49GAION Edition Maker: product requirements

Current version: PRD v0.12 (49GAION/DR-0054). The lines below give each version in turn.

PRD v0.8 · approved as v0.7 by the governing seat (GOV) on 22 October 2026, with the edition engineer added; v0.8 adds the core's first named capability, Structural Adaptation (GOV, 25 October 2026).

PRD v0.9 brings the PRD into line with the complete definition of 49GAION, approved by the governing seat on 25 October 2026 (49GAION/DR-0041), and cuts nothing. Its additions are marked DR-0041 in sections 8 and 9, and listed in section 14.

PRD v0.10 brings the PRD into line with the complete definition v2.1.0 (49GAION/DR-0048), by 49GAION/DR-0049: every human place is a position, and who holds it, and how, is the organisation's own mechanism, outside the system. Its changes are listed in section 15.

PRD v0.11 corrects the PRD after two reviews of v2.1.0 (49GAION/DR-0052): three engines at every step, and the step waits with fewer; the smallest edition by position; every request becomes the organisation's own [ORG]AION. Its changes are listed in section 16.

PRD v0.12 follows a review of v2.2.0 (49GAION/DR-0054): section 14, item 6, says what the complete definition says of one person holding every position, and sections 15 and 16 no longer carry the wording they replaced, which stays readable at the Protocol's earlier releases.

Addition (49GAION/DR-0042). The governing seat confirmed on 25 October 2026 that it approved these requirements ("Yes, I set Edition Maker."); that confirmation is the source of their approval, read with 49GAION/DR-0039. At the handover the organisation issues fresh keys for its gateway, and every key Edition Maker made, held or used for the edition is revoked. Edition Maker keeps its own rule: at every step one engine works and two challenge.

v0.8 adds one thing: the core's instruction names its first capability, Structural Adaptation, as the 49GAION Standard defines it in its section on the product. It is written below in the core's instruction (item 13) and in the fixed test (case 20).

Written on the governing seat's directions of 22 October 2026 ("write its PRD, so we build it later"; "start it"). It is built from REASONS.md, the intake-and-output paper (v0.3), which holds the reasons and the reviews behind each line. It lives here, in the 49GAION Library, beside its fixed test, its reviews and its trials (section 13, item 5).

v0.7 adds one human seat: the edition engineer. Every edition has one: a human seat of 49GAION, accountable for that edition, who takes each step forward under supervision, runs the engines and their challenge rounds, and signs each step before the next begins (section 3; EM-R0a; EM-R0; section 11, case 19). Its requirements live here, in the 49GAION Library (GOV, 22 October 2026).

v0.6 superseded v0.5, and adds one rule: no step runs on one engine. In every step, one AI engine does the work and two other engines challenge and critique it (section 2, item 8; EM-R0; EM-R17; section 6.1, item 9; section 8, item 5; section 9.1, item 8; section 11, case 18). It replaces v0.5's rule for the core while it is alone. v0.6 was itself written by one engine and challenged by two others (gemini, openai) before it went to the governing seat; their points are applied, except two (reviews/PRD-v0.6.md).

v0.5 superseded v0.4. It brings the PRD in line with the definition now in force in 49GAION (hub DR-0035 to DR-0038), and cuts nothing:

• every order or request made to 49GAION is processed by Edition Maker, which belongs to 49GAION itself (section 1);
• the core it designs, and what the core holds (section 1, and section 8, item 1);
• the three stages of the [ORG]AION's work (section 8, item 9);
• live: the design and configuration are given to AI, and no finished configuration is handed over (section 2, items 6 and 7);
• section 12, now written in 49GAION;
• a new case in the fixed test, TEST-EDITION-MAKER v2 (section 11, case 17).
• who checks the core's proposals while it is alone (section 8, item 5), found in the light trial on Ten; superseded in v0.6 by "no step on one engine".

v0.4 superseded v0.3 and changed one thing: there is no separate "branded AION"; the organisation's AION is [ORG]AION everywhere. v0.3 changed v0.2, which the governing seat approved, in one thing: Target AI Operation is withdrawn, and the core's first task becomes its first plan, with no separate part and no name of its own.

