Rows of card-catalogue cabinets in a cold archive

B1Floor · Closed Stacks

Closed Stacks

The sealed layer. An Ice Core is a file you write and seal on your own machine, for later: a time capsule, letters for a date, notes your keepers open together. It never sits on our shelves.

Contents

Ten short sections.

Written for the people and the wardens who will act on it.

0Read this first
1Who to call
2Projects and handover
3Accounts (official platform routes only)
4Where things are, and who to ask
5Wishes and how long they bind
6Letters index
7Open Stacks (what may be public)
8What I do not want
9Rules for wardens

On disk

my-core/                # never share this folder
  COVER.md              # public, printable
  core/
    COLDLIBRARY.md      # for people and wardens
    core.json           # machine-checkable
  letters/
    001.md
sealed/                 # what you hand over
  COVER.md
  core.age
  letters/001.age
  MANIFEST.json

The tools never delete your plaintext. When the seal checks out, you remove it yourself.

Cover and core

One page anyone may read. Everything else sealed.

COVER.md

The cover

SaysThis is a Cold Library cover. It is not a legal will.

Opening2 of 3 keepers, or a date

Box held bysomewhere other than the keys

Nevernames, assets, accounts

Public

core.age

The core

HoldsCOLDLIBRARY.md · core.json

Cipherage · scrypt

Key256-bit, split with SLIP-39

Neverpasswords, recovery phrases, amounts

Sealed

Pointers only. Write where something is and who knows what to do. Never amounts, never passwords, never recovery phrases. A file with amounts becomes a treasure map, and treasure maps attract the wrong visitors.

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