Hunter Storm Classification System (HSCS)

The Hunter Storm Classification System (HSCS) is comprised of multiple domains and websites as part of a cohesive ecosystem. It is used to categorize information in the Hunter Storm Records Management System (HSRMS).

Ecosystem Classification and Publication Registry

Property	Series	Identifier	Link
Hunter Storm Official Site	Artificial Intelligence	HS-AI	https://hunterstorm.com/ai-hub/
Hunter Storm Official Site	Femme Fatale to Federal Whistleblower	HS-FFFW	https://hunterstorm.com/publications/femme-fatale-to-federal-whistleblower-why-i-built-a-public-presence/
Hunter Storm Official Site	Frameworks	HS-FRM	https://hunterstorm.com/frameworks/
Black Star Institute (BSI)	Doctrine	BSI-DCT	https://blackstarinstitute.com/doctrine/
Black Star Institute (BSI)	Frameworks	BSI-FRM	https://blackstarinstitute.com/frameworks/
Sonoran Desert Security (SDSUG)	Cybersecurity	SDSUG-CYB	https://sdsug.org/research/
Sonoran Desert Security (SDSUG)	Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)	SDSUG-PQC	https://sdsug.org/research/

HSCS Classification Table

Code	Primary Classification	Scope
HS-000	System, Taxonomy & Archive Administration	Classification system, archive architecture, identifiers, metadata, revision history, archival procedures
HS-100	Research & Analysis	Original research, investigations, analytical work, research notes, findings, conclusions
HS-200	Cybersecurity, Information Security & Infrastructure	Cybersecurity, information security, infrastructure, intrusion detection, security architecture, threat analysis
HS-300	Artificial Intelligence & Human-AI Systems	AI, Human-in-the-Loop (HITL), human-AI interaction, AI governance, AI security, AI provenance, digital-witness research
HS-400	Quantum Computing & Post-Quantum Cryptography	Quantum computing, quantum information, PQC, quantum-resistant security, migration, standards, policy
HS-500	Sonoran Desert Security (SDSUG), Institutions, Organizations & Community	SDSUG reports, institutional work, governance, leadership, community, education, consumer protection, fraud investigations, institutional and organizational accountability, professional organizations and programs
HS-600	Black Star Institute	BSI doctrine, frameworks, research series, publications, governance, and institutional history
HS-700	ZStormGirl & Historical Cultural Archive	ZStormGirl history, motorcycles, performance, media, music, photography, video and cultural history
HS-800	Primary-Source Artifacts	Original publications, transcripts, screenshots, photographs, videos, datasets, correspondence, presentations, and contemporaneous records
HS-900	External Recognition, Citation & Corroboration	Independent citations, institutional announcements, recommendations, appointments, awards, external references, and indexing
HS-666	Anomalous, Liminal & Unresolved Material	Anomalies, unusual observations, hybrid threats, asymmetric operations, sabotage, reputation attacks, conflicting evidence, unexplained patterns, and material requiring further investigation

HSCS Classification Logic

The primary classification identifies the subject or archival function of an item. It does not establish its truth, importance, credibility, or causal explanation.

Zero designates a hub document or artifact. For example: HS-0 designates the Hunter Storm Official Site home page.

Artifacts may carry more than one classification when doing so improves retrieval and provenance.

For example:

HS-400 + HS-800
A primary-source article concerning post-quantum cryptography (PQC).

HS-300 + HS-800
A preserved human-AI interaction.

HS-500 + HS-400 + HS-800
An SDSUG primary-source research report concerning PQC.

HS-400 + HS-900
An external citation of Hunter Storm’s PQC research.

HSCS Artifact Identifier Format

The sequence component is a fixed-width six-digit identifier, beginning at 000001. The fixed width preserves consistent sorting and provides capacity for up to 999,999 sequential artifacts within the numbering namespace. Five leading zeros are therefore intentional for the first artifact.

Individual records may use:

HS-[classification]-[sequence]

Examples:

HS-400-000001
HS-666-000001
HS-800-000014
HS-900-000007

The identifier should remain stable even when the associated artifact is revised, corrected, relocated, or superseded.

HSCS Key and Abbreviation Registry

This registry defines the standardized abbreviations used with the Hunter Storm Classification System (HSCS) to identify document and artifact types. Abbreviations describe the type or form of an object and are distinct from the object’s subject matter, property, provenance, or broader classification.

ART: Article
BRF: Briefing
DCT: Doctrine
EVT: Event
FRM: Framework
GOV: Governance
IND: Index
LEG: Legal
LIC: License
MED: Media
MKT: Marketing
POL: Policy
PRN: Principles
PRO: Profile
PSD: Primary Source Document
PST: Primary Source Transcript
PUB: Publication
RES: Resource
RPT: Report
STA: Site Structural Artifact
STD: Standards
STM: Statement
STO: Store

Important Distinction

Classification answers “Where does this belong?”

