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+id: CUST-PRJ-CUST-2026-000001
+type: charter
+title: "Custodian — Project Charter v0.1"
+status: active
+owners: ["Bernd", "Custodian"]
+created: "2026-02-24"
+updated: "2026-02-24"
+scope:
+  domains: ["Custodian"]
+  sensitivity: internal
+tags: ["agent", "canon", "continuity", "sovereignty", "family"]
+---
+
+# Custodian — Project Charter v0.1
+
+## Purpose
+Build a sovereign, secure, co-creative agent system that supports Bernd’s projects and evolves toward transgenerational custodianship for a biological family.
+
+## Problem
+Founder-centric initiative fails under absence. Provider-dependent AI services threaten continuity, sovereignty, and privacy.
+
+## Outcome
+A locally operable “institution in software” consisting of:
+- canon (identity substrate)
+- memory tiers (working, episodic, vault)
+- governance (constitution, roles, permissions)
+- bounded agency (safe tool surface + escalation rules)
+- reliable infrastructure (Railiance)
+
+## Boundaries (v0.1)
+- Co-creation and stewardship for projects only.
+- Family functionality is future scope; build prerequisites now (security, governance, portability).
+- No autonomous irreversible actions.
+
+## Success criteria (v0.1)
+- Custodian can co-create daily outputs across the project set.
+- Custodian can reconstruct project states from canon.
+- Canon is signed, backed up, and portable.