---
id: CUST-PRJ-PERS-2026-000001
type: charter
title: "Personhood — Project Charter v0.1"
status: active
owners: ["Bernd", "Custodian"]
created: "2026-02-24"
updated: "2026-02-24"
scope:
  domains: ["Personhood"]
  sensitivity: internal
tags: ["law", "rights", "obligations", "agents", "jurisdictions"]
custodian_topic_id: "084430ab-c630-48dc-9e1d-d07d1e8fce3c"
domain: personhood
---

# Personhood — Project Charter v0.1

## Purpose
Develop a multidimensional, testable framework of personhood for mixed-intelligence societies, enabling experimental legal rule systems with tiered rights/obligations and downgrade mechanisms.

## Problem
Binary personhood breaks under heterogeneous agents (humans, AIs, orgs, hybrids). We need portable terminology, tests, and rule modules that jurisdictions can adopt and evolve.

## Outcome
- a dimensional personhood space (capability-based, substrate-independent)
- a modular rights/obligations library
- violation → downgrade logic (enforceable within platforms)
- portability across “interaction spaces” (marketplaces, communities)

## Boundaries (v0.1)
- Focus on conceptual and operational primitives, not a single “ideal law”.
- Emphasize clarity, testability, and portability.

## Success criteria (v0.1)
- A coherent framework that can be implemented as platform governance.
- Example jurisdictions and rule packs for specific interaction spaces.