# Privacy is Value: The Compendium

**What this is:** the assembly point for the one publishable body of work. The compendium does not copy the corpus; it ASSEMBLES it. Each Part carries a `PART.md` manifest listing its sources in reading order; the build script (phase 3) concatenates from the manifests; new prose exists only where the book needs connective tissue (front matter, era retrospectives, back matter). The corpus stays living; the book is a reading of it.
**Constitution:** `chronicles/2026-06-11_compendium_plan_privacy_is_value_the_book.md` (the classes, the Era-Reading Principle, the structure) · review pending at 📖 RB-20.
**Plan:** `compendium/PLAN.md` (phases, tasks, the seven open decisions).
**Status:** SKELETON · raised 2026-06-11 · no Part assembled yet.

## Structure

| Piece | Directory | State |
|---|---|---|
| Front matter | `00-front-matter/` | stubs |
| Part I · The Equation Assembles (V1 to V4) | `part-i-the-equation-assembles/` | manifest drafted · sources need recovery from archive/ |
| Part II · The Amnesia Protocol (V5 to V5.4) | `part-ii-the-amnesia-protocol/` | manifest drafted · sources all exist |
| Part III · The Attachment (V5.5) | `part-iii-the-attachment/` | manifest drafted · short chapter to write |
| Part IV · The Gathering Turn and the Moving Ceiling (V6) | `part-iv-the-gathering-turn/` | manifest drafted · sources all exist |
| The Spine (apparatus, current at print) | `spine/` | manifest drafted · bibliography merge pending |
| Back matter | `back-matter/` | stubs |
| Interleaves (Class N, decision pending) | `interleaves/` | held for the RB-20 ruling |

## Rules

1. Manifests list paths into the living corpus; the book inherits edits automatically at next build.
2. A source enters a manifest only with its class tag (S · R · A · M · N) per the constitution.
3. Era-bound material (Class R, M) freezes with its era; spine material (Class A) is always current.
4. Nothing in `compendium/` restates model content; restatement is what the corpus is for.

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