# Programs

## Purpose

Programs have sponsors, objectives, operations, and traces. Documented operations and later mythic expansions use different evidence layers. This chapter is an index and a method: it shows how to explore the subject without collapsing documented history, current research, reported experience, fiction, community belief, and Oracle synthesis into one truth claim.

## Reading Method

1. **Locate the Tile.** Read its Primary Class to learn what kind of thing it is, then its Inquiry Domains to learn which questions it can illuminate.
2. **Name the material mode.** A science-fiction, mythology, political-mythology, experiential-report, or established-science label identifies context; it is not a score of spiritual or personal importance.
3. **Read claims layer by layer.** Begin with the literal-and-empirical layer, then the cultural-and-historical layer, and only then the symbolic-and-divinatory layer. An evidence state applies to one bounded claim, not to the Tile as a whole.
4. **Open the sources.** A concept-specific citation can support a history or bounded claim. A class-level contextual citation only locates the Tile in a wider field. Neither one certifies every interpretation.
5. **Follow typed edges.** Compare the exact verb and rationale. “Fictionalizes,” “opposes,” “echoes,” and “investigated-by” are not interchangeable. A resemblance edge is not proof of historical influence.
6. **Integrate through action.** Use Gift, Shadow, Threshold, and the integration practice to identify one grounded choice that remains useful even if a favored ontology is wrong.

## Worked Comparison

1. **Disclosure Program** is a Programs & Operations Tile centered on Contact & Communication. Its literal layer is **unverified**; its symbolic question is: “Where is hidden knowledge crossing into public consequence placed within contact & communication shaping the situation, and what would make the response more accountable? Answer by testing how hidden knowledge crossing into public consequence placed within contact & communication sequences resources, secrecy, roles, and milestones toward an objective against signal, translation, reciprocity, consent, and the repair of misunderstanding.”
2. **Gradual Disclosure** is a Programs & Operations Tile centered on Contact & Communication. Its literal layer is **unverified**; its symbolic question is: “What evidence, relationship, or material condition would distinguish insight from projection here? Answer by testing how the gradual motif meeting hidden knowledge crossing into public consequence sequences resources, secrecy, roles, and milestones toward an objective against signal, translation, reciprocity, consent, and the repair of misunderstanding.”
3. **Controlled Disclosure** is a Programs & Operations Tile centered on Contact & Communication. Its literal layer is **unverified**; its symbolic question is: “What is the smallest reversible action that could clarify the controlled motif meeting hidden knowledge crossing into public consequence? Answer by testing how the controlled motif meeting hidden knowledge crossing into public consequence sequences resources, secrecy, roles, and milestones toward an objective against signal, translation, reciprocity, consent, and the repair of misunderstanding.”

Compare these examples by asking what changes when the class, evidence state, or edge verb changes. Do not treat the most vivid Tile as the most factual. When a reading crosses into health, identity, conspiracy, or current politics, show the card’s safety flags and preserve an alternate explanation.

## System Links

- [How to Use](HOW-TO-USE.md) for reference, reading, and game workflows.
- [Graph](GRAPH.md) for edge semantics and provenance.
- [Divination](DIVINATION.md) for reflective reading rules.
- [Glossary](GLOSSARY.md) for Classes, Domains, Modes, and Evidence States.
- [Source Registry](../research/SOURCE-REGISTRY.md) for source tiers, scope, and rights.

