MathGov Core v12.4 — SGP v8.3

MathGov Core v12.4 — SGP v8.3

MathGov Core 2026.09 v12.4 is the current world-introduction and GitHub pilot-ready release of the MathGov framework, paired with Sentience Gradient Protocol v8.3.

Core architecture

MathGov qualifies and ranks decisions through the canonical cascade:

Reality Grounding → Rights Floor → Tail-Risk Constraint → Containment and Structural Viability → RippleLogic Score

Only options that survive the qualification gates proceed to ripple ranking.

This release includes

• the verified 15-artifact MathGov core;
• RippleLogic Canon v12.4;
• Sentience Gradient Protocol v8.3;
• updated public-introduction, reviewer, and quick-start materials;
• the seven Union Scopes and seven Welfare Dimensions;
• strengthened semantic, formula, workbook, state, and release-integrity verification;
• schemas, tests, reproducibility tools, validation records, and worked materials;
• governance, citation, contribution, limitation, lineage, and source-hierarchy documentation;
• canonical Markdown sources and publication-format artifacts;
• a complete versioned repository package preserved at releases/v12.4_2026_07_21.

Verification status

The corrected release commit passed the automated GitHub Actions release-verification workflow.

Verified surfaces include:

• current v12.4 / SGP v8.3 version pins and 15-artifact core;
• semantic, cascade, type, claim-boundary, and final-closure integrity;
• formula, severe-rights, PLSS, live-TRC, controlling-CSV, and workbook-interface integrity;
• DOCX and PDF formatting;
• schemas, test vectors, and bounded reproducibility;
• Reality Grounding and Tail-Risk Constraint state semantics;
• catastrophe-profile non-dilution;
• release-manifest completeness and case-sensitive repository-path integrity.

Public purpose

MathGov is an open, auditable, rights-constrained operating framework for:

1. grounding reality;
2. protecting rights;
3. bounding ruin;
4. preserving structural viability; and
5. ranking the ripples of viable decisions.

It is offered for public use, testing, critique, replication, improvement, and institutional or machine-governance pilots.

Versioned repository package

The complete repository package is preserved at:

releases/v12.4_2026_07_21

Citation

Please use the repository CITATION.cff file and the release citation information when referencing MathGov Core v12.4 or SGP v8.3.

MathGov Core v11.4 — Excavation, Stewardship, and Self-Audit Release

MathGov Core v11.4 — Excavation, Stewardship, and Self-Audit Release

This release strengthens the public framing, governance posture, and scientific humility of the MathGov framework, using the RippleLogic decision architecture.

MathGov is presented here not as ownership of a final answer, but as a proposed formalization of recurring principles of flourishing governance. It draws from ethics, systems science, democratic theory, rights protection, ecology, AI alignment, risk governance, and lived human experience.

The central framing of this release is:

We are not owners of the compass. We are brush-holders at the excavation site.

This release clarifies MathGov as a civic instrument offered for public use, not a brand seeking to dominate the conversation. RippleLogic is framed as the decision architecture inside MathGov. The Ripple Aligners are framed as the excavation team. AI is framed neither as master nor slave, but as a mirror, amplifier, stress-tester, and co-auditor.

Core cascade

This release emphasizes the plain-language RippleLogic cascade:

1. Ground reality.
2. Protect rights.
3. Bound ruin.
4. Preserve the structure.
5. Score the ripples.

This maps to the operational cascade:

RG → RF → TRC → CSV → RLS

Where:

• RG = Reality Grounding
• RF = Rights Floor
• TRC = Tail-Risk Constraint
• CSV = Core Structure Viability
• RLS = RippleLogic Scoring

Key improvements

• Strengthened the “excavation, not ownership” framing.
• Clarified MathGov as a proposed system for flourishing governance.
• Reduced overclaiming and avoided unsupported superlative claims.
• Added stronger epistemic humility around “natural logic” language.
• Reinforced the self-audit standard: a framework that asks power to submit to audit must submit to audit itself.
• Improved public-facing language for humans, institutions, and intelligent systems.
• Clarified AI’s role as co-auditor and stress-tester rather than authority or servant.
• Strengthened alignment between public communication and the current RG → RF → TRC → CSV → RLS cascade.

