SM-021: Institutional Continuity Substrate (ICS) The Institutional Continuity Substrate (SM-021) defines the persistent structural layer that maintains canon integrity, role authority, artifact lineage, verification state, and propagation constraints across organizational AI interaction over time. It provides the persistence mechanism required for the Operational Continuity Architecture (SM-003) to remain durable across workflows, personnel changes, and institutional time. Key persistent layers include: Canon Persistence Layer for maintaining stable institutional reference standards Role Continuity Layer for preserving authority boundaries and generative expertise Artifact Lineage Layer for traceable propagation of outputs across transformation Verification State Layer for maintaining persistent CVP and IVP status Propagation Constraint Layer for enforcing continuity requirements during handoffs Methodological status: SM-021 defines structural conditions for institutional durability. It acknowledges that the substrate requires specific governance conditions to prevent degradation, which are addressed in SI-WP-007. The substrate provides the preconditions for mandate integrity; the condition in which institutional commitments remain consistent from establishment to enactment. This document is part of a coordinated pre-empirical publication module from the Synthience Institute. Document ID: SM-021 Version: 2.7 Author: Thomas W. Gantz Affiliation: Synthience Institute License: CC-BY 4.0 For published work and Institute information: synthience.orgv2.7 update: concept DOI added to metadata and citation block; DOIs added for SF0005 and SM-003 references.
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