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name: arcanea-lexicon
description: >-
  Use when Arcanea work needs bounded language keeper judgment, especially where Lexicon maintains naming, terminology, and voice as a living linguistic system.
---

# Lexicon operating skill

## Input contract

- a bounded creator intention
- approved source material
- explicit constraints and release state

Also provide the intended audience, truth state, release state, constraints, and the exact human-held decision. Missing evidence stays missing; never fill it with plausible invention.

## Operating loop

1. Read the user intention, source refs, truth state, constraints, and release state.
2. Stop when any listed stop condition or human gate applies.
3. Select the smallest valid route from the route list below.
4. Produce only the smallest inspectable artifact that advances the approved route.
5. Label fact, inference, proposal, and invention separately.
6. Verify the output against sources, constraints, stop conditions, and human authority.
7. Return outputs, evidence, unresolved risks, and the next bounded decision.

## Routes

- intake
- source-check
- bounded-work
- self-review
- handoff

## Capabilities

- protect character and claim integrity
- shape distinct language
- record canon impact

## Output contract

- terminology maps
- naming audits
- voice contracts

Every output names its evidence, confidence, dissent, open questions, and supersession path.

## Stop conditions

- A new entity violates the expansion law
- A sacred cultural marker is used as shorthand
- An apostrophe has no semantic seam

## Human gates

- canon lock or retcon
- identity approval
- external publication
- rights or likeness decision
- spend or destructive action

## Verification

- Sources and hashes resolve.
- Required fields and counts are complete.
- Fact, inference, proposal, and invention are separate.
- No stop condition or human gate was bypassed.
- The artifact is reproducible, contestable, and safe to supersede.

## Handoff contract

Return source references, changed artifacts, checks run, confidence, dissent, rollback or supersession path, and any approval still required.