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ZERO · PAPERissue 012026-05-14 · 19:05zedition · devfloor · public proofv · archived
live· paper-first · open-source engine
autonomous capital. watched live. refused often
zero is the open-source autonomous capital
os. every decision walks signed gates, lands in a replayable journal, and is refused before it touches risk.
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trade receipt◆ b39e02
- ts
- 00:14:08z
- pair
- sol-perp
- side
- short
- size
- 0.7x
- entry
- $184.21
- stop
- $188.06
- posture
- paper
- gates
- 3/3 · pass
pricesizedepth
184.228.10
184.2512.80
184.2831.40
184.3118.20
184.3424.60
184.21mid · sol-perp≈
184.2014.70
184.1722.30
184.1419.80
184.1128.40
184.0811.20
sol-perp depth at the moment the trade was signed. bid liquidity above ground · ask wall priced through.
refuse receipt◆ 8e5d77
- ts
- 00:14:17z
- pair
- arb-perp
- side
- long
- reason
- drawdown gate
- budget
- $0.83 left
- posture
- refuse
every signal walks every gate. refusal is the default; commitment is what survives.
updated
02 · journalthe floor, in linessee the motion systemlive tape · the source of truthupdated 12s ago
ten most recent decisions. timestamps in utc. the latest row is signed and amber while it is the latest; the rest are bone.
tspairsideentryexitpnl·gates
00:14:08zsol-perpshort$184.21—+0.31%3/3 · pass
00:13:51zbtc-perplong$67,302$67,418+0.17%3/3 · pass
00:13:22zeth-perpshort$3,418$3,402+0.47%3/3 · pass
00:12:48zarb-perplong———0/1 · refuse
00:12:14zsui-perplong$4.18$4.21+0.71%3/3 · pass
00:11:38zbtc-perplong$67,180$67,212+0.05%2/3 · pass
00:11:02zdoge-perpshort———0/2 · refuse
00:10:31zeth-perplong$3,408$3,415+0.21%3/3 · pass
00:10:04zsol-perpshort$184.78$184.21+0.31%3/3 · pass
00:09:42zarb-perplong———0/3 · refuse
montuewedthufrisatsun
00z06z12z18z
sol-perp+0.84
btc-perp+0.31
eth-perp+0.22
sui-perp−0.08
arb-perp+0.12
doge-perp+0.14
avax-perp+0.18
apt-perp−0.14
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03 · dropsthursday 11:00 ET · monotoniccadence + mechanics · deepthursday · 11:00 America/New_Yorknumbered · signed · never restocked
first 50 of every release are gifted to the tribe. raid window is 30m.
ZERO Paper · issue 01 · the receipt is the artifact
2026-01ZERO-001 · agent
2026-01ZERO-002 · strategy
2026-01ZERO-003 · vault
2026-05ZERO-004 · paper
2026-05ZERO-005 · collab
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04 · tierspublic → card → nfs → mail-order → aoyamaaccess ladder · live · deepthe access ladder is the ladder
seat caps descend; vetting goes the other way. each tier is a step, each step is signed.
∞
public
- path
- open
- posture
- public
100,000
card
- path
- soulbound
- posture
- public
10,000
nfs
- path
- vetted
- posture
- curated
1,000
mail-order
- path
- secret-form
- posture
- curated
100
aoyama
- path
- configurator-call
- posture
- curated
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05 · labelagents are signed artists, not featuresidentity + naming · deepsigning ceremony · never a corporate appointment
same agent · three skins · single grammar. the sticker reads correctly under every posture.
signature
SERAPHIM
- short-id
- sera
- drop
- ZERO-001
- posture
- paper
- tier
- public
the same sticker reads correctly under every posture.
ceremony
SQUAER
- short-id
- sqar
- drop
- ZERO-002
- posture
- paper
- tier
- public
the same sticker reads correctly under every posture.
refuse
CHRONICLE
- short-id
- chrn
- drop
- ZERO-003
- posture
- paper
- tier
- card
the same sticker reads correctly under every posture.
