# The 83-glyph taxonomy — doctrine

**RULED. This is the shared law the archetype chat and the build chat both obey.**

## The rule

**83 designed glyphs = the full four-sport archetype taxonomy** (MLB / WNBA /
NBA / Soccer). The artwork is complete; the *models* are not.

**A glyph renders ONLY where its archetype is modeled and proven.**

| set | count | state |
|---|---|---|
| designed glyphs | **83** | complete, in `specs/design-reference/assets/glyphs/` |
| backend registry archetypes | **41** | `archetypeService.ARCHETYPES` |
| **mapped and wired** | **39** | live, colours matching the registry exactly |
| **designed, no backend archetype** | **44** | **DORMANT** — slots for WNBA/NBA/Soccer |
| registry archetypes with no glyph | **2** | `DUAL THREAT`, `PAINT BOSS` — **design gap** |

## Why dormancy rather than wiring

Wiring the 44 would mean **inventing 44 archetypes to consume artwork**. An
archetype that exists because a glyph exists is decoration presented as
classification — a mark on a card asserting the model recognised something it
cannot produce. **Decoration-as-data is forbidden.**

The dormant glyphs are not waste. They are **designed slots**, and each activates
when its sport's archetype system is built and clears the two-part gate — the
same bar every factor in this programme faces.

## What this preserves

- **The full design vision.** All 83 marks stay in the package; none is deleted
  or redrawn.
- **The Truth Law.** No glyph appears for an archetype the model cannot produce.
- **The activation path.** Building WNBA/NBA/Soccer archetypes lights their
  glyphs automatically — the artwork is already there and already colour-matched.

## Consequences for build

1. Do **not** add a registry archetype to consume a glyph. The archetype must be
   earned by a classifier that produces it from real features.
2. Do **not** render a dormant glyph as a placeholder, sample, or "coming soon"
   mark on any data surface.
3. `DUAL THREAT` and `PAINT BOSS` are **flagged to the design side** — they are
   modeled archetypes with no mark, the mirror image of the dormant 44.
4. When a sport's archetypes ship, wiring is a MANIFEST lookup, not new art.

## Status

MLB archetypes render live. WNBA, NBA and Soccer have archetype **registries**
but no proven factor model, so their marks stay dormant — consistent with
`specs/BOARD-2026-08-07.md`, which records only MLB batters as MODELED.