Kristal
A Kristal is a portable, verifiable epistemic artifact. It lets knowledge travel across systems while keeping provenance, assertion status, certainty, authority, scope, and reader policy explicit. It does not pretend disagreement has disappeared; it makes disagreement inspectable.
What it does
Makes knowledge portable
A Kristal can be copied, mirrored, archived, and shared across organizations or communities without losing its declared structure, provenance, or integrity signals.
Makes status visible
A Kristal separates artifact integrity from assertion validity, certainty, validation status, authority recognition, and reader visibility.
Supports scoped validation
Assertions can be validated under a declared authority channel, scope, certainty level, and validation policy without being presented as universal agreement.
Enables offline operation
Kristals can ship with Runtime Packs so people can query, browse, and reason with structured knowledge without relying on always-on networks.
Where it fits in the ecosystem
Kristals are the memory objects that flow through kOA. They stabilize knowledge so deliberation, learning, decision-making, publishing, and runtime systems can work from artifacts people can inspect, filter, validate, contest, and preserve.
- 1Structure: signals, drafts, datasets, submissions, or extracted claims become Structured Epistemic States.
- 2Compile: those states become portable Working Artifacts that can be inspected, reviewed, validated, federated, or rendered.
- 3Recognize: authority channels may recognize artifacts, assertions, shards, or policies for declared scopes.
- 4Distribute: Reference Artifacts and Runtime Packs move through Konnaxion, Orgo, Architect, and other kOA systems under explicit reader policies.
The core principle
A Kristal may contain uncertain, disputed, fictional, mythological, speculative, incomplete, or erroneous assertions. What it must not do is present an assertion as validated beyond the authority channel, scope, certainty level, and validation policy that support that status.
Explore Kristal
These pages stay focused on public meaning, outcomes, and guarantees. Deep technical details such as JSON Schemas, canonicalization profiles, runtime manifests, and validation reports belong in the technical reference docs.
Overview
The simplest explanation of what a Kristal is, who it’s for, and what it enables.
What it does
Portability, verification, scoped validation, reader policy, and durability expressed as civic outcomes.
Trust & provenance
How Kristals preserve source lineage, authority channels, validation status, certainty, and scope.
Portability & offline
How Kristals can be used under degraded conditions while keeping integrity and reader-policy labels available.
Distribution & versioning
How Kristals move through the ecosystem over time without erasing history, lineage, or disagreement.
Integrations
Where Kristals plug into SenTient, Architect, Konnaxion, and Orgo as the shared epistemic substrate.