# OE-0000: Charter

**Status:** RC (Release Candidate)
**Phase:** The Bedrock Phase

## Purpose

Open Engineer is an open standard for preserving engineering context.

Open Engineer does not seek to tell engineers what to think. It seeks to preserve how engineers arrive at understanding.

## Nature of the Standard

Open Engineer is a standard.

Not a philosophy.
Not documentation.
Not an AI project.
Not a website.

Philosophy, documentation, AI projects, and websites become **implementations**.
The standard comes first.

## Mission

It gave engineering a common language for preserving understanding across people, projects, generations, and intelligent systems — so that every generation could begin a little closer to bedrock than the last.

## Scope

Open Engineer remains grounded in engineering while staying intellectually humble enough to recognize that valuable observations about reality have emerged from many places throughout human history.

It is open. It is humble. It respects every discipline. It welcomes ideas from every culture and every generation. And yet it remains firmly anchored to reality through observation, verification, and stewardship.

## Dependency

This is the root document. All other specification documents extend from this charter.