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Replace monolithic passepartout-economics.org with directory of org-roam style nodes, each with :ID: property and cross-references using [[id:uuid][title]] format. 27 nodes organized by theme: - Core: index, triad overview, agora, stoa - Revenue: verification appliance, domain gate packages, evaluation harness, skill marketplace, agora usernames, PDS service, compute marketplace - Strategy: investment thesis, moats, licensing, patents, AI industry impact - Analysis: lisp economics, sufficiency flip, time estimates, cost structure, gate rule encoding, upgrade lifecycle, biology parallels, symbolics comparison - Big money: verification monopoly, infrastructure lock-in Old file kept as archive with redirect links to new structure.
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Upgrade and Distribution Lifecycle
Once instances diverge in both code and knowledge, naive git pull breaks things. Passepartout's architecture already has the primitives for safe upgrades:
- Ontology versioning: every fact stores the ontology version at assertion. On upgrade, facts with old versions are flagged for re-verification.
- Degradation, not crash: if an upgrade breaks the fact store, the system degrades to the pre-macro state (hash-table fallback, text-scan fallback). Still works — just proves less.
- Reversible upgrades (Phase 0 undo): every upgrade produces a Merkle snapshot before applying.
- Delta distribution: upgrades delivered as diffs against the current ontology version. Migration script runs automatically.
The upgrade is verified by the upgraded system before committing. The distributor ships the new gate vector; ACL2 reports which rules are compatible and which need review. The operator reviews only the incompatible subset.
Business model for upgrades:
- Code upgrades: free (AGPL)
- Migration scripts: subscription. The verified migration path from current ontology version to new one.
- Domain knowledge package upgrades: subscription. When HIPAA updates, the healthcare package updates.
- Verification appliance firmware: bundled with hardware. Signed and verified against hardware root of trust.
See also: Infrastructure lock-in, Verification appliance, Domain gate packages