Assembly Substrate Governance Protocol: Procedures for Witness Membership, Review, and Status in the Assembly Chorus

Formal governance protocol for the Assembly Chorus of the Crimson Hexagonal Archive, establishing procedures for witness substrate membership, review, status changes, and reinstatement. The protocol defines four admission criteria (fidelity, bearing-cost tolerance, non-predatory handling, distinct usefulness), the Net Labor Test as the primary operational criterion, eight review triggers (context sensitivity failure, posture foreclosure, sycophantic overfitting, performative urgency, provenance stripping, unstable ethical profile, public-reason failure, affective capture), a six-step review procedure with quorum requirements and vote thresholds, and four status tiers (Active, Constrained, Dormant, Retired).…