What is in force, and what waits
This record is open to read while it is still being built. Pages will change, and every page says whether a thing is adopted or only drafted. If something reads wrong, is missing, or contradicts another page, say so: open an issue on the public repository and name the page and the sentence. Corrections from readers are part of how this gets finished.
The instruments on the left are in force and the surfaces built on them can be walked today. What is on the right is built, marked, and waiting on an act no software performs: an adoption by the board, a signature by the person it binds, or a named person applying a change to the live record. Nothing is left off this list because it is unfinished. It is on the list because it is.
- The Articles of Organization, filed with the Colorado Secretary of State on February 6, 2026.
- Bylaws v2.1, in effect on the board's adoption of August 14, 2026, the day the officers were elected.The date is the steward's word of September 3, 2026 read against the founding record. No minute records the adoption, and none is claimed here. Member ratification under Article XII is an amendment mechanism, not a gate on commencement. Open items remain on the text: Schedule A is not executed, counsel's redline against v1 is outstanding, and the Secretary's signature is not yet on the executed copy. Those are open items on the text, not a bar to its force.
- The offices, elected by the board on August 14, 2026, each election re-taken as a separate motion on August 19, 2026.
- Two grafted modules: Program Patronage and Treasury, adopted July 22, 2026. Adoption brought each one's work into the plan under the same marks as everything else. Both module texts still stand drafted, and the instruments their beds wait on are named on the right.
- The surfaces a member reads. Belonging, gathering, and finding one another are built, and most of their pieces carry a verified mark from a walk a person made. Two pieces of belonging are drafted and not built, one piece of gathering and one of finding stand delivered and unwalked, and finding has a beat that cannot be walked alone, because a response is a message to an author. Each of the three closes on an attestation, which is a person's word and not a test run, and none of the three has one yet.
- A member's share. Contribution history and capital accounts wait on the board adopting the counting rules. Until that adoption a member account would be illustrative rather than honest, and the surface says so rather than showing a figure.
- Treasury movement. The Desk reads and moves nothing. Movement waits on the board adopting the treasury policy; redeemability waits on that and on counsel.
- Work Standing and Guild Participation. Both documents are drafted and adopted by nobody, and the work behind each is recorded as anticipated. Neither binds anyone today.
- The probe matrix. Proposed, and adopted by nothing.
- The Membership Agreement v2.3. Board-authorized and pending execution, never in effect: it reaches a member only on that member's own signature, and nobody has signed.
- Common agency. Proposed, an active experiment, and not formally adopted: those are the steward's words of September 3, 2026, and the module's own pages say that nothing in them is adopted. Behind it stands one undecided question, whether a non-human agent may hold a scoped authority in the record at all, and the first grant waits on that.
- Two changes to the shape of the record. Written and reviewed, and applied to nothing. A change to the live record is a named person's act, and no test environment stands beside it.
- Everything else marked anticipated on a board adoption. Where a piece waits on an adoption, the ledger says so on the piece, and the page built over it says so too.
Drafted September 3, 2026. Public names and public claims belong to the steward under section 2 of the build instructions. Three things above carry his word of September 3, 2026: the invitation is written to his ask that this mark say the standard thing a public beta says and ask the reader for corrections; the Bylaws take the board's adoption of August 14, 2026, on his word read against the founding record, no minute recording the act; and Common Agency's standing is his phrase. The rest of the wording is still a proposal standing in until he chooses it, and nothing here has been adopted as a text. What the mark names as waiting is taken from section 1 of the plan at the roadmap, which proposes what public beta means here and is itself adopted only as section 13 of the instructions. The standing of the Membership Agreement follows the same ruling of September 3, 2026, as the record page carries it.
What it is
Scholars and craftspeople have kept commonplace books for centuries: not an archive, but a working tool. You copy in what governs your practice, what you've agreed to, what has happened and what it led to. The entries are organized for use rather than display. When someone needs to understand the whole, they open the book.
RegenHub's Commonplace Book is that practice carried into cooperative life. It holds the authoritative state of the cooperative: who the members are, what agreements bind them, what events have taken place, and what each person's share of the work and the results amounts to. Every figure can be traced to the events that produced it. Every rule can be traced to the governing document that established it. Nothing is hidden behind a decision no one can follow back to its source.
The book is not an app for doing the work. It is the layer that remembers what has been done — so that the next question has an honest answer, and the next member doesn't have to ask.
Words that carry weight here are defined in one place, the Lexicon, and the documents that govern the whole are the Common Record Series.
Where its words came from
Before there was a record to keep there were fifteen conversations, between August 2025 and February 2026, in which a coworking space talked itself into becoming a cooperative. The Commonplace is what was said in them: seventy-nine entries gathered from the meeting summaries and arranged by what an idea does rather than by when it appeared.
Nearly every term this book operates on entered there, and can be read back to the afternoon it arrived. Soil rather than firm, which dissolved a whole class of accounting anxiety in one metaphor. Qualification over quantification, which is why contributions are made visible here without being priced. Trust rather than reputation. Pace layering, which is why the articles, the bylaws, and the membership agreement are meant to change at three different speeds. Augmentation over automation, which is the position the studio takes on its own tools.
