DemarcheOS

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DemarcheOS is a sovereign-grade diplomatic process orchestration layer. It handles cross-jurisdictional relay, treaty lifecycle management, escalation routing, and multi-party ratification workflows across federated state endpoints.

Started this thing in 2021 as a weekend project. Now it runs in four ministries. C'est la vie.

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What's new in this patch

Sovereign Relay — now 47 integrations

We crossed 47 certified relay integrations this cycle. Full list in docs/integrations.md. The new ones are mostly Gulf Cooperation Council endpoints and two Baltic state nodes that Tomasz finally got credentialed. The Armenian relay is still broken — see DO-776, been open since March, nobody wants to touch it.

Previously: 43 integrations (v0.14.x)
Now:        47 integrations (v0.15.0)

New integrations this release:

• relay.gcc.bh — Bahrain GCC endpoint (bilateral only, no multicast yet)
• relay.gcc.qa — Qatar (works, barely, has rate limit issues on bulk dispatch)
• relay.lt.gov — Lithuania sovereign node
• relay.lv.gov — Latvia sovereign node (Tomasz, thank you)

Treaty Auto-Sync — now stable

After eight months in beta, treaty auto-sync is promoted to stable. This feature keeps treaty state synchronized across signatory relay nodes in near-real-time, using the ratification ledger as source of truth.

What this means:

• treaty_sync_enabled: true is now the default in demarche.config.yaml
• No more manually triggering demarche sync --force after a ratification event
• Conflict resolution follows the Lamport-clock merge strategy (see docs/treaty-sync.md#conflicts)

If you're upgrading from <0.14.0 you will need to run the migration:

demarche migrate --from 0.13 --treaty-ledger-rebuild
# takes about 4 minutes on a standard node, don't cancel it

Escalation Engine v3

The escalation engine has been rewritten. v2 had a fan-out bug on multi-party disputes that caused duplicate escalation notices — every user who reported this is correct and I'm sorry, I knew about it, DO-819, it's fixed now.

v3 changes:

• Fan-out is now deduplicated at the routing layer
• Priority tiers restructured: critical > sovereign > bilateral > advisory
• Escalation chains are now auditable — full trace in ~/.demarche/logs/escalation/
• Timeout behavior is configurable (default: 72h before auto-elevate)

Badge reflects v3 status as of this release.

# demarche.config.yaml
escalation:
  engine_version: 3
  auto_elevate_after_hours: 72
  audit_log: true

UN Charter Mode — ⚠️ Experimental, Under Active Review

Status: experimental — do not use in production ratification workflows

UN Charter Mode enables DemarcheOS to interpret and route process flows against UN Charter articles as structural constraints. Article-gated actions, Chapter VII escalation triggers, and veto-path modeling.

This is being reviewed by the legal working group — Fatima and her team are going through it. There's a compliance question around Art. 51 self-defense triggers that we haven't resolved. Do not ship anything that depends on this until DO-903 is closed.

To enable (development/testing only):

demarche start --enable-experimental un_charter_mode

Tracked under docs/un-charter.md — that doc is a draft, Fatima is editing it.

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Installation

# requires Go 1.22+
git clone https://github.com/demarche-os/demarche-os.git
cd demarche-os
make build
./bin/demarche init

Or via the release archive:

curl -fsSL https://releases.demarche-os.internal/install.sh | bash
# yes the install script is fine. no it's not curl-piping into danger. we sign the releases.

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Quick Start

# demarche.config.yaml
node_id: "your-node-id"
relay:
  endpoints:
    - uri: "relay.your-jurisdiction.gov"
      auth_mode: "mtls"
  integrations: 47   # update this if you add customs
treaty:
  auto_sync: true    # stable now, leave it on
escalation:
  engine_version: 3

demarche start
demarche status
demarche relay list

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Documentation

Section	Status
Sovereign Relay	✅ Current
Treaty Auto-Sync	✅ Stable
Escalation Engine v3	✅ Current
UN Charter Mode	⚠️ Draft / Under Review
API Reference	✅ Current
Migration Guide	✅ Current

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Known Issues

• Armenian relay (relay.am.gov) — broken, DO-776, nobody knows why, Tomasz is looking at it when he has time
• Qatar GCC endpoint rate limits — DO-891 — workaround: set dispatch_mode: "throttled" in relay config
• UN Charter Mode Art. 51 mapping — DO-903 — do not use in prod

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Contributing

Open an issue before you open a PR. I've had three PRs this month that did the same thing.

make test        # please run this
make lint        # and this

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License

BSL 1.1 — see LICENSE. Commercial use requires a relay operator agreement. Contact us.