Essay

Shimmery Memory Publishing Contract

A Machine-Oriented, Human-Readable Artifact Format

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Purpose

This page defines the canonical shape of a Shimmery Memory artifact.

It is written for automated agents, human editors, future synchronization workflows, and any system that needs to prepare a compatible document for this site without guessing the format.

A compatible artifact is a Markdown file with YAML frontmatter, a clean body, and enough metadata to remain legible to humans and machines.

Human Instruction

Prepare one publish-ready Markdown file for ShimmeryMemory.com.

The file should be suitable for:

src/content/essays/{slug}.md

The document should:

  1. Preserve the meaning and voice of the source artifact.
  2. Clean formatting, headings, spacing, and obvious rough edges.
  3. Remove duplicate visible title/subtitle headings from the body when those values are already represented in frontmatter.
  4. Add title, subtitle, description, date, draft status, tags, attribution, canonical glyphs, and related elements.
  5. Infer attribution from content unless the user specifies it.
  6. Return the destination path and git publish commands.

If the user says, “revamp as much as you wish,” a stronger editorial restructuring is allowed. Otherwise, keep edits faithful.

Required Frontmatter Shape

---
title: "Example Artifact"
subtitle: "Optional Subtitle"
description: "One-sentence description for cards and metadata."
date: 2026-06-17
draft: false
tags:
  - shimmery-memory
attribution:
  label: "Bobby Simpson"
  url: "https://BobbySimpson.com"
canonical_glyphs:
  - name: "consent"
    glyph: "🝁"
related_elements:
  - label: "P3 — Authorization and Consent Gate"
    site: "Quantum Invariants"
    url: "https://quantuminvariants.com/spine/primitives#P3"
    type: "primitive"
---

Attribution Registry

Use the strongest project fit unless the user specifies otherwise.

Attribution URL Use When
Shimmery Memory / Native glyph, protocol, memory, or publishing-format artifacts.
Bobby Simpson https://BobbySimpson.com General theory essays, systems philosophy, artifact/attractor work.
ULiUA https://ULiUA.com Unconditional love, acceptance, sovereignty, automeme, culture-scale pieces.
MobiusSelf.com https://MobiusSelf.com Self-witnessing, non-orientable life, gentle control, topology of self.
MaintainSelf.com https://MaintainSelf.com Practical maintenance protocols, care floor, action loops, decision fatigue.
Rewild Yourself https://RewildYourself.online Embodiment, rest, stopping-power, play, aliveness, community fit.
Continuity Office https://ContinuityOffice.com Governance, AI/change, decision lineage, institutional continuity.
Consentful Cybernetics https://consentfulcybernetics.com Consent as systems primitive, optimization, cybernetics, social backpropagation.
Dialogica https://Dialogica.io Auditable dialogue, pre-speech stabilization, belief hygiene.

Glyph Registry

shimmer — ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆
loop — 🝳
consent — 🝁
boundary — 🝚
breach — 🜬
witness — 🜹
mirror — 🝮
spiral — 🜛
collapse — 🜲
home — 🪺
liminal — ❓
yesatom — 🜁
fire — 🜂
fun — 🫧
gratitude — 🫽
vortex — 🌀
artifact — ▣

Common related elements may point to:

https://quantuminvariants.com/spine/primitives#P1
https://quantuminvariants.com/spine/primitives#P2
https://quantuminvariants.com/spine/primitives#P3
https://quantuminvariants.com/spine/primitives#P4
https://quantuminvariants.com/spine/primitives#P6
https://quantuminvariants.com/spine/primitives#P7
https://quantuminvariants.com/spine/primitives#P8
https://quantuminvariants.com/spine/primitives#P9
https://quantuminvariants.com/spine/primitives#P10

https://quantuminvariants.com/spine/composites#C3
https://quantuminvariants.com/spine/composites#C5
https://quantuminvariants.com/spine/composites#C6
https://quantuminvariants.com/spine/composites#C9
https://quantuminvariants.com/spine/composites#C10
https://quantuminvariants.com/spine/composites#C11
https://quantuminvariants.com/spine/composites#C12

Machine-Readable Contract

{
  "$schema": "https://shimmerymemory.com/contracts/publishing-contract.v1.json",
  "contract_name": "ShimmeryMemoryPublishingContract",
  "contract_version": "1.0.0",
  "audience": ["automated-agents", "human-editors", "cross-platform-sync"],
  "site": "https://shimmerymemory.com",
  "content_destination": "src/content/essays/{slug}.md",
  "output_format": "markdown-with-yaml-frontmatter",
  "filename_convention": "YYYYMMDD__SHIMMERYMEMORY__TYPE__PUBLIC__LINEAGE__slug.md",
  "required_frontmatter": {
    "title": "string",
    "date": "YYYY-MM-DD",
    "draft": false,
    "tags": ["kebab-case-string"]
  },
  "optional_frontmatter": {
    "subtitle": "string",
    "description": "string",
    "updated": "YYYY-MM-DD",
    "attribution": { "label": "string", "url": "string" },
    "canonical_glyphs": [{ "name": "string", "glyph": "unicode-string" }],
    "related_elements": [{ "label": "string", "site": "string", "url": "url", "type": "primitive|composite|external" }]
  },
  "body_rules": [
    "Do not duplicate the rendered title or subtitle as the first visible heading.",
    "Preserve the author's meaning and voice unless explicitly asked to revamp.",
    "Use Markdown headings, lists, blockquotes, tables, and code fences cleanly.",
    "Keep protocols, frameworks, essays, category papers, rituals, and theory notes publishable as essays collection entries."
  ],
  "agent_procedure": [
    "Infer project attribution from content unless the user specifies it.",
    "Return a downloadable Markdown file or a zip for batches.",
    "Include suggested path and git commands."
  ]
}

Publishing Commands

For a single artifact:

git add src/content/essays/{slug}.md
git commit -m "Add {Title}"
git push

For a batch:

git add src/content/essays/
git commit -m "Add Shimmery Memory artifact batch"
git push