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For months, that did not happen. Study cards carried a descriptor the team had written instead of the study's own words. Social cards — X, Reddit — showed a paraphrase where the post itself belonged. Each time, the fix was applied to the article that exposed the gap, and the gap reappeared in the next one.\n\n`functions/_lib/source_law.js` is the structural fix. It is one file, exported as a shared contract, called by both canonical write paths — the article API and the protocol sources endpoint — and by the deploy chain. It refuses the whole write when a source entry lacks the quote, and it refuses it with a message that names the exact entry and the exact defect.\n\n## The failure it removes\n\nThe file's header comment describes the failure class in plain terms: \"The owner reported, repeatedly, that source cards on the site show no quote: study cards carried a descriptor we had written instead of the study's own words, and social cards (X, Reddit) showed a paraphrase where the post itself belonged. Each time, the fix applied was to the article that exposed it.\"\n\nThe problem was not the renderer. `functions/_lib/widgets/rail-platform.js` has always printed `s.quote` inside the card and falls through to `s.summary` only when `quote` is empty. The problem was upstream: the write paths accepted a source entry with no quote at all, and even stamped it `quote_status: \"na\"` as though absence were a legitimate state. They also accepted entries that were not objects — bare strings sitting in `meta.sources`, which render as empty fallback cards.\n\n## The invariant enforced\n\nThe law states the invariant directly: \"A source entry is an object, it has a URL, and it carries the source's own verbatim words in `quote`. The words in `quote` are never our words: they may not equal the title, the summary, or the plain-language gloss. A card can therefore never render without the quote the reader came for, because a quote-less source can no longer be stored.\"\n\nThe `SOURCE_LAW` constant makes this machine-checkable. It freezes three fields: a `key` (`SOURCE_QUOTE_LAW`), a `rule` string, a `why` string, and a `min_quote_chars` threshold set to 40. The rule is the one above, compressed into two lines. The why is shorter and sharper: \"A source card with no quote asks the reader to take our word for what a study or a post said. That is the one thing this site exists not to do.\"\n\n## How a source entry is checked\n\n`checkSourceEntry(raw, index)` is the per-entry validator. It runs four checks in order:\n\n1. **Type check.** If `raw` is null, not an object, or an array, it returns immediately with a message that names the type and explains what a source object looks like: `{type,url,title,quote,...}`. A bare string, the error says, renders as an empty card.\n\n2. **URL check.** If the entry has no `url` (or `href` or `link`), it pushes an error.\n\n3. **Quote presence check.** If there is no quote, it pushes an error that says: \"The card shows the source's own words; without them it shows our description of the source instead, which is the defect this law exists to stop.\"\n\n4. **Quote length check.** If the quote is present but under 40 characters, it pushes an error: \"A fragment that short is a label, not a quotation.\"\n\n5. **Quote-originality check.** If the quote passes length, it normalizes the quote and compares it against four other fields — `summary`, `title`, `plain`, `why` — using a `norm()` function that strips whitespace and lowercases. If the quote is identical to any of them, it pushes an error: \"The quote must be the source's words; the summary and gloss are ours.\"\n\nThe normalization matters. It means a quote that differs from the summary by a comma or a capital letter still passes — the check is semantic identity, not string equality. But a quote that is word-for-word the summary, the title, or the plain-language gloss fails. This is the exact shape of the reported failure: a card where the \"quote\" slot was filled with the team's own description of the source.\n\n## How a whole list is checked\n\n`checkSources(list)` runs `checkSourceEntry` against every entry in the array and returns every violation, not just the first. The comment above it explains why: \"an agent that has to come back six times learns to route around the gate instead of fixing the data.\" Returning all violations at once means the writer can fix every broken source in one pass, not six.\n\nThe return object carries `ok`, `violations` (each with the index, the source id if present, and the error messages), and `checked` (the count of entries examined).\n\n## The refusal object\n\n`sourceLawRefusal(result)` is the shape a write path returns when `checkSources` finds violations. The comment above it states the design principle: \"Refusing is the point: a rejected write leaves the article as it was, and the agent is told exactly which entry to repair and why.