## Canonical Tiles

- [Disclosure Program](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-disclosure-program.md) — hidden knowledge crossing into public consequence placed within contact & communication gives Disclosure Program its distinctive charge. Read it through signal, translation, reciprocity, consent, and the repair of misunderstanding, with dated claims, witness context, documents, counterevidence, and media mutation kept visible.
- [Gradual Disclosure](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-gradual-disclosure.md) — The working core of Gradual Disclosure is the gradual motif meeting hidden knowledge crossing into public consequence: a pattern that can reorganize attention, relation, and action. secrecy and repetition do not independently prove extraordinary causation.
- [Controlled Disclosure](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-controlled-disclosure.md) — the controlled motif meeting hidden knowledge crossing into public consequence gives Controlled Disclosure its distinctive charge. Read it through signal, translation, reciprocity, consent, and the repair of misunderstanding, with dated claims, witness context, documents, counterevidence, and media mutation kept visible.
- [Catastrophic Disclosure](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-catastrophic-disclosure.md) — Seen closely, Catastrophic Disclosure is about the catastrophic motif meeting hidden knowledge crossing into public consequence under conditions of signal, translation, reciprocity, consent, and the repair of misunderstanding. That frame makes its gift, shadow, and limits readable together.
- [False Disclosure](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-false-disclosure.md) — What makes False Disclosure consequential is the meeting of the false motif meeting hidden knowledge crossing into public consequence with signal, translation, reciprocity, consent, and the repair of misunderstanding. The card preserves that meeting without universalizing it.
- [Soft Disclosure](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-soft-disclosure.md) — The idea that fiction acclimatizes culture to realities it cannot yet face directly.
- [Secret Space Program](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-secret-space-program.md) — A modern lore complex describing hidden off-world fleets, bases, treaties, labor, and technology.
- [20 and Back](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-20-and-back.md) — At the center of 20 and Back is the 20 motif meeting the back motif. The card treats that tension as a deliberate mission, project, protocol, or coordinated operation, bounded by the synthesis must never masquerade as inherited doctrine or discovered fact.
- [Montauk Project](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-montauk-project.md) — A secret-laboratory mythology joining trauma, psychic amplification, time travel, and Camp Hero.
- [Philadelphia Experiment](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-philadelphia-experiment.md) — A legend of naval invisibility, teleportation, and bodies fused with a machine.
- [MKULTRA](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-mkultra.md) — A documented CIA behavioral-research program surrounded by later expanded mind-control mythologies.
- [Project Stargate](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-project-stargate.md) — an addressable passage between worlds placed within technology & infrastructure gives Project Stargate its distinctive charge. Read it through mechanism, dependency, maintenance, access, failure, and the labor beneath capability, with institutions, material interests, rhetoric, and affected communities kept visible.
- [Operation Highjump](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-operation-highjump.md) — Operation Highjump names a threshold where the operation motif meeting the highjump motif changes what participants can notice or do. The card keeps a political story that organizes identity and threat distinct from symbolic use.
- [Project Blue Beam](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-project-blue-beam.md) — A conspiracy mythology of staged revelation, holographic spectacle, and manufactured belief.
- [Crash Retrieval Program](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-crash-retrieval-program.md) — Crash Retrieval Program concentrates the crash motif meeting the retrieval motif into a deliberate mission, project, protocol, or coordinated operation. Its value lies in examining authority, secrecy, classification, benefit, coercion, appeal, and the practical right to leave without exceeding the evidence layer.
- [Reverse Engineering Program](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-reverse-engineering-program.md) — the reverse motif meeting the engineering motif is the engine beneath Reverse Engineering Program. As a deliberate mission, project, protocol, or coordinated operation, it reveals how a local image can carry system-scale consequences.
- [Black Project](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-black-project.md) — an opaque adaptive substrate placed within technology & infrastructure gives Black Project its distinctive charge. Read it through mechanism, dependency, maintenance, access, failure, and the labor beneath capability, with transparent analogy, declared invention, and practical usefulness kept visible.
- [Special Access Program](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-special-access-program.md) — the special motif meeting practical ability to reach, use, and benefit from a resource is the engine beneath Special Access Program. As a deliberate mission, project, protocol, or coordinated operation, it reveals how a local image can carry system-scale consequences.
