One record. Different readers. Shared meaning.
The name comes from two codes that carry meaning across a discontinuity.
The Stone
In 196 BC an agreement was carved once, in three scripts, so that different kinds of readers could all verify the same content. Centuries later, when one of those scripts could no longer be read, the shared record was what let its meaning be recovered. The Stone translated between languages people already shared. This protocol goes further: the same structured record is written by one maker's model and read by another's — portable across model families that never shared a language. You can watch that handoff happen in the live case.
The older code
Life solved the same design problem first. DNA is a record that is added to rather than overwritten, copied forward with the original preserved, and readable by any carrier that conforms to the code. Those properties — append-only accumulation, faithful replication, substrate-independent readability — are the design influences behind this stack, stated here at the level of inspiration and outcome. How they are achieved is the mechanism, and the mechanism is filed.
Two codes, one idea: a record that different readers can verify, that cannot be quietly rewritten, and that outlives whatever is carrying it. That is the name — and the product requirement.
The Stone itself was a governance record: a decree about who may do what, made permanent. For the mechanism behind the behaviors on this site, request technical diligence.