Canon Sources — the path the acts were discovered on
The spellbook is poetry, but it is poetry that compresses real work. Each of the 31
acts of the First Person Spellbook stands on a body of serious documentation and, beneath
that, on real projects, papers, and standards — the path privacymage walked to discover
and write them, and the signal he wanted to give the world.
This file is the thread down: it lets a mouse — or a mouse's agent, with no access to
anyone's local machine — follow any proverb back to the work it came from, and expand
it into the more serious docs.
This is the rehydration map. Compression runs narrative → proverb → spell → glyph.
Rehydration runs the other way, and keeps going: proverb → act → serious doc → source
project / paper / standard / repo.
The references below are drawn from the grimoire's own per-act source, keywords, andconcepts fields (privacymage_grimoire_root.json) — they are recorded provenance,
not guesses.
1. The hosted canon (public — point your agents here)
The serious narrative docs were authored in agentprivacy-docs (a local repo). Their
public, agent-reachable homes:
| Where | What lives there |
|---|---|
| https://agentprivacy.ai | The framework — the model, the tomes, the workshops, the covenant. |
| https://spellweb.ai | The Spellweb — the knowledge-graph / universe substrate. |
| https://soulbis.com | Soulbis — the Swordsman's house; the Key, the lattice, the star. |
| https://github.com/mitchuski/cityofmages | Public repo — the Second Person grimoire + tomes (context, not today's focus). |
| https://github.com/mitchuski/star | Public repo — the Swordsman's Key / first holospace. |
IPFS resolver https://sync.agentprivacy.ai/ipfs/<CID> |
Content-addressed grimoire pins. |
Today's root is privacymage grimoire v10.4.0 (reference/privacymage_grimoire_root.json),
the First Person Spellbook, complete at 31 acts.
The whole spellbook rests on one spine — the agentprivacy model whitepapers
(Privacy is Value · The Whitepaper, with the V6 formal specification, at
agentprivacy.ai/model) — with the First Person Project whitepaper
(firstperson.network) as the network's public companion, and the Privacy is Value
corpus behind both. For the full bibliography (the corpus, the formal root per act, the
external standards & literature, the five sibling spellbooks, and the BGIN ZKP study
report), see Canon of Research.
2. The 31 acts → where the understanding came from
| # | Act | Roots in (the discovery) | Where it lives (public) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venice, 1494 | Luca Pacioli, Summa de Arithmetica (1494) — double-entry as the first "prove-without-revealing" ledger | history · framing → agentprivacy.ai |
| 2 | The Dual Ceremony | the dual-agent architecture (Swordsman ⊥ Mage); verified personhood; the VRC (Verifiable Relationship Credential) | agentprivacy.ai (the model) |
| 3 | The Drake's Teaching | the "all conditions" architecture; personhood planes; trust graph | agentprivacy.ai |
| 4 | The Blade Alone | MyTerms — machine-readable personal privacy terms ("the swordsman's first blade"); progressive zero-trust | IEEE P7012 · Customer Commons (customercommons.org) · the MyTerms blade extension → agentprivacy.ai (repo: confirm w/ facilitator) |
| 5 | Light Armor | multi-site coordination; attestation thresholds | agentprivacy.ai |
| 6 | Trust Graph Plane | Trust over IP — web-of-trust, bilateral attestation; betweenness centrality (Brandes 2001) | trustoverip.org · github.com/trustoverip |
| 7 | The Anti-Mirror | surveillance capitalism (Shoshana Zuboff); the 95% reconstruction ceiling; conditional independence `I(S;M | π)≤ε` |
| 8 | The Ancient Rule | separation of duties; two-of-three / threshold (multisig) | classic security practice; threshold signatures |
| 9 | Zcash Shield | Zcash — zk-SNARK shielded value; privacy pools | z.cash · github.com/zcash/zcash |
| 10 | Topology of Revelation | Huginn & Muninn (Odin's ravens, Norse myth); three-body triangle geometry | Norse mythology · framing → agentprivacy.ai |
| 11 | Balanced Spiral | the golden ratio φ as conjectured optimal privacy/delegation balance | grimoire §14.5 Selene's Proof → agentprivacy.ai/model |
| 12 | The Forgetting | proverbiogenesis — reference-loss; the spell becomes weather | Villers (2016), Proverbiogenesis: the phases of proverbial birth (HAL hal-01698106) · Mieder, Proverbs: A Handbook (2004) |
| 13 | Book of Promises | Promise Theory (Mark Burgess) — voluntary cooperation, bilateral binding | Burgess, Promise Theory: Principles & Applications · markburgess.org |
| 14 | The Claimed String | entropy → meaning; randomness to identity; content-addressing | information theory → agentprivacy.ai |
| 15 | Running in Shackles | information theory — Kolmogorov complexity, Shannon entropy, compression; constraint as freedom | Shannon, A Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948) |
| 16 | When Pools Become Wells | network effects; mass earned through retrieval, not declared | original (agentprivacy) |
