diff --git a/cmd/add/solution_documents.go b/cmd/add/solution_documents.go
index ea2b5540..c19b4ef1 100644
--- a/cmd/add/solution_documents.go
+++ b/cmd/add/solution_documents.go
@@ -418,14 +418,23 @@ func solutionContract(name string) *modulecontract.Contract {
 			ResourceKind: name + ".page",
 			Actions:      []string{readAction, writeAction},
 		}},
+		// installer / editor / viewer, the standard set — the same three wiki
+		// declares, and now every solution in the fleet.
+		//
+		// `installer` is required BY NAME: the authority refuses a solution
+		// without it. `viewer` is what the organization is installed as, so
+		// the people of an installation can open the solution at all —
+		// without a second role only the owner holds anything and everyone
+		// else is refused by name. `editor` is the write position between
+		// them, so a solution that grows one does not have to invent a name
+		// for it; proposals calls its middle role `reviewer`, which is the
+		// same position in its own domain's word.
+		//
+		// Every role must grant something: core refuses `role "installer"
+		// grants nothing`.
 		Roles: []modulecontract.Role{
 			{Name: modulecontract.InstallerRole, Scopes: ownScope},
-			// The role the ORGANIZATION is installed as, so the people of an
-			// installation can open the solution at all. Without a role
-			// besides installer only the owner holds anything, and everyone
-			// else is refused by name — "<person> holds no role on <name>" —
-			// which is a correct refusal and a useless scaffold. wiki and
-			// proposals both declare a viewer beside their installer.
+			{Name: "editor", Scopes: ownScope},
 			{Name: "viewer", Scopes: []modulecontract.CeilingScope{{
 				ResourceKind: name + ".page",
 				Actions:      []string{readAction},
diff --git a/cmd/add/solution_test.go b/cmd/add/solution_test.go
index 5f6f5038..4840a8a9 100644
--- a/cmd/add/solution_test.go
+++ b/cmd/add/solution_test.go
@@ -551,8 +551,8 @@ func TestTheContractDeclaresARoleBesidesInstaller(t *testing.T) {
 	for index := range contract.Roles {
 		names = append(names, contract.Roles[index].Name)
 	}
-	if !slices.Contains(names, "installer") || !slices.Contains(names, "viewer") {
-		t.Fatalf("the contract must declare installer and viewer, got %v", names)
+	if !slices.Equal(names, []string{"installer", "editor", "viewer"}) {
+		t.Fatalf("the contract must declare the standard set installer/editor/viewer, got %v", names)
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/docs/commands.md b/docs/commands.md
index e5218cec..7f3bef01 100644
--- a/docs/commands.md
+++ b/docs/commands.md
@@ -2425,7 +2425,7 @@ What it creates:
 | `services/backend` | the entry service: presents the solution's identity, serves the API the page calls, and is the workload a host installs |
 | `services/web` | the shell that serves the page where no host shell mounts it — not published, because a host that federates the remote needs no shell. It **mounts the solution's own `./Page`**, the same module a host federates, and its generic login/signup routes are removed: a solution has no sign-in of its own, the authority's edge signs the person in |
 | `solution.codefly.yaml` | what the solution exposes, and the route name it addresses each consumed module by |
-| `module.contract.codefly.yaml` | the principal its credentials are issued to, with `owner_aware: true`, the solution's own `scope_ceilings`, and the **installer role** — the authority refuses to admit a solution that offers a person no role to hold on it |
+| `module.contract.codefly.yaml` | the principal its credentials are issued to, with `owner_aware: true`, the solution's own `scope_ceilings`, and the standard roles **installer / editor / viewer** — the same three wiki declares. The authority requires `installer` by name and refuses a solution without it |
 | `module.package.codefly.yaml` | the published identity; without it the render declares no presence and nobody can install the solution |
 | `services/backend/solution.frontend.codefly.yaml` | the page's title, order and `./Page` remote |
 | `configurations/local/fixture-composition.yaml` | who, in the development fixture, has this solution **installed**. Without it the authority refuses every capability ("not installed in this organization") and the page can only render its not-installed branch. `teams` is what admits anyone but the owner |