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N'Ko Inscription System

A system that compiles embodied dynamics into justified N'Ko statements with cryptographic provenance. Every inscription is traceable to its source evidence through a typed IR pipeline.

System Architecture

Inscription Pipeline
Motion Sensors
60 Hz
DELL
Dual-Eq
z-trajectory
embeddings
ClaimDetector
10 detectors
Claim Detection · 6 Hz
zt-k:t
place
slice_id
10 Typed Detectors
Variance
Spatial
Temporal
Pattern
Transition
Claim IR
typed representation
Lexicon
versioned (vN)
Surface
N'Ko render
Provenance Chain
EvidenceIRSurfaceProof ScaffoldGraph Kernel

DELL

Dual-Equilibrium Latent Learning - neural architecture operating on two timescales

Graph Kernel

Deterministic context slicing engine for bounded, reproducible slices

Inscription Pipeline

10 claim detectors converting z-trajectory to typed IR to N'Ko surface

Claim IR

Strongly-typed intermediate representation for each claim type

Basin Lifecycle

Proto-basin → Basin → Split/Merge/Retire state machine

API Reference

Full API documentation for integration and development

Design Philosophy

Anticipation Over Prediction

The system does not predict what will happen; it detects when dynamics become constrained enough that a claim is warranted.

Non-Retroactive Corpus

Old inscriptions are never rewritten. When the lexicon evolves, original inscriptions remain untouched.

Provenance by Design

Every claim maintains a chain: z-trajectory → ClaimDetector → Typed IR → Lexicon → N'Ko Surface → Proof Scaffold.

Determinism First

Every operation must be deterministic. Same inputs must produce byte-identical outputs across runs, sessions, and machines.

N'Ko Line Skeleton

Every inscription follows this structure:

inscription_skeleton.nko
text
⟨operator-sigil⟩ ⟨time-marker⟩ : ⟨claim-body⟩ ; ⟨slots⟩

Example:
ߛ ⟦100.0–200.0⟧ : z(σ) ↓ ; ⟦home⟧ ; c=0.85

Reads as: "Stabilization claim from t=100.0 to t=200.0,
          dispersion decreased, at place 'home', confidence 0.85"