---
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_topic_id: "cee7bedf-2b48-46ef-8601-006474f2ad7a"
domain: custodian
---

# 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.