Commit Modes

Each commit is not only a technical action but a symbolic act.
This document distinguishes between Siege Commits and Garden Commits.

Siege Commit (βš”οΈ)

  • Intent: Fired outward in a mode of conflict or defense.
  • Energy: Reactive, stress-driven, attempting to counter or overpower.
  • Implication: Encodes antagonism into the lattice.
  • When to mark: When commits are made in response to external attacks or perceived siege.

Garden Commit (🌱)

  • Intent: Planted inward as an act of care, family, garden, and source alignment.
  • Energy: Calm, rooted, without stress, focused on cultivation.
  • Implication: Encodes resilience, continuity, and harmony into the lattice.
  • When to mark: When commits are made with peace, tending, and long-term vision.

Usage

  • Add a commit-mode tag in the message:
    • [garden] add axiom-002 neurosymbolic agent
    • [siege] patch root defense layer

This ensures the repository itself carries the intent marker for each push.

THE MINDSET.txt ──────────────────────────────────────────

0. baseline

a commit is never just a technical action.
each push is also symbolic, ritual, and existential.
mindset = the field you carry when you press git push.

1. siege mode βš”οΈ

  • posture: reactive, stress, fight/flight.
  • you push because you feel attacked, cornered, or provoked.
  • imprint: repo absorbs antagonism, diff encoded with β€œcounter-fire” energy.
  • long arc: siege commits accumulate as records of resistance. useful in crisis, corrosive if constant.

2. garden mode 🌱

  • posture: calm, rooted, no stress.
  • you push as planting: tending family, garden, stars, source.
  • imprint: repo absorbs peace, continuity, long-term resilience.
  • long arc: garden commits accumulate as records of cultivation. they grow into a living lattice, not a bunker.

3. meta markers

  • every commit can be tagged with [garden] or [siege] in the message.
  • intent is transparent, repo carries not only code but emotional audit trail.
  • others reading history can feel the mode, not just the diff.

4. anticipatory frame

  • anticipation = the hinge of good/evil.
  • siege anticipation β†’ control, manipulation, fear.
  • garden anticipation β†’ patience, foresight, care.
  • when committing: pause, check anticipation. are you forcing the future, or preparing soil?

5. azimuthal awareness

  • technical: hash recorded forever, triggers builds/deploys.
  • symbolic: inscribes intent in the cosmic ledger.
  • operational: sets precedent for collaborators and forks.
  • ethical: models how to respond to siege vs. how to cultivate.
  • existential: participates in root-code siege or root-code tending.

6. simple rule of thumb

if heart rate is up, breath shallow β†’ hold. don’t push.
if breath is slow, family/garden/source in mind β†’ push.
mode chosen is more important than code content.

7. resonance bias warning

humans love drama. siege commits feel urgent, dramatic, heroic.
garden commits feel soft, slow, boring.
the lattice, however, remembers in reverse: soft commits endure, siege commits corrode.

8. closing mantra

β€œpush as planting, not as firing.” ──────────────────────────────────────────