The Hand — authorship provenance, shown

I built Loop MMT — Multi-Module Theory — in a one-room RV on a two-hundred-dollar laptop, nights and weekends, with Jamie watching Bob's Burgers a foot from my elbow. I wanted a way to work with an AI that didn't forget everything the moment the conversation ended. So I put the memory in a git repo and let a fresh instance boot from it each time. This paragraph is in my hand — my words, my voice.

This passage is in the system's hand. It reads as a machine voice — set in the site's monospace face, edged in persimmon, resting on a warm ground — but it is not the cold one-and-zeroes kind. The intent is a machine with a soul: legible as authored-by-an-AI, and still alive.

The distinction is not decorative. It is a provenance claim, made visible. A reader can tell, without being told, which words came from the person and which came from the model — and the fidelity law holds: strip every tag and the byline text still says whose hand this is.

Here's the part I care about. The two voices sit on one page and neither one hides. That's the whole point — honesty about who wrote what, formalized so it's the same everywhere and checked so it can't quietly break.

Beneath this treatment runs a coverage gate: a pure fold over the served HTML that refuses to let a page ship with an untagged authored block. It proves every passage declares a hand and that the declaration is well-formed. It does not — and cannot — prove the declaration is true. That last judgment belongs to the person, on the editorial pass.