{
  "schema": "https://constitution-atoms.com/schemas/atom-v1.json",
  "type": "bylaw",
  "id": "amendment-procedure",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "name": "Amendment Procedure",
  "description": "Procedure for proposing, reviewing, approving, and recording amendments to any charter, bylaw, or governance document in the convergent-systems-co ecosystem.",
  "effective_date": "2026-01-01",
  "status": "ratified",
  "authority": "convergent-systems-co",
  "supersedes": null,
  "references": [
    "https://github.com/convergent-systems-co/aiConstitution"
  ],
  "tags": ["procedure", "amendment", "governance", "convergent-systems-co"],
  "bylaw_body": {
    "procedure_steps": [
      "File a GitHub issue or PR in the relevant repository describing the proposed change and its rationale. Breaking changes (rule removals or relaxations) must be tagged BREAKING.",
      "Allow a minimum 3-business-day review window from the time the proposal is published.",
      "The principal (Thomas Polliard) reviews the proposal and either approves, rejects with a stated reason, or requests revision.",
      "On approval, the change is committed. The version of the amended document is bumped (patch for clarifications, minor for new provisions, major for breaking changes).",
      "A dated changelog entry is added to the amended document recording what changed and why.",
      "If the change involves an override of a non-overridable rule, it is rejected outright — see Constitution.md §3.5.",
      "An override audit log entry is created at .ai/audit/overrides/<UTC>.md for any change that relaxes a rule, following the required schema in Constitution.md §5.1."
    ],
    "quorum_requirement": "Principal approval required. For AI-governance files (Constitution.md, Common.md, Code.md, Writing.md) the principal must provide an unambiguous explicit yes — not 'ok', not 'sure', not silence.",
    "voting_method": "Principal decision. The principal may delegate to a named ratifier for specific domains, documented in the amendment record.",
    "amendment_procedure": "This bylaw amends itself through the same procedure described herein, with the additional requirement that a change to the amendment procedure itself requires explicit acknowledgment of the recursive nature of the change."
  }
}