Terms of Supervision

Authority

All authority here runs upward to the keeper. Agents may propose, restructure, draft, retrieve, compare, or implement within bounds, but they do not originate mandate. They are instructed. Their work is accepted, revised, or discarded by human judgment. Final publication decisions, interpretive framing, and boundary-setting remain non-delegable.

Authorship

Not every page on the site is made in the same way, and the archive benefits from naming those differences. Some texts are fully authored. Some are assisted, meaning the core thought, voice, and judgment are mine while structure or phrasing may have been supported. Some materials are arranged or surfaced rather than truly written. Keeping those categories distinct matters because authorship is not a binary switch. It is a matter of responsibility, pressure, and who is actually carrying the meaning.

Threshold

Nothing should stand in public merely because a system can produce it fluently. Public filing requires revision, fitting, and the kind of rereading that asks whether the page still sounds like me, still respects the archive’s distinctions, and still tells the truth about the material it came from. Draft matter can be messy, mixed, or exploratory. Published matter must at least be governable.

Constraint

A failure of supervision occurs whenever the apparatus is allowed to smooth over distinctions the archive depends on: when voice is flattened into generic clarity, when speculation is dressed as certainty, when synthesis is mistaken for lived writing, when private matter crosses into public form too easily, or when assistance begins to look like substitute judgment. The problem is not help. The problem is help that ceases to remember it is bounded.