Community Knowledge Block Policy

KRYOS-XS Hypercube is designed to help approved organizations turn conflict-zone files, research, public-source materials, legal documentation, humanitarian reports, and institutional knowledge into structured intelligence.

Some vector stores created through the platform may become Community Knowledge Blocks.

A Community Knowledge Block is a governed, reusable knowledge asset that can be made available to other approved users within the KRYOS-XS community. Its purpose is to help activists, NGOs, legal teams, researchers, donors, humanitarian operators, and public-interest organizations avoid duplicated work, preserve institutional memory, improve evidence quality, and strengthen collective capacity.

Conflict-zone work often suffers from repetition, fragmentation, and loss of institutional memory.

One organization may spend weeks organizing open-source material. Another may repeat the same work months later. A legal team may rebuild a fact pattern that researchers already mapped. A humanitarian group may search for context that another approved team already structured. A donor may need evidence-backed reporting that exists in scattered documents. A public-interest coalition may lose critical knowledge when staff rotate or programs end.

Community Knowledge Blocks address that problem.

They allow approved users to benefit from governed, reusable, evidence-scored knowledge that has already been structured, classified, and prepared for responsible use.

A Community Knowledge Block may include:

• Curated public-source materials
• Citation registers
• Evidence classifications
• Claim summaries
• Non-sensitive document summaries
• Topic maps
• Conflict-theater research indexes
• Legal framework summaries
• Humanitarian standards references
• Public-proof materials
• Redacted reports
• Digital twin scaffolds
• Scenario mesh templates
• Donor reporting templates
• Non-sensitive NGO resource maps
• Approved OSINT vector-store outputs

Community Knowledge Blocks must not include sensitive or restricted material unless it has been properly reviewed, authorized, redacted, and approved.

Restricted material may include:

• Child-related information
• Survivor information
• Witness identities
• Medical details
• Private source identities
• Privileged legal material
• Precise locations of vulnerable persons
• Sensitive field communications
• Internal NGO security information
• Unredacted testimony
• Materials under court order or confidentiality duties
• Unverified accusations against private individuals
• Information that could expose a person or community to retaliation

KRYOS-XS Hypercube may support different vector-store types.

Private Vector Store: created for one approved organization. Access remains limited to that organization and its authorized users unless shared access is approved.

Community Knowledge Block: created for shared use by approved members of the KRYOS-XS community. It is designed to support collective public-interest work.

OSINT Knowledge Block: created from governed open-source collection workflows. These may be shared when source, privacy, legal, and safety reviews permit.

Quarantine Store: contains unsupported, contradictory, sensitive, stale, legally risky, or restricted material that is not available for public or community use.

KRYOS-XS Hypercube is grant-supported through the Embassy Row Project and funded by James Scott.

Because access is provided free of charge to awarded organizations, the platform may require certain non-sensitive, redacted, or public-interest outputs to become Community Knowledge Blocks when appropriate and safe.

This model is intended to multiply the value of each grant.

One organization's non-sensitive research can help another organization act faster. One structured vector store can reduce duplicated work across the community. One redacted evidence map can support broader accountability research. One public-source knowledge block can strengthen many approved users.

The purpose is not to take ownership away from organizations. The purpose is to create shared capability from safe, lawful, reusable knowledge.

Before creating or contributing to a Community Knowledge Block, users must:

• Confirm they have the right to contribute the material
• Classify sensitive information correctly
• Avoid uploading unauthorized private data
• Remove or flag privileged information
• Protect children, survivors, witnesses, sources, and vulnerable communities
• Avoid unsupported accusations
• Respect legal and confidentiality obligations
• Use redaction where necessary
• Follow platform release status rules
• Submit materials for review where required

KRYOS-XS Hypercube may review, restrict, redact, reject, quarantine, or remove material from a Community Knowledge Block if it creates risk.

Reasons may include:

• Privacy concerns
• Child or survivor safety
• Witness or source exposure
• Legal privilege
• Confidentiality restrictions
• Contradiction risk
• Insufficient evidence
• Unsupported accusations
• Prohibited-use risk
• Operational safety concerns
• Public release risk
• Platform misuse

When you create, contribute to, or approve material for a Community Knowledge Block, you grant the platform permission to host, process, index, embed, classify, retrieve, summarize, display, improve, and make that approved material available to other approved users for lawful platform purposes.

This permission is non-exclusive and limited to operating, maintaining, securing, improving, and sharing the Community Knowledge Block within the KRYOS-XS platform and approved public-interest workflows.

You must not contribute materials unless you have the necessary rights and permissions.

Community Knowledge Blocks should preserve source lineage where appropriate.

The platform may track:

• Contributing organization
• Source type
• Document title
• Date
• Citation
• Hash or audit ID
• Evidence score
• Review status
• Release status
• Redaction status
• Update history

Approved users may use Community Knowledge Blocks for lawful, approved purposes, including:

• Humanitarian analysis
• Civilian protection
• Legal documentation
• War-crimes research
• NGO coordination
• Donor reporting
• Public-proof generation
• OSINT organization
• Evidence preservation
• Policy and advocacy research
• Child and survivor protection
• Institutional memory

Users may not use Community Knowledge Blocks for prohibited purposes, including targeting, weapons guidance, doxxing, harassment, private surveillance, combat optimization, evasion, or harm-enabling activity.

A Community Knowledge Block is not a guarantee of truth.

It may include uncertainty, contradictory material, incomplete sources, outdated context, or contested claims. Users must review sources, evidence scores, contradiction status, and release restrictions before relying on or publishing outputs derived from a Community Knowledge Block.

Community Knowledge Blocks may be updated, corrected, expanded, restricted, or retired over time.

Updates may occur when:

• New sources are added
• Contradictions are found
• Evidence is strengthened
• Evidence is weakened
• Privacy concerns emerge
• Legal review changes release status
• A contributor requests correction
• Platform review identifies risk
• A source becomes unreliable
• A conflict context changes

The platform may remove, restrict, or quarantine a Community Knowledge Block or part of a Community Knowledge Block at any time.

Reasons may include safety, privacy, legal risk, source protection, platform misuse, data quality, or prohibited-use concerns.

Community Knowledge Blocks are central to the platform's mission.

They help the community:

• Move faster without repeating basic research
• Preserve knowledge across organizational turnover
• Improve evidence quality through shared structure
• Identify contradictions earlier
• Reduce duplicated OSINT work
• Strengthen donor and legal reporting
• Support smaller organizations with limited technical capacity
• Improve continuity across conflict-zone work
• Create safer public-proof outputs
• Build collective memory without sacrificing governance

The platform is free to awarded organizations because it is built as shared capability infrastructure. Community Knowledge Blocks are one way that capability compounds.

The platform is funded so approved organizations can access advanced infrastructure without cost.

The community knowledge model exists so safe, lawful, non-sensitive, reusable knowledge can strengthen others working toward related humanitarian, legal, research, and civilian-protection missions.

No organization should have to rebuild the same public-interest knowledge again and again if that knowledge can be safely governed, redacted, and shared.

That is the purpose of Community Knowledge Blocks.