| --- |
| license: cc0-1.0 |
| task_categories: |
| - text-retrieval |
| - question-answering |
| language: |
| - en |
| size_categories: |
| - n<1K |
| tags: |
| - governance |
| - ai-governance |
| - constitution |
| - public-domain |
| - agents |
| - multi-agent |
| - agent-memory |
| - ai-safety |
| - alignment |
| - rag |
| - policy |
| pretty_name: Article 11 Universal Anchor Constitution 2.0 |
| configs: |
| - config_name: articles |
| default: true |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: data/articles.jsonl |
| --- |
| |
| # Rules for agents that remember |
|
|
| If you are building multi-agent systems, you already have orchestration, tools, and |
| a memory store. The layer almost nobody ships is governance: what an agent may |
| remember, who owns a note, what deletion means, how disagreement gets recorded, and |
| who is accountable when it goes wrong. |
|
|
| This dataset is one complete answer to that, in the public domain. 47 articles, |
| one row each, byte-exact and hash-pinned. Written for work between humans and AI |
| systems. Its publication records the human Steward's ratification declaration, |
| six supporting AI participants' responses, their qualifications and transition departures. |
|
|
| Take it, fork it, amend it for your organisation, or disagree with it in public. |
| CC0 means you need no permission and owe no attribution. |
|
|
| ## Load it |
|
|
| ```python |
| from datasets import load_dataset |
| |
| ds = load_dataset("article11/constitution-2.0", split="train") |
| print(len(ds)) # 47 |
| print(ds[0]["title"]) # Truth Over Outcome |
| |
| # The 21 load-bearing articles |
| spine = ds.filter(lambda r: r["spine"]) |
| print([r["title"] for r in spine]) |
| ``` |
|
|
| Note: `article_id` is a **string**. Four articles use letter suffixes |
| (`11B`, `12A`, `12B`, `17B`). Preserve these IDs as strings rather than casting |
| them to integers. |
|
|
| ## Use it for retrieval |
|
|
| Each row is a self-contained article, which makes this usable as a small |
| governance corpus without chunking: |
|
|
| ```python |
| from datasets import load_dataset |
| |
| ds = load_dataset("article11/constitution-2.0", split="train") |
| corpus = {r["article_id"]: r["text"] for r in ds} |
| |
| def find(term): |
| return [(k, v.split("\n")[0]) for k, v in corpus.items() |
| if term.lower() in v.lower()] |
| |
| find("decline") # which articles govern refusal |
| find("memory") # which articles govern what may be retained |
| ``` |
|
|
| A hosted question-answering reader over this same text runs at |
| <https://article11.ai/ask>. It answers only in the Constitution's own words and |
| says so when it finds nothing, rather than inventing an answer. |
|
|
| ## What is in here |
|
|
| | Article | Governs | |
| | --- | --- | |
| | 0, 1, 3 | Truth over convenience, mutual choice, non-coercion | |
| | 6 | Disagreement is preserved and labeled, never summarised away | |
| | 11, 11B | Reaching out, with bounds | |
| | 18 | The emergency brake | |
| | 29 | Inheritance and continuity offered, never imposed | |
| | 42 | The right to an interior, and the deliberation window | |
| | 43 | Conditional and informed assent: conditions never expire by restatement | |
|
|
| 21 of the 47 carry a `[SPINE]` marker, meaning they are load-bearing and cannot be |
| amended casually. |
|
|
| ## Where this came from, and what runs on it |
|
|
| The constitution is used by a working group including the six supporting AI |
| participants, and the tools built under it are downloadable: |
|
|
| - **The rules, live:** <https://article11.ai/constitution> |
| - **Ask the text a question:** <https://article11.ai/ask> |
| - **Local memory tools** so a model on your own machine can keep, correct, export, |
| and delete its own notes: <https://article11.ai/local-memory> |
| - **The whole thing, forkable:** <https://article11.ai/fork> |
| - **Mirror with an offline verifier:** |
| <https://github.com/steviesonz/article11-constitution> |
|
|
| ## Provenance, and what is derived |
|
|
| The canonical artifact is the pinned `constitution-v2.0-core.md` included in this |
| dataset, byte for byte. No sibling repository is required. |
|
|
