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Kristal

A Kristal is a portable, verifiable knowledge artifact—built to travel across systems, survive offline conditions, and remain contestable. It’s not “a document”: it is a structured package whose claims can be traced to sources and whose behavior can be reproduced.

Provenance & traceabilityPortable artifactReproducible buildsOffline-capableVersioned & compatible

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What it does

Makes knowledge portable

A Kristal can be copied, mirrored, archived, and shared across organizations or communities without losing integrity.

Makes knowledge verifiable

A Kristal carries enough structure to audit: where claims come from, what rules were applied, and what remains uncertain.

Enables offline operation

Kristals can ship with runtime bundles so people can query, browse, and reason with knowledge without relying on always-on networks.

Supports durability over time

Kristals are versioned and compatible: upgrades should not silently break past outputs or erase the ability to reproduce prior states.

Where it fits in the ecosystem

Kristals are the “memory objects” that flow through kOA: they stabilize knowledge so deliberation, decision, and execution can be grounded in artifacts people can inspect and contest.

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Capture & compile: sources and claims become structured, checkable artifacts (Kristals).
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Use & deliberate: platforms consume Kristals to support learning, argument mapping, and policy drafts.
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Preserve & evolve: decisions and outcomes produce new Kristals, creating durable public memory with versioned history.

Explore Kristal

These pages stay focused on outcomes and guarantees. Deep technical details (schemas, internal tooling) should live in reference-only pages, not the primary narrative.

Overview

The simplest explanation of what a Kristal is, who it’s for, and what it enables.

What it does

Portability, verification, reuse, and durability—expressed as civic outcomes.

Trust & provenance

How Kristals stay contestable: sources, signatures, and publication policies (without mystique).

Portability & offline

How Kristals can be used under degraded conditions and still remain verifiable.

Distribution & versioning

How Kristals move through the ecosystem over time without breaking history.

Integrations

Where Kristals plug into Ariane, Konnaxion, and Orgo as the shared knowledge substrate.