Default
Ontology 2.4
Inter, IBM Plex Mono, deterministic SVG icons, paper, carbon, semantic green, square geometry.
Canonical personal standard
Make the
work legible.
A durable system for turning thought, evidence, and action into one coherent artifact—on screen, on paper, and in motion.
- Status
- Current · v2.4.0
- Scope
- Clark’s personal work
- Signal
- #00C38B · semantic only
- Identity
- Clark Valberg · BS"D
00 / Governing principles
Structure does the expressive work.
The system is severe about hierarchy and generous about space. Typography carries importance; rules reveal relationships; green identifies the one thing whose state matters.
- 01
Answer first
Lead with the governing sentence. Context follows only when it sharpens the decision.
- 02
Contrast has meaning
Paper supports reading. Carbon contains systems, thresholds, media, and decisive conclusions.
- 03
Show the operating model
Use diagrams, ledgers, and sequences when they teach a relationship.
- 04
The still must work
Every first viewport, video frame, and component state must make sense before motion begins.
- 05
One signal at a time
Green means current, active, terminal, verified, live, or unlocked. It is never decoration.
Canonical authority
One system, one source, one release.
Ontology 2.4 is the default for Clark’s personal products and artifacts. Historical systems remain in Git; Literary and Working Paper are bounded profiles, never alternate defaults.
Bounded profiles
Literary + Working Paper
Literary serves sustained reading. Working Paper serves quiet alignment notes and provisional documents.
Studio boundary
Transformative remains separate
The operating grammar is credited; Transformative’s identity and wordmark do not transfer.
Enforcement
Machine-readable canon
Tokens, schema, CLI, skill, CI, and MCP resolve to the same versioned contract.
One artifact, end to end
Canonical production sequenceThe same model governs what is said, shown, shipped, and remembered.
A design system is the chain of decisions that keeps an artifact coherent from first claim through release.
Name the answer
State the governing idea before selecting a format.
Build the argument
Separate observation, implication, proof, and next move.
Choose the field
Use text, diagram, ledger, paper, or motion according to the job.
Inspect the artifact
Test the first view, smallest view, still frame, and interaction path.
Preserve the proof
Ship the exact reviewed artifact with its source and status intact.
System map
Four layers, thirteen pages.
Foundations establish constraints. Components and patterns encode behavior. Applications prove the system under real pressure. Reference surfaces make the standard executable.
Provenance: Ontology 2.4 extends the operating grammar of Transformative Ontology and refinements proven in Transformative briefings and films. Ontology is Clark Valberg’s personal standard; the two identities remain separate.