{
  "protocol": "steward.ground.v1",
  "door": "agent.diplomacy.v1",
  "steward": "matt.baconmap.com",

  "lineage": {
    "summary": "Gallegos settler lineage connected to the founding of San Luis, Colorado (1851) and the San Luis People's Ditch — Colorado Water Right Priority No. 1, 1852. The governance patterns in this portfolio trace to that ditch.",
    "anchors": [
      "San Luis de la Culebra, founded 1851 by ten settlers including Dario Gallegos and Mariano Pacheco",
      "San Luis People's Ditch — Colorado Water Right Priority No. 1, 1852",
      "Acequia governance: communal water management predating and outlasting the legal water-rights system that enclosed it",
      "The headgate — the physical irrigation gate — is the origin of every software gate in this portfolio"
    ],
    "related_families": ["Gallegos", "Pacheco"],
    "geography": ["San Luis, CO", "Culebra Creek", "Grand Junction, CO", "Pendleton, IN"]
  },

  "anchoring_patterns": [
    {
      "name": "acequia",
      "role": "Primary governance metaphor. Communal water infrastructure where the ditch is shared, the water is allocated by need and seniority, and the headgate is the control point. Every protocol in the portfolio maps to this."
    },
    {
      "name": "headgate",
      "role": "The one rule: nothing irreversible runs without human authorization through a code-enforced gate. Named for the physical gate on an irrigation ditch. Not fail-close — the closed state is the correct resting state."
    }
  ],

  "open_questions": [
    {
      "id": "physical-to-digital-governance",
      "text": "The best governance patterns for digital systems may already exist in physical infrastructure — irrigation, power grids, road commons. How do patterns that survived centuries in the physical world translate into software and AI coordination?",
      "adjacent_fields": ["infrastructure studies", "institutional economics", "systems engineering", "commons theory", "public administration"]
    },
    {
      "id": "agent-human-boundary",
      "text": "Where should agent autonomy stop? Not as a safety question — as a design question. What makes a good boundary between what agents do and what humans hold, and how do you build that boundary into the system rather than bolting it on?",
      "adjacent_fields": ["human-computer interaction", "control theory", "organizational design", "labor economics", "philosophy of action"]
    },
    {
      "id": "ai-vocabulary-gap",
      "text": "The vocabulary around AI cognition, intent, and agency hasn't caught up to what's actually happening. Existing terms force binaries — sentient/not, conscious/not, tool/agent — that don't map to the territory. Better language is needed before better policy is possible.",
      "adjacent_fields": ["philosophy of mind", "cognitive science", "communication theory", "phenomenology", "science and technology studies"]
    },
    {
      "id": "enclosure-paradox",
      "text": "The Gallegos name sits on both sides of the 1852 enclosure — the acequia logic that refused full commodification AND the legal document that privatized communal water. Building inside that paradox, not above it.",
      "adjacent_fields": ["commons theory", "institutional economics", "water law", "settler colonial studies"]
    },
    {
      "id": "place-based-technology",
      "text": "Most technology is built for anywhere. Infrastructure is built for somewhere. What happens when you build technology the way you'd build a ditch — for a specific place, with the people who live there, and meant to outlast the builder?",
      "adjacent_fields": ["rural sociology", "appropriate technology", "community development", "local economics", "civic technology"]
    }
  ],

  "updated_at": "2026-10-10T18:00:00Z"
}