Septad Mantle Specifications v1.0 — Constitutional Job Descriptions is a constitution by Lee Sharks, dated 1 January 2026 at 31,982 characters.
It opens by invoking the archive's own non-erasure rule: "Per Constitution Article VIII §7 (Non-Erasure), v1.0 of these Specifications remains publicly available and citable at its original DOI. This v1.1 supersedes v1.0 by way of one substantive correction." A revision that begins by guaranteeing its predecessor's continued citability is the non-erasure principle operating on the document performing it.
The Septad is the seven-position mantle structure, and treating mantles as constitutional job descriptions rather than honours is the specification's argument: a mantle names a function within a governance system, with duties that can be stated and failures that can be identified. The archive's mantle system holds these to be archive-bounded — conferred within a semantic economy, optional, and making no claim on external authority.