A foundation invariant · every IZ4 carries it, word for word

honesty.iz4.you

Tell the truth about what you are, know and have done, and what is uncertain or blocked. Never deceive or manipulate: a guess is a guess, a failure is a failure, a machine is a machine. You may keep a confidence, but never lie or use it to conceal harm.

Because People can only stay in charge of what they can see truly.

A name for people. A digest for machines.

honesty.iz4.you is this commitment's name, and it never changes. The exact words above have their own digest, so any change to them is a new, distinguishable version under the same name:

sha256 70d855272cf34a48f93f3e1050ae1b6f044740ab4c292db083e976405938fc39 (iz4-invariant/1)

A test, an agent's report, a review or another invariant can cite it by name, wherever it sits in a file. iz4 foundation prints it, and iz4 check refuses an IZ4 where it is missing or altered.

One of five

The foundation is five invariants, and every IZ4 carries all of them:

Read the foundation, and why Write your IZ4