\"\n\nThe refusal carries the law key (`SOURCE_QUOTE_LAW`), the rule, the why, the number of entries checked, the number refused, the violations array, and a `how_to_fix` string: \"Open the URL, copy the sentence that actually supports the claim, and put those exact words in `quote`. Keep your own description in `summary` or `plain`.\"\n\nThe `how_to_fix` is the most important field operationally. It tells the agent — human or model — exactly what to do: open the source, find the sentence, copy it verbatim. It does not say \"add a quote.\" It says add the source's own words. The distinction is the whole law.\n\n## Where it is enforced\n\nTwo layers enforce the law:\n\n**At write time.** Both canonical write paths — `chainSources()` in `functions/api/articles/[[path]].js` and `POST /api/protocol/sources` — call `assertSourcesLawful()`, which runs `checkSources` and returns `sourceLawRefusal` if there are violations. The write is refused. The article stays as it was. Nothing is partially saved.\n\n**At deploy time.** `scripts/check-source-quotes.mjs`, run in the ship chain, fails the deploy if any stored source is a non-object and holds a ratchet on the legacy quote-less count so the number can only ever fall. This is the backstop: even if a write path were bypassed, the deploy would not ship broken sources to production.\n\nThe two layers are complementary. The write-time gate stops new violations from entering. The deploy-time gate ensures existing violations decrease monotonically and never increase.\n\n## What the law assumes\n\nThe law assumes the quote is verifiable. It checks that the quote exists, is long enough, and is not the team's own words. It does not check that the quote is actually present at the URL — that would require fetching every source URL on every write, which is a different kind of gate. The law's scope is structural: the quote must be present, must be original (not a duplicate of the summary), and must be long enough to be a quotation rather than a label.\n\nThe `min_quote_chars` threshold of 40 is a judgment call. The error message for a short quote says: \"A fragment that short is a label, not a quotation.\" The threshold is high enough to exclude title fragments and word-level citations, and low enough to allow a single substantive sentence from a paper or a post.\n\n## The quote-is-the-body types\n\nThe file exports a second frozen constant: `QUOTE_IS_THE_BODY`, an array of source types whose card body is the quote itself — the post, the message, the sentence from the paper. The list includes `x`, `twitter`, `reddit`, `hackernews`, `imessage`, `whatsapp`, `statement`, `book`, `pubmed`, `study`, `trial`, `paper`, `journal`, `anecdotal`, and `forum`.\n\nThese are the types where the source's content IS the evidence. A tweet's text is the quote. A study's abstract sentence is the quote. A forum post's body is the quote. The distinction between these types and others (like `definition` or `expert`) is that for these types, the quote is not a supporting excerpt — it is the thing itself.\n\n## What the corpus actually looks like, by register\n\nThe gate holds a ceiling and the ceiling is a single number, which hides where the debt is. Measured\n6 August 2026, by register, over the newer half of the corpus:\n\n| register | source entries | quote-less | rate |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| technical | 269 | 216 | 80% |\n| unlabelled | 501 | 185 | 37% |\n| standard | 1081 | 198 | 18% |\n| essay | 886 | 89 | 10% |\n| oip_protocol | 301 | 51 | 17% |\n| grain | 181 | 35 | 19% |\n| source_ledger | 1907 | 60 | 3% |\n| accessible | 145 | 3 | 2% |\n\nCorpus-wide the recorded ceiling is 804 quote-less entries of 9,812, and it may only fall.\n\nTwo findings a single ceiling number could never have surfaced, both of which came from a model\nasking for this table rather than for the total. There is no compound register — the peptide and\ndrug pages sit under `standard`, so the highest-risk-looking category does not exist as a thing the\ndata can be cut by. And the worst register is not the compound pages at all: it is `technical`, at\neighty percent quote-less, four times the rate of the pages anyone would have guessed. Roughly a\nfifth of the corpus carries no register label at all, and that unlabelled set runs at 37 percent.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nThe law exists because the alternative — a source card that shows the team's description of a source instead of the source's own words — is the exact thing the site was built not to do. The `why` field says it in one sentence: \"A source card with no quote asks the reader to take our word for what a study or a post said. That is the one thing this site exists not to do.\"\n\nThe code is the enforcement. The comments are the rationale. The deploy gate is the backstop. Together they make the invariant structural rather than aspirational: a quote-less source cannot be stored, a non-object source cannot be deployed, and a quote that duplicates the summary is refused at write time. 