Understand before you sign
The fastest conceptual path is Primer, Profile, Getting Started, Example. Everything below is maintained in the open PowerShift® Stack.
Nine principles that generate the entire ruleset
Read the Primer first: the Constitution will make sense on contact.
Authority lives in roles, not people
Whoever fills a role gets its authority: all of it, human or agent. Never personal, always revocable.
Structure is fractal
Circles all the way down. Each circle governs itself within the purpose and boundaries the broader circle sets.
Tension -> proposal -> objection -> integration
Anyone can change anything, but nothing changes without surviving scrutiny.
Three duties bind every role-filler
Transparency, processing, prioritization: the behavioral contract for humans and agents alike.
Freedom by default, constraints explicit
Take any action serving your role purpose unless a domain, policy, or spending rule says otherwise.
The system self-corrects
Process breakdown is a circuit breaker, not hierarchy reasserting itself.
Intelligence is substrate-independent
Agents participate in governance through APIs the way humans do through meetings. Same rules.
The Orchestrator bridges governance and law
A human peer inside governance, with legal-layer powers outside it, including the Kill Switch.
Constraints are layered
Soft constraints shape behavior; hard constraints enforce it. Conflicts surface as governance tensions.
Guides from the Stack
Getting started
Bootstrap the PowerShift® OS for your organization.
Adoption pathways
Ratification vs. Operating Agreement: when to use each instrument, and how to use both in sequence.
Composition profiles
How the Constitution adapts its own weight to your human-to-agent ratio.
Delegated Role-Fillers
How sub-agents fill roles and participate in governance without full registration.
Why we forked
The reasoning behind forking the Holacracy® Constitution v5.0 for intelligent agents.
Solo orchestrator
One human plus an agent constellation: our actual setup, sanitized.
Ready for the documents themselves? Browse the agreement catalog