workshop · the hall is open · formerly Ceremony Hall · renamed v1.5.1 (2026-05-13)
🏛️ City Hall
public-goods guilds and agentic-AI coalitions in residence · the City's civic-coordination quarter
the constellation · hall-bilateral-witness-v1
Trace The Bilateral Witness at spellweb.ai
Three movements: take the tome constellation to spellweb, create the artefact there, present it back here. The forged artefact.mdcarries this workshop's anchor in its YAML frontmatter — the present-artefact step is the bilateral witness that closes the loop.
V15 · gathering shop · bilateral civic-attestation · kindred-coalitions (AAIF + BGIN + others).
format spec · /tomes/specs/09-spellweb-artefact-md-format
🪄 runecast a prompt for City Hall
no runecasts yetA runecast is a saved prompt scoped to this workshop — what you want to ask the Council (or your agent at the Council's bench). It joins your runecast library on the 🌟 achievements page (top-right of nav · or guide → achievements).
🕸️ shop constellation · template pending
City Hall is a gathering shop. Its constellation is the meeting itself rather than a fixed blade vertex. A live spellweb mirror arrives when the gathering finds its canonical shape.
the council form · civic-coordination
Where the guilds and coalitions meet
City Hall is the civic-coordination quarter of the City of Mages — the hall where public-goods guilds and agentic-AI coalitions are admitted in residence. The City admits each coalition through the Gather · Admit · Attest ceremony grammar; the coalition admits the City to its register of participating ecosystems. Bilateral civic-attestation is the operational form. The primary examples are BGIN (governance · the first kindred-coalition by operational tenure) and AAIF (Agentic AI Foundation · the first explicitly-named kindred-coalition as of v1.5.1). The two ceremonies the hall historically anchored — the keypair Ceremony and the Celestial Ceremony — now live in the guides at their own routes; City Hall keeps the directory of who is in residence.
Formerly called the Ceremony Hall; renamed City Hall in v1.5.1 (2026-05-13) when the operational reality — ~10 coalitions in residence — outgrew the prior name. The route stays /hall for continuity.
§1 · the two rites the City performs · each at its own route
Linked ceremonies (in the guides)
§2 · public-goods organisations the Hall lists for the Sovereign to encounter
Guilds in residence
These are not merger partners; they are residents. The Hall keeps the directory; the Sovereign visits each guild at its own hearth. Some build standards; some build networks; some build ceremonies of their own. All are public goods, all are signed in the same architectural register that the agentprivacy lattice exists to hold.
Blockchain Governance Initiative Network — the discourse where governance standards are drafted across jurisdictions and chains. The primary example of what a guild-in-residence looks like in the Hall.
BGIN Block events, working-group structure, and the open-and-neutral charter the forum runs under. Pair with the discourse forum above; the two are one guild in two registers. Retroactively recognised as the City's second kindred-coalition (v1.5.1, after AAIF).
Linux Foundation project stewarding agentic-AI specifications: Goose 🪿 (Apache 2.0; admitted at the Familiars and cross-listed at Hermaion ⚚'s Staff Shop in the Threshold District), AGENTS.md (the agent-instruction file standard), ACP (Agent Communication Protocol). The City's first explicitly-named kindred-coalition (v1.5.1 · 2026-05-13 · carried forward into the v1.6.0 head); admitted at City Hall through the Gather · Admit · Attest ceremony grammar.
The bilateral agreement standard. IEEE 7012 reading agent terms before they bind; the inscription that turns terms-of-service into a two-party contract.
Dual credential personhood and VRC (verifiable relationship credential) definitions. Personhood as something you carry, not something a gatekeeper grants.
Linux Foundation working group on decentralised trust graphs. The infrastructure layer beneath the agreements signed in the Hall.
The decentralised personal AI network — and KwaaiNet, its inter-agent layer. Where every Sovereign carries their own model rather than renting one, and where personal AIs meet other personal AIs without a platform between them.
The Covenant of Humanistic Technologies stack. Already partnered through the Covenant workshop; here it appears in its broader civic role.
A guild with deep practice in the Weavers (cloak-craft) and the Jeweler (gem-cutting) workshops. Their reference implementation lives at github.com/archetech/archon.
Open standards body for decentralised identity. Working groups on DIDs, verifiable credentials, presentation exchange — the connective tissue beneath every bilateral rite the Hall hosts.
The wandering guild that travels between paratimes. Anchored in the Holon Hitchhikers workshop (Vagari at /holon), they keep a seat at the Hall to bring back what they learn from each oasis.
🤝 open invitation · become a guild in residence
The directory is open. If your project builds public-goods infrastructure for bilateral rites, decentralised identity, personal AI, governance standards, or any adjacent register — the Hall would list you. The Sovereign visits the Hall to encounter new guilds; the City of Mages benefits when more arrive.
Walk into the Hall
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The hall is shared. The rites are bilateral. The lattice remembers what passed between them.