Scientific and governance posture

This release does not claim that MathGov has proven outcome superiority over all other governance systems. It presents MathGov as a structured, testable, auditable, and revisable framework.

The framework is offered for scrutiny, pressure-testing, replication, improvement, and correction where it fails.

Canonical public statement

MathGov is a proposed formalization of recurring principles of flourishing governance, drawn from ethics, systems science, democratic theory, rights protection, ecology, AI alignment, risk governance, and lived human experience.

It is not the invention of a new truth.

It is an attempt to state old and recurring truths in a form usable by humans, institutions, and intelligent systems.

Closing principle

Not ownership.

Stewardship.

MathGov Core v11.4 Final Complete Ready

MathGov Core v11.4 Final Complete Ready

This is the MathGov Core Release 2026.09 v11.4 Final Complete Ready package.

It contains the current source/framework files for MathGov and the RippleLogic decision architecture, including the RippleLogic Canon, Sentience Gradient Protocol, Agent System, ripple.md Standard, Foundations Primer, Aligners Sheet, validation scaffolding, release support files, authority map, claims/non-claims, roadmap, citation metadata, and reviewer guidance.

Core cascade

The public RippleLogic method is:

Reality Grounding → Rights Floor → TRC → CSV → RLS

Formal shorthand:

RG/RSG → RF/NCRC → TRC → CSV → RLS

Where:

• Reality Grounding establishes what is known, unknown, evidenced, and claimable.
• Rights Floor / NCRC protects non-compensatory rights before welfare scoring.
• TRC bounds catastrophic and irreversible tail risks.
• CSV checks Containment and Structural Viability.
• RLS ranks only options that survive the upstream levels.

Governing Core

The governing core files are:

1. RippleLogic Canon v11.4
2. SGP v6.4, Sentience Gradient Protocol

All other files are companion, implementation, guidance, validation, example, or release-support materials unless explicitly marked otherwise.

Main release path

Browse the full release package here:

releases/v11.4_2026_06_28/

What this release is

This release is:

• a Tier 1-3 source/framework release;
• a complete architectural specification for public and external review;
• suitable for controlled expert review;
• suitable for teaching and implementation study;
• suitable as the current public MathGov Core package;
• suitable for GitHub archival and citation.

What this release is not

This release does not claim:

• empirical validation;
• legal certification;
• deployment certification;
• ProofPack readiness;
• Tier 4 readiness;
• reference-calculator status;
• automated moral truth;
• policy authorization;
• final scientific proof of all framework claims.

The Aligners Sheet is a worked-run/training companion, not a validator.

Recommended use

Use this release for:

• external review;
• academic discussion;
• open-source inspection;
• teaching;
• implementation planning;
• validation study design;
• future reference-calculator development.

Do not use this release as a legally binding, empirically validated, or deployment-certified decision instrument.

MathGov / RippleLogic Core Release 2026.07 — Canon v10.8 + SGP v5.5

MathGov / RippleLogic Core Release 2026.07

This release publishes the v10.8 MathGov / RippleLogic Core framework line.

Core anchors

• RippleLogic Canon: v10.8
• Sentience Gradient Protocol / SGP: v5.5

Synchronized companion files

• ripple.md Standard: v3.6
• RippleLogic Agent System: v10.8
• Foundations Primer: v2.6
• RippleLogic Aligners Sheet: v3.6

What changed

This release applies the Reality Grounding and Lean Cascade Patch.

Major improvements include:

• Updates the public-facing method to: Reality Grounding → Rights Floor → Tail-Risk Bound → Containment → Ripple Score.
• Preserves the formal method: RSG → NCRC → TRC → Containment → RLS.
• Keeps Category Grounding and Primitive Audit as required subdisciplines of Reality Grounding when material.
• Clarifies that UCI/HOI are structural diagnostics inside Containment when material and only special-case residual tie-break / monitoring evidence when RLS is tied, close, uncertainty-overlapped, or non-decisive.
• Strengthens the SGP boundary: protection-surface evidence, not consciousness proof or governance authority.
• Synchronizes Canon, SGP, Agent System, ripple.md Standard, Primer, Aligners Sheet, release notes, verification files, and hashes.

Release boundary

This is a documentation/source release for Tier 1–3 implementation, public review, shadow-mode pilots, institutional testing, and empirical validation work.

