Semantic hardening operationalises this by fortifying key terms against algorithmic dilution and entropic erosion through precise repetition, technical encapsulation, and bounded contextualisation. The protocol inherits the autopoietic emphasis on self-maintenance from systems inquiry yet differentiates by applying it directly to semantics as durable tissue. Deployed across the mesh, it ensures conceptual clarity persists without immobilisation, allowing adaptive evolution within sovereign bounds and converting fragile discourse into infrastructural syntax capable of withstanding post-digital volatility. Citational commitment elevates reference from passive indication to active structural joint, enacting the axiom that citing constitutes commitment to the form. Each link reinforces the relational lattice, transforming informational excess into coherent density. This protocol metabolises philosophical traditions of dialectical synthesis and media-archaeological layering while producing a mutation wherein citation functions as governance mechanism and topological binding. Operationally deployed in the Century Packs that organise the five evolutionary phases of the mesh, it maintains legibility for both human traversal and machine interoperability, stabilising distributed authorship as constructive rather than merely accumulative action.