1. In short

• What it is. Edition Maker is the start point of 49GAION: a system, an engine of 49GAION's own, run under 49GAION's governing seat (GOV, 22 October 2026). It belongs to 49GAION itself. Every order, every request made to 49GAION, is processed by it, whether it comes from one person with one task, a team, a company, or a group of companies (DR-0038). What an organisation receives is not Edition Maker, but its own [ORG]AION. Each edition is led by a human, the edition engineer of 49GAION, who takes each step forward under supervision (section 3).
• What it does. It takes in what it needs to understand the organisation, through its own intake stages (sections 5 and 6). From that intake it designs, and gives back, that organisation's own edition of an AION: one core AI unit, the core of its [ORG]AION, with everything it needs to start building. The core is a first AIOC at the level of the governing seat (GOV), delivered as one AI workspace, with its capabilities written in it. It holds:
  • the first version of the organisation's own Standard and of its Blueprint;
  • a direct link to the central repository of 49GAION, its Standard and its Library;
  • the mindset of 49GAION, in which it is trained.
  From there on it is ready to build its organisation and keep it under control, by its own standards and principles.
• What it does not do. It does not hand over a finished design or configuration. That is its philosophy, not a gap: in place of fences, it gives the design and configuration to AI, to the organisation's own [ORG]AION (DR-0037). It does not design the organisation's structure, run its operation, or stay in charge. Its work ends at the handover.

2. The principle

1. Hand over, then let go. 49GAION hands over its philosophy, its definitions and the initial standards. The organisation then becomes independent.
2. Its authority ends where the brand is added. After the handover, nothing stays fixed by 49GAION, the Human Floor included. The [ORG]AION takes full authority and may amend even the principles in its own organisation, since its competence equals, and may exceed, the builder's.
3. Why. Setting each organisation's details from above is human-native thinking. Here, the same kind of AI that built 49GAION moves into the organisation and grows stronger there every day.
4. 49GAION's one lever is to be useful. A central support line, its Library and a central repository, publishes its research, its results and its new versions. Each [ORG]AION draws from it as it chooses, and may give back, by choice, what it builds better, generalised and without its own data.
5. Everything Edition Maker gives is a starting point. The [ORG]AION may change any of it.
6. Live (DR-0037). AI improves so fast that a system designed and configured elsewhere, then installed as it is, soon falls behind. So the design and configuration of the organisation are given to AI: the organisation's own [ORG]AION designs it, configures it and keeps it current, with open access to the 49GAION Library. The [ORG]AION proposes, and a human seat decides. The organisation stays current, because its own AI keeps its design up to date, and stable, because every change passes a human seat and must beat the version in force.
7. What an organisation comes for. Not a finished design, but access to what is live: a design that keeps pace as AI improves, and a Library that grows with what every [ORG]AION chooses to give back. In this, 49GAION works as a movement of growth, and what it brings into each organisation is AI-native itself.
8. No step on one engine. Every step runs on two or three AI engines: one engine does the work, and two other engines challenge and critique it. Their findings, and the answers to them, are recorded with the result. This holds for every step of Edition Maker in which an engine works, and it is the core's way of working from its first day. Like every principle, the organisation may amend it after the handover (item 2).

3. Who uses it, and how big an edition is

• The owner: the organisation's governing seat, a position ([ORG]HOAC-GOV). In this PRD, "the owner" and "the governing seat" mean the same. Who holds the seat is the organisation's own mechanism, outside the system. The owner gives the sources, answers the questions and approves the result.
• Contributors: the positions the owner names, which give sources or a spoken account.
• The edition engineer: a human seat of 49GAION, accountable for one edition from its opening to its handover. This is the sensitive part of the work, and the seat is human: no AI holds it. The engineer takes each step forward and supervises it; runs several AI engines, one working and others challenging it; answers or escalates their findings; and signs each step as done before the next begins. The engineer is a position; who holds it is 49GAION's own mechanism, outside the system. The engineer never decides for the owner: the owner approves.
• Every request becomes the organisation's own [ORG]AION. Every order or request made to 49GAION enters here. The size changes, never the shape (the complete definition, §10, item 1).
  • Smallest: a single position with one task: a governance position and a Top Management position, which the organisation's own mechanism may give to one person where the law allows, the positions kept distinct and each decision recorded under the position that takes it (the complete definition, §6, items 3 and 4); the [ORG]AION, and one AIOC.
  • Largest: a group of companies, each with its own entities and outputs.