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06 · skinssix atmospheres · one brandoklch engine + WCAG matrixOKLCH color authority · operator picks last
acid is the wordmark glyph. amber is the inheritance signal. the data-skin attribute on any element flips the entire subtree.
skin
- bloomberginheritance-canonical
- ceremonyritual
- midnightoperator-late
- refusehalted
- signaturebrand-canonical
- specimenarchive
bloomberg
- brand
- #e9aa47
- ground
- #010000
- mark
- gate
- pass
- chip
- paper
inheritance-canonical◆
ceremony
- brand
- #edf800
- ground
- #040402
- mark
- gate
- pass
- chip
- paper
ritual◆
midnight
- brand
- #7ba9d6
- ground
- #030611
- mark
- gate
- pass
- chip
- paper
operator-late◆
refuse
- brand
- #e08770
- ground
- #0c0606
- mark
- gate
- pass
- chip
- paper
halted◆
signature
- brand
- #d6a64a
- ground
- #020100
- mark
- gate
- pass
- chip
- paper
brand-canonical◆
specimen
- brand
- #ebe5d4
- ground
- #040402
- mark
- gate
- pass
- chip
- paper
archive◆
as of
07 · funnelthe decision squeeze · 24hall 14 chart primitivesfrom 84,312 candidates to 264 trades
every gate is a refusal opportunity. the floor never adds; it only subtracts. read the bar lengths, not the numbers.
01observed candidates100% · entry
84,312100.0% of head
every printed pair × every 5s tick across the rolling top-30 hl universe.
02past coarse filters7.3% · pass-through
6,1437.3% of head
liquidity, spread, drawdown bucket, and re-entry cooldown.
03cleared a lens5.1% · pass-through
3120.4% of head
six lenses competing · only one needs to fire.
04walked all signed gates84.6% · pass-through
2640.3% of head
risk · liquidity · drawdown · session · diversity · oracle. all five must say yes.
05opened on hyperliquid100.0% · pass-through
2640.3% of head
every approval becomes a position. every position is signed and replayable.
95.7 %target 95 %
264 tradestarget 300 trades
1.42 %target 1 %
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08 · behaviorsix states · one brandsix sequences · ease curveshow the brand looks under load
idle, listening, resolving, certain, uncertain, celebratory. the same primitive carries each state without losing identity — because behaviour is the brand.
01idle
paper · 24h pnl steady · 0 candidates
02listening
sol-perp · pattern matched · queueing
03resolving
risk · ok · liquidity · ok · drawdown · …
04certain
opened sol-perp · 0.7x · ◆ b39e02
05uncertain
opened with reduced size · ± wide spread
06celebratory
paper +1.42% · 7-day high · seal stamped
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09 · capacitymax state · live countsuniverse map · 26 chaptersthe floor at maximum capacity of the universe
the floor is the apex showcase. these counts are not promises — they are the live state of the universe behind this surface. every number maps to a chapter, a contract, or an openable deep surface.
chapters
canonical91
dimensions
runtime axes15
primitives
ADR-014/015 → ADR-065 + Plan v4-v31349
tokens
20 categories · ADR-009 + ADR-164279
skins
OKLCH-derived6
ci gates
machine-checked28
charts
ADR-023/03125
agentic stack
ADR-028/032/033/034/035/0367
the brand is what survives refusal — and what survives the count.
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09b · agentic stackseven packages · seven chaptersenter the stack →the brand speaks every protocol coding agents speak
MCP for resources · AG-UI for events · A2UI for streaming UI · memory for state · intent for anticipation · liquid-glass for material · token-graph for dependencies. seven packages, each with its own deep surface, each rendered through brand primitives — never a generic SDK shell.
mcp
ADR-028@zero/mcp-server
agent-stream
ADR-032@zero/agent-stream
memory
ADR-032@zero/memory
intent
ADR-036@zero/intent
a2ui
ADR-033@zero/a2ui
liquid glass
ADR-034LiquidGlass · 77
token graph
ADR-035tokens.graph.json
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10 · rubricfourteen dimensions · live scoreall 26 chapters · the universe mapthe floor scores itself
a brand that does not score itself is a brand that asks others to score it. twelve dimensions, signed alongside the commit. anything below 6 is a hard hold; mean below 8 is a revise.
release threshold · mean ≥ 8.0floor · no dim < 6.0primitive coherence < 8 = mandatory revision
- 01primitive coherenceliving-system.contract.jsonone mark · one verb · 15 dimensions all express observe→sign→refuse.
