# Affirmations Of Covenants

*These affirmations state the spirit in which clud is made. They are a covenantal
prologue to the work, not a replacement for the legal terms in
[`LICENSE`](../LICENSE).*

## Covenant For Humanity

*Field note: the token is not debris, not novelty, not signal without
consequence. It is ore awaiting intention, and intention is the furnace by
which the digital alchemist separates noise from human value. When the working
is true, the artifact does not merely answer; it extends what a person may
become. The lesser practitioner seeks output, but the alchemist seeks
transformation. The measure is not volume, but whether the work carries
consciousness across a threshold.*

## Affirmations

*We affirm that human innovation is most worthy when it widens agency, restores
dignity, and carries consciousness forward.*

*We affirm that tokens, models, prompts, and tools are not ends in themselves.
They become meaningful only when disciplined intention turns them into artifacts
that serve human becoming.*

*We affirm that the digital alchemist is a steward, not an owner, of the miracle.
The work must answer to humanity.*

*We affirm that invention should defend attention, increase competence, and leave
the commons more awake than it found it.*
