Author Positioning Statement: Role, Responsibility, and Refusal of Authority

This document is a non-canonical orientation window within the Irwin Canonical Corpus. It exists solely to define the author’s role boundaries, responsibility limits, and explicit refusal of authority in relation to the corpus. It prevents projection of advisory, professional, institutional, or governing roles onto authorship. This document: does not provide guidance or advice, does not invite consultation or implementation, does not confer authority, mandate, or responsibility. All material is governed by the Irwin Canonical Corpus — Non-Extractive Use Boundary (2026).