Time turns behavior into infrastructure.
Behavior is the most honest data there is.
This repository defines organization-wide standards for all Hollow House Institute projects, datasets, licenses, and public-facing repositories.
It is intentionally minimal in code and maximal in authority.
The .github repository serves as the governance spine for the Hollow House Institute
GitHub organization.
It establishes:
- Canonical doctrine and positioning
- Default contribution and behavior standards
- Licensing and attribution expectations
- Cross-repository consistency
All repositories under the Hollow House Institute organization inherit guidance from here.
Time turns behavior into infrastructure.
Repeated human behavior, observed longitudinally, solidifies into structure. That structure governs systems, decisions, and outcomes.
Behavior is the most honest data there is.
Hollow House Institute datasets and frameworks prioritize:
- Observable behavior over stated intent
- Temporal consistency over isolated events
- Structural signal over narrative interpretation
This doctrine governs:
- Dataset construction
- Metadata design
- Licensing terms
- Downstream model use
This repository informs and constrains:
- 📦 Dataset repositories
- 📜 Licensing repositories
- 🧠 Research and audit frameworks
- 🌐 Public-facing documentation
- 🤖 AI and agentic system artifacts
Where conflicts arise, doctrine defined here supersedes local README language.
---## Governance Definitions
Key terms used in this repository (e.g., behavioral drift, decision substitution, escalation decay) are defined in the HHI Governance Glossary.
Canonical definitions: https://github.com/hollowhouseinstitute/Hollow_House_Standards_Library/blob/main/glossary.md
Every Hollow House Institute repository must include:
> Time turns behavior into infrastructure.
> Behavior is the most honest data there is.