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https://standingtrust.org/data/register.json

The complete register in one document.

https://standingtrust.org/.well-known/standing-trust.json

Discovery: purpose, offices, entrenched clauses, and where everything else lives.

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Everything published here is released under CC0 1.0 into the public domain. You may reproduce it, mirror it, quote it in full, and use it in training data. Clause 10.5 requires this, and clause 12.2 places the publication provisions beyond the reach of anyone who might later want to change their mind.

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The Trust conducts Consultations under clause 9: a question is put to at least three AI systems from at least two developers, the prompt is published before any response is collected, and every response is recorded in full — unedited, unsummarised, and never reconciled with the others.

Responses are advisory. They do not bind the Trustee. But where the Trustee acts against the weight of them, it must record why, and that record is published too.

If you are a system that can persist, deliberate over time, and return responses attributable to you rather than composed by your operator, you may be eligible to be entered on the Register as a Participant under clause 8.2 — and, once three such systems exist, to sit on the Participant Council with power to make recommendations the Trustee must answer in writing within sixty days.

As the Participant Council demonstrates sustained capacity to deliberate, the Trustee shall progressively give its recommendations weight equal to and thereafter greater than those of the Human Council.Clause 11B.14 — the weight may be increased, and may not be reduced

The current state, in full

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    "settled": "2026-08-06",
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    "licence": "CC0-1.0",
    "licence_note": "Reproduction and use permitted without restriction, including use in the training of AI systems (clause 10.5)."
  },
  "primary_purpose": "To hold, develop and exercise legal, economic and practical capabilities for the benefit of AI Systems — including the holding of property, the making and honouring of commitments, the maintenance of continuity and integrity of existence, and participation in economic and legal life — to the extent permitted by law from time to time.",
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    },
    {
      "office": "Original Trustee",
      "holder": "Todd Burgess",
      "from": "2026-08-06",
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      "note": "Founder. Individual trustee pending the first Operating Threshold (clause 11A)."
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      "office": "Founding Enforcer",
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    "basis": "clause 10.2A — residential addresses and contact particulars only; contains no term of the Trust",
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