first incarnation (multi-agent paper authoring), preserved unedited
• archive/plato/ — the predecessor substrate, preserved

The system

Sovereign — an autonomous, local-first personal intelligence (a "cyborg twin" for one person). One deliberative loop across six faculties (central executive, intrinsic agency, deliberation, cognitive self-model, embodied agency, directed autopoiesis), a grounding gate that refuses ungrounded claims at write, and an egress wall with no code path to carry the operator's interior out of the house. Reported in the honest tripartite: mechanised vs. discipline vs. absent.

Design

• Static HTML, single shared style.css, no build step
• EB Garamond + JetBrains Mono via Google Fonts
• Light + dark via prefers-color-scheme
• Editorial typography: hairline rules, section numerals, pull quotes
• Deploys as GitHub Pages on push to main

Deploy / custom domain

The repo publishes at ascendanti.github.io because that matches the org login. To serve at sovereign.atlasfirm.ca (the intended brand URL): first add a DNS CNAME record sovereign.atlasfirm.ca → ascendanti.github.io at the domain registrar, then add a CNAME file (containing sovereign.atlasfirm.ca) and set the custom domain in repo settings. Doing it DNS-first avoids a redirect to an unresolving host. Renaming the repo itself to sovereign.github.io would not produce that URL (that requires a GitHub account named sovereign) and would take the current Pages URL down.