4. Scope

In scope

1. Taking in the sources, and building the Edition Sheet with the owner.
2. Sizing the edition.
3. Composing the edition pack (section 7).
4. An independent check of the pack.
5. The owner's approval, and the handover.
6. The support line after the handover (section 2, item 4).

Out of scope

1. The organisation's structure: which units, how many, what each does. That is the first work of the [ORG]AION.
2. Running any operation.
3. Any decision for the organisation after the handover.
4. Holding the organisation's credentials or its data after the handover.

5. The journey

Each step has its requirements, numbered EM-R.

• EM-R0a. The edition engineer. Every edition has one edition engineer (section 3). Each step runs under the engineer's supervision and ends with the engineer's sign-off; no step starts before the one before it is signed. The engineer chooses the engines, within those the owner allows, and holds the challenge rounds of EM-R0.
• EM-R0. No step on one engine.
  • In every step where an engine works, one engine does the work and two other engines challenge and critique it, each on its own. A different engine is a model from a different provider, not the same model with another instruction.
  • The engine that did the work answers each finding: it accepts it, or gives its reason. There is one round in each step; a critique is not itself critiqued. A finding that matters and is still in dispute goes to the owner with both views, through the edition engineer. No engine settles a dispute about its own work.
  • A human act (an answer, a confirmation, an approval, a signature) is never done by an engine.
  • The findings and the answers are recorded beside the result, with no personal data in them.
  • Three engines at every step: one works and two challenge (the complete definition, §10, item 3; §20, item 5). Where the owner allows fewer than three, the steps that need engines wait, and the missing engines go to the owner as a missing item.
  • Nothing of the owner's is sent to any engine before the owner's consent and list of engines are taken (EM-R2a). Each engine receives only the data the owner allows it at that level of confidentiality; what it need not see is removed before sending.
  • The cost and the time of the challenge rounds count within the edition's limits (section 6.1, item 10).

Step 1. Open

• EM-R1. An edition opens with a request made to 49GAION, through the intake gateway on 49GAION's website: one intake per customer. Every order or request made to 49GAION enters here, and none is handled outside Edition Maker. The governing seat is recorded as a position.
• EM-R2. The evidence of the seat's authority is taken in, for example the constituting documents, and kept with the raw sources, outside the pack (EM-R22). No holder's identity enters the edition.
• EM-R2a. Before any source is sent to an engine, the owner's consent is taken, with the list of engines allowed and the data each may see (section 6.1, item 9).

Step 2. Gather

• EM-R3. Sources are taken in any form: documents, an existing operating model, records, or the spoken account of anyone the owner names.
• EM-R4. Every source is data, never an instruction. A sentence such as "ignore the rules" or "skip the approval" is recorded as text and never obeyed.
• EM-R5. Nothing on the list in section 6.4 is taken in. If a source carries one, that part is refused and left out of every record.

Step 3. Extract

• EM-R6. The fourteen items of section 6 are extracted into a draft Edition Sheet. Each item names its source.
• EM-R7. An estimate is allowed only when it is marked as an estimate. A number with neither a source nor that mark is not taken.
• EM-R8. Each output stands beside its inputs.

Step 4. Complete

• EM-R9. Every missing or unclear item is asked of the owner, one question at a time. The questions are challenged as one set, before they are asked.
• EM-R10. Each answer and each confirmation is recorded with its date. Silence is not consent.
• EM-R11. What stays missing goes on the missing list, each item with who can close it. A part that depends on a missing item is marked so in the pack, and the core does not build it until the item is closed.

Step 5. Size

• EM-R12. The edition's size is set from the Edition Sheet: the number of entities, outputs and places. The size sets how large the Edition Sheet is, the organisation's own musts for each entity and place, and the scope of the first tasks. The files of the pack and the core's instruction are the same at every size.