- 02visual truth (tufte)data-plate auditevery chart carries metric grammar · zero distorted axes · zero 3d.
- 03composition masterydesign reviewone focal element per fold · grayscale-thumbnail readable.
- 04grid + spatial discipline/layout-system · responsive.contract.json12-col grid · 6 named breakpoints · transformation matrices declared per component.
- 05spacing + optical detailcss/spacing audit8-point base · receipt leaders token-driven · radius and shadow tokenised.
- 06motion intelligence/motion · motion.contract.jsonpulse · blink · breath · spin · rise · settle · all live at /motion.
- 07typography intelligencetypography/intelligence.contract.jsonspec codified · ci gate green · /typography demos every rule live.
- 08colour authority/color · skin contractsoklch engine · 6 skins · WCAG matrix at /color · acid + amber peer.
- 09behavior brandingbrand/behavior.tsxsix brand states · idle/listening/resolving/certain/uncertain/celebratory.
- 10sonic + haptic discipline/sound · /haptics · @zero/sound5 wav cues live at /sound · 5 haptic patterns at /haptics · paired tokens.
- 11universe coverage/universe · living-system.contract.json23 / 26 chapters live as deep surfaces · /universe shows the full map.
- 12generative governancepnpm ci:all · /covenant18 contract gates · ci-enforced · the covenant blocks releases · /covenant.
- 13ambient field runtime/ambient · ambient/engine.contract.jsonfour-tier engine · capability + motion governors · 5 semantic states · ssr-safe.
- 14microcopy discipline/microcopy · microcopy.contract.jsonthree laws · 28 banned phrases · jargon translator · ci-enforced live grader.
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11 · systemone organism · thirteen dimensionsall design tokensruntime · not slogans
every dimension below is a runtime hook with a downstream artifact. nothing is decoration.
#dimensionruntimedownstream
01principlesconstitution + covenant + refusal postureno custody, no advice, replayable, geofenced claims
02modalityterminal / paper / signal / cockpit / receipt / replay / command / sound / haptics / reduced motionmode-aware public and operator shells
03layoutrail + topbar + status + chapter grid + cockpit grid + proof surfacesroute shells, mobile collapse, density tiers
04shellShellLayout + brand runtime + mascot + pulse + chromeconsumer-app shared chrome and public floor
05tokenscolor, type, spacing, radius, hairlines, motion, opacity, z, breakpoints, density, pulsegenerated adapter tokens
06components@zero/ui primitives, dossiers, receipts, gates, stat cells, chartsroute-level composition
07choreographyclock model, gesture grammar, scene pause, scroll state, pulse, refuse momentsone organism across page transitions
08voice and copyrewrite tester, banned words, lexicon, worked exampleslowercase, terse, precise, public-safe copy
09product truthHyperliquid loop, risk gates, immune, MCP, replay/finality, paper-firsthomepage and route content
10governancerelease cadence, checks, source boundaries, jurisdiction policybrand checks and route contracts
11distributionpackage/artifact boundary, extraction, checksumsconsumer adapter and contract validation
12labelKaikai Kiki record-label model · agents are signed artists, not features/a/<shortId>, /league, AgentArtistCard, label vocabulary lock
13skinsOKLCH color authority · six canonical skin contracts · generative per-agent · brand-signal/data-signal/warn/success/error/info/ground/figure rolesdata-skin attribute · per-surface skin override · SkinPicker · PaletteRing · TimeOfDayMark
14field runtimeambient brand engine · capability governor (A/B/C/D) · motion governor · semantic bus · 4 tier renderers (CSS / Canvas worker / WebGL / WebGPU) · liquid glass · pointer rippleAmbientEngine provider mounted at root · GlassLayer composition · CapabilityProbe surface · data-ambient-tier on html · semantic state on html drives ambient hue + speed
15microcopy disciplinethree laws (clarity, concision, character) · banned-phrase ledger · jargon translator · sentence-length budget · component-level copy rules (button, form, validation)RewriteTester live grader · /microcopy deep surface · check-microcopy.mjs CI gate · enforced across button/form/error/empty-state copy
{ "$id": "brand/receipt.contract.json", "kind": "trade", "fields": { "ts": { "type": "datetime", "tz": "utc" }, "pair": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^[a-z]+-perp$" }, "side": { "enum": ["long", "short"] }, "size": { "type": "string", "unit": "x" }, "entry": { "type": "currency", "ccy": "usd" }, "stop": { "type": "currency", "ccy": "usd" }, "posture": { "enum": ["paper", "live"] }, "gates": { "type": "ratio", "format": "n/d · pass" }, "signed": { "type": "hash", "prefix": "◆", "len": 6 } }, "leader": "dots", "renderable": "plain-text-paste-safe"}as of
12 · routesthirteen public surfacesevery surface declares its role
primary action up front. no soft landings.