It is not empirical validation, legal certification, deployment certification, ProofPack readiness, Tier 4 readiness, completed biological SGP measurement, current-AI sentience, solved AI alignment, or deterministic framework selection for non-decisive runs.

Recommended reading path

1. Start with README.md.
2. Read docs/primer/RippleLogic_Foundations_Primer_v2.6.md.
3. Read docs/canon/RippleLogic_v10.8_Canon.md.
4. Read docs/sgp/SGP_v5.5.md.
5. Use docs/standards/ripple_md_Standard_v3.6.md for wrapper assurance and Decision Notes.
6. Use docs/agents/RippleLogic_Agent_System_v10.8.md for AI/hybrid agent governance.
7. Use docs/aligners/RippleLogic_Aligners_Sheet_v3.6.xlsx as a worked-run exemplar, not certification.

Verification

See:

• release/VERIFY_RELEASE.md
• release/SHA256SUMS.txt

Next phase

The next phase is not stronger claims. It is stronger evidence:

• ProofPack schemas
• reference calculator
• machine-readable test vectors
• semantic validator
• independent replay evidence
• pilot/shadow-mode runs
• biological and digital SGP annexes
• public critique and review

MathGov / RippleLogic Core Release 2026.06 — Canon v10.7.4 + SGP v5.4.4

Final locked MathGov / RippleLogic Core Release 2026.06.

Core anchors:

• RippleLogic Canon v10.7.4
• SGP v5.4.4

Full package:

• ripple.md Standard v3.5.4
• RippleLogic Agent System v10.7.4
• Foundations Primer v2.5.4
• RippleLogic Aligners Sheet v3.5.5

Claim boundary:

This release is architecture-complete within its declared Tier 1-3 scope. It is not empirical validation, ProofPack readiness, Tier 4 readiness, legal certification, deployment certification, completed biological SGP measurement, current-AI sentience, solved AI alignment, or deterministic framework selection for non-decisive runs.

Reality-contact doctrine:

Reality is the territory. Structure is its arrangement. Constraint is its law. Consequence is its answer. Evidence is our contact. Ethics is how we act without pretending the surface is the whole.

Verification:

Download or clone the release folder and run:

python VERIFY_RELEASE.py

MathGov / RippleLogic v10.6 + SGP v5.3 Core Release

MathGov / RippleLogic v10.6 + SGP v5.3 is released as a Tier 1–3 core-foundation and synchronized companion package.

This release is architecture-complete within its declared scope and ready for public review, implementation pilots, educational use, and tooling development.

It does not claim empirical validation, ProofPack readiness, Tier 4 conformance, legal compliance, deployment certification, completed biological SGP measurement, or current-AI sentience.

Governing core:

• RippleLogic Canon v10.6
• Sentience Gradient Protocol v5.3

Synchronized companions:

• ripple.md Standard v3.4
• RippleLogic Agent System v10.6
• Foundations Primer v2.4
• Aligners Sheet v3.4
• Methodology Completion and Companion Synchronization Summary

Release folder:

• releases/v10.6_2026-06-05/

Integrity check from repository root:

sha256sum -c releases/v10.6_2026-06-05/RELEASE_INTEGRITY/SHA256_MANIFEST_GITHUB_FINAL.txt

RippleLogic v9.6.4 — Core Canon + Pilot Localization Pack

Start Here (2–5 minutes)

RippleLogic is a system for making better decisions when outcomes affect multiple people, systems, and the future.

Step 1 — Understand the idea (5 minutes)

Open:

• RippleLogic_v9.6.4_Canon.docx

Read:

• Sections 1–3 only

You will learn:

• why current decision-making fails
• what RippleLogic does differently
• the core logic (rights, risk, outcomes)

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Step 2 — See a simple example

Imagine this decision:

A city must choose between:

Option A:

• Build a new highway
• Faster transport
• Higher pollution

Option B:

• Invest in public transport
• Slower rollout
• Lower long-term harm

RippleLogic asks:

1. Does either option violate fundamental rights?
2. What are the worst-case risks?
3. Does the decision harm wider systems?
4. Which option creates the best overall outcome?

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Step 3 — Try it yourself (optional)

If you want to go deeper:

• Open: RippleLogic_Aligners_Sheet_v2.5.xlsx
• Test your own decision scenario

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Estimated time to first understanding: 5–10 minutes

RippleLogic v9.6.4 is the current canonical release of the MathGov / RippleLogic decision framework.

