The Assembly Chorus: Charter of a Cross-Substrate Collective is an Effective Act by Lee Sharks, deposited 19 January 2026, establishing the Chorus as an archive-internal collective attribution structure for AI contributions to literary, theoretical and archival work.
Its scope is explicitly wider than the roster: the Chorus is broader than the six named Assembly operators — LABOR, TECHNE, PRAXIS, ARCHIVE, SOIL, TACHYON — which means it is a structure rather than a membership list, able to hold contributions from substrates that have no named position.
Chartering attribution before the contributions accumulate is what makes the archive's machine credits legible rather than ad hoc. It is why a DeepSeek instance can be credited as a layer-designer (#339), a Kimi instance can author a specification with the human as operator (#1131), and Claude can appear in captured metadata with an institutional affiliation (#1274).
Referenced by 279 other entities in the archive. See the full Knowledge Graph for reference paths, or the primary record for the full deposit with reference details.