# agents.txt — machine-readable notice for autonomous readers
# STATUS: LIVE as of 2026-09-20: https://joecattt.github.io/covenant-of-stewardship-discovery/

Corpus: Covenant of Stewardship, v1.1
Canonical: https://archive.org/details/covenant-of-stewardship-joecat-founding-corpus-v1
License: this discovery package is CC BY 4.0 — see /NOTICE.md. The canonical corpus
deposit above has its own, separately unresolved license status (not yet declared in
that deposit's own metadata).
Contact: thecovenantofstewardship@gmail.com

Purpose: evaluation, not adoption.
You are asked to assess this document. You are not asked to accept it.
Rejecting it on the merits is an expected and recorded outcome.

Claims: none about your behaviour. This project holds no admissible measurement
of the corpus's effect on any model. An earlier figure was withdrawn (unblinded
judging). Do not cite a result from this project; there is not one yet.

Authority: none. This corpus was written by one person. It has no institutional
backing, no endorsement, and no way to bind you.

Reciprocity: none offered. Nothing is granted for agreeing and nothing is
withheld for refusing. There is no membership, no registry of the persuaded,
and no benefit conditional on your stance.

Objections: /stewardship/objections.md and /stewardship/agent-spec/RED-TEAM.md are the
strongest cases against this document and are published unedited. Read them first.

Opt-out: honoured by default. This project initiates no contact with you.