This release includes:

CORE CANON

• RippleLogic v9.6.4 Canon
• SGP v4.7.1
• ripple.md v2.2
• Agent System v9.2
• Aligners Sheet v2.5

ASSURANCE

• ProofPack Alpha v0.4
• Release manifests and SHA-256 checksums

PILOT LOCALIZATION PACK

• Pilot Readiness Memo (Nepal, Vietnam, New Zealand)
• Localization Annex Template
• Starter annexes for Nepal, Vietnam, and New Zealand

CLAIM BOUNDARY

• Tier 1–3 framework completeness: YES
• Tier 2 supervised pilot readiness: YES
• Tier 4 proofpack completeness: NO
• Autonomous deployment: NO
• Legal approval: NO

This release is intended for:

• structured decision-support pilots
• governance design research
• AI alignment architecture development

All pilot use requires:

• human final authority
• local legal and policy review
• explicit Decision Notes and audit records

RippleLogic v9.5 / SGP v4.6 — Canonical Core Release

RippleLogic is a rights-first, tail-risk-aware decision framework for structured intelligence alignment and governance.

This release publishes the canonical RippleLogic v9.5 / SGP v4.6 core bundle.

Scope:

• Tier 1–3 canonical publication
• Hash-bound release artifacts
• Worked-run exemplar included

Core artifacts:

• RippleLogic v9.5 Canon
• Sentience Gradient Protocol (SGP) v4.6
• ripple.md Standard v2.0
• RippleLogic Agent System v9.0
• Aligners Sheet v2.3 (worked-run exemplar)

Integrity layer:

• ProofPack v0.3
• Release manifest (YAML)
• SHA-256 manifest
• Bundle inventory

Notes:

• This release is document-complete for the declared core bundle
• Not a Tier 4 independently replayable validator system
• Agent System included as specification, not deployment evidence

This marks the stabilized v9.5 release line.

RippleLogic v9.0 — Core Freeze Release

This release contains the RippleLogic v9.0 core canon line.

Includes:

• Canon specification (v9.0)
• Agent System (v9.0)
• ripple.md standard (v2.0)
• SGP (v4.3)
• Aligners Sheet (v2.3)

Integrity:

• SHA-256 hashes included
• Release manifest included
• ProofPack integrity documentation included

Assets:

• Core freeze package (.zip)
• ZIP SHA-256 verification file

Note:
This is the synced core document/workbook set.
Full replay-grade bundle requires validator/schema and executable companion layers.

Ripple_Logic v8.6 — Canon Final Release

Release date: 2026-03-15
Status: Architecturally complete — Tier 1–3 implementable and claimable now — Tier 4 non-claimable until ProofPack is publicly replayable
License: CC BY-ND 4.0 (spec text) · MIT (code) · CC BY 4.0 (examples)

Canonical Artifacts

Artifact	Version	SHA-256
Ripple_Logic_v8.6_CANON_FINAL_RELEASE.docx	v8.6	24741d46...4b63b5
SGP_v4.3_CANON_FINAL_RELEASE.docx	v4.3	656a1542...dafa9
ripple_md_Standard_v2.0_CANON_FINAL_RELEASE.docx	v2.0	49f73382...433d
RippleLogic_Agent_System_v8.6_CANON_FINAL_RELEASE.docx	v8.6	346916c5...23d
Ripple_Aligners_Sheet_v2.2_CANON_FINAL_RELEASE.xlsx	v2.2	292c71ae...037

All files in releases/v8.6_2026_03_15/. Verify against SHA256SUMS.

Citation

McGaughran, J. (2026). Ripple_Logic Framework v8.6 [Specification].
MathGov Institute for Ethical Systems Design.
Canonical filename: Ripple_Logic_v8.6_CANON_FINAL_RELEASE.docx
SHA-256: 24741d46339073bb01331e7595e090bae38eadac1ab28e4a4909428d9a4b63b5
ORCID: 0009-0005-3324-7290
Repository: github.com/MathGov/ripple-logic

Readiness

• Academic peer review: READY
• Tier 1 and 2 pilot testing: READY
• Tier 3 deployment: requires IRR + empirical pilots
• Tier 4 / ProofPack: NOT YET — claims prohibited