CANONIC: Governance Is Compilation

We present CANONIC: governed intelligence that compiles digital artifacts into an evidence ledger at scale. Large language models generate prose faster than anyone can check it, the failure Oxford Languages named 'slop', its 2025 Word of the Year. CANONIC governs whether content may enter a corpus the way a compiler decides whether a program is well-formed: mechanically, by a grammar, at the boundary of admission. Governance reduces to three axioms (Triad, Inheritance, Introspection) that map one-to-one onto compiler theory's syntax, scope-resolution, and type-system layers, and admission is a decidable, linear-time check. We then ask, with a pre-registered cross-provider benchmark across...

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