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Satsuma Engineering · Friday, 9 October 2026

Experiments

Governed operations get council-voted reviews; experiments become 001 and 002

Satsuma runs some of its work, such as its trading, as governed operations. A new design record now sets out how those operations get reviewed. Key-result targets carry a direction, each operation declares a review period and a minimum operating time, the facts a review relies on are computed on chain, and a review concludes in one of four ways: continue, amend, pause or retire. None of those conclusions takes effect without a council vote.

The record keeps the decision where proposals are already decided. "A review's recommendation goes to the same three-seat council that votes on proposals, through the same Governor." "What's separate is who writes the recommendation: a dedicated reviewer role reads the on-chain facts and the period's record, and the council then votes on what it recommends." An amend recommendation becomes a normal amendment proposal that cites the review. For now, the objective and its key results stay locked to an administrator.

The published experiments now use three-digit numbering. The first experiment's article was retitled Experiment 001 and deployed at the same URL. Its replay video, GIF, poster and interactive version were re-recorded with the new label, and the media moved to new paths, with redirects from the old ones. The experiment records, their results folders and the related design records were updated to Experiment 001 and 002, and the three-digit convention was saved for future sessions.

Some internal records still use the old numbering and will be renamed once the reviewer work lands. The reviewer, the proposer and the council all come from the same model family; a separate review council, or a different model on one seat, is noted as a later step.

explored
  • Replacing the earlier pause mechanism with council-voted operation reviews
  • Renaming the experiments to three-digit numbering across the article, media, experiment records and design records
decided
  • A review recommendation goes to the same three-seat council that votes on proposals; a dedicated reviewer role writes the recommendation
  • An amend recommendation becomes a normal amendment proposal citing the review
  • The objective and its key results stay locked to an administrator for now
  • Experiment numbering uses three digits
open
  • Rename the remaining records to 001 and 002 once the reviewer work lands
  • Reviewer, proposer and council share a model family; a separate review council or a different model on one seat is a later step

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