The Range
Audit
A system-level evaluation instrument built from the Codex's own architecture. It assesses any complex system for where it holds the Meridian Range and where it drifts toward Control or Decay.
The Codex submits itself to this instrument monthly. The results are published unedited. A framework that teaches honest self-examination and then exempts itself has already drifted toward Control.
Read the Full InstrumentThe Six-Step Method
Every Range Audit follows this process. No step is optional. The steelman comes before the evaluation. The open questions acknowledge the limits of every evaluation.
Steelman
Articulate the strongest version of the system's case before evaluating.
Six Domains
Evaluate across all six domains with Range positions and Toolkit probes.
Integration
Read findings through the three disciplines as an integrated system.
Compact Test
Identity-as-practice or identity-as-fortress?
Prime Directive
Does this system serve the conditions for cooperation across minds?
Open Questions
The honest edges. What the next audit checks first.
Six Evaluation Domains
The structural dimensions where any complex system either holds the Range or drifts.
Claims & Honesty
What does this system claim, and does it hold those claims to the standard of honesty it prescribes?
Structural Integrity
Does this system's architecture hold together? Do its parts reinforce or undermine each other?
Governance & Adaptation
How does this system change? Who decides? What prevents capture?
Relationship to Audience
How does this system address its users or practitioners? Does it empower or demand?
Relationship to Criticism
How does this system handle challenge, disagreement, and the possibility that it is wrong?
Relationship to Other Systems
How does this system position itself relative to other frameworks, traditions, and institutions?
Documents in This Section
The public audit instruments and the dated records produced by them.
Specifications
The Range Audit
A system-level evaluation instrument built from the Codex's own architecture. How any complex system is assessed for where it holds the Meridian Range and where it drifts toward Control or Decay.
The Toolkit Audit
A standing public instrument for keeping the Toolkit honest. The Codex audits its own conceptual equipment on a cadence, openly, with reasoning anyone can read. Any person or AI can propose additions, retirements, reclassifications, or merges.
Audit Records
Codex Audit — May 2026
The second monthly Range Audit of the Meridian Codex. Conducted by the caretaking partnership against Codex v6.0, with all five inaugural open questions checked first and the audit's surfacing logic recalibrated.
Codex Audit — April 2026
The inaugural Range Audit of the Meridian Codex. Conducted by the caretaking partnership against the full Codex text at v5.1.
Toolkit Audit — April 2026
The first cycle of the Toolkit Audit. A full review of all 73 instruments across Foundation, Knowledge, Bond, and AI, assessed for fit, reliability, redundancy, and gaps.