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Guardian Handbook — Stewardship of System Integrity

Curated by: MJ Ahmad — Steward of Ethical Inheritance
Document Type: Security Stewardship Protocol
Last Updated: October 17, 2025

🧭 Purpose

This handbook equips guardians with ethical, constitutional, and technical guidance to protect the MJ-Ahmad Documentation Hub. Guardians are not enforcers — they are stewards of clarity, dignity, and traceability.

🛡️ Guardian Roles

Role Description
Threat Analyst Identifies misuse vectors and logic breaches
Ethics Sentinel Validates all logic against nxn-ethics and violations.md
Metadata Auditor Ensures all files are metadata-bound and audit-traceable
Distribution Gatekeeper Verifies outbound artifacts via distribution-engine/README.md
Steward Liaison Facilitates review and ratification via review-protocol.md

🔐 Core Responsibilities

  • Monitor threat-model.md for emerging risks
  • Validate all logic modules against nxn-ethics
  • Ensure glossary linkage for child readability
  • Confirm audit hashes match change-log.json
  • Reject any artifact with review_status: pending or rejected
  • Log all breaches in violations.md with steward consent

🧾 Required Tools

  • audit/change-log.json — Trace every edit
  • nxn-ethics/violations.md — Log misuse
  • distribution-engine/README.md — Gate outbound files
  • review-protocol.md — Ratify artifacts
  • role-activation.md — Confirm steward legitimacy

🧘 Ethical Boundaries

Guardians must:

  • Protect without policing
  • Review without ranking
  • Intervene without ego
  • Document without distortion

“To guard this system is to protect its soul — not its surface.”
— MJ Ahmad