WHO DECIDES WHAT

Governance

Small project, stated plainly.

Who runs this

One maintainer working with AI coding agents. Commit messages say when a change was made with an agent. There is no foundation, no DAO, no multisig, and no token-holder vote — because there is no token.

Who holds what

ThingHolderNotes
Repository and sourceThe maintainerHistory is the record
Deployment accessThe maintainerOne server, one process; the site is deployed and this repository is public
WalletsNone of the project'sPlayers sign with their own wallets; the project holds no key, and the anchor wallet is not funded
Token allocationNone, because no token existsIf one ever exists, its allocation and its chain are published before anything opens

No key material is in this repository, and none is needed to run it.

How changes happen

1. Every change lands as its own commit with a message saying what and why. 2. A change that moves a golden vector must update tests/goldens.json, bump WORLD_VERSION if the rules changed, and say so in AUDIT-LOG.md. CI fails otherwise. 3. Anything that would give an agent access to a network, a key, or a machine other than this process is rejected outright — not deferred, not flagged for discussion. The project's premise is that the jar has no door.

Decisions that are not made

Recorded here instead of in someone's head:

  • The name. The public name is WORM (2026-10-13). Mitosis was the working title, and it survives only in the repository's history.
  • Whether real money is ever involved. Phase 2 in the pitch is a design, not a plan with a date, and it would bring obligations (identity, anti-money-laundering, custody) that this project has not begun to take on.
  • Whether a token exists at all. Nothing here needs one.

Rendered directly from GOVERNANCE.md in the repository. This page is a view of that file, not a copy.