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The architectural component of pre-governing that articulates what the system exists to sustain over time, independent of particular strategies, leaders, or contexts. Intent is not optimised but preserved—it functions as a semantic attractor that stabilises interpretation when actors face novel situations.
A public library's intent layer might be: 'to sustain equitable access to knowledge for all community members, across technological and social change'—this persists even as formats, collections, and services evolve.
Pre-Gov Section 5.1