Epistemic Authority Governance (EAG) Atlas

This record publishes the Epistemic Authority Governance (EAG) Atlas, a category map and internal control document defining the objects, transitions, boundaries, and failure modes that govern when a reasoning system may lawfully continue, escalate, bind, reuse, or terminate. The Atlas is not a theory of truth, intelligence, alignment, or ethics. It is a jurisdictional ontology: a structural framework for preventing illegitimate authority formation in human, machine, and hybrid reasoning systems by making epistemic movement explicit, typed, and enforceable across time. EAG addresses a distinct failure class - unauthorized epistemic continuation - in which claims gain authority through repetition, structure, or reuse rather than explicit warrant. The Atlas provides a unifying reference for concepts developed across the EAG program, including: epistemic acts and claim lifecycles warrants, escalation, promotion, binding, refusal, and termination constitutional invariants and authority admission protocols cross-dimensional authority boundaries and bridge mechanisms emergent control properties such as Epistemic Situational Awareness (ESA) diagnostic failure surfaces and stress probes This document is intended as a non-normative, living reference to reduce ambiguity and misinterpretation across the associated papers and implementations. Any concept, control, or practice that cannot be located within the Atlas is considered out of scope by definition. Correctness is not sufficient for authority.The Atlas governs the right to proceed.