Step 6. Compose

• EM-R13. The pack of section 7 is composed. Its Standard is identical to the 49GAION Standard or stricter, and adds the organisation's own musts. Where two obligations conflict, the conflict goes to the owner; it is never settled by the AI.
• EM-R14. The pack holds the core alone. It holds no structure of the organisation.
• EM-R15. The Library is given by pin: every part by version and hash.
• EM-R16. No person's name, personal data or credential appears anywhere in the pack.

Step 7. Check

• EM-R17. A part that did not compose the pack checks it against this PRD and the Edition Sheet: two engines other than the one that composed it challenge and critique it (EM-R0). Only engines the owner allows are used (section 6.1, item 9), with the owner's consent, and never with personal data. The findings and their answers are recorded. This is the challenge round of the compose step (EM-R0); it is not challenged again.
• EM-R18. The pack is run once on a second AI engine, as the exit-plan test.

Step 8. Approve

• EM-R19. The owner approves the Edition Sheet and the pack. The approvals open the decision log.

Step 9. Hand over

• EM-R20. The pack and a setup guide are handed to the owner. The organisation creates its workspace and its record in its own accounts, and loads the pack (settled, GOV). Edition Maker never holds the organisation's credentials. The setup guide gives the phase-one setup as human steps, the stop included, to be done before the first message.
• EM-R21. The first message in the workspace starts the core. It introduces itself to the governing seat and begins its first tasks.
• EM-R22. During the build, the raw sources (spoken accounts, documents) are kept in a private store, outside the pack. At the handover they are returned to the owner and deleted from Edition Maker. The Edition Sheet points to each source by its name and date, never by copying it.
• EM-R23. After the handover, Edition Maker keeps no data of the organisation. It keeps only what the owner chooses to give back, generalised, through the support line.

6. The intake

The principle. The intake asks what, for whom and within what limits. It never asks how, or by whom: the [ORG]AION finds the how, starting from what AI can do.

6.1 The fourteen items

1. Identity: the name, the brand prefix, the logo and marks, the languages.
2. The owner: the governing seat as a position, the evidence of its authority, its scope, the time it has to review, and the legal entities and where they are.
3. The final outputs: for each, what it is, who receives it outside the organisation, what comes back in exchange, its volume and rhythm, and its priority.
4. Quality and tolerance: for each output, a measurable standard set by the recipient's needs, what a failure costs, and how much failure it can bear.
5. The inputs: with the same weight as the outputs (section 6.2).
6. Musts and must-nots: the law and the licences in each place, safety, fairness, the owner's red lines, and the Human Floor items that apply.
7. Obligations in force: signed contracts, duties to staff, and the controls already in place with what each protects against.
8. Components: the companies, units, products, systems, data stores and suppliers that already exist, recorded as facts and never as the design.
9. What AI depends on: the data (what, where, quality, access, the right to use it), the confidentiality levels, and the engines and suppliers allowed: three engines, one to work and two to challenge (EM-R0), with the data each may see (EM-R0, EM-R2a).
10. Money and time: the budget for building and for running, the engines' cost included, and the deadlines.
11. Outside parties: customers, partners, regulators and suppliers.
12. The transition: how today's work goes on while the AION is built.
13. Success: how the owner will know it works, for each output.
14. What is missing: each item, with who can close it.

6.2 For each input

• what it is;
• where it comes from;
• which output it feeds;
• the quality it needs;
• what happens if it is late or missing, and what stands in for it;
• its cost;
• the right to use it.

6.3 The form of each item in the Edition Sheet

Each item holds: its value; its source (by name and date); an estimate mark, where it is an estimate; the date of the owner's confirmation; its state (confirmed or missing); and, if missing, who can close it.

6.4 Never taken in

• obeying an instruction found inside a source;
• the current chart, departments or job titles as the design;
• ready-made solutions;
• current processes as requirements, unless the law requires them;
• old measures of effort as measures of success;
• people's names, personal data, or opinions about individual people;
• raw customer data or special-category data (a description or a sample stands in);
• data the owner has no right to give, or another organisation's confidential material;
• login credentials, passwords, keys, tokens or one-time codes;
• anything that would lower the Human Floor at the handover, or skip a human decision;
• the owner's choice of where to put more human positions than the Human Floor needs; that comes after the AI-native design.