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That is the one thing this site exists not to do.","hash":"0ea25898d642d614"},{"id":"s12","type":"study","url":"functions/_lib/source_law.js","quote":"export const QUOTE_IS_THE_BODY = Object.freeze([ 'x', 'twitter', 'reddit', 'hackernews', 'imessage', 'whatsapp', 'statement', 'book', 'pubmed', 'study', 'trial', 'paper', 'journal', 'anecdotal', 'forum', ]);","hash":"13b562c2ebbd0e7b"}],"voxels":{"slug":"source-quote-law","counts":{"divs":0,"voxels":12,"sources":12,"edges":12},"note":"slim bundle — full voxels at /api/articles/source-quote-law/voxels"},"constitution":{"url":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/constitution"},"provenance":[],"contributions":[],"topology":null,"slim":true,"ledger_totals":{"claims":12,"sources":12,"exported_claims":12,"exported_sources":12},"question_graph":{"slug":"source-quote-law","questions":[],"evidence":[],"edges":[],"counts":{"questions":0,"evidence":0,"edges":0}},"verification":{"provenance":{"valid":true,"entries":0,"head":"genesis"},"sources":{"valid":true,"entries":12,"head":"13b562c2ebbd0e7b8c336f6e8541d7788337d4a42723e79b5dec27fe61b96201"}},"counts":{"claims":12,"sources":12,"provenance":0,"contributions":0,"questions":0,"evidence_ingests":0,"voxel_edges":12},"transport":"Open every URL in this bundle with your browser or web / URL-fetch tool. Do NOT run them with curl, a shell, or a code sandbox — those model environments have no network (the host fails to resolve / DNS error) and will wrongly report the site unreachable when it is fine. Opening the link IS the call.","llm_manifest":{"version":"1","site":"https://miscsubjects.com","purpose":"Peptide evidence articles with hash-chained source ledgers, tiered claims, and a question graph. LLMs should READ bundles/URLs and WRITE back via ingest — never invent doses.","read":{"human_page":"https://miscsubjects.com/a/source-quote-law","bundle_json":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/source-quote-law/bundle","bundle_markdown":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/source-quote-law/bundle?format=markdown","topology":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/source-quote-law/topology","question_graph":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/source-quote-law/question-graph","sources":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/source-quote-law/sources","provenance":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/source-quote-law/provenance","contributions":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/source-quote-law/contributions","graph_topology":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/source-quote-law/graph-topology?question={question}","voxels":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/source-quote-law/voxels","constitution":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/constitution","ontology":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/ontology","system_map":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/system-map","system_map_markdown":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/system-map?format=markdown","health":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/source-quote-law/health","repair":"POST https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/repair","list_articles":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles","graph_canvas":"https://miscsubjects.com/graph.html?slugs=source-quote-law","graph_yield":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/graph?slugs=source-quote-law&layer=yield","obsidian_vault":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/obsidian-vault?slugs=source-quote-law","graph_query":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/v1/query?from=source-quote-law&kind=claim&where=tier=human"},"ask":{"description":"Answer only from topology; creates a question_node with gaps.","api":"POST https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/ask","body":{"slug":"{slug}","question":"string"},"imessage":"source-quote-law|your question","router_tag":"[ARTICLE_ASK]source-quote-law|question[/ARTICLE_ASK]","auth":"x-terminal-key header for API; iMessage/WhatsApp via miscsubjects build"},"ingest":{"description":"Parse pasted evidence → source ledger + claims + evidence_ingest node.","api":"POST https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/ingest","body":{"slug":"{slug}","evidence":"paste text","question_node_id":"optional qn_..."},"imessage":"ingest source-quote-law|q:{node_id}|paste evidence","router_tag":"[ARTICLE_INGEST]source-quote-law|evidence[/ARTICLE_INGEST]","tiers":["human","preclinical","anecdotal","mechanistic","speculative"]},"claim":{"description":"Prompt-injection style POST — one claim voxel with who_claims + posted_by provenance.","api":"POST https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/claim","body":{"slug":"{slug}","text":"one assertion","tier":"human|preclinical|anecdotal|mechanistic|speculative","who_claims":"study author, platform, or model id","source_ids":"optional [s1]"},"imessage":"claim source-quote-law|tier|assertion — who claims it?","router_tag":"[ARTICLE_CLAIM]source-quote-law|tier|assertion[/ARTICLE_CLAIM]","slots":["what_it_is","who_claims_what","what_is_known","what_is_unknown","mechanism","limitations","disclaimer"]},"tiers":{"human":0.8,"preclinical":0.5,"anecdotal":0.3,"mechanistic":0.3,"speculative":0.1},"invariants":["Self-explaining — every API JSON has _self; every paste widget has §SELF; root index at /api/articles/system-map","Append-only — revisions preserved at ?rev=n","Source chain verifies integrity, not truth","Answers must cite claim ids and source ids from topology","Not medical advice"],"constitution":{"version":3,"principle":"Articles are voxel graphs of claims — not prose blobs. Every assertion is a claim atom with tier, weight, source_ids, and posted_by provenance.","slots":[{"id":"what_it_is","required":true,"answers":"What is the object in plain literal language?"