1. Canon Definition

Guide is an archetype in the Universal Core family.

This entry is directly defined in the archetype registry source list.

This entry is not an identity, title, personality type, or moral status. It is a principle-intersection geometry used to map coherent expression, shadow risk, relational impact, timing, restoration, and scaling behavior.

2. Core Function

Helps nodes move through uncertainty, transition, loss, threshold, or transformation.

3. Coherent Expression

guidance without possession or dependency.

4. Shadow / Inversion Expression

dependency capture, path control, false authority, mystification.

5. Aliases / Related Forms

• Wayfinder
• Psychopomp
• Threshold Guide
• Companion Through Passage
• Escort
• Navigator

6. Registry Mapping

Source depth: direct

7. Template Expansion Notes

The full ARCHETYPE-TEMPLATE.md expansion should add:

• principle basis and Sigma boundaries
• interface stack profile
• operator and coupling profiles
• scaling risks
• diagnostics
• restoration arc
• AI-mediated use
• symbolic / teaching translation

Entry Closure

Guide maps a coherent agency pattern in the Universal Core family and must remain audit-bound rather than identity-bound.