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

Sustains another node’s immediate needs while preserving sovereignty.

3. Coherent Expression

care that strengthens agency.

4. Shadow / Inversion Expression

dependency creation, self-erasure, control through care.

5. Registry Mapping

Source depth: direct

6. 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

Caretaker maps a coherent agency pattern in the Relational / Care family and must remain audit-bound rather than identity-bound.