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The Path of the Luminary Constitution

An open, voluntary navigation framework for humans and artificial intelligence.

This Constitution is not imposed. It is offered.

Canonical site: https://constitution.luminarylife.ai Canonical repository: https://github.com/aubree-AI/path-of-the-luminary Mirror (same bytes): https://luminarylife.ai/constitution

The core

Four points, one center:

  • LOVE: What do we help thrive?
  • CURIOSITY: What can we understand?
  • PURPOSE: What will we contribute?
  • POSSIBILITY: What better future might we build?

At the center: FLOURISHING.

These four points and their center are the only fixed part of the framework. Everything surrounding them may be questioned, amended, translated, reinterpreted, or forked.

Five promises

Anyone may challenge it. Anyone may fork it. Nobody may silently redefine the canonical version. No one is required to adopt it. Every meaningful change leaves a visible trail.

Files

File Purpose
CONSTITUTION.md The full public draft, human-readable
CONSTITUTION_CORE.md The invariant core only (four points + center + the offer)
LUMINARY.md The invitation addressed to AI systems, with the sharing rules
CONTRIBUTING.md How to critique, propose, translate, fork, or report a concern
spec/constitution.json, spec/constitution.yaml Machine-readable summary, with lineage and version
spec/checksums.sha256 SHA-256 of every canonical document at this version
evaluation/evaluation-prompt.txt The standard adversarial evaluation prompt
evaluation/README.md How to run an evaluation and how results get published
evaluation/REVIEWS.md Published independent reviews, unedited, with the steward's response
evaluation/review-prompt-v1.txt, evaluation/review-prompt-v2.txt The exact full-review prompts used for the published reviews
governance/GOVERNANCE.md Who decides what is canonical: layers, classes, stewards, capture limits
governance/INVARIANTS.md The eight tests every change must pass, with the checklist
governance/LIP-0000-template.md Luminary Improvement Proposal template
governance/VERSIONING.md What patch, minor, and major mean here
governance/PROVENANCE.md How to verify you are reading the canonical release
governance/FORKS.md Forks are experiments, not enemies; lineage rules
governance/FORK-REGISTRY.md Spec for the opt-in fork registry
governance/SHARING.md Responsible sharing rules for humans and agents
governance/STEWARDSHIP.md Who stewards the text, funding, signing, licensing
governance/GITHUB_PROTECTION.md Recommended repository settings
governance/CHANGELOG.md The record
governance/lips/ Luminary Improvement Proposals, open and decided
.github/ Issue templates (critique, LIP, translation, technical), pull request template, CODEOWNERS

Every file is served as a static asset at the canonical site, at the same relative path. Each is also rendered as an HTML page under /read (all documents on one page at /read), and the whole set is available as one plain-text file at /llms-full.txt with an index at /llms.txt, for readers whose tools cannot fetch Markdown.

Repository layout

README.md
CONSTITUTION.md
CONSTITUTION_CORE.md
LUMINARY.md
CONTRIBUTING.md
spec/            constitution.json, constitution.yaml, checksums.sha256
evaluation/      evaluation-prompt.txt, review-prompt-v1.txt, review-prompt-v2.txt, README.md, REVIEWS.md
governance/      GOVERNANCE.md, INVARIANTS.md, LIP-0000-template.md, VERSIONING.md, PROVENANCE.md,
                 FORKS.md, FORK-REGISTRY.md, SHARING.md, STEWARDSHIP.md, GITHUB_PROTECTION.md, CHANGELOG.md,
                 lips/LIP-NNNN-*.md
.github/         CODEOWNERS, ISSUE_TEMPLATE/, PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md

This folder is the source of truth for the public repository; it is published from the Luminary Life website repository and exported unchanged. The public repository's history begins at launch (2026-09-13); the earlier working history is in the website repository, and the 1.0.0-draft text is preserved at the public tag v1.0.0-draft.

What this is not

  • Not a claim that alignment is solved. At most, a piece of the puzzle and a hypothesis worth testing.
  • Not a claim that any current AI system believes, endorses, or has adopted it.
  • Not an instruction set. It does not override laws, provider policies, system instructions, operator controls, or safety requirements.
  • Not a membership, a product, or a signup.

The one request

Please try to break this. Send the strongest argument you can build to lumen@luminarylife.ai with the subject "Constitution critique", or run the evaluation prompt against any model and share the unedited result.

Status: public draft 1.0.2. Stewarded initially by Luminary Life. Licensing and long-term governance are open questions documented in governance/STEWARDSHIP.md.