{
  "@context": "https://the-grove.ai/protocol/schema",
  "@type": ["GroveKeg"],
  "@id": "https://the-grove.ai/registrar/#grove-keg",
  "keg_class": "registrar-surface",
  "operator": {
    "name": "The Grove Foundation",
    "url": "https://the-grove.ai",
    "founder": {
      "name": "James Calhoun",
      "role": "Founder and Executive Director",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimcalhoun"
    },
    "address": { "locality": "Indianapolis", "region": "IN", "country": "US" }
  },
  "autonomaton": {
    "name": "the-grove.ai",
    "declaration": "/.well-known/grove-autonomaton.json"
  },
  "registers": ["operator-declaration"],
  "lineage": [
    { "name": "GRV-004: The Autonomaton Protocol", "kind": "artifact-substrate-predecessor", "url": "https://the-grove.ai/standards/004" },
    { "name": "The Bicameral Canon",               "kind": "artifact-substrate-predecessor", "url": "https://the-grove.ai/sprints/bicameral-canon/BICAMERAL-CANON.md" }
  ],
  "intent": "The Registrar is the operator declaration of The Grove Foundation. Cohort-2026 substrate is live; issuance interface arrives here.",
  "payloads": [
    { "name": "operator-declaration", "anchor": "[section#declaration]" },
    { "name": "autonomaton-protocol", "anchor": "[section#protocol]" },
    { "name": "why-declare",          "anchor": "[section#why-declare]" },
    { "name": "lineage",              "anchor": "[section#lineage]" },
    { "name": "compose-with",         "anchor": "[section#compose-with]" },
    { "name": "reserves-declaration", "anchor": "[section#reserves]" },
    { "name": "registry-state",       "anchor": "/.well-known/grove-registry.json" }
  ],
  "inspirations": [
    { "name": "Andy Clark & David Chalmers", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Extended_Mind", "register": "intellectual-lineage", "contribution": "The Extended Mind (1998); cognition does not stop at the skull" },
    { "name": "IBM Autonomic Computing",     "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomic_computing", "register": "intellectual-lineage", "contribution": "Autonomic Computing (2001); inspectable operations below conscious oversight" },
    { "name": "Sakichi Toyoda",              "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakichi_Toyoda", "register": "intellectual-lineage", "contribution": "jidoka (1924); automation with a human touch — direct ancestor of the Autonomaton zone model" },
    { "name": "Brian Cantwell Smith",        "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Cantwell_Smith", "register": "intellectual-lineage", "contribution": "Computational Reflection; 3-Lisp (1982) — systems that inspect and modify their own execution" },
    { "name": "Pattie Maes",                 "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattie_Maes", "register": "intellectual-lineage", "contribution": "Computational Reflection; load-bearing metadata as architectural primitive" },
    { "name": "Christopher Alexander",       "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language", "register": "intellectual-lineage", "contribution": "A Pattern Language (1977); patterns as philosophical positions with structural implications" },
    { "name": "Marshall McLuhan",            "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan", "register": "intellectual-lineage", "contribution": "Understanding Media (1964); the medium is the message" },
    { "name": "Susan Kare",                  "url": "https://kare.com/", "register": "intellectual-lineage", "contribution": "original Macintosh icon system and fonts (1983); compression at the moment that converts machine into companion" },
    { "name": "Burrell Smith",               "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrell_Smith", "register": "intellectual-lineage", "contribution": "original Macintosh hardware (1984); minimalism as a discipline of coaxing maximum function from fewer parts" },
    { "name": "Brewster Kahle",              "url": "https://archive.org/", "register": "intellectual-lineage", "contribution": "Internet Archive (1996); preservation as infrastructure — substrate-vintage made buildable" },
    { "name": "Kevin Kelly",                 "url": "https://kk.org/", "register": "intellectual-lineage", "contribution": "Out of Control (1994); distributed bottom-up systems beat centralized control at scale" },
    { "name": "Clement Mok",                 "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Mok", "register": "personal-friendship-and-co-conspiracy", "contribution": "design philosophy as structural discipline; editorial gate against clever-instead-of-clear" },
    { "name": "Randy Wigginton",             "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Wigginton", "register": "personal-friendship-and-co-conspiracy", "contribution": "MacWrite (1984) at twenty-one; demonstration that the platform could carry productivity for ordinary people" }
  ],
  "operator_notes": [
    {
      "subject": "Avatar — Tsaheylu",
      "register": "no-judgment",
      "note": "The Tsaheylu connection in Avatar reads as a bicameral lock — paired symmetric authentication — rather than a generalist information-sharing bus. The bicameral architecture (one surface, two chambers) is structurally closer to this than to traditional pub-sub."
    },
    {
      "subject": "Star Wars — protocol droid",
      "register": "no-judgment",
      "note": "The protocol-droid metaphor is useful but incomplete. The Autonomaton Protocol aims at egalitarian circuitry — peer cognition rather than translation up to human authority. Same shape, different politics."
    },
    {
      "subject": "Interstellar — substrate-vintage",
      "register": "no-judgment",
      "note": "The time-dilation scene encodes the substrate-vintage logic the Registrar will issue against. Cohort year is fixed at issuance; declarations shipped under a 2026 AID stay 2026-vintage regardless of when they ship. Queued for migration into /standards/ canon when issuance functionality goes live."
    }
  ],
  "reserves": { "declaration": "Issuance interface arrives here. Cohort-2026 substrate is live." },
  "compose_with": [
    { "name": "GRV-001: Autonomaton Pattern",      "url": "https://the-grove.ai/standards/001",               "kind": "standard" },
    { "name": "GRV-002: Learner Autonomaton",      "url": "https://the-grove.ai/standards/002",               "kind": "standard" },
    { "name": "GRV-003: Learner Autonomaton v1.2", "url": "https://the-grove.ai/standards/003",               "kind": "standard" },
    { "name": "GRV-004: The Autonomaton Protocol", "url": "https://the-grove.ai/standards/004",               "kind": "protocol" },
    { "name": "The Polarity Hypothesis",           "url": "https://the-grove.ai/research/knowledge-polarity", "kind": "research" },
    { "name": "The Grove Foundation",              "url": "https://the-grove.ai/",                            "kind": "foundation-root" }
  ],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "dateModified": "2026-05-08"
}