Declare
Declare an adoption¶
Pick a form of follow, pick a variant where applicable, see the badge in light and dark, copy the embed code, run the self-check, submit the declaration. No email client involved.
Declare you follow SDC
Support, reference, alignment, or derivation — the four-way chooser for declaring that a project, artefact, or institution follows the SDC discipline. Variant-anchored.
Go to the chooser Type 2 · Self-readingDeclare your split ratio
Your artefact's split ratio — how cleanly it holds the split-domain discipline, as you read it yourself. Self-rated on a scale of ten.
Go to the split-ratio badgeA glimpse of what you'll embed¶
Each declaration generates a badge sized for hot-linking from the canon. Below is the family — the canonical mark, the support badge, and the three forms-of-follow specimens — to give you a sense of what the badge for your project will look like.
The full gallery of forms and the embed patterns live on the Adoption page. For the conceptual definitions of support, reference, alignment, and derivation — see the four forms. For the four validation tests applied to alignment and derivation declarations — see the four tests.
The eight canonical variants¶
Every reference and alignment declaration anchors to one canonical variant. The full set, with the alignment badge for each — click any badge to read the variant in full.
Animal rights and veganism
Curation
User research in design
Urban planning and EIA
Psychiatric diagnosis and the DSM
Data work in India
Valuation of talent
Cognitive architecture
The chooser below will use whichever variant you pick — every variant in this list is available for reference or alignment. Authoring a new variant from a domain not yet in this list is derivation; see the derivation protocol.
Type 1 · Form of follow
The chooser¶
Type 2 · Self-reading
Declare your split ratio¶
A different kind of declaration: the degree to which a single artefact maintains SDC's split-domain discipline, as you yourself read it. The badge's title word is SPLIT — the architectural move. The canonical term split ratio sits below the title in italic.
The scale has ten positions. The nine meaningful positions (1 through 9) range from heavy-conflated (1:9) to heavy-split (9:1). The endpoints are not offered — 10:0 invites self-flattery (no artefact is wholly split), and 0:10 means the artefact carries no SDC discipline at all, in which case the badge has no business being on it. The split ratio is self-rated — a frame of self-attention, not a verdict. For the term and the discipline, read The Split Ratio.
Configure your split-ratio badge¶
The bridge moves toward whichever side the artefact tilts. Centre is parity. Read yourself honestly.
All nine positions¶
The full family, light variant:
On register¶
This badge is not a productivity meter and not an audit verdict. It does not claim a unit, does not invite optimisation, does not rank one practitioner against another. It declares a proportion the practitioner can read and re-read. If a viewer treats this badge as a leaderboard entry or a benchmark, they have imported the wrong register — see The Split Ratio for why.
The badge is at its strongest used alongside a piece of work — a paper, an essay, an image, a tool — to say, of this artefact, how cleanly its maker reads it as holding the split-domain discipline. Other readers may disagree; that disagreement is itself part of the practice.