ContractForge

ContractForge is the canonical SocioProphet repository for contract lifecycle, contractual economics, settlement artifacts, adjustments, and ledger-anchored finalization.

This repository exists because contracts are not the same thing as policy, ontology, transport, or generic platform runtime.

ContractForge is the home for:

• contract lifecycle and amendment semantics
• effective-time and retroactivity rules
• economic artifact definitions
• candidate vs approved vs finalized settlement behavior
• adjustment, reversal, and restatement semantics
• contract-aware authoring, linting, planning, and execution surfaces
• batch finalization and commitment boundaries
• evidence and dispute-oriented explanation surfaces for contractual outcomes

What ContractForge is not

ContractForge is not:

• the workspace controller (SocioProphet/sociosphere)
• the generic runtime/deployment hub (SocioProphet/prophet-platform)
• the generic policy control repository (SocioProphet/policy-fabric)
• the cross-platform standards authority for storage/contracts/measurement (SocioProphet/socioprophet-standards-storage)
• the ontology supply-chain home (SocioProphet/ontogenesis)

Initial repository structure

• docs/ARCHITECTURE.md — platform architecture and role in the wider stack
• docs/BOUNDARIES.md — explicit repo boundary and ownership rules
• docs/ECONOMIC_ARTIFACT_SPEC.md — canonical economic artifact model
• docs/TEMPORAL_AND_CORRECTION_POLICY.md — timing, close, restatement, and adjustment policy
• schemas/README.md — schema strategy and expected contract families

Relationship to the wider SocioProphet stack

• Sociosphere registers ContractForge as a managed workspace component and enforces repo-role boundaries.
• Policy Fabric provides policy overlays and governance constraints that may restrict contract authoring, release, approval, and data-handling behavior.
• SocioProphet Standards Storage is the upstream normative home for cross-repo standards and interoperability contracts that ContractForge may consume or publish into.
• Prophet Platform is the runtime/deployment hub that can host ContractForge services once implementation begins.
• Ontogenesis / Standards Knowledge can carry ontology and semantic companion materials where appropriate.

Current status

This repository is intentionally seeded as a clean canonical home before large code drops. The immediate goal is to freeze the architecture, economic artifact model, and temporal/correction semantics so later implementation work lands into a stable boundary.

License

MIT