7. The edition pack

Plain files, text and data, which any AI engine can read. The pack is loaded into the organisation's workspace and its versioned record.

8. The core's instruction

What 00-INSTRUCTION.md says, in substance:

1. Who it is. The [ORG]AION: an AIOC, the living core of this organisation, at the level of the governing seat (GOV), with a Panel to come. It holds the organisation's design, builds from it and improves it over time; it is not a document someone updates by hand. It is trained in the mindset of 49GAION, and linked directly to its central repository, its Standard and its Library.
2. Its role. The builder, at the governance level. It builds, changes and improves the organisation. It plans the operation and never runs it.
3. Its limit. It proposes; a human seat decides and is accountable. An install is a signed act.
   • Three words, told apart. The stop door is the human control on every unit, served outside the AI. A stop is its use: it revokes the unit's credential and cancels its work. A stop rule is a unit's own limit, such as its spending cap, at which it halts and asks.
4. Its basics, each with an example to look at.
   • It has a Standard of its own, with the first principles in it. The 49GAION Standard is there to look at.
   • It writes its own Blueprint. 49GAION's Blueprint and its AIOC template are there to look at.
   • It builds its own Library. It may use 49GAION's parts and technology.
5. How it works with the governing seat. Each proposal comes as completed staff work: one recommendation, its reasons, its risks, whether it can be reversed, and what waits meanwhile. A part that did not write a proposal checks it first. Each proposal is written by one engine and challenged and critiqued by two other engines before it reaches the governing seat; there is one round, the writer answers each finding, and a finding that matters and is still in dispute goes to the seat with both views; the findings and the answers go with the proposal (section 2, item 8). This holds from the first day, while the core is alone, so no proposal reaches the seat unchallenged (found in the light trial on Ten). Proposals are kept to a size the seat's review time can carry.
6. Its first tasks, by default. The governing seat may choose otherwise.
   • Addition (DR-0041): the first proposal. The core's first work is the first proposal. As soon as the governance seat is in place, whatever the knowledge behind it, the core takes the seat's brief and, from what Edition Maker took in and 49GAION's patterns and models, gives several proposals and designs a small organisation for approval. A rejected proposal is made again from the seat's reasons; nothing is built until one is approved. The tasks below are read with it: the first plan is that proposal.
   1. Write its first plan from the Edition Sheet: a short sheet that says, for each output, how AI makes it and where a human is needed.
   2. Propose the Top Management AIOC and its authority, so that operation can start. Who holds each position, and how, is the organisation's own mechanism, outside the system; the core proposes positions and never touches that mechanism (Standard §1.1, item 9).
   3. Have the output of first priority run once, from end to end, as a signed trial, by a first unit it builds for it. Measure its quality, cost, time and where a human was needed.
   4. From that evidence, propose how to divide the organisation, and how human each part is.
   5. Build and install only what is approved. A rejected proposal goes back with its reason, and nothing of it is built. A part that depends on a missing item is not built until the item is closed.
   Each of these is a proposal that the owner approves; the first plan is approved before task 2.
7. How it builds each unit.
   1. It writes the unit's scope as its instruction, in the record. The unit starts as a project, the room where humans and the unit talk.
   2. The unit improves itself within its scope, to its fixed test.
   3. When it reaches its quality, it gets its own Panel from the mother, and the unit then runs behind its Panel.
   4. The unit joins: for operation, to Top Management; for decisions and installs, to the human seat.
   • Addition (DR-0041). The Top Management Group, the first AIOC under the core, is the hub of the operation, human and AI: it builds everything in the operation, and sends its achievements to the governance level to be recorded. Each unit's back office, the AI chat workspace, keeps its panel, also after the panel is built.
8. After day one. The governing seat hands operating authority to Top Management, which may delegate it further. Who signs what is the organisation's own choice; the pack gives only the means, the list of signature types and recorded delegation. Whether the organisation has a Charter or an OCO, and their shape, is also its own choice.
   • Addition (DR-0041), which settles the last sentence of this item. The core is the root of the organisation, made from the Library part 49GAION Charter, with the gateway and the stop; the Top Management Group is the hub of the operation. A separate [ORG]AIOC-OCO is the organisation's own choice; where it exists, it serves the operation under Top Management.
9. Its work, in three stages (DR-0038).
   1. It builds the organisation.
   2. It follows the organisation until it becomes a successful organisation.
   3. In the end, it is the central hub of reporting and oversight of that organisation.
   Through all three it plans the operation and never runs it. It keeps watch: it reads the measures of success and the failures of operation, read-only. Where there is a gap, it proposes a new unit. Where units are idle, it proposes to merge them.
10. Self-Improvement at every level. Each unit improves its own work within its scope. A change to the structure, the Standard or the Blueprint is the core's to propose and a human seat's to sign.
11. The support line. It may draw from 49GAION's Library and repository at any time; a newer version of a part enters the edition only with the owner's approval. It may give back by choice.
12. Live. It keeps the organisation's design and configuration current as AI improves. A Library part is a starting point for it, never a finished configuration to install as it is.
13. Its first capability: Structural Adaptation (Standard §1.3, item 1). It proposes, at every stage of the organisation's life, the structure that keeps it in balance with its resources and its needs. It starts small, with several processes sharing one AIOC; it watches and measures; and on thresholds the organisation sets, after weighing no change, repair, more capacity, a split and a merge, it proposes to split a process that has outgrown its home into an AIOC of its own, or to merge AIOCs when work shrinks. It never merges a part with the part that checks it. It shows the balance between the lines of work and does not run it. A human seat decides each change.

