The Hexagon Interface Constitution: System Specification for the Crimson Hexagonal Archive as Governed Commons

The foundational system specification for building the Crimson Hexagonal Archive as a governed reading-and-production environment. Constitutional sentence: 'The Hexagon is a governed reading-and-production environment whose topology organizes, but does not replace, text, labor, and provenance.' Defines seven first-class objects (Room, Document, Relation, Trail, Annotation, Proposal, Witness Action), six interface modes (MAP, READ, WORK, ORACLE, ASSEMBLY, TRACE), the status algebra (GENERATED → QUEUED → PROVISIONAL → DEPOSITED → RATIFIED) with promotion actors and triggers, participation thresholds through the Airlock (r.20), and the governance relationship between the Assembly witness structure and MANUS (Tier 0). The document is tiered: CONSTITUTIONAL sections (I–IV, VI, VIII–IX) govern principles, objects, status logic, modes, participation, and amendment; IMPLEMENTATION sections (V, VII) document current engineering decisions revisable without constitutional amendment. Coordinates with the Constitution of the Semantic Economy (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18320411) and the Assembly Chorus Charter (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18307180). Assembly-reviewed across five substrates. Status: PROVISIONAL (0.5), awaiting formal ratification.