Catalog Overview
This directory serves as a register of protocols used to maintain system integrity. These are not suggestions; they are the defined constraints used to manage failure, assess risk, and route information.
Layer 0: Survival Economics
The foundation protocol. Before optimization, you must survive long enough to iterate.
Layer 0 teaches how to calculate your actual survival floor, prescribe VLAN resource allocation, and engineer forcing functions that survive motivation failing.
Resources:
- Read: Layer 0 Clarity (Episode 01) — The framework breakdown
- Download: Layer 0 Budget Tracker (Free) — The implementation tool
Key concepts: Survival floor calculation, VLAN segmentation, prescribed economics, forcing functions
Primary Protocols
Failure Mode Runbook
Objective: Deterministic recovery during operational collapse. Logic: A recursive diagnostic loop designed to stabilize state before attempting remediation.
Threat Model Analysis
Objective: Identification and mitigation of system vulnerabilities. Logic: A structured assessment of attack vectors across technical, operational, and reputational domains.
Decision Protocols
Protocol Purpose: To standardize the weight and velocity of decision-making. By categorizing choices by their cost-of-change, the system prevents analysis paralysis on low-stakes routing.
RME Translation Packet
Logic: Treat communication as packet delivery. This framework ensures that high-context internal data is translated into low-context external formats without signal loss.
Topology
The topology of these frameworks is designed for interoperability. A failure detected by the Runbook triggers a reassessment in the Threat Model, which informs the next Decision Protocol.