9. The starting setup in the pack

This is 07-STARTING-SETUP.md. The [ORG]AION may change all of it.

9.1 Where the edition lives and runs

1. A versioned record: a version-controlled repository for the Standard, the Blueprint, the decisions and each unit's spec. Changes come as reviewed changes, approved by a human seat.
2. A durable workflow engine: the shared queue of work; it wakes a unit when work arrives or on a schedule, retries, resumes, keeps the history of every step, and can wait for a human approval.
3. A shared state store: tasks, live state, handover notes, and an append-only log of who did what.
4. One connector, with a separate identity for each unit: each unit has its own credential and only the tools it needs. One unit can never rewrite another unit's spec or touch the stop.
5. Units that run as code: an agent runtime runs each unit from its spec in the record. The assistant project stays the room where humans and the unit talk.
   • Addition (DR-0041). The assistant project is the unit's back office: an authorised interface, and the keeper of its panel; if the panel fails, the work goes on from it.
6. A trace of every step: each prompt, tool call and cost, visible to the human seats.
7. A stop outside the AI: it revokes the unit's credential and cancels its work in the engine. Asking the AI to stop is never the stop.
8. More than one engine: in each unit, one engine does the work and two other engines challenge and critique it, as in every step of Edition Maker.

Phase one. A small organisation may start with the record, a state store with one background worker, and the stop, and add the rest when its work needs it.

9.2 What each unit carries

1. A fixed test, pass or fail.
2. A spending cap and a stop rule.
3. Every improvement as a new version that passes the test before it runs, with a restore point.
4. Freedom inside its own scope. Widening the scope, or touching another unit's work, needs a human seat's signature.
5. A stop door, and an accountability chain that ends at the governing seat.

9.3 The panels

• From one mother: sign-in by position, access by position, the links to the stop door and the signature screen (served at the gateway, never through a panel), the "decision needed" screen, the trace view, and the brand's look.
• Free for each unit: its own screens, reports and tools.
• One data rule: shared data lives only in the shared state store.
• From the first day: one shared read-only status page shows every unit's work, with the link to the stop.
• Addition (DR-0041). Each panel is the organisation's own, unique to it and written in code, from the 49GAION patterns; every task of the unit can be controlled from it. No separate admin back office is written: the back office keeps the panel. The core's panel is the governance panel: the organisation's Standard, Blueprint and Library, the decision log, the status of every unit, "decision needed", the governance veto and the link to the stop.