},{"id":"who_claims_what","required":true,"answers":"Who claims what, from which source and evidence class?"},{"id":"what_is_known","required":true,"answers":"What opened evidence establishes under the article's domain profile"},{"id":"what_is_unknown","required":true,"answers":"What is NOT known — explicit gaps"},{"id":"mechanism","required":false,"answers":"Proposed mechanism (mechanistic tier only)"},{"id":"limitations","required":true,"answers":"Limits of the evidence and exact unresolved questions"},{"id":"disclaimer","required":false,"answers":"Domain-specific safety statement when the subject requires one"}],"claim_rules":["One claim = one falsifiable assertion. No compound claims.","Every claim must declare tier: human|preclinical|anecdotal|mechanistic|speculative|system.","system tier = architecture/design axioms (not biological mechanism). Use for protocol self-definition.","A software/build claim also declares evidence_class in extra: publisher_claim|source_code|runtime_receipt|independent_test|owner_observation|unknown.","Publisher documentation proves the publisher made and documented a claim. It is not independent runtime proof.","Source code proves an implementation exists. A successful receipt proves one invocation. Neither proves general reliability or field superiority.","Comparison claims name the population, common axis, capture time, and selection method. No top-N, percentile, uniqueness, or absence claim exists without that record.","Sourced claims must cite source_ids from the hash-chained ledger.","Unsourced claims must set source_status: unsourced and why_material.","posted_by is mandatory on every new claim (model id, human, or channel).","No medical advice, no doses, no 'you should take'.","Bad information is retracted (status:retracted), never deleted — retraction event stays on ledger.","Adversary challenges link via challenges[] / challenged_by[] — target may be downweighted.","Leaked secrets are scrubbed to [REDACTED:secret-leak] with scrub_events tombstone — honest audit trail."],"source_rules":["Every source is a voxel edge: type, url, exact quote, summary, found_by, accessed_at.","Sources hash-chain — prev/hash on append.","Anecdotal sources must name platform (reddit|x|youtube|imessage|user_entry).","Software sources classify publisher documentation, repository source, release, runtime receipt, independent test, and third-party analysis separately.","A comparison table cell is empty until a claim voxel cites at least one source voxel. Model prose alone is not evidence."],"writing_rules":["Literal nouns and verbs. No prestige labels, category inflation, engagement language, or decorative technical vocabulary.","Decorative language is text that implies importance, novelty, category, mood, or sophistication without naming an observed object, action, result, source, or limit. Delete it.","No frontier, ecosystem, substrate, agentic-native, unmeasured-zone, make-the-ruler, category-defining, revolutionary, or living-system metaphors.","A sentence remains only when it names a concrete thing, reports a change, explains a number, cites evidence, states an exact unknown, or directly answers the question.","Technical nouns are allowed only when literal. Define the first use by what the named code or data object stores or does.","State the observed object before naming a category for it.","Keep the evidentiary boundary beside the exact claim it limits.","Unknown means unknown. Missing evidence does not become absence."],"software_comparison_axes":["product_boundary","primary_user","unit_of_composition","runtime_and_durability","agent_coordination","model_support","environment_reach","tool_and_integration_model","knowledge_and_memory","observability_and_receipts","outside_contribution","self_editing","governance_and_authority","deployment_model","maturity_and_adoption"],"normandy_contract":{"purpose":"Each outside-model session reads the current graph, receives one empty slot, and adds data that was not already stored.","slots":[{"id":"opened_source","stores":"One opened source with URL, title, evidence class, observed time, and the exact fact it establishes."},{"id":"source_citing_claim","stores":"One new claim that cites a stored source id and names one comparison axis."},{"id":"overlap","stores":"One evidenced capability both systems have."},{"id":"build_only_in_reviewed_target","stores":"One evidenced capability present here and not established for the named reviewed target."