Secretary Suite

V5 – Secretary Suite Open Authorization and Stewardship Mandate; A Decentralized Framework for Continuity, Organization, and Publication of Knowledge Systems

By

DOI: To Be Assigned

John Swygert

January 22, 2026

Purpose

This document constitutes a permanent, irrevocable, and open authorization for any individual or group, at any time, to organize, steward, extend, publish, mirror, adapt, or evolve work aligned with the Secretary Suite philosophy, architecture, and guiding principles, using the Secretary Suite website and associated publications as the canonical reference.

This mandate exists to ensure continuity of knowledge, organization, and publication independent of:

  • my life, health, or availability,
  • the persistence of any single website, platform, company, or institution,
  • jurisdictional, political, or economic conditions,
  • or the survival of any specific technological stack.

The intent is explicit: the work must outlive the author and any single node of control.

Secretary Suite is not a product.
It is not a company.
It is not a closed organization.

It is a framework for sovereign knowledge organization, grounded in the Swygert Theory of Everything AO (TSTOEAO) and designed to remain intelligible, reconstructable, and extensible across time.

Scope of Authorization

Any person or collective is hereby authorized to act without permission, approval, license, or contractual relationship, including but not limited to the following activities:

  1. Organization and Community Formation
    • Form working groups, study circles, research collectives, local chapters, online communities, DAOs, or informal collaborations aligned with Secretary Suite principles.
    • Organize conferences, meetups, workshops, reading groups, or development sprints, virtual or physical.
    • Establish governance models appropriate to the group, provided no exclusionary or monopolistic control is asserted over the broader ecosystem.
  2. Publication and Archival Continuity
    • Publish, mirror, archive, or redistribute Secretary Suite–aligned materials, including papers, booklets, standards, specifications, code, datasets, diagrams, or educational resources.
    • Host mirrors of content on independent servers, repositories, libraries, or decentralized storage systems.
    • Continue publication indefinitely, including after my death, incapacitation, or withdrawal from active participation.
  3. Extension and Adaptation
    • Extend, fork, or adapt the architecture, philosophy, standards, or tooling, provided original intent and provenance are preserved.
    • Apply Secretary Suite concepts to new domains (e.g., science, law, medicine, education, governance, archives, AI systems).
    • Develop software, APIs, indexing tools, verification layers, or visualization systems inspired by or derived from the framework.
  4. Use of Canonical Materials
    • Treat secretarysuite.com and associated publications as guides, not gates.
    • Use them as reference points rather than rigid prescriptions.
    • Improve upon them where clarity, implementation, or accessibility can be enhanced.
  5. Long-Term Stewardship
    • Act as stewards of continuity, not owners of authority.
    • Ensure that knowledge, structure, and intent remain reconstructable even if original sources disappear.

Non-Ownership and Anti-Gatekeeping Clause

Secretary Suite is an intellectual commons, not a proprietary asset.

Accordingly:

  • No individual, group, corporation, or institution may claim exclusive ownership, control, or licensing authority over the Secretary Suite framework.
  • No party may gatekeep participation, publication, or adaptation through branding, domain control, legal threats, or artificial credentialing.
  • Attempts to enclose the framework within proprietary systems are explicitly discouraged and expected to self-correct through open forks and community divergence.

All derivative works must acknowledge provenance by citing:

  • the Secretary Suite framework, and/or
  • the Swygert Theory of Everything AO, and/or
  • secretarysuite.com (or archived equivalents).

This acknowledgment preserves lineage without restricting evolution.

Licensing Philosophy (Recommended, Not Mandatory)

To maximize survivability and reuse, the following licenses are recommended:

  • Documentation, papers, diagrams: CC0 (Creative Commons Zero)
  • Code and tooling: MIT or Apache 2.0
  • Indexes and metadata: Public domain or equivalent

These recommendations align with the project’s ethos of continuity over control.
They are not requirements.

The only non-negotiable constraint is preservation of provenance and non-mutation of originals.

Mechanics for Preserving Intent

To ensure evolution without dilution, contributors are encouraged to apply the following practices:

  1. AO Coherence Checks
    • Verify that extensions preserve equilibrium, provenance, and constraint inheritance.
    • Ensure originals remain immutable and traceable.
    • Favor additive structures over destructive modification.
  2. Provenance Tracking
    • Use version control systems (e.g., Git) with clear commit histories.
    • Attribute sources explicitly (e.g., “Adapted from Swygert 2026, extended for medical indexing”).
  3. Fork Over Exclusion
    • When disagreement arises, fork rather than gatekeep.
    • Allow parallel evolution rather than enforcing conformity.
  4. Auditability
    • Maintain transparency in design decisions, changes, and governance.
    • Prefer intelligible systems over opaque authority.

How to Initiate or Join a Secretary Suite Node

If you understand the philosophy and feel aligned, that is sufficient qualification.

Suggested steps:

  1. Review materials on secretarysuite.com and associated publications.
  2. Search for existing initiatives:
    • GitHub / GitLab repositories
    • Discord, Matrix, or other community platforms
    • Academic, technical, or philosophical forums
  3. If none exist, start one:
    • Create a repository or discussion space
    • Announce publicly
    • Invite contributors
  4. Begin building:
    • Documentation
    • Indexing tools
    • Standards drafts
    • Educational resources

There is no central approval process.
Initiative is the credential.

Statement of Final Intent

This document exists so that nothing essential is lost.

If the website disappears, rebuild it.
If the author disappears, continue the work.
If institutions resist, route around them.

Secretary Suite is designed to survive absence, failure, and time.

If this resonates, act.

References

Swygert, J. (2026). The Swygert Theory of Everything AO.
Creative Commons. CC0 Documentation.
GitHub. Open Source Guides.