Licence

This pack

Everything in this brief pack — the nine numbered documents, teams__roster.json, 09__source-manifest.csv, this file and README.md — is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).

Attribution: Dinis Cruz, with AI co-authorship (Claude, Anthropic).

The site this pack commissions

All of it — role definitions, the comms protocol, the roster data, the evolution history — is CC BY 4.0. This is the least legally exposed site in the network: the corpus is the founder's own work in his own repos, with no third-party text to reproduce, no findings about a live system, and no personal data.

The site exists to be copied. CC BY 4.0 permits taking these role files, renaming them, and shipping your own team, commercially included, with attribution retained. /setup/ should say that in plain words, and the published ROLE.md files should carry the attribution line inside them so it survives being pasted into someone else's repo — which is how they will travel.

What CC BY does not cover

Pioneers–Settlers–Town Planners is Simon Wardley's model, published by him under CC BY-SA. Name it, credit him, link to his material and to wardley-maps.sgit.ai. The estate's contribution is the staffing of PST as three agent teams, which is original; the model is not. Do not reproduce his diagrams — redraw them. Same rule for Team Topologies and Cynefin where referenced.

The rules that outrank the licence

Scrub before publishing. No vault keys, share tokens, access tokens or API keys — grep as a CI build step, not a review step. The 8 April 2026 commit that added this prohibition to three roles exists because the risk is live. Internal hostnames, bucket names, account IDs and ARNs become placeholders.
Never publish a role definition that does not exist on disk. Four Explorer directories and Town Planner's librarian have none; they ship as gaps. An invented role definition would make every real one unverifiable.
Never smooth the history. The commit that says ten roles while eleven landed, the format regression, the undocumented Explorer→Villager trigger — all published as they are. A memory site that edits its own past teaches agents to do the same.

source: /briefs/README.md