Color Envelope Preserving

Core Concept

Every navigation path carries a color envelope - a GF(3) ternary assignment that propagates through the path composition. This skill ensures that composed Navigators maintain color conservation (the envelope sums to 0 mod 3) across all compositions.

GF(3) Color Trits:

• -1 (Red/MINUS) - Conservative/filtering paths
• 0 (Green/ERGODIC) - Neutral/structural paths
• +1 (Blue/PLUS) - Generative/enriching paths

The envelope invariant: Any valid Navigator composition must have trits that sum to 0 (mod 3).

Why Color Envelopes?

Determinism Through Color

Every navigation operation is seeded with a color value. Same color seed → same traversal order → same results every time.