- [Waived SAP](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-waived-sap.md) — Within the Oracle, Waived SAP holds together the waived motif meeting the sap motif and authority, secrecy, classification, benefit, coercion, appeal, and the practical right to leave. That combination creates both an interpretive tool and a responsibility.
- [Predictive Programming](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-predictive-programming.md) — the predictive motif meeting the programming motif gives Predictive Programming its distinctive charge. Read it through authority, secrecy, classification, benefit, coercion, appeal, and the practical right to leave, with claim-level sourcing, incentive analysis, falsifiability, and harm review kept visible.
- [Psyop](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-psyop.md) — The working core of Psyop is the psyop motif placed within contact & communication: a pattern that can reorganize attention, relation, and action. symbolic force must remain separate from unsupported accusations.
- [Information Operation](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-information-operation.md) — The working core of Information Operation is the information motif meeting the operation motif: a pattern that can reorganize attention, relation, and action. the synthesis must never masquerade as inherited doctrine or discovered fact.
- [Cognitive Warfare](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-cognitive-warfare.md) — Cognitive Warfare is a way of encountering attention and interpretation as terrain meeting the warfare motif. Its Oracle use joins a deliberate mission, project, protocol, or coordinated operation to the question of authority, secrecy, classification, benefit, coercion, appeal, and the practical right to leave.
- [Narrative Warfare](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-narrative-warfare.md) — Seen closely, Narrative Warfare is about causal meaning carried by story meeting the warfare motif under conditions of authority, secrecy, classification, benefit, coercion, appeal, and the practical right to leave. That frame makes its gift, shadow, and limits readable together.
- [Patent Secrecy](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-patent-secrecy.md) — The Oracle places Patent Secrecy where the patent motif meeting the secrecy motif affects agency. It is neither mere decoration nor automatic proof, but a deliberate mission, project, protocol, or coordinated operation with a declared evidence boundary.
- [Eugenics Program](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-eugenics-program.md) — Within the Oracle, Eugenics Program holds together the eugenics motif placed within power & control and authority, secrecy, classification, benefit, coercion, appeal, and the practical right to leave. That combination creates both an interpretive tool and a responsibility.
- [Breeding Program](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-breeding-program.md) — Breeding Program concentrates the breeding motif placed within power & control into a deliberate mission, project, protocol, or coordinated operation. Its value lies in examining authority, secrecy, classification, benefit, coercion, appeal, and the practical right to leave without exceeding the evidence layer.
- [Hybridization Program](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-hybridization-program.md) — At the center of Hybridization Program is the hybridization motif placed within power & control. The card treats that tension as a deliberate mission, project, protocol, or coordinated operation, bounded by secrecy and repetition do not independently prove extraordinary causation.
- [Contact Protocol](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-contact-protocol.md) — Seen closely, Contact Protocol is about reciprocal encounter across difference meeting the protocol motif under conditions of signal, translation, reciprocity, consent, and the repair of misunderstanding. That frame makes its gift, shadow, and limits readable together.
- [Quarantine Protocol](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-quarantine-protocol.md) — What makes Quarantine Protocol consequential is the meeting of the quarantine motif meeting the protocol motif with signal, translation, reciprocity, consent, and the repair of misunderstanding. The card preserves that meeting without universalizing it.
- [First Contact Mission](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-first-contact-mission.md) — Read First Contact Mission as a deliberate mission, project, protocol, or coordinated operation shaped by the initiating encounter, reciprocal encounter across difference, and the mission motif acting together. The useful inquiry is not belief alone, but what trace the earliest attested form, each handoff, and what later tellers added.
- [Terraforming Program](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-terraforming-program.md) — Terraforming Program brings the terraforming motif placed within power & control into focus. It operates as a deliberate mission, project, protocol, or coordinated operation and asks how authority, secrecy, classification, benefit, coercion, appeal, and the practical right to leave alter practical choice.
- [Ark Mission](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-ark-mission.md) — Ark Mission brings the ark motif meeting the mission motif into focus. It operates as a deliberate mission, project, protocol, or coordinated operation and asks how signal, translation, reciprocity, consent, and the repair of misunderstanding alter practical choice.
- [Ascension Program](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-ascension-program.md) — The Oracle places Ascension Program where transformation toward a higher state placed within power & control affects agency. It is neither mere decoration nor automatic proof, but a deliberate mission, project, protocol, or coordinated operation with a declared evidence boundary.
