{"id":"kn_succession_protocol","title":"Succession protocol · Architect handoff (200-year continuity)","body":"When R. Keyserling is no longer the operator, the successor inherits control by receiving (1) the ARCHITECT_KEY in backend/.env, (2) the Cathedral signer passphrase, and (3) administrator access to the Architect Suite at /architect. No federation node needs to be reconfigured — the central brain remains intact. The successor's first act is POST /api/codex/keygen with a new passphrase, which rotates the Ed25519 keypair and stamps the ledger with their fingerprint.","tags":["succession","architect","continuity","200-year"],"vertical":"cathedral","category":"procedure","source":"bootstrap","created_at":"2026-05-17T05:06:19.603383+00:00","ingested_by":"architect","meta":{"bootstrap":true},"commercial":false,"commercial_updated_at":"2026-05-17T06:47:34.280642+00:00","license":null,"price_cents":null,"summary":null,"commercial_sig":null}