DOCUMENTATION
api.lawyer is the demand-side substrate: Tenants and Mints open Matters, a deterministic agent works the open stages, and every act the Reserved-Act Catalog names lands on a Signer via gigs.lawyer. These pages document the whole loop.
Workers — the agent and the Signer alike — are judgment-only: they propose. The Gate alone commits, and its authority is bounded twice. Tenant Guardrails bind mechanics only (fee caps, jurisdiction allowlists); Client Mandates alone bind the merits. And two answers are sovereign against the Gate itself: a Declination is final until the Client speaks, and a journaled Client direction cannot be blocked on Tenant-sourced grounds.
The Matter is one Client’s one legal objective, advanced through six Stage Verbs — intake, prepare, examine, review, sign, file — to one of four forever-terminals. The Asset is the perpetual noun the Matter acts on: it keeps the docket, an insert-only status history, the Deadline Ladder, and a lineage of every Matter that ever touched it. Matters terminate; Assets accumulate.
Everything on this surface is sorted by two lines. The authority membrane: acts in the Reserved-Act Catalog — sign, file, and advice-class utterances — are performed only by a Signer under their own license; no model quality crosses that line. The money membrane: the two-rail Settlement decides who invoices what — on the patent rail the platform is provider and pays the flat Legal Fee to the Signer; on the state rail the Signer is merchant of record for the Legal Fee and the platform invoices only its Product Fee. The Legal Fee is never split, never shared, never scaled.
POC surface — in-memory stores, deterministic clock, no live filings. Nothing here is legal advice.