ontogrammatic-system
by bdf1992
Pattern + runnable validator for turning source events into typed, inspectable, lineage-bearing forms (ontograms). Triggers when designing a system that grows by generation and needs every artifact to carry its formation trail; introducing a new typed artifact kind; building an admission validator; refusing to ship a generator without a certifier; diagnosing "ontogram landfill" (artifacts growing faster than trust); or working on Cardinal canon proposals and admits. Ships with the Axiomatic Machine (seven CHECK_OPS returning admit reject needs_instrumentation with per-check receipts), the Field as files-on-disk, sessions as typed ontograms, the smell-test as a runnable landfill detector, and a dashboard read-cut. Two trust axes are first-class: authorship (authored vs programmatic) and inference_grade (deterministic through deliberation). Phase 3 stub exists for the prompt-writer cycle (the 4.0 hypothesis).