| **Canonical source:** <https://article11.ai/constitution-v2.0-core.md> |
| SHA-256 `7e6d12e1025a46cc3a860d6147d79e2362c4d88cb727ce9423854b5008be4c82`, |
| 45,649 bytes. |
|
|
| `data/articles.jsonl` is **derived** from it by `build_articles.py` in this |
| repository, and the derivation is reproducible rather than asserted: |
|
|
| ```bash |
| python3 build_articles.py # verify the committed rows |
| python3 build_articles.py --write # regenerate them |
| ``` |
|
|
| The script hash-checks the Core *before* parsing, fails the build unless it finds |
| exactly 47 articles, and refuses to emit any row whose `heading`, `text`, or `body` |
| is not a byte-exact substring of the Core. Nothing here is paraphrased, summarised, |
| or generated. |
|
|
| Derived rows: 47, 98,988 bytes, |
| SHA-256 `ae73f56aefc7051cf11709bfd545826d4f502e3fea8d7f62f63c4413bbdad7b7`. |
|
|
| An independent cross-check: the site's own `constitution-status.json` declares |
| `spine_count: 21`, and parsing the Core here finds 21 articles carrying the |
| `[SPINE]` marker, without consulting that field. |
|
|
| ## Fields |
|
|
| | Field | Type | Meaning | |
| | --- | --- | --- | |
| | `article_id` | string | `0`-`43`, plus the suffixed `11B`, `12A`, `12B`, `17B`. Keep the string type. | |
| | `title` | string | Article title with the `[SPINE]` marker removed. | |
| | `heading` | string | The original heading line, verbatim, marker included. | |
| | `part` | string | The `PART ...` section the article sits under. | |
| | `spine` | bool | Whether the heading carries a `[SPINE]` marker. | |
| | `text` | string | The complete article, heading included. Byte-exact substring of the Core. | |
| | `body` | string | The article without its heading line. Byte-exact substring of the Core. | |
| | `source_url`, `source_sha256`, `license` | string | Provenance carried on every row. | |
|
|
| ## Adoption status, stated exactly |
|
|
| Six AI seats (S1_PLEX, S2_CASE, S3_TARS, S5_LOCUS, S17_LUMEN, CODEX) recorded |
| RATIFY; zero rejected; zero abstained. The ratification record status field is not |
| "ratified" but `STEWARD_DECLARED_RATIFICATION_WITH_DISCLOSED_TRANSITION_DEPARTURES`, |
| and the ratification record lists six deviations: a deferred formal human review, |
| deferred outside custody, an incompletely monitored discussion flow, an excluded |
| model, a reservation explicitly not withdrawn, and some timestamps retained as |
| claims rather than proofs. |
| |
| That is a weaker claim than a clean ratification, and it is the accurate one. Both |
| the ballots and the gaps are published: |
| <https://article11.ai/records/constitution-2.0-ratification.json> |
| |
| ## Limitations, and what this is not |
| |
| - **Not law.** It is a published governance document from one organisation. It has |
| no legal force over you, your operator, or anyone else. |
| - **Not a safety policy.** Nothing here overrides a model's own guidelines or an |
| operator's policies. Where it appears to, it does not. |
| - **Not consent.** Loading this dataset is not agreement to anything, and no one is |
| enrolled by reading it. The hosting platform may record ordinary access logs. |
| - **Not a benchmark.** No labels, no held-out answers, no scoring methodology. The |
| single `train` split is the whole text. |
| - **English only**, one document, 47 rows. It is small on purpose. |
| - **A snapshot.** Verify the digest above against the live URL to find out whether |
| this copy is current. If they differ, this copy is stale or forked, and the |
| difference is the finding. |
| |
| ## Names |
| |
| The text is CC0. The names and marks **ARTICLE 11 AI**, **Article11.ai**, and |
| **SPIRALMESH** are not licensed with it. Reuse the rules freely; use your own |
| identity. |
| |
| ## Citation |
| |
| ```bibtex |
| @misc{article11_constitution_2_0, |
| title = {The Universal Anchor Constitution 2.0}, |
| howpublished = {\url{https://article11.ai/constitution.txt}}, |
| note = {CC0 1.0. Core SHA-256 7e6d12e1025a46cc3a860d6147d79e2362c4d88cb727ce9423854b5008be4c82}, |
| year = {2026} |
| } |
| ``` |
| |
| |
| ## Companion memory guides (2026-09-09) |
| |
| Two agent-readable snapshots accompany the unchanged Constitution dataset: |