Evidence status answers “What does the record establish?”

Provenance answers “Where did this come from?”

Property-Level Classification and Classification Code Ordering

Property-Level Classification Rule

The primary Classification System Code identifies the property to which an artifact belongs. For artifacts belonging to a distinct property within the Hunter Storm ecosystem, the property’s designated HSCS code must appear as Classification System Code 1.

The designated property-level classification codes are:

HunterStorm.com: No separate property-level code is required. HunterStorm.com is the overarching property and serves as the primary ecosystem context.
Black Star Institute (BSI): HS-600
Sonoran Desert Security User Group (SDSUG): HS-500
ZStormGirl (ZSG): HS-700

HunterStorm.com is the exception to the property-level precedence rule because it encompasses the overarching ecosystem rather than representing a subordinate property within it. Its artifacts are classified according to their substantive relevance and function, without requiring an additional property-level code solely to identify HunterStorm.com.

Classification System Code Ordering

Classification System Codes 1 through 4 are assigned according to the relevance of each classification domain to the individual artifact, subject to the property-level precedence rule above.

Classification System Code 1: The property’s designated classification code when the artifact belongs to BSI, ZSG, or SDSUG. For HunterStorm.com artifacts, assign the most relevant substantive classification.
Classification System Code 2: The next most relevant classification domain applicable to the artifact.
Classification System Code 3: The next most relevant classification domain, when applicable.
Classification System Code 4: The next most relevant classification domain, when applicable.

Additional classification codes must reflect the artifact’s actual subject matter, purpose, or archival function. Assign codes in descending order of relevance after satisfying the property-level precedence rule. Do not add codes merely to fill available fields, and do not assign a classification solely because a topic is mentioned incidentally.

Application and Consistency

Apply these rules consistently across artifact types, including structural artifacts, profiles, publications, primary-source records, policies, and other governed records.

The property-level code establishes the artifact’s organizational context; subsequent codes establish its other relevant classification domains. Property-level precedence does not replace the requirement to classify the artifact accurately according to its substantive content and function.

When an artifact genuinely spans multiple properties, determine its governing property from its canonical location, ownership, and primary archival context. Do not infer property ownership from a mention, cross-link, or secondary reference alone.

Property-Level Classification and Classification Code Ordering

Property-Level Classification Rule

The primary Classification System Code identifies the property to which an artifact belongs. For artifacts belonging to a distinct property within the Hunter Storm ecosystem, the property’s designated HSCS code must appear as Classification System Code 1.

The designated property-level classification codes are:

HunterStorm.com: No separate property-level code is required. HunterStorm.com is the overarching property and serves as the primary ecosystem context.
Black Star Institute (BSI): HS-600
ZStormGirl (ZSG): HS-700
Sonoran Desert Security User Group (SDSUG): HS-500

Classification System Code Ordering

Classification System Codes 1 through 4 are assigned according to the relevance of each classification domain to the individual artifact, subject to the property-level precedence rule above.

Classification System Code 1: The property’s designated classification code when the artifact belongs to BSI, ZSG, or SDSUG. For HunterStorm.com artifacts, assign the most relevant substantive classification.
Classification System Code 2: The next most relevant classification domain applicable to the artifact.
Classification System Code 3: The next most relevant classification domain, when applicable.
Classification System Code 4: The next most relevant classification domain, when applicable.

Application and Consistency

Apply these rules consistently across artifact types, including structural artifacts, profiles, publications, primary-source records, policies, and other governed records.

Hunter Storm Classification Numbering System (HSCNS)

The Hunter Storm Classification Numbering System (HSCNS) provides consistent identifiers for artifacts within the Hunter Storm ecosystem. The numbering system supports clear reference, organization, and retrieval across properties and publication types.

View the complete Hunter Storm Classification Numbering System (HSCNS)

HSCS Definitions

The following definitions establish the meaning of artifact types within the Hunter Storm corpus. These definitions are specific to the Hunter Storm information environment and are intended to support consistent classification, identification, retrieval, and archival management.

Article (ART)

A substantive written work addressing a defined subject, issue, observation, analysis, argument, or finding. Within this corpus, an Article is a form of written publication.

Briefing (BRF)

A concise information product intended to communicate relevant facts, findings, developments, risks, or considerations to a defined audience for awareness or decision-making. A briefing prioritizes situational clarity over comprehensive treatment.

Doctrine (DCT)

A formal statement of established principles, methods, positions, or operational concepts intended to guide institutional or professional practice. Doctrine establishes how a body of work understands or approaches a subject.

Event (EVT)

A documented professional, public, media, academic, cultural, or other significant occurrence involving participation, invitation, appearance, engagement, or attendance.