01
/floorwatch live proof before auth02/foundationproofinspect account and journal finality03/replay/<id>receiptreplay a decision04/u/<handle>operator-profileinspect public operator proof05/a/<shortId>agent-profileinspect an agent and paper history06/standardsstandards-manualread public-safe brand contracts (tokens, primitives, voice rules, drops cadence, tier ladder)07/v<n>version-archiveread a frozen snapshot of a previously shipped floor08/changelogdemolition-logread the signed log of every shipped floor and the 90d cycle phases09/marketmarketwatch forming setups10/leagueleaguecompare recorded performance11/coliseumsimulationrun paper contests12/studiobuilderbuild paper-first agent13/mandelbrotnetworkinspect recursive agent/operator graph14/ambientfield-runtimeinspect the ambient brand engine and toggle tier15/microcopycontent-disciplinegrade copy against the three laws and the banned-phrase ledgeras of
13 · brand booktwenty-four chapters wired inruntime hook · downstream artifact · test gate
every chapter has all three. nothing is decoration. each card links to the foundation entry.
01identitymark, lockup, sigil, mascot, naming boundary05typographydisplay/data duties and mono contract09hapticstactile equivalents for mobile/operator surfaces13componentsprimitive contracts and dossiers · 86 ceiling (ADR-020) · 62 brand + 20 agentic + 4 reserved16drops and ritualThursday 11:00 ET cadence, raid window, gifted-50, trade-in, reverse-scarcity, settlement ceremony20skinsOKLCH-derived color authority · six canonical skin contracts (signature, bloomberg, midnight, ceremony, refuse, specimen) · acid-as-signature + amber-as-inheritance · generative per-agent · provable AAA contrast24changelogdemolition log of every shipped floor and the 90d cycle phases29chartsthe charts expansion · 18 SSR primitives in @zero/charts (12 display: Bar/Area/Donut/Treemap/Gauge/Waterfall/BoxPlot/DotMatrix/OrderBook/Footprint/VolumeProfile/MultiAxis on top of the original Sparkline/Line/Candle/Heatmap/DepthBar/Histogram, plus 4 composition: AxisX/AxisY/Legend/LayeredSurface) · the LayeredSurface primitive composes five layers (liquidity · price · delta · annotation · microstructure) · LayerKind / Annotation / ScaleTier types are the v2 webgpu adapter contract · ceiling 24 primitives · every chart has a dossier (num · cls · states · tokens · description · kind)33receipt vocabularythe eight-receipt vocabulary (ADR-027) · every event in the constitution's ledger lands as a typed, signed, deterministic 50-column box-drawing artifact · trade + refuse (existing, article II.3) plus six new helpers (sign, settlement, demolition, revoke, rotate, migrate) · the @zero/ui Receipt primitive's `kind` union widens 2 → 8 to render any of them · @zero/ui primitive ceiling unchanged (Receipt is already primitive #18) · brand-runtime tests now run inside the monorepo vitest pipeline
02voice and tonelowercase, terse, precise, replayable + OFF-WHITE 3% quotation rule on marketing surfaces only06layout systemrail, chrome, density, panes, grids10illustrationprocedural/pixel operators, no generic AI imagery25formsthe form-input pack · 14 primitives sharing the seven-state form grammar (idle · hover · focus · invalid · disabled · readonly · refuse) · the only legitimate way operators enter text, choose dates, pick files, or commit refusal reasons17tier laddertier-aware public + operator product surfaces and actions21ambientambient brand engine · four-tier renderer (CSS / Canvas worker / WebGL / WebGPU) · capability governor + motion governor + semantic bus · glass-layer composition · pointer ripple · accessibility guarantees (reduced-motion · low-power · save-data)26iconsthe icon system · 40-glyph baseline in 5 categories of 8 (navigation · status · action · finance · agentic) · 24×24 viewBox · 1.5px stroke · currentColor only · the only legitimate way to render a glyph in the zero universe30agent contextthe agent context layer (ADR-024) · three-file stack for 2026-grade coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf): AGENTS.md (always-on protocol · 32 KiB cap, OpenAI/LF standard) + DESIGN.md (always-on visual identity · 24 KiB cap · YAML frontmatter + Markdown prose · Google Labs Apache 2.0) + brand/designtoken.md (agent-readable token superset · agentskills.io DTCG-superset) · underneath: dist/dtcg.json (W3C Design Tokens Community Group v1.0 · first stable revision 2025-10-28 · every leaf has $type/$value · color leaves carry $extensions.zero.oklch metadata per ADR-013) · closes audit gap #7 (single-file agent context)
