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  "schemaVersion": "1.0.0-public-snapshot",
  "id": "PRJ-PI-001",
  "displayId": "PI-001",
  "slug": "parallax-institute",
  "name": "Parallax Institute / Public Benefit Stack",
  "summary": "The coordinating public-benefit vision connecting humane infrastructure, research, education, stewardship, and practical tools.",
  "purpose": "The coordinating public-benefit vision connecting humane infrastructure, research, education, stewardship, and practical tools.",
  "regionId": "parallax-institute",
  "projectType": "Institute",
  "status": "Active",
  "maturity": "Growing",
  "evidenceClassification": "Operational",
  "visibility": "public-candidate",
  "canonConfidence": "Core",
  "launchTier": "Tier 1",
  "paths": [
    "understand",
    "build",
    "collaborate",
    "wander"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "institute",
    "research",
    "public benefit"
  ],
  "claimBoundaryVersion": "1.1.0",
  "claimBoundary": {
    "supported": "The Parallax constellation already contains operational tools, published artifacts, prototypes, games, research programs, and governance architectures organized around explicit human authority and receipts.",
    "notClaimed": "This room does not claim accreditation, institutional endorsement, charitable status, scientific consensus, or completed governance formation."
  },
  "knownLimitations": [
    "The Institute is an organizing architecture and growing body of work, not an accredited university or established research institution.",
    "Programs vary widely in maturity and evidence classification.",
    "Governance roles and external review processes still require formal appointment.",
    "Public-benefit language does not replace legal, nonprofit, or regulatory formation work."
  ],
  "currentState": {
    "summary": "Parallax Institute / Public Benefit Stack is recorded as Active at the Growing stage. The inventory currently marks 4 artifact lanes Ready, 3 Partial, and 1 Missing.",
    "maturityStage": "Growing",
    "maturityStageIndex": 2,
    "note": "B3 Tier 1 room draft · Core canon · Operational evidence · public candidate"
  },
  "capabilities": [
    {
      "symbol": "◎",
      "title": "Connects disciplines",
      "description": "Places technical, civic, creative, and human-centered systems inside one legible program."
    },
    {
      "symbol": "⚖",
      "title": "Maintains boundaries",
      "description": "Separates research, prototype, public service, art, and speculation rather than laundering one into another."
    },
    {
      "symbol": "↝",
      "title": "Builds practical bridges",
      "description": "Turns broad values into projects, specifications, prototypes, receipts, and paths for collaboration."
    }
  ],
  "architecture": {
    "summary": "The Institute is the coordinating layer: a public-benefit stack above domain programs and below no single founder mythology.",
    "layers": [
      {
        "name": "Program commons",
        "role": "Shared principles, project registry, review gates, and public explanations.",
        "status": "designed"
      },
      {
        "name": "Domain studios",
        "role": "Phi369 Labs, PixelForge, Human Garden, Civic Commons, Scriptorium, and Ledger Vault.",
        "status": "demonstrated"
      },
      {
        "name": "Review offices",
        "role": "Canon, claims, privacy, safety, accessibility, and publication review.",
        "status": "planned"
      },
      {
        "name": "Field partnerships",
        "role": "Scoped relationships with people, communities, and institutions around real work.",
        "status": "planned"
      }
    ]
  },
  "roadmap": [
    {
      "phase": "Now",
      "title": "Approve the public explanation",
      "description": "Make the Institute understandable in one page without grandiosity or jargon."
    },
    {
      "phase": "Next",
      "title": "Define program governance",
      "description": "Name review offices, decision rights, protected dissent, and publication criteria."
    },
    {
      "phase": "Later",
      "title": "Form external collaborations",
      "description": "Invite scoped partners only where artifacts, authority, and mutual benefit are explicit."
    }
  ],
  "relatedProjectContext": [
    {
      "projectId": "PRJ-CB-001",
      "relationship": "Humane collaboration program"
    },
    {
      "projectId": "PRJ-GC-001",
      "relationship": "Research and governance architecture"
    },
    {
      "projectId": "PRJ-CC-001",
      "relationship": "Public language for computational collaboration"
    },
    {
      "projectId": "PRJ-PV-001",
      "relationship": "Community simulation and stewardship"
    },
    {
      "projectId": "PRJ-MEDIA-001",
      "relationship": "Connected through: Public explainers and field notes"
    }
  ],
  "contentStatus": "draft",
  "recordUpdatedAt": "2026-07-25",
  "sourceNote": "Public-safe static snapshot generated from the v0.4 B4 review registry. Source files and private working notes are not embedded."
}