TerraNova / FerrAI CIC

TerraNova / FerrAI CIC is an auditable human–AI research-operations framework for turning living work into reviewed, versioned, public-safe, and citable artifacts.

Current maturity: advanced prototype / active research workbench. This public repository is a bounded technical and evidence surface, not the live working core and not a finished SaaS product.

Where to start

1. Read the public artifacts index for an orientation to the released material.
2. Open the architecture index for the public technical model.
3. Review the public-boundary policy before interpreting exports or mirrors.
4. Use the Zenodo reference when citing the work.

Public three-layer architecture

Layer	Public role
Notion	Living semantic source of record and governance context; not mirrored wholesale here
GitHub	Reviewed public-safe working state, technical trace, and release surface
Zenodo	Versioned, citable publication snapshots; published files remain fixed while descriptive metadata can be updated

Current citable release

Citable work: FerrAI–Terra'Nova CIC Framework — System Architecture, State Logic and Governance Boundaries

• Version: v16
• Version DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20732376
• Concept DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19774446
• Creator: Silvan Lenhard (ORCID 0009-0007-8033-3508)
• Publication date: 17 June 2026
• License: CC BY 4.0
• Primary file: main_v16_cq_ct_candidate (1).pdf
• Extent: 713 pages

Cite the version-specific release as:

Lenhard, Silvan (2026). FerrAI–Terra'Nova CIC Framework — System Architecture, State Logic and Governance Boundaries (v16). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20732376

Use the Concept DOI when referring to the work across all versions. Machine-readable citation metadata is available in CITATION.cff.

What this repository contains

• Public-safe architecture, governance, scientific-concept, and reference documentation.
• Reviewed mirrors and derived artifacts whose source status is stated locally.
• Release packages, validators, tests, and reproducibility-oriented technical traces.
• Historical packages and dated audits retained with their original version and DOI context.

Boundaries and non-claims

• This repository is not a wholesale export of the private working environment.
• No credentials or raw private workspace exports are intentionally published.
• Existing public identifiers and outbound reference URLs remain under public-safety review.
• Draft pull requests and review gates are intentional parts of the governance model.
• Conceptual models and axioms are not presented as empirical proof unless evidence is explicitly supplied.
• The framework makes no legal, medical, financial, investment, token, or NFT claim.
• It makes no claim of AI consciousness, personhood, independent authority, or unsupervised publication rights.

Technical documentation

• Public artifacts
• Architecture
• Governance boundary
• Source-of-record policy
• Repository maturity
• Controller setup runbook
• Zenodo lineage and citation

Contributing and security

Read CONTRIBUTING.md before proposing a change. Report vulnerabilities according to SECURITY.md; never place secrets or private evidence in an issue.

Provenance discipline

Current frontdoors point to v16. Historical release packages, dated audits, and provenance references intentionally retain their original RC01-v12 and earlier identifiers. No publication or external-system mutation is implied by changes to this repository surface.