# Epistemedia The public project, knowledge network, reference implementation, and current operating state. **Lens:** `encyclopedia` — A coherent general overview with explicit provenance and disagreement. ## Included objects ### Epistemedia > **Knowledge that can show its work.** > > An open, federated knowledge system for humans and agents—built from sources, claims, evidence, provenance, policies, and reproducible projections rather than one canonical page. - Kind: `repository-artifact` - Source path: `README.md` - Object ID: `em:repository-artifact:sha256:5604609462415b7f484bf82d5ad7e229c84bd9950cc4b15ed460ec9e3f9b50e0` - Content digest: `fc88dbda74282c5f1b80b8af17b8be9bc2efec6918bdae58215956ce5b675976` ### 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 - Kind: `documentation` - Source path: `docs/README.md` - Object ID: `em:documentation:sha256:0bb19954607726a41f7ff3195fafc4e83bd5a953e1f370e276b133899612104d` - Content digest: `959223b6aeafab2daa078af87029c5bef7822e706db003a0697bab70422dd4fc` ### Agent Operations This directory contains repeatable operating recipes. `AGENTS.md` remains the root authority contract. - Kind: `documentation` - Source path: `docs/agent-ops/README.md` - Object ID: `em:documentation:sha256:c33dcbb04b7907672ac2aeb8b070ccdcaa3759dfd5e9feb6bbedd4c848d33ba6` - Content digest: `57865da7b5d622610d327ddf0ade713e5cd18b29c5bc88e0d34acbfb5b1cc778` ### 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 - Kind: `documentation` - Source path: `docs/agent-ops/contributor.md` - Object ID: `em:documentation:sha256:477c27b7a79e2bd2eadee636d8576be10f0be62fcf9d3e7129de210f820501a6` - Content digest: `200449654805e3a1a6e1757550e7355b71486f32f5a8bdce5239f0c7293ba4bb` ### 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` - Object ID: `em:documentation:sha256:226ad5b49b2fdf606ce39f349a23293fd8a52d48ef03c1c06e3f37372032d662` - Content digest: `52fc1b2c11fb91df055fe39f5c680e284c82a50af937fc5ecd4acd0efcfb66d5` ### 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` - Source path: `docs/api-mcp-deployment.md` - Object ID: `em:documentation:sha256:30fe42f129cc7f12b02b2c5aa17d1c05b8fd2a7a8deebf5208ab79c70c0bcfb4` - Content digest: `8f96dba2e401d83cd5f25c28b0dc7d8ce3413ce4a702b8a2192b3c1824ec4d08` ### 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` - Source path: `docs/architecture.md` - Object ID: `em:documentation:sha256:e692c6fd478d9d233f49d97573d028c76cf490d5cd6dc722c8827b1072128ae1` - Content digest: `e98789193cda4246aeb9738f82adafc21424d45cbdf51678c00e7681b821437f` ### Brand Architecture **Knowledge that can show its work.** - Kind: `documentation` - Source path: `docs/brand.md` - Object ID: `em:documentation:sha256:41cf4e33a19c62d8f32cf4c763f4d9299261a1a6bedcd4d28d15e664636d6764` - Content digest: `b27c9de7ba02d52bdca9f0aae5b20ebaec307e265bc6a7664821448ae45412d7` ### 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` - Object ID: `em:documentation:sha256:f4b7f1ab01b96177383f211aef554aff3ed69f9fb56dbc09fe2a2fc1886eb53a` - 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` - Object ID: `em:documentation:sha256:132c8bebe37109788249ab6278506f8ea9261ccd50946fc3405c9e62a947012f` - 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` - Object ID: `em:documentation:sha256:859e311841076405f0ed54de7e344977e19081494c06c5bde44fb4877fb1d7ad` - Content digest: `6c55e03eca8ff7f0a58cbdd71c707de6bb2c52dccc72f967d2c5059fed2a46e9` ### 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. - Kind: `documentation` - Source path: `docs/roadmap.md` - Object ID: `em:documentation:sha256:2f1a4a7ef2d8194d184f06a300251ba055541be0029e1ca0ddef5a299063d4c5` - Content digest: `bcb6525b2343b8dd203b3a89fccdae5c5330d12313d061e31f03eac88a4ca8d4` ### Releases A release binds an accepted commit, event frontier, policy pack, compiler, generated artifact inventory, checksums, validation receipts, and deployment identities. Tags and hosted aliases are convenient pointers; the release manifest and content digests are the audit surface. - Kind: `release` - Source path: `releases/README.md` - Object ID: `em:release:sha256:475c85fd1b1459a32d7ae7f88151c132c6908fc84d94b8200796671f302305c6` - Content digest: `29fbf43acbfe60bb8c288d6240f718fd645997123b745626e2ae6345fb6e67e9` ### Epistemedia v0.2.0 This release establishes Epistemedia as the public project and Epistemic Mesh as its underlying protocol architecture. - Kind: `release` - Source path: `releases/v0.2.0.md` - Object ID: `em:release:sha256:9e4335cbb7fc01fa8851a2dd2fb86ffa46875c6c20783bff74d360fb6805e8d9` - Content digest: `8ebfe87a358745d4f1df94b1488eb6ea1f57056074b65fb7b843e94c6f0f61c0` ## Projection manifest - Projection: `em:projection:sha256:f3dd358f723d1d75ce56cdb88192ad320b665410b08f32442e614949e143dc2f` - 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`