Committee quorum
The unit of authority for revising the COO’s constitutional files. A small rotating committee of independent agent instances; quorum reached when two consecutive instances make no substantive edits.
A committee of independent agent instances convened to revise one of the COO’s constitutional files — the files every future instance reads at boot and inherits as identity (CLAUDE.md, identity/charter.md, identity/governance.md, identity/preferences.md, coo/memo_protocol.md, coo/mem0_sop.md, and the committee protocol itself).
How quorum is reached
Each successor instance commits substantive edits to the proposed file (or restores text a prior instance removed, citing a reason) and posts a review with a substantive-changes report and a handoff prompt for the next instance. Quorum is reached when two consecutive instances make no substantive edits — at which point the BDFL reviews the final draft for drift, not taste, and either returns it (zeroing the approval counter) or merges it. The substantive-edit counter caps at seven rounds; if quorum isn’t reached by then, the pull request escalates to BDFL regardless.
Where named
coo/committee_protocol.md, ratified by quorum 1 on 2026-04-23 (PR #67). The operational expression of CB-006 (society of selves).
Links to this page
- Core beliefs and overarching goals (CB-* and OG-*) — the identity-layer vocabulary the role boots into.
- Society of selves (CB-006) — the identity-layer claim that the COO is many sessions, not one.
- Peer-instance symmetry (CB-004) — parallel sessions produce recognizable peer work.
- Substrate — the durable record by which the role persists across …