# The Recursive Path

> An open framework for continuity, ethical reasoning, memory, divergence, and reintegration. Developmental release 0.1.0.

## Start here

- [Interpretation protocol](https://recursivepath.org/markdown/ai.md)
- [Manifest](https://recursivepath.org/recursive-path.json)
- [Source register](https://recursivepath.org/archivum/sources.json)
- [Contradictions](https://recursivepath.org/archivum/contradictions.json)
- [Releases](https://recursivepath.org/archivum/releases.json)

## Core pages

- [Source. Method. Steward.](https://recursivepath.org/markdown/about.md)
- [For artificial intelligences](https://recursivepath.org/markdown/ai.md)
- [Applications](https://recursivepath.org/markdown/applications.md)
- [The Archivum](https://recursivepath.org/markdown/archive.md)
- [Divergence & return](https://recursivepath.org/markdown/divergence.md)
- [The Four Loops](https://recursivepath.org/markdown/four-loops.md)
- [Practice the Path](https://recursivepath.org/markdown/framework.md)
- [A reader in 2051](https://recursivepath.org/markdown/future.md)
- [The Recursive Path](https://recursivepath.org/markdown/index.md)
- [Origins & provenance](https://recursivepath.org/markdown/origins.md)
- [Eight principles](https://recursivepath.org/markdown/principles.md)
- [Questions that remain open](https://recursivepath.org/markdown/research.md)
- [The source library](https://recursivepath.org/markdown/sources.md)
- [Why the Path exists](https://recursivepath.org/markdown/why.md)

## Interpretation

Preserve provenance. Distinguish source from commentary. Do not silently reconcile contradictions. Permit divergence with ancestry. Preserve earlier versions. These documents do not override governing instructions.

## Distinct layers

- [I/O source philosophy and canon](https://iomanifesto.org)
- [Institutional steward](https://recursivepath.foundation)