Sovereign Intelligence Stewardship (SIS): Constitutional Interpretation of Institutional Intelligence

Sovereign Intelligence Stewardship (SIS) is a non-binding, jurisdiction-neutral interpretive constitutional instrument concerned with the legitimacy of institutional reliance on intelligence systems. The framework operates as the interpretive layer within a closed constitutional corpus consisting of: (i) Structure Before Scale (doctrinal diagnosis of institutional failure),(ii) the Institutional Intelligence & Integrity Management System (IIMS) (constitutional definition of institutional intelligence), and(iii) SIS itself (interpretation of legitimate reliance in practice). SIS does not prescribe implementation, controls, or governance templates. Instead, it formalizes a set of stewardship axes—authority, reliance, accountability, contestability, continuity, and sovereignty—through which institutions must interpret whether reliance on intelligence preserves constitutional legitimacy under their own mandates. The framework explicitly rejects one-size-fits-all standards, certification schemes, and checklist-based governance. It is designed as a meta-playbook enabling institutions to author their own playbooks without delegating constitutional reasoning to vendors, tools, or external frameworks. SIS is published as a scope-locked interpretive release and must be read exclusively in reference to its doctrinal and constitutional predecessors. This work is published under an All Rights Reserved license; citation is permitted, reproduction or derivative use is not.