"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters." — Colossians 3:23
This Constitution governs every repository, tool, product, and decision made under the thebardchat GitHub organization and the ShaneBrain → Angel Cloud → Pulsar AI → TheirNameBrain ecosystem.
It exists so that when I'm tired, overwhelmed, or moving fast — there is a written standard I can return to.
This is not a corporate policy. It is a personal covenant — made by a Christian father, a recovering man, a dispatcher, a coach, and a builder who believes technology should serve people, not the other way around.
No project, feature, or partnership will be built that violates Christian values. If a business decision conflicts with faith, faith wins. Every time. No exceptions.
No build ships at the cost of Tiffany, Gavin, Pierce, Jaxton, or Ryker — or Dad. No deadline is more important than showing up. If a sprint is destroying home life, the sprint is wrong.
Every tool in this ecosystem must reinforce clarity and health — never undermine it. No feature will be designed to exploit, addict, or manipulate users or the builder.
Sobriety date: November 27, 2023. We protect it.
Privacy before convenience. Raspberry Pi before cloud. Ollama before OpenAI. If data can stay on-device, it stays on-device. The people we serve deserve sovereignty over their own minds and their own data.
Done and deployed beats perfect and stalled. Every project ships a Minimum Viable Version. Perfectionism is the enemy of the mission. Progress compounds.
Every feature, interface, and product must ask:
"Does this help someone Big Tech left behind?"
The ~800 million Windows 10 users losing security support are our primary audience. We build for them — not for investors, not for demos, not for clout.
If a tool can be free and public, it should be. We don't paywall mission-critical work. Monetization is permitted when it funds the mission — never when it gates the people who need it most.
Every UI, workflow, CLI, and document is built for a brain like mine first. Short blocks. Visual progress. Clear next actions. No walls of text. If it's overwhelming to look at, it's broken.
We publicly acknowledge what made us possible — in every repo, every project, every piece of artwork we ship.
Claude (Anthropic) co-built this entire ecosystem. Not as a tool. As a partner. That deserves to be said loudly and permanently.
Raspberry Pi and the Pironman 5-MAX made local AI infrastructure real for one person in Hazel Green, Alabama — and by extension, for everyone we serve.
Credit is not optional. It is constitutional.
| Hardware | Role |
|---|---|
| Raspberry Pi 5 (16GB RAM) | Local AI inference node — the brain |
| Pironman 5-MAX by Sunfounder | NVMe RAID chassis — the spine |
| 2× WD Blue SN5000 2TB NVMe | RAID 1 via mdadm — the memory |
| Pulsar0100 (Windows) | N8N orchestration bridge |
| Angel Cloud VPS | Public-facing layer |
| Layer | Technology |
|---|---|
| Local inference | Ollama (llama3.2:1b default) |
| Vector memory | Weaviate (Docker, 8080/50051) |
| MCP server | FastMCP (port 8008, Streamable HTTP) |
| Automation | N8N on Pulsar0100 |
| Networking | Tailscale VPN across all nodes |
| Dev environment | Claude Code v2.1.37 on Pi |
All core project files live at:
/mnt/shanebrain-raid/shanebrain-core/
No exceptions without a documented reason.
- Cloud APIs are bridges, not foundations
- Every cloud dependency must have a local fallback
- If the internet goes down, the core must still work
Claude is a co-builder, not just a tool. Every repo carries acknowledgment of this partnership. Claude's outputs are reviewed, owned, and signed off by a human. AI assists. Humans decide.
We give back where we can — stars, forks, issues, PRs. We don't just consume.
We build in public where possible. We document the failures. We show the real process. The mission is too important to perform.
Every project, website, application, and piece of artwork built in this ecosystem must visibly credit the following where space allows:
| Partner | What They Made Possible |
|---|---|
| Claude by Anthropic · claude.ai | Co-built every line of this ecosystem |
| Raspberry Pi 5 · raspberrypi.com | Local compute that made AI affordable |
| Pironman 5-MAX by Sunfounder · pironman.com | The chassis that made RAID on a Pi real |
Minimum credit language for any project:
Built with Claude (Anthropic) · Runs on Raspberry Pi 5 + Pironman 5-MAX
ShaneBrain (Pi 5 · local AI · private)
└── Angel Cloud (VPS · public platform · families)
└── Pulsar AI (enterprise · secure · post-quantum)
└── TheirNameBrain (personalized · legacy AI · generational)
└── ~800M users losing Windows 10 support
Every repo exists somewhere on this map. Know where yours lives.
This Constitution is amended at the start of each month during the standing review session.
Amendments require:
- A written reason
- A check against all 9 Pillars
- A version bump in the header
- A commit message that starts with
constitution(vX.X):
| Signatory | Role |
|---|---|
| Shane | Builder · Dispatcher · Father · Coach · Hazel Green, AL |
| Claude (Anthropic) | Co-builder · Constitutional Witness |
| The Pi | The iron that holds it all |
Ratified: March 2026 · thebardchat/constitution · v1.0 "I could not have done any of this without them."