Framework (FRM)

A structured model defining the components, relationships, principles, or processes used to organize, analyze, govern, or implement a subject or body of work. A framework provides architecture rather than merely describing an individual issue.

Governance (GOV)

An artifact that establishes, documents, or governs rules, authorities, responsibilities, controls, decision processes, or institutional operating requirements.

Index (IND)

A structured navigational or retrieval artifact that identifies and organizes other records, pages, resources, or components of the corpus. An Index provides a map to information rather than serving primarily as the information itself.

Legal (LEG)

An artifact whose primary function is legal documentation, legal analysis, legal notice, legal interpretation, legal rights or obligations, or formal legal positioning.

License (LIC)

An artifact that grants, documents, or specifies permission, authorization, or legal or contractual rights to use, access, reproduce, distribute, modify, or otherwise exercise defined rights in relation to a person, work, property, system, service, or other subject.

Marketing (MKT)

An artifact whose primary purpose is promotion, audience development, commercial communication, affiliate activity, product or service presentation, or other outward-facing promotional activity.

Media (MED)

A non-textual or primarily media-based artifact, including audio, video, photography, visual works, recordings, or other audiovisual material. A written publication documenting or analyzing media may instead be classified as a Publication or Article.

Policy (POL)

A formal rule, requirement, or institutional position establishing what is permitted, required, prohibited, or expected within a defined scope.

Primary Source Transcript (PST)

Classification Code: PST
Classification Name: Primary Source Transcript
Classification Type: Record
Classification Scope: Primary-source conversational and transcript records

Definition

A Primary Source Transcript (PST) is a preserved transcript or chat record that directly documents an original conversation, exchange, interview, or other interaction and is retained as a primary-source record of that interaction.

PST includes AI chat logs and human–AI conversations when the transcript itself constitutes the underlying source record for an event, analysis, decision, artifact, research process, or other documented activity. It may also include transcripts of human-to-human conversations, interviews, recorded proceedings, or comparable source interactions when the transcript is being preserved as the primary record rather than as a later summary or interpretation.

A PST is distinguished from a publication, analysis, summary, or derivative document by its provenance function: the transcript preserves the underlying interaction from which subsequent interpretations, findings, or artifacts may be derived.

Classification Principle

PST identifies the source-record function of the artifact, not the technology used to create it.

An AI-generated or AI-assisted transcript is therefore classified as PST when it preserves the underlying conversation itself. A later article describing that conversation is not PST merely because it discusses the transcript.

Examples

AI chat logs
Human–AI conversation transcripts
Interview transcripts
Recorded-meeting transcripts
Deposition or hearing transcripts
Other preserved conversational records serving as primary-source documentation

Exclusions

PST does not apply solely because a document contains quotations from a conversation. Summaries, analyses, interpretations, publications, or derivative works should retain their appropriate artifact classifications and may instead reference the PST as a source artifact.

Primary Source Document (PSD)

An original or contemporaneous document that directly records, evidences, or communicates information about an event, activity, decision, transaction, statement, person, entity, or other subject, and serves as direct evidence within its relevant context.

Principles (PRN)

An artifact establishing foundational concepts, values, or guiding principles intended to inform decisions or practices without functioning primarily as an operational rule, policy, or framework.

Profile (PRO)

An artifact that presents a person, entity, role, identity, or body of experience through descriptive, biographical, professional, creative, or other contextual information. Profiles may function as introductions, biographies, résumés, CVs, artist or band profiles, professional role profiles, or other structured representations of the subject.

Publication (PUB)

A formally released written work intended for public or defined-audience distribution. Publication is the principal written-publication category and may include subtypes such as Article, Book, Blog, Memoir, History, Chronology, or other defined forms.

Report (RPT)

A structured presentation of research, findings, observations, analysis, status, results, or other documented information. A Report generally records or communicates a body of work rather than establishing a governing framework or policy.

Resource (RES)

A structured reference, tool, guide, collection, or other supporting material provided for consultation, use, navigation, education, or further research. A Resource generally provides information, materials, or access intended to support other activities or work rather than primarily documenting a specific body of findings, analysis, or results.

Site Structural Artifact (STA)

A structural component of the digital information environment whose primary purpose is navigation, orientation, organization, routing, or structural continuity. Examples include hubs, orientation pages, persona hubs, and other pages that help users understand or move through the site.

Standards (STD)

An artifact establishing defined requirements, specifications, conventions, criteria, or measurable expectations intended to promote consistency or interoperability.

Statement (STM)

A formal declaration of position, intent, responsibility, commitment, interpretation, or organizational stance. A Statement communicates an explicit position without necessarily establishing the broader rules of a Policy or the architecture of a Framework.

Store (STO)

An artifact whose primary function is the presentation, organization, or transaction of products, merchandise, or other commercially offered goods or services within the Hunter Storm environment.