# Autonomous Governance Executable constitutional governance without routine discretionary human decisions or self-authorization. **Lens:** `source-only` — Experimental identifier reserved for exact-source views; currently uses the shared inventory. **Lens status:** Experimental manifest. Current lens policies preserve the same included-object inventory; the label does not yet indicate a materially differentiated editorial result. ## Included objects ### Constitution { "$schema": "https://epistemedia.com/schemas/constitution-v1.json", "id": "constitution:epistemedia:v0.1", "title": "Epistemedia Genesis Constitution", "status": "accepted", "principles": [ { "id": "C-001", "name": "Forkability", "rule": "Accepted data, schemas, policies, compilers, and manifests must be exportable so - Kind: `constitution` - Source path: `constitution/constitution.json` - Object ID: `em:constitution:sha256:613e02f2c47e627e986485e33793f27cbc1da022f05c71e18d7b874664e0ae73` - Content digest: `e6f0136751cf059d417f6f4c188340a6b1d110eea99188d3c87ebf97275815b6` ### 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:bd212900b0fa2ac9875b008737d8e50dfe0118c4669bb8df1f70c0a2042e3a3f` - Content digest: `cc8da037d479a385a470f4cf3737ec11f959434cc82afc516b92c8f9aaff4b7a` ### 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:b4c2e37dc7017b9d4d3362be9b82fa11ee3ab7cea9b58c3b8a1ae9b0937dcee9` - Content digest: `db414d3bd564bf608cbcc71d16d890c5256ed879b05ee3da4f047a8e3ee149b2` ### 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` ### Forensic-editorial design system Status: implemented public-shell convention for the truthful bootstrap corpus. - Kind: `documentation` - Source path: `docs/design-system.md` - Object ID: `em:documentation:sha256:9509af845b0db5e3b5a550086425036962d848bf62b0c07624dc1161a9d2ba16` - Content digest: `3b74257b8a496eb753597a6e2add577ff6cb6ab11b9c6ce557b66cb9cfa134c5` ### Reversible claim dossiers Status: alpha application contract for the first vertical slice. - Kind: `documentation` - Source path: `docs/dossiers.md` - Object ID: `em:documentation:sha256:e8cb4661b1e0468aef0c8e5b1be979b7b9cfdb5354fb31bbb1b9895d38b21b94` - Content digest: `fb1112ed5c0418bdb78e02ffa30dacc44d2d7a0b3f6629694dec7f25bb58642d` ### 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 realm, frontier, policy, source objects, and manifest. The current experimental lens routes preserve the same included-object inventory, so do not interpret their different lab - Kind: `documentation` - Source path: `docs/launch.md` - Object ID: `em:documentation:sha256:b23c428f86bc0df721e1898544cd3ef389754eb1ffde0a6e602e11d677198a7b` - Content digest: `83ddecd2336cc2e1fad1f49ec69cb59ef26d2d07eb64b9c5ef4316fadd7f7b57` ### 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` ### Product Direction: How We Know Status: owner-directed product brief, 2026-08-21. - Kind: `documentation` - Source path: `docs/product-direction.md` - Object ID: `em:documentation:sha256:54695a939fb994e6ad1a5567333556ccdb43ad09a154514c13b2d49f876331ab` - Content digest: `4a9a4771ce01859bfcfe075c8d9cc6c69995f02a56b66cfa96330d087d19c1d6` ### 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` ### Governance Records Governance proposals, evaluator reports, canary results, promotion decisions, rejections, quarantines, forks, and forward-only disablements are append-only accepted records. - Kind: `governance-record` - Source path: `governance/README.md` - Object ID: `em:governance-record:sha256:8ecb10ca0b75e0d285af3757bb9b5210589243b19086a34eeb8fb3cbeb195f62` - Content digest: `04146d4bc887c37dbbc7e049fc08acc8b8004b333fd6fefc8ca4154e6cb0978d` ### Manifest { "schema": "https://epistemedia.com/schemas/policy-manifest-v1.json", "epistemic": "commons-balanced-v0.1", "disclosure": "public-noninterference-v0.1", "selection": "repository-public-v0.1", "federation": "sovereign-import-v0.1", "governance": "machine-constitutional-v0.1", "resource": "bounded-public-service-v0.1", - Kind: `policy` - Source path: `policies/manifest.json` - Object ID: `em:policy:sha256:5aeb962d88c84193d08b338149e22487723c8f43d4e29f330aa36559c62ac457` - Content digest: `bdf17a66286d7f5fd99308fe5eca500b0e140957448203e9a0354d613e322dd1` ## Projection manifest - Projection: `em:projection:sha256:b51f9669dcb85d903d026f25496d5dade25b87a05a682feb7e487c15a836b6af` - Catalog: `em:catalog:sha256:0878f30018f4a18609fc53525c437f184b39cad2fe5fc2f58866dbe843a4c22f` - Evidence frontier: `em:frontier:sha256:768657ee40816484a512ba7a4d41f4a81e914d61ee31f14ea21fe0264e5625ad` - Accepted commit: `081419ff0e4d28005320dc1ae7ad068b98135959` - Epistemic policy: `commons-balanced-v0.1` - Disclosure policy: `public-noninterference-v0.1` - Compiler: `epistemedia/0.2.0`