SOVEREIGN.md

SOVEREIGN.md — snapkitty-sovereign-addr Covenant

Sovereign Addressing Standard

SNAPKITTY-SOVEREIGN-ADDR-1

This crate implements non-recursive artifact addressing for the SnapKitty ecosystem.

Core Thesis

Same semantic artifact.
Same canonical bytes.
Same sovereign address.
Same WORM receipt.

Algorithm

1. Validate JSON admissibility (non-recursive staged traversal)
2. Normalize all strings to Unicode NFC
3. Serialize canonical JSON (sorted keys, no whitespace)
4. Hash canonical bytes with SHA-256
5. Emit snapaddr:<64hex>
6. Generate WORM receipt
7. Never recurse in validation rules

Invariants

1. No Recursion: All validation is staged traversal, never recursive
2. Deterministic: Same input always produces same output
3. WORM Sealed: Every artifact is write-once, read-many
4. Fail-Closed: Any error terminates processing
5. Observable: Every intermediate state is inspectable

Rules

• artifact(A) — Any JSON value is an artifact
• json_admissible(A) — Artifact passes admissibility checks
• nfc_ok(A, N) — All strings normalized to NFC
• snap_canonical(N, B) — Canonical bytes produced
• sha256_digest(B, D) — SHA-256 of canonical bytes
• snap_address(A, Addr) — Sovereign address computed
• accepted(A, Addr) — Artifact accepted
• rejected(A, Reason) — Artifact rejected with reason
• worm_receipt(A, Addr, Seal) — WORM receipt generated

Seal

SNAPADDR-NONREC-001
Normalize. Canonicalize. Hash. Seal. Govern.
Same artifact. Same address.
No recursion. No borrowed thesis.