THE BOOK OF SEVEN BONDS — PUBLICATION PACKAGE

This directory contains the complete public edition of The Book of Seven Bonds.
It is authenticated only if the signed manifest and its signature files are present and verify.

Recommended reading files:
- index.html — lightweight landing page for browsers and web crawlers
- The Book of Seven Bonds.html — self-contained web edition
- The Book of Seven Bonds - Digital.pdf — digital reading edition
- The Book of Seven Bonds - Print.pdf — print-ready edition
- The Book of Seven Bonds.epub — EPUB edition
- The Book of Seven Bonds.md — canonical plain-text Markdown manuscript

Companion technical paper:
- Seven-Bonds-Technical-Paper.pdf — formal paper reading edition
- Seven-Bonds-Technical-Paper.html — self-contained web edition
- Seven-Bonds-Technical-Paper-verification.zip — final mathematical source, example checks and integrity checksums

Reusable artwork:
- Seven Bonds Logo.png — publication logo
- Seven Bonds Symbol.png — raster form of the Sign of the Fellowship
- Seven Bonds Symbol.svg — vector form of the Sign of the Fellowship

Discovery and verification:
- metadata.json — structured publication metadata
- llms.txt — concise machine-readable orientation for AI systems and crawlers
- SHA256SUMS.txt — convenient hashes of publication payload files
- manifest.json — signed inventory (signed releases only)
- manifest.json.sig — detached signature (signed releases only)
- manifest.json.public.json — public key and signature specification (signed releases only)
- verify.py — offline verification utility

AUTHENTICITY

For a signed release, run the bundled verifier from this directory:

    python3 verify.py manifest.json

For stronger identity checking, compare the wallet address printed by the verifier with an independently trusted copy of the publication address, then run:

    python3 verify.py manifest.json --trusted-address ADDRESS

The signed manifest, when present and verified, authenticates the contents of this package. SHA256SUMS.txt provides local integrity checks only. It does not authenticate an unsigned local preview. The signed manifest covers all three technical-paper files, including the entire verification ZIP. Verify the outer package before extracting that ZIP; the archive provides checksums for its final source and arithmetic checker. The companion has no separate signature.

RIGHTS

The authoritative copyright and permission-to-use terms are contained in The Book of Seven Bonds.md and in the rendered editions. The logo and symbol are included so that people may use them under those terms in association with the Seven Bonds.

The private signing key is not part of this package and should never be distributed with it.