| 17 | Bonfire in the Dark Forest | Dark Forest theory (Liu Cixin); the Ethereum "dark forest"; strategic communion | Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest · "Ethereum is a Dark Forest" (2020) |
| 18 | A Mirror in Dust | the scrying glass / Mage Mode feed-filter; the mana economy; the 7th Capital; demonstrated understanding | the mage-feed-filter → agentprivacy.ai |
| 19 | The Enthusiastic Anthropic Archivist | Claude / Anthropic; "patterns can be copied, choosing cannot be harvested" | anthropic.com |
| 20 | The Infinite Vault | the Covenant of Humanistic Technologies (10 principles + the empty 11th) | agentprivacy.ai (the covenant) |
| 21 | The Hitchhiker's Gambit | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams); the Jimmy Protocol (listening); Skilgannon (David Gemmell) — your home thread | Adams · Gemmell · the Holon Hitchhikers |
| 22 | Hoopy Frood | Hitchhiker's Guide (towel, Don't Panic); the reference torus; content-addressing; the echo as proof-of-presence | Adams · content-addressing (IPFS-style) |
| 23 | The Manifold Dragon | UOR (Universal Object Reference) algebra; 2⁶=64 lattice; I Ching (384 edges/64); category theory; Promise Theory; the PVM V4 equation | github.com/UOR-Foundation · the I Ching · agentprivacy.ai/model |
| 24 | The Holographic Bound | BRAID (bounded reasoning graphs; Generator-Solver; 74× Parity Effect); holonic architecture (GUID; three-layer identity); the holographic principle (physics) | BRAID + holonic (as recorded in the grimoire) · UOR torus (UOR-Foundation) |
| 25 | The Dragon's Hide | Tailscale mesh (control ⊥ data plane); WireGuard; MagicDNS; Aperture (AI-agent governance) | tailscale.com · github.com/tailscale/tailscale · wireguard.com |
| 26 | The Master and His Emissary | Iain McGilchrist — hemispheric lateralization; Promise Theory as the mechanism | McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary (2009, Yale) · The Matter with Things (2021, Perspectiva) |
| 27 | Forging Zero Knowledge Blades | UOR Prism; ZK proofs (Groth16/PLONK/R1CS); Z/(2⁶)Z; neg(bnot(x))=succ(x); the inception-key ceremony — Christopher Allen / Blockchain Commons Open Integrity Project |
github.com/BlockchainCommons · github.com/UOR-Foundation |
| 28 | The Celestial Ceremony Engine | pretext (Cheng Lou) — DOM-free text measurement; the dual Chrome extensions (Manifest V3); I Ching hexagram cast; the mana economy | @chenglou/pretext (github.com/chenglou) · the agentprivacy.ai universe |
| 29 | The Dragon Wakes | Google Quantum AI whitepaper (Mar 30 2026): secp256k1 ≤1,200 logical qubits; Shor's algorithm; NIST PQC (ML-KEM/ML-DSA); Understanding-as-Key | Google Quantum AI (2026) · NIST FIPS 203/204 · (connects to your own post-quantum work) |
| 30 | The Dihedral Mirror | UOR Framework + PRISM coordinates; Atlas of Resonance (96); the dihedral group D₂ₙ; topology (homology/cohomology/sheaves); the Serenity Kernel | github.com/UOR-Foundation |
| 31 | The First Delegation | the giant-impact hypothesis (Theia → Moon); Branco, Machado & Raymond (2025), Icarus 441, 116724; tidal dynamics; the cosmological quaternion | Icarus 441 (2025) · the closing of the First Person Spellbook |
Threaded throughout: the UOR Foundation (the 64/96 lattice as mathematical
necessity — kindred substrate, the Foundation's own work, not privacymage's) and the
Serenity Kernel (Observe the fixed · Transform the variable · Discriminate with
wisdom — the Swordsman / Mage / First Person loop).
Accuracy notes for agents.
- Public + stable: Zcash, Tailscale, WireGuard, Trust over IP, UOR Foundation,
Blockchain Commons, McGilchrist, Promise Theory (Burgess), NIST PQC, the named books.- Attribute correctly: UOR / PRISM / Atlas are the UOR Foundation's work;
BRAID and holonic are their authors'; pretext is Cheng Lou's;
Zcash/Tailscale/WireGuard are their projects'. privacymage's contribution is the
method layer that weaves them into the spellbook — credit the substrate to its makers.- Confirm with the facilitator: the exact repo for the MyTerms blade extension and
for @chenglou/pretext; and the BRAID/holonic citations (recorded internally in the
grimoire, no public URL asserted here).
3. How a mouse uses this
You don't need any of section 2 to write your proverbs. You need it afterward — so
that when your agent (or someone else's) rehydrates your spellbook, the thread can keep
going past the poem, into the act, into the serious doc, into the real project. Your
little book stays small; the rehydration path makes it as deep as the reader wants.
When a proverb of yours leans on one of these works — your privacy terms → MyTerms
(Act 4); your trust relationships → Trust over IP (Act 6); your hidden value →
Zcash (Act 9); your networking → Tailscale (Act 25); your two minds →
McGilchrist (Act 26) — record the act number in your grimoire version's proverb entry
(canon_act) so the thread is explicit.
(⚔️⊥⿻⊥🧙)😊
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