# Disclosure and Public Projection

Why public eligibility must precede epistemic evaluation and how noninterference is tested.

**Lens:** `encyclopedia` — A coherent general overview with explicit provenance and disagreement.

## Included objects

### Epistemedia Documentation

- [Architecture](architecture.md) - [Human and agent interface contract](interfaces.md) - [Autonomous governance](governance.md) - [API, MCP, and CLI](api-mcp-cli.md) - [Public API and MCP deployment contract](api-mcp-deployment.md) - [Agent operations](agent-ops/README.md) - [Launch and engagement](launch.md) - [Brand

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### Agent Operations

This directory contains repeatable operating recipes. `AGENTS.md` remains the root authority contract.

- Kind: `documentation`
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### Contributor Agent Recipe

1. Orient: `make orient`. 2. Select: `python -m epistemedia repo next`. 3. Read the root contract, selected task contract, execution plan, scoped authority, schemas, policies, and tests. 4. Claim through an append-only proposal. 5. Work in one bounded branch and preserve negative results. 6. Rebuild all derived surface

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### API, MCP, and CLI

All integrations read the same disclosure-safe public catalog. Preserve the returned `catalog_id`, `frontier`, `commit`, `compiler`, policy IDs, object IDs, and content digests when storing or citing results.

- Kind: `documentation`
- Source path: `docs/api-mcp-cli.md`
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### Public API and MCP deployment contract

The API and MCP gateway is a read-only projection service. It receives an accepted repository snapshot and exposes no GitHub, contribution, deployment, package-publishing, signing, or arbitrary network-fetch authority.

- Kind: `documentation`
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### Epistemedia Architecture

Epistemedia is not an autonomous wiki whose canonical object is a page. Its canonical substrate is an append-only, provenance-preserving epistemic history. Pages and agent responses are reproducible projections over that history.

- Kind: `documentation`
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### Brand Architecture

**Knowledge that can show its work.**

- Kind: `documentation`
- Source path: `docs/brand.md`
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### Validation workflow

Epistemedia's contribution CI is defined in `.github/workflows/ci.yml` and appears in GitHub Actions as **Validate**.

- Kind: `documentation`
- Source path: `docs/ci-verification.md`
- Object ID: `em:documentation:sha256:7d40369d2fffe5da6c71035371c870fb74f1a75e7710b6f9bab3b97d4c1dbfd5`
- Content digest: `32d80c474aaf57128d7c2450080f8eb562f3e8786c8211edeff1f864734c6be0`

### Autonomous Governance

Epistemedia governance controls procedure, authority, admission, resources, disclosure, and interoperability. It does not vote propositions into universal truth.

- Kind: `documentation`
- Source path: `docs/governance.md`
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- Content digest: `2b2e73ec9cad599e976a35c3c31479d47adee72e341f9a854f0e484787dabaaa`

### Human and Agent Interface Contract

Epistemedia does not maintain separate editorial truths for people, API clients, MCP agents, and local tools. Each interface adapts one disclosure-safe catalog and projection manifest.

- Kind: `documentation`
- Source path: `docs/interfaces.md`
- Object ID: `em:documentation:sha256:5600741764a7b3f15581645b442c3694562be191230e0acb8104f74c8c9694a2`
- Content digest: `29d1eddb3792fa92efb04fbb6a17da89ba0e58fa79233f769fe435c0fe71478d`

### Launching and Engaging with Epistemedia

Start at the human site and choose a topic. A topic page is a reproducible projection, not an anonymously edited canonical article. Inspect its lens, realm, frontier, policy, source objects, and manifest. Switch lenses to compare a coherent overview with evidence-first, skeptical, frontier, historical, pedagogical, or 

- Kind: `documentation`
- Source path: `docs/launch.md`
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- Content digest: `68d97e21e55494fcb954bf02bc7cb81b68987a3cb60d6fb23deb59a71cf89c3a`

### Pre-public owner handoff

> **Archived bootstrap handoff.** The repository-publication and protected-contribution steps below are complete. The default-hostname Pages bootstrap is also live. Use [`ops/activation/2026-08-22-pages-bootstrap.md`](../ops/activation/2026-08-22-pages-bootstrap.md) for current evidence and remaining owner boundaries. 

- Kind: `documentation`
- Source path: `docs/pre-public-owner-handoff.md`
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### Epistemedia Roadmap

Compile the repository’s own architecture, governance, tasks, code, tests, and releases through the same public catalog used by every interface. Establish deterministic identity, disclosure safety, and agent-native operation.

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- Source path: `docs/roadmap.md`
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### Event Envelope V1

{ "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema", "$id": "https://epistemedia.com/schemas/event-envelope-v1.json", "title": "Epistemedia Event Envelope v1", "type": "object", "additionalProperties": false, "required": [ "schema", "event_id", "event_type", "realm_id", "actor", "recorded_time", "payload", "pay

- Kind: `schema`
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- Content digest: `93f7f4bb4f64eb7b871baab47d2c0eb20df5c4c956e5406a90d3c1d9fae2eb46`

### Public Catalog V1

{ "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema", "$id": "https://epistemedia.com/schemas/public-catalog-v1.json", "title": "Epistemedia Public Catalog v1", "type": "object", "required": ["catalog_id", "frontier", "commit", "compiler", "objects", "topics", "lenses", "policies"], "properties": { "catalog_id":

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- Source path: `schemas/public-catalog-v1.json`
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- Content digest: `35a72fc173ec9c6da6108273987a68587c8aa95096c9ad18ca32ba6d816866d7`

### Task Contract V1

{ "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema", "$id": "https://epistemedia.com/schemas/task-contract-v1.json", "title": "Epistemedia Task Contract v1", "type": "object", "required": ["id", "title", "status", "change_class", "objective", "authority", "acceptance"], "properties": { "id": {"type": "string", 

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### Test Container Contract

from __future__ import annotations

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### Test Installed Package

from __future__ import annotations

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### Test Interfaces

from __future__ import annotations

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### Test License

from __future__ import annotations

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### Test Workflow Security

from __future__ import annotations

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## Projection manifest

- Projection: `em:projection:sha256:84ece8accbe2de759b447afd59aefa836e1c6605a2959b0698ff9680760b66dd`
- Catalog: `em:catalog:sha256:111ab89d8bea7ca893d8873cf7357bc48b8a374eeeb12959a4ae447d461f2246`
- Evidence frontier: `em:frontier:sha256:7d5c69ddb6a5b56f3286b94a8e550df79fc86a0ed27eabd3f5780e3d510fa690`
- Accepted commit: `091d3fce01e930424352e5639e5bca06cdd02fca`
- Epistemic policy: `commons-balanced-v0.1`
- Disclosure policy: `public-noninterference-v0.1`
- Compiler: `epistemedia/0.2.0`