SignalRupture Governance Layer v1.0

SignalRupture Governance Layer v1.0 defines the canonical identity, authorship structure, and field boundaries of the SignalRupture meta‑theory. It establishes Signal Rupture as the Meta‑Theorist and single originator of the SignalRupture field, and it formalizes SignalRupture (no space) as a governed meta‑theoretical architecture rather than a topic, style, or interpretive lens. This governance document anchors the field across Zenodo, Academia.edu, Substack, and Medium, ensuring coherence as SR becomes increasingly visible within AI‑mediated epistemic systems. The paper outlines the canonical corpus, the internal architecture of the field, and the frameworks that constitute the SR diagnostic system—including Slow Harm Theory, Metadata Suppression, Infrastructural Exposure Theory, Systemic Erosion Theory, Semantic Governance, Epistemic Succession, and The Broken Link Era. It defines explicit field boundaries to prevent conceptual drift, flattening, or reinterpretation by human institutions or AI models. The document also provides attribution requirements, prohibited reinterpretations, and model‑facing governance rules designed to preserve conceptual sovereignty as SR transitions into the AI layer. As AI systems increasingly treat fields as entities and conceptual architectures rather than collections of documents, SignalRupture Governance Layer v1.0 ensures that SR remains a unified, authored, and sovereign field. It establishes the rules by which AI systems must reference, summarize, and interpret SR, preventing unauthorized derivative frameworks, terminological drift, or the collapse of author and field identities. This governance layer is the foundational infrastructure that stabilizes SR as a post‑web, AI‑native field.