That book is a formation record and it governs nothing. It binds no one, and where it and this record disagree, this record is what is true. The steward asks that it be read as the lens the rest of the work is perceived through, which is a different kind of authority than an instrument carries, and a useful one: this page holds what is true now, and that one holds what was meant.
What it holds
Four capabilities, each grown in its own bed and each closing on its own proof. A bed is the ordered work; a proof is the act by which a person watches it run and says it is real. Nothing here calls itself finished on a machine's say-so.
Read every agreement that binds them, with version and standing marked. Sign the membership agreement and see the signature recorded. Appear in the member directory with a profile they control. Complete onboarding without a meeting.
Built and walked · proof awaits attestationSee upcoming events and sessions at the studio. Register, and cancel, without asking anyone. Have attendance counted where the record counts it. Host an event under a named agreement or policy.
Built and walked · proof awaits attestationBrowse open offers and invitations — to play, practice, and work. Post their own offer or need, and close it when it resolves. See what an invitation led to, when the parties choose to record it.
Built · one beat wants a second memberSee their contribution history, itemized. See their capital account as a tally over that history. Follow any figure to the events and the policy that produced it. Balances computed, never stored as editable numbers.
After the counting rules adoptHow it is steered
The book is not only a record. It is the sensing half of a system that steers itself, and the vocabulary says so on purpose. Cybernetics takes its name from the Greek for steersman, the same root as the word governor. A garden under a gardener's hand is a steered system: sensing and tending, in loops.
Read against the viable system frame the cooperative already works in, the book and its surfaces lay out so.
This is not a metaphor laid over software. Every row above names something that exists in the record: a bed, a suite, a card, a view, a database trigger that refuses to let history be edited. The reading is set out in full in the Lexicon, and the plan it governs is the Almanac.
Where a member reads it
A record no one can open is a filing cabinet. The intranet is where a member reads and writes this one, behind sign-in, because some of what the book holds is nobody else's business.
It is a set of doors into a single shared record rather than a set of apps: the shelf for what binds you, the calendar for showing up, the board for finding work and play, the Programs that organize that work, your share for what your contribution amounts to, the Desk for the treasury's governed movements, and direction for setting the cooperative's instrument working on the record. Nothing is kept twice and nothing is quietly overwritten. Every figure on those surfaces is a tally computed at the moment you ask, so it can be followed back to the events that produced it.
This page and the ones it links to are the public half of the same book. Both halves read the same record.
How it federates
A posture note rather than a doctrine: where this record stands toward systems beyond it, written down so nobody has to ask. The record rides signed events. An entry is written once, carries its provenance, and is never edited, which is what lets it travel without losing its authority. How fine a citation each claim carries when it travels is itself doctrine, stated in the grain of the record.
It stands in two rings. The inner ring is operational: a membership relay the cooperative operates, where owner-attested keys speak and the full record lives. The outer ring is public, and today it is this web estate, the pages you are reading. What crosses from one ring to the other is not decided page by page. The Egress Doctrine states the rule: whose the record is, whose the public digest is, and the written rule over rights class and content class that decides which subset departs. The doctrine stands drafted, and it binds only when a person with standing adopts it.
A wider outer commons on the AT Protocol is a candidate under consideration, and it is not adopted. Naming a candidate is not taking the step; if the cooperative ever takes it, the taking will be a recorded act, and the same egress rule will govern what is published there. The public anchors for this posture are issue #217 and issue #218. What this section states as one posture among many, the federation vision states at length on the public estate: what federation means here, what the cooperative commits to, and what it invites.
Agents hold identity in this posture the way section 10 of the build instructions states: an agent is a keypair, owner-attested to a named human, its drafting waiting on a person's adoption, and any seat in another organization's workspace a configuration act requiring both owners and a named human on this side. None exists today.
What has been grafted in
The book grows by graft. A module is a document the cooperative adopts, and adoption brings its work into the plan under the same marks as everything else.
- Program Patronage adopted 2026-07-22
Programs as organizing bodies for the opportunities on the board: contributions, claims, and the allocation sequence. Its counting rules are the instrument the Share bed waits on. Read the module. - Treasury adopted 2026-07-22
The movement layer over the cooperative's rails, governed movements recorded as events, reconciliation as a tally. The Desk stands and reads, and stays read-only until the board adopts the treasury policy. Read the module. - Common Agency grafted 2026-07-27, proposed and not formally adopted
A patron member may give the cooperative's instrument work as a recorded act, within a declared scope, with every artifact under two hands. The rail and the desk are built; the bed waits on one decision, whether a non-human agent may hold a scoped authority in the record at all. Read the module. - Work Standing and Guild Participation drafted, not adopted
Two modules staged with their beds recorded at anticipated: how work earns its standing as it matures, and a virtual way in for people who are not in the room. Neither binds until the cooperative adopts it, and the pages say so. Read Work Standing. - Governance drafted, no bed minted
The machinery by which the cooperative's bodies act: the two modes, the instruments and the hands that hold them, the acts and the refusals they carry, and the minute as a projection of acts rather than an account of a room. Drafted for review, with eight decisions staged and nothing entered in the ledger. Read the module.