OpenYield

OpenYield is a jurisdiction-light, public-good mesh for real production — a protocol organized around Holders, Stands, and the Six Principles, designed to hold real value without the words or the shapes that invite capture. The mesh runs on OY Chain (Layer 1), a canonical state layer for the Bread unit, the Storage Pools (Stash, Vault, Root-Pool), Standing, Watcher attestations, and the Pact / Council / Partner surface. It is anti-greed by construction: Mission Lock fixes the Six Principles and fee covenant so no council can amend them, and the 8% coupon cap on bonds is a mission-locked ceiling, not a parameter.

The Six Principles

1. Real value — the mesh holds real production, not speculation.
2. Sustainability — fees are floored and capped; the protocol cannot drain its users.
3. Mission-lock — the Six Principles and fee covenant are immutable; no council can amend them.
4. Openness — anyone may join; the mesh is a public good.
5. Ownership — Holders own their Stash and their Reach; custody is theirs.
6. Self-service — a Holder can act without a custodian; the mesh is jurisdiction-light.

Bread unit & scale

The unit of value is Bread, scaled in 11 tiers: Grain → Crumb → Bread → Loaf → Batch → Cake → Bakery → Granary → Mill → Harvest → Earth.

Status

v0.6 (Nomad Web UI) — in progress. v0.5 shipped the Bearers Runtime (simtest-grade keeper handlers for 8 x/ modules). v0.6 adds the project's first UI: a Go html/template + HTMX prototype Web UI in web/ where a visitor can sign up to be a Nomad (create a Reach + open a Stash) and exercise basic functionality around Reach, Stash, Window, Standing, and Bloom. All data is generated test fixtures — no real chain. See .ciagent/oy/ROADMAP.md for the phase plan and .ciagent/oy/PROJECT.md for governance.

Build & test

OpenYield is pure Go with zero external dependencies (go.mod has no require lines; go 1.22). From the repo root:

go build ./...
go test ./...

Web UI

The Nomad Web UI (v0.6) is a Go html/template server with HTMX progressive enhancement, served by a mock HTTP server in web/ that instantiates the real x/*/types structs from in-memory fixtures. No node, no build step, no real chain. To run it:

go run ./web
# opens on http://localhost:8080 (PORT env var overridable)

Five screens, all reachable from the home nav:

• /reach — create a Reach (sign up to be a Nomad) + Reach list/detail
• /stash/{holderID} — Stash dashboard (Grain balance + Bread scale + 90-day maturity)
• /window — Window authorization (open/lifecycle/audit log)
• /standing/{reachID} — Standing + Freeholder signals progress
• /bloom/{stashID} — Bloom accrual view

HTMX is a single vendored JS file (web/static/htmx.min.js), NOT a Go dependency — go.mod stays unchanged (G-006).

Docs

The docs site is MkDocs Material (a build-only Python dep; not a Go dep — go.mod is unchanged). To preview locally:

mkdocs serve
# or build to a static site/ dir:
mkdocs build

The site lives under docs/ (see mkdocs.yml for the nav). Publishing CI is deferred to v0.4 (D-046); v0.3 ships the source.

Lexicon firewall

OpenYield bans 10 financial terms as standalone words (REQ-012) across all Go source (x/**/*.go), all docs (README.md + docs/**/*.md), and all web UI files (web/**/*.{html,js,go}). The banned terms are the words you would expect a legacy financial institution to use; this README and the docs describe them only by their safe replacements, so the firewall itself never trips. The firewall is enforced in code by three sibling Go tests:

• lexicon_meta_test.go (v0.2) — scans x/**/*.go.
• lexicon_meta_docs/lexicon_meta_docs_test.go (v0.3) — scans README.md + docs/**/*.md.
• lexicon_meta_web/lexicon_meta_web_test.go (v0.6) — scans web/templates/** + web/static/** + web/**/*.go.

All three use lexicon.FindBannedTerm (word-boundary, case-insensitive), so "OpenYield" is safe (word-boundary does not match the banned term inside an identifier) but the standalone banned term is not — docs say "real production" / "real return", and a Holder's identity is Holder / Reach, never the banned word for a custodial position. See docs/shared/lexicon.md for the glossary of safe replacements.

Governance

• .ciagent/oy/PROJECT.md — full vision, decisions (D-0xx), assumptions.
• .ciagent/oy/PLANS.md — phase plans (v0.1, v0.2, v0.3).
• .ciagent/oy/REQUIREMENTS.md — REQ coverage matrix.
• .ciagent/oy/ROADMAP.md — release roadmap.