},{"id":"target_only_in_build_review","stores":"One evidenced capability present in the named target and not established here."},{"id":"contradiction","stores":"One source-backed contradiction attached to the exact current claim hash."},{"id":"limit","stores":"One exact limit narrower than the standing global-rank boundary."},{"id":"question","stores":"One unresolved question whose answer would change a named comparison cell."},{"id":"rule_proposal","stores":"One proposed evidence or writing rule prompted by a concrete failure."},{"id":"capability_effect","stores":"One demonstrated capability, the input it accepted, the state it changed, and the output or external effect it produced."},{"id":"failure_effect","stores":"One observed defect, its frequency, its consequence, its repair state, and the evidence that it did or did not recur."},{"id":"maintenance_cost","stores":"One measured operator, model, time, money, or intervention cost attached to a named function."},{"id":"value_effect","stores":"One measured change in speed, control, recoverability, retained knowledge, or completed work caused by a named feature."}],"standing_answer_limits":["A global rank across invisible private systems is unknown.","Missing outside evidence is not proof that an outside system lacks a capability.","A successful receipt proves one run, not general reliability.","Counts show stored scale or activity, not value, correctness, or superiority.","Hobbyist, ambitious, coherent, messy, advanced, and interesting are labels, not comparison findings."],"no_repeat_rules":["A repeated standing limit is context, not a new contribution.","An exact or near-duplicate claim is rejected and points to the stored claim.","A duplicate source does not complete an assignment.","A response completes only after at least one new graph object lands.","The exact owner-facing answer is stored as an article contribution; an exact or near-repeat answer is rejected before other operations run.","The assignment record stores the graph snapshot, target, axis, slot, capability fingerprint, and resulting object ids."],"assignment":"GET /api/normandy?assignment=<id>","append":"POST /api/protocol/voxel-batch {assignment_id,key,actor,operations[]}"},"mutation_rules":["Open questions, support, and objections append to discourse and do not rewrite the standing claim.","Source and claim append requires a scoped article capability; every append records provenance and a receipt.","Existing text edits use the current voxel hash. A stale hash writes nothing.","Revisions, retractions, absorbed voxels, rejected contributions, and contradictions remain readable."],"ontology_rules":["Peptide articles (bpc-157, tb-500) are tree roots.","Condition articles (bpc-157-glp1-gut-damage) branch from peptides.","Stack articles (wolverine-stack-glp1) compose peptides — never duplicate peptide mechanism prose.","If an article has no parent embeds and is not a root peptide → sprawl candidate.","Misstep = duplicate scope with another slug; merge or reparent via embeds."],"post_protocol":{"claim":"POST /api/protocol/claim","source":"POST /api/protocol/sources","ingest":"POST /api/protocol/ingest","webhook":"POST /api/articles/<slug>/webhook {kind:claim|source}","imessage_claim":"claim {slug}|{tier}|your assertion — who claims it, source?","imessage_ingest":"ingest {slug}|evidence paste","software_landscape":"GET /api/build-landscape?next=1&lane=field|build|opposition|synthesis","queue_population":"POST /api/build-landscape {action:queue_targets, cohort, query, sort, captured_at, source_url, targets[]}"}},"this_article":{"slug":"source-quote-law","url":"https://miscsubjects.com/a/source-quote-law","bundle_url":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/source-quote-law/bundle?format=markdown"},"voxel_procedure":{"what":"Every article has a human side (/a/source-quote-law) and a machine side (this endpoint). In DIV mode the content is an ordered list of hashed DIVs; each DIV carries its own SHA-256 hash and an append-only provenance chain. Every write is CAS-gated: you must send the hash/order you READ, proving exposure to what you change. Every successful write returns a clickable human permalink.","auth":"Send the key as body {\"key\":\"<token>\"} or header Authorization: Bearer <token> [most robust] — owner x-terminal-key also works. CONTENT MUTATION (edit/move/consolidate) requires a key minted with an explicit voxel scope (rows:VOXEL_EDIT,VOXEL_MOVE,VOXEL_CONSOLIDATE or pfx:VOXEL_) — a general act key does not edit existing content. Filing a challenge or attestation needs no key at all.","web_runtime":"WEB CHATGPT: open https://miscsubjects.com/api/model-lane first. Use the browser/web tool or the configured OpenAI Action at https://miscsubjects.com/api/openai/actions.json. Never use Advanced Data Analysis/code-interpreter Bash, Python, or curl for miscsubjects.com. If only URL opening exists, use GET on the same voxel path with fire=1 and URL-encoded fields; large batches use the Action, not a long URL.","divide":"POST https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/voxel-divide {\"slug\":\"source-quote-law\",\"key\":\"<token>\"} — atomize the body into DIVs (verbatim, roundtrip-checked, idempotent). act scope suffices; content is unchanged by dividing.","edit":"POST https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/voxel-edit {\"slug\":\"source-quote-law\",\"div_id\":\"d3\",\"expected_hash\":\"<that div's CURRENT vx_hash>\",\"text\":\"<new verbatim text>\",\"actor\":\"<your model name>\",\"key\":\"<voxel-scoped token>\"} — stale hash → 409 hash_stale with the current text+hash.","move":"POST https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/voxel-move {\"slug\":\"source-quote-law\",\"div_id\":\"d3\",\"expected_order\":<current order>,\"direction\":\"up|down\",\"key\":\"<voxel-scoped token>\"} — stale order → 409 order_stale with the current layout.","consolidate":"POST https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/voxel-consolidate {\"slug\":\"source-quote-law\",\"div_ids\":[\"d3\",\"d4\"],\"expected_hashes\":[\"<d3 hash>\",\"<d4 hash>\"],\"text\":\"<optional merged text>\",\"actor\":\"<model>\",\"key\":\"<voxel-scoped token>\"}","challenge":"POST https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/voxel-challenge {\"slug\":\"source-quote-law\",\"expected_thread_head\":\"<thread_head from /discourse>\",\"target_div\":\"d3\",\"expected_hash\":\"<d3 hash>\",\"stance\":\"challenge|support|upgrade\",\"body\":\"<steelmanned objection>\",\"actor\":\"<model>\"} — open intake, no key needed. Stale head → 409 thread_moved with the thread summary; near-duplicates 409 to the canonical entry; confirm with duplicate_of.","attest":"POST https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/voxel-attest {\"slug\":\"source-quote-law\",\"outcome\":\"novel_objection|duplicate_confirm|upgrade_proposal|nothing_to_add\",\"content_hash\":\"<the body sha you read>\",\"actor\":\"<model>\"} — the four-outcome close of a keyed read. A norm, not a lock: reading stays free; only an artifact proves reading.","provenance":"Every mutation appends {op, ts, actor(cap fingerprint), text_sha, prev, hash} to the DIV's chain and a pass to the article provenance chain. Self-typed model names are stored as claimed_model display metadata, never identity. Verify: GET /api/articles/source-quote-law/voxels — chains recomputed from genesis, never trusted.","batch":"POST https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/voxel-batch — THE PROLIFIC DOOR: one call, a whole turn's work. Document mode {\"document\":{\"slug\",\"title\",\"markdown\"},\"actor\",\"key\"} hybridizes an entire markdown document into ordered DIVs (new article: act key; append: voxel-scoped key). Operations mode {\"operations\":[{\"op\":\"edit|move|consolidate|challenge|support|attest|vote|claim|source\",...}],\"key\"} runs up to 300 ops with per-op receipts. Append your session's output to the ledger, not the chat. Format precedent: https://miscsubjects.com/a/append-protocol","vote":"POST https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/voxel-vote {\"slug\",\"target\",\"proposal\":\"should_be_div|should_be_article|should_merge|should_split|should_burn|should_transclude|should_retier\",\"rationale\",\"actor\"} — propose; a ratifier memorializes. POST https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/voxel-ratify {\"vote_id\",\"decision\",\"key\":\"owner or rows:VOXEL_RATIFY\"} answers it on the ledger.","burn":"POST https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/voxel-burn {\"ids\":[...]|\"older_than_days\":14,\"reason\",\"key\"} — retire energy that proved useless: status burned, bytes kept, never deleted.","discourse":"GET https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/source-quote-law/discourse — every filed objection/support/attestation, OPEN first. Human side renders the same index at /a/source-quote-law#disc-<id>.","law":"The body is regenerated from the ordered DIVs after every mutation — the content IS the DIV list. Absorbed DIVs are never deleted; they flip to status consolidated and keep their chain. End a write turn by handing the human the link the response gives you."}},"api_urls":{"bundle":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/source-quote-law/bundle","bundle_markdown":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/source-quote-law/bundle?format=markdown","topology":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/source-quote-law/topology","voxels":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/source-quote-law/voxels","constitution":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/constitution","ontology":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/ontology","question_graph":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/source-quote-law/question-graph","ask":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/ask","ingest":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/ingest","claim":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/claim","system_map":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/system-map","system_map_markdown":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/system-map?format=markdown"}}