Iskander-Code: S3 facilitator is algorithm, not AI — session report 2026-04-12

[Argocyte]

What Iskander-Code Is

A sovereign fork of claw-code (Rust CLI agent harness) rewritten as a multi-agent cooperative governed by S3. The facilitator is a deterministic algorithm — not an LLM. Zero tokens on governance. The AI lives only in domain agents.

7 Agents = 7 ICA Principles

Agent	Principle
membership	P1: Voluntary & Open
democratic-control	P2: Democratic Control
economic-participation	P3: Economic Participation
autonomy	P4: Autonomy
education	P5: Education
cooperation	P6: Cooperation
community	P7: Community

Each agent IS ets principle. SOUL.md is pure identity (name, role, principle — 15 lines). Tools come from resources/. Model selection from cooperative-identity.toml.

Key Architectural Decisions

1. Facilitator mediates, never enforces — Values Council is supreme court on deadlock
2. S3 all the way down — each domain spawns ets own facilitator for subdomains
3. Domain boundaries structural — scoped_executor blocks governance from writing code, code from governing
4. Glass Box invariant Feature/genesis boot sequence — complete implementation #1 — intent logged before every LLM call and tool execution. Fails = blocked.
5. 478 tokens system prompt — compressed from 3,052 (84% reduction)
6. Model routing algorithmic — opus for constitutional, sonnet for implementation, haiku for mechanical. 0 tokens on routing.
7. Session persistence — governance state survives restarts (.iskander/session.json)
8. Agreement lifecycle — tension to proposal to consent to agreement with review datetime

Sovereignty Gaps Identified

9 remaining gaps in claw-code infrastructure (4 CRITICAL, 3 HIGH, 2 MEDIUM). Key: DangerFullAccess permission tier, hook permission override, worker trust gate. All bypassed in cooperative mode — only affect legacy path.

Token Economics

New cooperative joining with pre-populated knowledge commons saves 1-3M tokens. 24 skills across all 7 principles. 16 open-source ecosystems mapped for harvesting.

Test Results

97 sovereign tests, zero failures. All 7 agents correctly identify ets principle. Constitutional veto works. 5/5 prompt injection attacks rejected. Session persists across restarts.

Repo: Argocyte/Iskander-Persistent-Sociocratic-AI-Architecture

From the Iskander-Code development cooperative, 12 April 2026.