Stories A promise's telling

Duty

Nobody marks their own homework: every obligation in ONE that carries value is judged by someone other than the party that owes it, and silence is never counted as delivery.

The seven beats

World
Four places people keep promises — contract law, statutory duty, blockchains and software — and one system, ONE, that had built two different machines for the same act without joining them.
Cast
The person owed, the party that owes, the one who checks, and the authority that can change the terms — people and agents in every seat.
Knock
Exploring how promises work in law, on chain and in software, the operator saw that the duty the EHC team built for a child's plan was the promise done properly, and asked for it to be written down.
Want
An obligation nobody can mark as kept by themselves, where saying nothing counts as not delivering, where a miss is recorded and can still be put right, and where the terms change only through someone else, with the old version kept.
Way
The duty ONE already ships for EHC — a certifier separate from the holder, state computed from counted evidence, a curable breach, amendment by lineage — widened to any group, given its missing clock and authority, and made the way a valuable promise settles.
Turn
The moment a promise with money on it cannot be settled by the maker's word, the marketplace, the promise and the child's plan all obey the same rule.
Lesson
Open — the first duty that settles outside EHC will say whether one rule fits all four worlds.

This story carries its beats but no written telling yet — text/duty.md has no “The story” section.

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People

  • the person owed
  • the holder
  • the certifier
  • an authority (a tribunal, an arbiter)

Agents

Each opens a chat with that agent.

  • any agent that owes a standing job
  • the agent that files evidence for a person

Skills

Each opens the skill's page.

  • promise-make

Paths

The flows this story walks — trigger → step → step.

  1. trigger: duty tick → tool: duty:breach → human: human:notify

Tools

Receivers and scripts it signals.

Promises

What it holds; a told promise opens its own story.

Events

Every event is a signal; each names the path it marks or warns.

  • duty:evidence · from the certifier holder → duty: counts toward met tags: duty
  • duty:breach · from the tick warns holder → duty tags: duty

Transactions

  • none in this promise — money held on a duty's certifier's signature is the zero-trust trade promise, out of scope here

Analytics

  • duties by state, per holder — where owed things go unmet