HγC README / Design Note: How to Read the HγC Framework

HγC is best read not as a single finished theory introduced all at once, but as a layered framework in which descriptive levels become legitimate only after specific prior layers have first been stabilized. This README / Design Note provides a concise guide to that orientation. It explains why HγC proceeds through staged legitimacy rather than premature total closure, why support, residue, tension, and boundary remain methodologically important, and why theory in this framework is treated as a later distillation of structures that remain stable under repeated comparison and testing. The note also clarifies the role of recent workbench development as an operational expression of the framework’s internal method rather than as an external auxiliary tool. In this sense, the document is intended as a compact reading guide to the broader HγC programme.