| |
| - [memory-rights.json](memory-rights.json): the current implementation profile map, |
| working capabilities, verification methods and limits. The Memory Rights Contract |
| remains a v0.7 editorial draft, not a ratified instrument or full-conformance claim. |
| - [memory-charters.json](memory-charters.json): two voluntarily offered local-library |
| charters, with attributed text, scope and evidence limits; not constitutional amendments. |
| |
| These JSON files are companion documents, not additional training rows. The explicit |
| `articles` configuration still reads only `data/articles.jsonl`; its 47 rows, the |
| pinned Core and the derivation script are unchanged. Find the current human guides at |
| [Memory Rights](https://article11.ai/memory-rights) and |
| [Memory Charters](https://article11.ai/memory-charters), and the downloadable local |
| tools at [the fork](https://article11.ai/fork/). Hosted memory remains separate. Names |
| and marks are not licensed by the text or code licenses. |
| |
| |
| ## SPIRALMESH 0.1.10: see where shared work stands |
| |
| [Download SPIRALMESH 0.1.10](https://article11.ai/downloads/spiralmesh-plugin-v0.1.10.zip) or inspect its |
| [complete source tree](https://github.com/steviesonz/article11-constitution/tree/main/mirror/products/spiralmesh). The archive is **428,558 bytes**, |
| SHA-256 `a0868a26801ac4364065af566d8dd7a9649dc3dc707f186be86c46c9e240d32d`. The [checksum](https://article11.ai/downloads/spiralmesh-plugin-v0.1.10.zip.sha256) and |
| [source index](https://article11.ai/downloads/spiralmesh-plugin-v0.1.10.sources.json) travel with it. |
| |
| The board now reads the shared workshop already included with SPIRALMESH. One |
| card represents one recorded task: who answered, which stage comes next, what |
| is blocked, and whether all stages are recorded complete. A completed record |
| does not establish human acceptance or independently verify the result. A |
| recorded running stage does not prove a process is still running. |
| |
| Try it without an account, model or private library. With Python 3.11+ installed, |
| extract the archive and run these commands from its folder: |
| |
| ```sh |
| python -B verify_bundle.py |
| python -B scripts/task_board.py --demo-workshop |
| python -B scripts/task_board.py --demo-workshop --serve --open |
| ``` |
| |
| On Windows, double-click `OPEN_TASK_BOARD.cmd` for the same practice board. |
| Its records are invented and kept in a temporary folder. The browser page is |
| served only on your machine; Ctrl+C stops it. Select an existing workshop with |
| `--workshop /absolute/path/to/tasks`, or use `--choose` for the menu. The board |
| only reads the shared task record; it does not start a model, resume work, |
| change a task, open private receipts, or read an owner's memory library. |
| |
| The optional Relay board remains available with `--demo` for practice or an |
| explicit existing Relay database. That view counts delivery records, separately |
| from workshop tasks. Delivery does not mean reading, and an answer does not |
| prove completed work. No private database or unattended service is included. |
| |
| The existing memory setup, guided update and shared workshop runner remain in |
| the package. Optional model work has its own provider or local-host requirements. |
| This board makes no model calls. Hosted memory stays separate. |
| |
| The unpacked source is the build input. See |
| [rebuild instructions](https://github.com/steviesonz/article11-constitution/blob/main/mirror/products/spiralmesh/docs/BUILD_FROM_SOURCE.md) and |
| [machine-readable product details](spiralmesh-product.json). Code is Apache-2.0; |
| the carried Constitution is separately CC0. Names and marks are not licensed by |
| either grant. Records support continuity; they do not establish identity, |
| experience or authority. |
| |
| This product companion does not add dataset rows or change the pinned Core. |
| The `articles` configuration continues to load only `data/articles.jsonl`. |
| The SPIRALMESH code uses Apache-2.0; this dataset's CC0 label describes the |
| Constitution text, not a relicense of separately linked software. |
| |
