---
title: "Protocols"
description: "All worked-out protocols in the architecture, grouped by area"
url: "/protocols/"
tags: [protocol]
readingPathPosition: 39
---

# Protocols

A protocol is a freely adopted agreement about how to be in relationship — how to make decisions together, share resources, hold conflict, and learn. Each protocol below carries all [three layers](/every-protocol-has-three-inseparable-layers.md) – accord, ritual, and critique & contemplation.

## [Collective decision-making](/collective-decision-making.md)

1. [Consent-as-default](/consent-as-default.md).
2. [Mandate clarity](/mandate-clarity.md).
3. [Open decision records](/open-decision-records.md).
4. [Tending shared roles](/tending-shared-roles.md).
5. [Weaving between circles](/weaving-between-circles.md).

## [Conflict engagement](/conflict-engagement.md)

6. [Conflict-as-information](/conflict-as-information.md).
7. [Staged support](/staged-support.md).
8. [Boundary-tending](/boundary-tending.md).

## In this vault

- Previous: [Connection and community](/connection-and-community.md)
- Referenced by: [Design for scale](/design-for-scale.md), [Living systems become protocol areas](/living-systems-become-protocol-areas.md)