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Five Surfaces

Five Surfaces — Mobius Federation Topology

Cycle: C-363 · Status: Canonical reference

Mobius is not a single application. It is five cooperating surfaces. When documentation refers to “layers” or “repos,” prefer this list to avoid drift.

The five surfaces

# Surface Role Canonical home
1 Mobius Substrate Constitutional docs, cycles, sentinels, integrity math, federation policy This repository
2 Mobius Civic AI Terminal Live pulse — GI, vault seals, sentinel journal, tripwires, EPICON ingest mobius-civic-ai-terminal
3 Mobius Browser Shell Public onboarding — School of Chambers, learn/play/explore mobius-browser-shell
4 Civic Protocol Core (CPC) Protocol rails — identity, ledger, MIC wallet, attestations Civic-Protocol-Core
5 HIVE Playable civic world — quests, signals, community simulation Browser Shell + world APIs

How they relate

Browser Shell (onboard) ──► Terminal (pulse) ──► CPC (attest)
        │                         │
        └──── HIVE (world) ◄──────┘
Substrate (constitution, cycles, definitions)
  • Substrate does not replace runtime services — it defines how they must behave.
  • Terminal is the live integrity console; do not confuse it with the Shell hallway.
  • CPC is the write path for immutable attestations; Shell and Terminal call it, they do not duplicate it.
  • HIVE is the experiential world layer; canon names stay HIVE, public UI may say World.

Deprecated framings

Replace older copy that says:

  • “four repositories” → five surfaces (above)
  • “four layers of sovereignty” (whitepaper sense) → keep in research papers; for product docs use five surfaces
  • “Mobius Systems” (legal legacy) → Mobius Substrate or Mobius as appropriate

"We heal as we walk."