The companions of standing name the functions a real society needs once standing has answered who counts. Standing alone would either swell into an unlimited entitlement or quietly smuggle conditional worth back in; kept beside five companions, each doing a job it was never meant to do, it can stay absolute while the hard practical questions are governed honestly and separately:
Standing is unconditional. Repair is historical. Reciprocity is relational. Allocation is situational.
The full set is six: standing (who remains inside the ecology), repair (restoring inherited damage while ceasing to reproduce it), reciprocity (obligation proportionate to capacity and consequence), allocation (distributing what stays scarce under equal standing), capacity return (circulating new abundance so standing is materially feasible), and burden attribution (placing costs near the jurisdictions that create them). The architecture assumes damaged people, selfish people, real scarcity, conflicting claims, and bad choices all exist; its radical claim is narrow — that none of those facts requires converting usefulness, compliance, or success into the basis of human standing. The full treatment is on the companions of standing.