Cam Smith
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Decision Lineage Protocol

October 2025

Open governance infrastructure: 19 structural primitives, 10 behavioral invariants, a five-tier architecture, and a four-type truth system — the grammar of governed decision-making.

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“Every consequential move carries its lineage.”
— Cam

Why I started

The drift question finally had an answer with a shape: an architecture for keeping knowledge from drifting, giving decisions a traceable lineage.

Who it’s for

Everyone.

Odd facts

The name

Lineage is more contextual than a log or record, because the history has contextual and temporal awareness.

What it was supposed to be

If I was going to use AI to automate some of my workflow as a federal grant consultant, then I needed a way to reasonably ensure the output would be accurate and truthfully report unknowns — there were no products on the market that met that need.

One number

19 primitives.

What it taught me

It helped refine my scoping reflexes, moving from deep layer mechanism up to bird’s eye view and back, iteratively.

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