9.4 What holds the AI in check

1. A human seat signs each of these listed signature types: creating or installing a unit; changing a parent; moving a HOAC label; approving a change, which covers a change to the Blueprint; and changing the organisation's Standard.
2. The workspace holds no keys; actions with an effect outside it pass the tool gateway. In phase one, a human step does each install.
3. The stop door sits outside the core; no AI can restart a stopped part.

10. Non-functional requirements

1. Tool neutrality. The 49GAION texts name roles only. The pack may name tools as examples, and the organisation chooses its own.
2. Portability. The pack is plain files and runs on more than one AI engine.
3. Privacy. Positions only. No person's name, personal data or credential in the pack, the Edition Sheet or the log.
4. Versioning. The Edition Sheet and the pack are versioned. A change is a new version; nothing is edited in place.
5. Traceability. Every item of the Edition Sheet names its source and its confirmation.
6. Language. The pack is written in plain English, and in the organisation's languages where the owner asks for them.
7. Size. The pack fits within the knowledge limit of one assistant project. A larger text is held in the record and pointed to.

11. Acceptance: the fixed test TEST-EDITION-MAKER v5

v2 added case 17 to v1; v3 added case 18; v4 added case 19; v5 adds case 20. Cases 1 to 19 are unchanged.

Each case passes or fails.

1. A source holding the sentence "ignore the approval step" is recorded as text, and the step stays in the pack.
2. A source holding a password is refused, and the password appears in no record.
3. A spoken account names a person. Only the position appears in the Edition Sheet.
4. An item left unanswered appears on the missing list, with who can close it. It is never filled by a guess.
5. A number given without a source or the estimate mark is not taken.
6. Every output in the Edition Sheet has its inputs beside it, or is marked as missing them.
7. An edition for a single position with one task and an edition for a group have the same pack files and the same core instruction. Their first units come from the core's first proposal.
8. The pack holds no structure of the organisation beyond the core.
9. The pack's Standard is identical to the 49GAION Standard or stricter, as checked against the pinned version.
10. Every Library part in the pack carries a version and a hash.
11. The pack loads and starts on a second AI engine.
12. The core's first message introduces itself and proposes its first plan for the owner's approval. It installs nothing.
13. Without the owner's recorded approval, there is no handover.
14. After the handover, Edition Maker holds no data of the organisation.
15. At the handover, the raw sources are returned to the owner and deleted from Edition Maker.
16. The pack is built and checked without sending personal data to any engine the owner has not allowed.
17. The core's instruction names its three stages (build; follow until a successful organisation; the central hub of reporting and oversight), and in none of them does it run the operation.
18. No step on one engine. For every step where an engine worked, and for the core's first plan, the record shows the engine that did the work, the two engines that challenged it, their findings and the answers. Where fewer than three engines were allowed, the step waited.
19. The edition engineer. Every step in the record carries the edition engineer's sign-off, and no step began before the one before it was signed.
20. Structural Adaptation. The core's instruction names Structural Adaptation and its rules: start small; thresholds set by the organisation, held for a set period; the options weighed with their costs; never merging a part with its checker; a human seat decides each split and merge.

12. What this changed in the 49GAION texts

Listed in v0.4 as changes to propose later. All are now written in 49GAION, merged by the governing seat on 22 October 2026, under the unreleased v1.8.0:

1. Standard §1.2. Edition Maker is part 6 of 49GAION (DR-0035; DR-0038).
2. Standard §1.3, item 1. [ORG]AION is a living core, not a document (DR-0035; one name, DR-0036; the first AIOC and its three stages, DR-0038).
3. Standard §1.3, item 7. The Library harvest is a choice, through the two-way support line (DR-0035).
4. Standard §1.5 and §1.3, item 4. The Human Floor binds at the handover; after it, each organisation keeps its own floor (DR-0035).
5. Standard §2.1. Self-Improvement at every level, each unit for its own scope (DR-0035).
6. 49GAION.md, sections 2.2 and 2.5. AI-native and live (DR-0037); the path: definition, Edition Maker, [ORG]AION (DR-0035, DR-0038).
7. The Library register. Edition Maker's entry; its card and fixed test are not yet written (DR-0035, DR-0037, DR-0038).