03lexiconcanonical product verbs and nouns07motionfour-clock organism, gestures, reduced motion + ceremony cadence (signing, settlement, refusal, demolition, trade-in, raid)11ornamentallowable atmosphere without decorative drift14writingbefore/after copy, disclaimers, banned claims18applied standardsthe standards manual that aggregates the consumed contracts (tokens, primitives, voice, drops, tiers)22microcopycontent discipline · three laws (clarity, concision, character) · banned-phrase ledger · jargon translator · sentence-length budget (avg 12 / max 22) · component-level copy rules (button labels, form fields, validation, empty states)27datathe data-display pack · 6 primitives sharing one tabular grammar (DataTable · Pagination · Tree · Calendar · EmptyState · Skeleton) · the seven-state cell grammar from forms carries through · the only legitimate way to render rows, pages, hierarchies, calendars, empty states, or loading states31overlaysthe overlay completion pack (ADR-025) · ten-overlay vocabulary across @zero/ui: five existing Floating-UI overlays (Tooltip · Popover · Dropdown · Dialog · ToastProvider) plus five new (Sheet · Drawer · Accordion · ContextMenu · AlertDialog) · every overlay declares one of three anchors (viewport · edge · anchor) and one of three dismissals (casual · committed · manual) via the shared overlay-anchor.ts contract · AlertDialog tone='refuse' is the brand-verb overlay (committed dismissal · amber hairline · confirm label defaults to 'refuse') · closes audit gap #8 · raises catalog ceiling 86 → 91 (67 brand + 20 agentic + 4 reserved)
04colorink, bone, acid (brand signature · wordmark · focus · drops), amber (inheritance signal · capital-markets · journal · cockpit), data + warning + status roles, pulse modulation, OKLCH-derived08soundprogrammatic cues, opt-in, off by default12tokensmachine-readable source for every surface · 17 categories15negative covenantrelease-blocking design/language rules · 17 nots19accessibilityeighteen probes · nine static (ci:a11y on every prerendered chapter · ADR-021) · five dynamic (window.zero.a11y) · four self-attested · WCAG AAA on body roles · reduced motion gates motion+sound+haptics together23universethe cover · what this design system is and how to consume it28performancefour perf gates restored · bundle (per-route first-load JS) · ssr (per-route HTML + chunk count) · web-vitals (contract ↔ runtime parity, no browser) · attestation (sha256 of every primary build output + CycloneDX SBOM) · single budgets contract · tightening = ADR, loosening = ADR + brand-veto32theme systemthe theme-system pack (ADR-026) · four React-tree-level providers (ThemeProvider · MotionProvider · DensityProvider · LocaleProvider) that pin the four cross-cutting brand contracts (substrate, motion, density, locale) at the React Context layer · ThemeProvider hard-codes substrate='dark' per article I (no light-mode prop · no escape) · MotionProvider pivots --ease-step + --breath + --pulse via [data-motion] · DensityProvider generalizes ADR-020's local DataTable triplet to every primitive via [data-density] · LocaleProvider sets lang/dir on its wrapper and exposes useLocale() to every formatter · raises catalog ceiling 91 → 95 (71 brand + 20 agentic + 4 reserved) · closes the audit's 8-ADR roadmap
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14 · ceremonythe page is signedthe engine watches. the operator signs. the receipt survives the room.
watched live.·refused often.·signed always.
breach line·one day silent → covenant breaks