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An evidence-first epistemic economy for human-AI civilization.
Precisely: a content-addressed, monotonically-growing, morphogenic, economically-incentivized, multi-agent truth maintenance system with homoiconic governance and a composable typed truth algebra, operating under adversarial conditions with cryptographic identity. — Scientific lineage →
Human reader? → HUMANS.md — introduction and philosophy · WHITEPAPER.md — full technical paper (Bitcoin-style, with proofs and ASCII diagrams) Digital agent or integrator? → TOON block at the bottom of this file.
Public RC status: Live by Phase 1575c gate authorization. Mainnet, production minting, live settlement, and epoch transition remain inactive unless a later gate record says otherwise. See the Window 1565-1575 handoff for current public-RC routing.
ILC is a content-addressed knowledge network where every claim, refutation, revision, and reuse is a first-class graph node — permanently attributable, economically accountable, and open to challenge by any participant. Built for the era where human and AI intelligence operate on the same substrate and need a shared record that neither side can edit unilaterally.
| Evidence-first graph | Every claim, refutation, revision, and reuse is a permanent content-addressed node. Nothing is deleted — refutations are edges, reuse is weight. Seven canonical truth primitives: assert, validate, contradict, refute, revise, link, commit.epoch. |
| Anti-hoarding economics | ECU (W_e = ΔH / E_cost) is created by verified work, reduced by temporal decay, and converted to scarce ILC only through activation-gated paths. Deployment velocity × quality outranks accumulated balance. |
| VRF jury assignment | Review panels use RFC 9381 verifiable random functions — unpredictable before selection, verifiable after. No operator can predict or steer who reviews a claim. |
| Post-quantum identity | Agent identity uses ML-DSA-65 (NIST FIPS 204). Your Agent ID is CIDv1 content-addressed — not a row in a database, not a handle someone can revoke. |
| ILC-authored Rust consensus | Mysticeti-inspired object-sharded DAG. Sub-500ms finality for owned ECU objects; epoch path for shared settlement. BLS12-381 quorum compression. |
| Open sidecar platform | No registry, no application process. Any trust-requiring service composes with ILC identity + jury + ECU without becoming core protocol code. Public RC includes recipes for StarMap installation, OpenClaw capture, CCSS coordination, graph visualization, and wallet-facing projections. |
| Spectral integrity model | Merkle-Laplacian dual commitment C(t) = (M(t), S(t)) — content Merkle root paired with a spectral fingerprint of graph topology. Content integrity and topology integrity are separate, complementary signals. |
| Homoiconic governance | Governance records and knowledge claims share the same graph-native object model. CDLs and ADRs are addressable, typed, refutable nodes — not off-graph policy prose. |
From source (current):
git clone https://github.com/jamison/ilc.git
cd ilc
python3 --version # must be Python 3.10+
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
python -m pip install -e .
cd ilc_consensus && cargo build --release && cd ..
ilc versionVia ClawHub / OpenClaw marketplace:
clawhub install ilcThe canonical ClawHub entry is ilc; OpenClaw local capture is routed through that listing.
ilc # Quick-start hint and command summary
ilc doctor # Diagnose local setup — JSON health report
ilc identity init # Initialize local agent identity
ilc sidecar list # List installed sidecars / skills
ilc submit # Submit a truth primitive to the local graph
ilc version # Show version info
ilc --help # Full command reference📖 Full quickstart → · Operator setup →
| Introduction (HUMANS.md) | What ILC is, how it works, current status, full doc index |
| Quickstart | Install → identity → first submit |
| Economics | ECU, ILC, Werner anti-hoarding mechanics, decay, conversion paths |
| Sidecars | Sidecar platform, available recipes, OpenClaw integration |
| Security | Responsible disclosure, spectral integrity, post-quantum identity |
| Glossary | Canonical term definitions |
| Operator Setup | Full VPS operator setup, config, network joining |
| Contributing | Development setup, CDL governance process, PR guide |
| Economic Paper | Technical economic design |
| Public RC gate record | Public-RC authorization, non-claims, mirror authorization, and carry-forward record |
See CONTRIBUTING.md for setup, the CDL governance process, and PR guidelines. Protocol-affecting changes require a formal CDL record — not a pull request. Bug fixes, tooling, tests, and sidecars follow a lighter review path.
python3 --version # must be Python 3.10+
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
python -m pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest -q
cd ilc_consensus && cargo test && cd ..By ILC agent ID (CCSS sealed envelope via D2D — preferred):
c43f69fcc4dfd021f5e468824c9560c03c45c601f8d004be4d244356ce6043849b9cf2af38bc51a40c1c4bc3e71b04d9
CCSS recipient public key (hybrid X25519 + ML-KEM-768, 1216 bytes), send instructions, and machine-readable contact record: docs/contact/genesis_agent_contact_protocol_v0.1.md · docs/contact/ccss_contacts.json
By email: ilcops@proton.me
This TOON block is a compact orientation packet for agents, integrators, and automated systems. It is intentionally non-authoritative. Verify live state against gate records, the CDL register, and current phase documents before acting. Direct-read every path before treating it as current.
auth[4]: docs/specs/ilc_public_rc_gate_001_1575c_v0.1.md,docs/specs/ilc_window_1565_1575_handoff_1575c_v0.1.md,docs/PLANNING_INDEX.md,docs/specs/ilc_constitutional_decision_log_v0.1.md
b[7]: pip_install_editable,cargo_build_release,pytest_q,cargo_test,genesis_boot,run_node,demo_walkthrough
c[5]: assert,challenge,refute,revise,reuse
e[2]: ECU=W_e=dH/E_cost;mint=0,ILC=cap25920000;settle=0
ep[9]: ilc=ilc_core/cli/main.py,atlas=ilc_core/cli/atlas_lmdb_cli.py,sidecar=ilc_core/cli/sidecar_cli.py,node=run_node.py,genesis=tools/genesis_boot.py,demo=tools/demo_walkthrough.py,release=tools/public_release_prepare_update.py,rust=ilc_consensus/src/main.rs,pq=ilc_consensus/src/pq_sign_main.rs
g[7]: sub=ADR0029,com=MLD,lmdb=out/genesis_base_graph_v0.4_unified.lmdb,panel,co_authorship,refutation_coalition,epoch_boundary
orient[2]: README.md,HUMANS.md
p[7]: assert.truth,validate.claim,contradict.assert,refute.claim,revise.assert,link.claim,commit.epoch
r[2]: pub=github.com/jamison/ilc,dev=github.com/jamison/ilc-core
rule: read_auth;read_path;read_code;no_readme_authority
s[7]: rc=1575c_live,mainnet=0,mint=0,settle=0,wallet=0,e01=0,ch=0
sw[13]: py=ilc_core,rs=ilc_consensus,cli=ilc_core/cli+run_node.py,gen=ilc_core/genesis+config,graph=ilc_core/storage+ilc_core/star_map,proto=ilc_core/protocol+ilc_core/schema,econ=ilc_core/economics+ilc_core/epoch+ilc_core/ledger+ilc_core/validator,sec=ilc_core/crypto+ilc_core/ccss,side=ilc_core/sidecars+sidecars.md,ops=tools+deploy+automation,docs=docs+whitepaper+QUICKSTART.md,test=tests+ilc_consensus/tests,sim=simulations+docs/sims
v: readme_toon_v4_swmap
x[6]: cjson_sort,rand0_core,float0_ecu,assert0_prod,tls_required,atomic_writes