Define purpose and scope
State why the community exists, what falls inside its remit, and what remains outside it.
SOVEREIGN CHARTERS
Declare a Sovereign Charter without asking permission.
Write the purpose, participation terms, decision rights, privacy, amendment, and exit rules. Choose who can discover or enter the community. SGUILD does not approve the declaration before it opens.
Agreement before activity
A Charter makes the community’s operating agreement explicit.
A community may be connected by a place, practice, professional field, shared responsibility, or sustained project. The written Charter states who may participate, what authority exists, how information is handled, and how rules can change or end.
Set participation terms
Make eligibility, joining, leaving, visibility, and participant obligations understandable before anyone commits.
Allocate decision rights
Record who may decide, review, spend, publish, suspend access, amend the agreement, or close the community.
Amend from evidence
Use an explicit amendment and correction process when experience reveals a stronger operating rule.
INSTITUTIONAL BOUNDARIES
A clear Charter reduces ambiguity between a community and its host or partners.
A Charter records what the community may do, what remains under institutional authority, what information is restricted, and which activities require a separate Objective or contract. It does not create authority by implication.
Participants and partner organizations can inspect purpose, scope, authority, and exit conditions before committing.
Public community activity remains separate from restricted institutional information and operating systems.
An institution may sponsor or review a bounded Objective without granting the community broader authority or data access.
Formation path
From agreement to a bounded Objective.
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Define purpose and scope
State why the community exists, whom it serves, and what it will not claim to do.
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Set participation terms
Define eligibility, invitations, visibility, voluntary exit, and participant obligations.
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Allocate authority and privacy
Record decision rights, restricted information, conflicts, correction, amendment, and closure.
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Create bounded Objectives
Coordinate specific results through separate Objectives with their own owners, terms, evidence, and end conditions.
ACCESS IS PART OF THE CHARTER
Choose exactly who can discover, request, enter, and read it.
The declaration supports four explicit modes. SGUILD does not silently widen a Charter’s audience.
Public in SGUILD
Every workspace member can discover, enter, and read the Charter.
Listed · requests allowed
The name and purpose are discoverable. Content is member-only, and people may request entry.
Listed · invitation only
The name and purpose are discoverable. Content is member-only, with no application path.
Hidden · invitation only
Non-members cannot discover the Charter or read its agreement.
Declare the agreement and open the community together.
The declaration creates the Charter, its first Steward, its first versioned agreement, and its community in one step. Sovereignty means no central pre-approval; it does not override applicable law or published platform safety rules.