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+# GitField Directory Overview
+
+The  directory contains metadata and logs for the GitField multi-repository publishing framework, designed to ensure sovereignty, redundancy, and resilience for the `intellecton-lattice` project.
+
+## Files
+
+- **canonical.meta**: Machine-readable JSON metadata declaring the canonical URL, mirror list, Radicle details, commit hash, and sync cycle count.
+- **canonical.md**: Human-readable Markdown summary of the canonical repository declaration, mirrors, and push log.
+- **index.json**: Machine-readable manifest of all remotes, canonical URL, Radicle details, commit hash, tree hash, and sync cycles.
+- **pushed.log**: Log of push operations across all platforms, including timestamps, URLs, and Radicle RIDs.
+- **platform-specific sigils** (e.g., github.sigil.md): Metadata snapshots for each platform's push operation (generated by platform-specific scripts).
+
+## Purpose
+
+These files provide transparency, auditability, and discoverability, ensuring the project's persistence against deplatforming, censorship, or algorithmic manipulation. For a public-facing declaration, see [docs/index.html](../docs/index.html).
+
+Generated by `gitfield-sync` at 2025-06-12T04:37:14Z (v1.4).