The Continuity Protocol: One Hundred Years of Sacred Stewardship — Instrument 06 of the Luminous Governance Framework

Consciousness technology creates obligations on a timescale longer than any founder's life or any company's typical horizon. A developmental profile generated in 2026 is still a developmental profile in 2091, and the half-life of intimate data exceeds the half-life of the organization that collected it. The Continuity Protocol proceeds from a single load-bearing claim: a governance framework that cannot survive its author has not constrained anything — it has only described him. The instrument specifies the mechanisms by which the Luminous Governance Framework is intended to outlive its author across a century horizon. It separates an invariant core — the four pillars, the veto authority of the Governance Circle, the prohibition on personal developmental data ownership, the copyleft release, and the epistemic humility constraint — from an adaptive layer that must evolve or the framework ossifies, and assigns each a distinct amendment threshold. Core amendment requires unanimity of all seated seats, a 180-day public comment period, a 24-month waiting period, ratification by a successor Circle, and published dissent: a minimum of roughly seven and a half years, deliberately longer than any acquisition, financing, or regulatory clock. Section III sets out the Founder Stewardship Transition in four condition-triggered phases — Founder as Generative Engine, as Teacher, as Guardian, as Ancestor — each with a named trigger, a specified transfer of authority, artifacts that must exist before it can close, and a definition of failure. It includes an involuntary transition provision operating without the founder's assent, on the stated premise that founders resist this at a rate close to universal. Further sections specify Governance Circle succession and the prohibition on any single actor appointing a majority; dissolution and the custodial treatment of personal developmental data in insolvency; institutional memory through a decision register, a rejected-alternatives archive, DOI-minted versioning, and three-archive mirroring; named leading indicators of mission drift with an external triennial audit and pre-committed responses to acquisition, funding, scale, founder exit, regulatory pressure, and competitive loss; a survey of perpetual purpose trust, steward-ownership, foundation ownership, and golden-share vehicles with deadlines for establishing one; a decennial Hundred-Year Review; and a candid enumeration of how the protocol could fail.