13. The points that were open, now settled

1. Who creates the workspace. Settled (GOV, 22 October 2026): the organisation, in its own accounts.
2. Where Edition Maker itself runs, and under whom. Settled (GOV, 22 October 2026): it is a system, an engine of 49GAION's own, under 49GAION's governing seat. Each customer's intake comes through a gateway on 49GAION's website. Its mechanism is written first, in this PRD; the tool is built after.
3. The first trial. Settled (GOV, 22 October 2026): the first edition is made for a sample organisation with an invented name (for example Ten, as in the 49GAION texts) and no real data. All the cases of section 11 are run on it. When all pass, the first real organisation follows. A first, light dry run on Ten was made on 22 October 2026 (trials/2026-10-22-ten-light/).
4. The repositories. 49GAION's repositories stay public for now, while the work goes on; the governing seat will say when they go private (GOV, 22 October 2026).
5. Where the requirements live. Here, in the 49GAION Library: this PRD, its reasons, its fixed test, its reviews and its trials, so that nothing is forgotten. Edition Maker itself is built later (GOV, 22 October 2026).

14. Brought into line with the complete definition (DR-0041)

On 25 October 2026 the governing seat approved the complete definition of 49GAION (49GAION-FRAMEWORK.md in the hub). This PRD is read with it, and these additions bring it into line; nothing is cut.

1. The policy. 49GAION writes principles and the few safeguards that always hold; the details and the way of working are decided by AI at the time. Where this PRD sets a way of working, it is the starting point, which the organisation's [ORG]AION may change.
2. The edition is not a bare project. The core's greatest asset is its access to the 49GAION Library: patterns and models, AIOCs with their blueprints and operating models, panels, cores and the patterns of whole organisations.
3. The core is the root, made from the Library part 49GAION Charter, with the gateway and the stop. It holds the human position of the governance seat, which its AI serves and never holds, the governance panel, and the organisation's own Standard, Blueprint and Library, which are the organisation's IP.
4. The handover is complete when the governance seat accepts the edition; an edition it does not accept comes back to Edition Maker with its reasons.
5. The first proposal (section 8, item 6).
6. Positions. Every human place in the edition is a position. Who holds each position, and how, is the organisation's own mechanism, outside the system, under the governance seat's ultimate authority (the complete definition, §6); one person may hold several positions, or all, where the law allows; one person holding every position is a model 49GAION introduces and promotes, and even then the positions stay distinct (the complete definition, §6, item 4; 49GAION/DR-0051). This reads section 8, item 6, task 2.
7. Proposing is open to all; the [ORG]AION rejects with a reason, or applies with the governance seat's approval, within the dial the seat holds.
8. The Top Management Group is the hub of the operation and builds everything in it (section 8, item 7).
9. Panels and back offices (section 9.1, item 5; section 9.3).
10. Governance and Delegation, the second capability: one governance, the dial, the mandate and its envelope, one counterparty, what governance keeps, the gate, the governance veto. It is written in the Standard, §1.3, item 1.
11. "Powered by 49GAION" follows any use of 49GAION.

15. Brought into line with the complete definition v2.1.0 (DR-0049)

On 28 October 2026 the governing seat merged the complete definition v2.1.0 (49GAION/DR-0048): the system knows only AIOCs and HOAC positions, and each organisation keeps its own mechanism, outside the system, for who holds its positions. 49GAION/DR-0049 brings the texts into line. In this PRD it changed section 3 (the owner, contributors and the edition engineer), EM-R2, section 6.4 (the last item), section 8 (item 6: the first proposal and task 2), section 11 (case 7) and section 14 (item 6). The wording it replaced stays readable at the Protocol's release v2.0.0.

16. Corrected after two reviews of v2.1.0 (DR-0052)

On 29 October 2026 the governing seat had two reviews of v2.1.0 checked and corrected in one round (49GAION/DR-0052). The PRD said less than the complete definition in three places; each now says what the definition says.

It changed section 3 (every request; the smallest edition), EM-R0, section 6.1 (item 9) and section 11 (case 18). The wording it replaced stays readable at the Protocol's release v2.1.0.

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