Each pack answers a distinct phase question in the care cycle. Packs 1-5 measure how care is practised. Pack 6 measures the boundary condition that keeps that care local, plural, and endable. To preserve the public promise of one headline public measure per pack, each pack has one headline public measure plus supporting diagnostics.
These metrics are designed for sufficiency, not maximisation. Each deployment context defines a threshold — "good enough" for that community. Crossing the threshold is the goal; score-chasing beyond it risks the same metric gaming the 6-Pack warns against. A headline measure is a public test, not a totalising score.
Headline public measures
| Pack | Phase question | Headline public measure | What it answers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 — Attentiveness | Did we look at the right things? | Representation gap | Which materially affected groups are still missing or badly under-represented in the record? |
| 2 — Responsibility | Did we make the right promises in an enforceable form? | Promise fidelity | What share of material obligations are explicitly owned, properly authorised, and kept on their published terms? |
| 3 — Competence | Did we execute correctly? | Verified execution rate | What share of audited decisions or releases pass guardrails, include a usable trace, and stay inside release bounds? |
| 4 — Responsiveness | Did the care land well, and did repair restore standing? | Trust-under-loss | After a bad outcome and attempted repair, do affected people report that the system became more trustworthy rather than less? |
| 5 — Solidarity | Is the ecosystem structurally fair? | Bridge index | Are shared decisions showing real cross-group participation and co-endorsement, rather than separate silos? |
| 6 — Symbiosis | Can the system stay bounded and still hand off or stop? | Exit readiness | Could this system hand over or shut down on schedule without rights loss, continuity failure, or recentralisation? |
Supporting diagnostics
- Pack 1 — Attentiveness. Coverage of affected people; voice equity between least-heard and most-heard groups. Evidence artefact: the bridging map.
- Pack 2 — Responsibility. Named-owner coverage; authority-match rate; adopt-or-explain rate.
- Pack 3 — Competence. Guardrail integrity; trace completeness; canary health; audit overturn rate.
- Pack 4 — Responsiveness. Appeal closure time; repair completion rate; harm recurrence within 90 days.
- Pack 5 — Solidarity. Portability success rate; accountable-identity coverage; federation participation.
- Pack 6 — Symbiosis. Scope compliance; sunset compliance; ecology diversity; handover rehearsal pass rate.
Named instruments
The book's Parts List catalogues every instrument a practitioner is asked to build or run. The ones the measures above depend on:
- Engagement contract (Pack 2) — a short, legible public document for every significant Kami deployment, recording what the system is supposed to do, who is answerable for it doing that, what happens when it goes wrong, and how the deployment will eventually end.
- Adopt-or-explain (Pack 2) — the rule that when an Alignment Assembly produces a recommendation, the team either integrates it into the system's behaviour or publishes a reasoned explanation of why not, with the remedy offered instead.
- Obligation ledger (Pack 2) — a public, weekly, digitally signed record of what the deployment has committed to deliver and whether it is meeting those commitments, kept by a named Participation Officer.
- Civic Care Licence (Pack 6) — a public, machine-readable rulebook encoding a deployment's purpose bounds, consent rules, data-retention limits, portability guarantees, and shutdown procedures, the machine-enforceable expression of the engagement contract.
- Shadow mode (Pack 3) — the first stage of the Apprentice Model: the system sees real inputs and proposes real actions but does not act, its proposals compared against the human or prior system so divergences can be studied before trust is granted.
- Canary release (Pack 3) — the second stage: deployment to a small, stratified, representative slice of real cases with automatic rollback triggers if drift exceeds defined bounds.
- Decision trace (Pack 3) — the per-action record showing which rule fired, which sources were consulted, and what uncertainty the system carried, the operational counterpart that makes the engagement contract live rather than merely written.
- Civic receipt (Pack 6) — the same decision trace, when a Kami draws on a community's knowledge, designed to double as a verifiable receipt that settles value back to the custodians through pre-funded escrow; a design commitment, not yet a running settlement.
- The brake (circuit breaker) (Packs 3-4) — a single, prominent, wired-and-tested control that stops the system now, accessible at the speed of human recognition, so a person can halt a wrong action in the moment rather than only signalling for later.
- Override ledger (Pack 4) — a room's plain-text working memory recording every time a human said "no" to the Kami — evidence that its governance charter is live and the room still holds standing to correct it.
What each measure refuses to reward
Each headline measure names not only what it rewards but what it must refuse, so that a good number cannot be mistaken for good care.
- Representation gap (Pack 1). Counts only when the least-heard groups gain real standing in the record, never when a gap narrows by averaging dissenters into the middle.
- Promise fidelity (Pack 2). Rewards promises that are owned and honoured, never promises that are merely well-worded, so a high score requires authority and funding that match the duty rather than language that gestures at it.
- Verified execution rate (Pack 3). Rises only when traces are reconstructable by an independent auditor and canaries are genuinely representative, never when the system passes on easy cases and calls the ceremony proof.
- Trust-under-loss (Pack 4). Counts only when tied to accountable identity and corroborated by an independent signal — a return to the service, a withdrawn appeal, a third party who can attest — never a sentiment a campaign can manufacture, since self-reported trust after a repair can be astroturfed by the very actor who caused the harm.
- Bridge index (Pack 5). Rewards groups that listen across lines, never groups that fall silent, and must be read alongside a floor that protects standing opposition, so it does not pathologise legitimate, sustained disagreement by treating a persistent minority as a failure to engineer away.
- Exit readiness (Pack 6). Counts only when a system can hand off or shut down on schedule without rights loss, continuity failure, or recentralisation, never when exit exists only on paper.
How to read them
- Trust is decomposed, not collapsed. Pack 1 asks whether people were heard. Pack 2 asks whether promises were real. Pack 3 asks whether delivery held up under inspection. Pack 4 asks whether repair worked after harm. Pack 5 asks whether groups can act together fairly. Pack 6 asks whether stewardship can remain bounded over time.
- Artefacts are not metrics. Bridging maps, engagement contracts, repair logs, and exit drills are governance evidence. They matter because they support the headline measures; they are not scores by themselves.
- Training signals are not the public audit. Cross-group endorsement may inform model tuning or routing, but its public, conference-facing role in this framework is the Pack 5 bridge index. Pack 4 owns whether affected people could correct the system and whether repair restored trust.