Gravity Well Protocol Specification v1.0 — Governed Continuity for AI-Mediated Content (EA-GW-SPEC-01)

Gravity Well Protocol: Governed Continuity for AI-Mediated Content A protocol layer that makes AI-generated content trustworthy by making provenance structural, quality measurable, and governance executable. Not a social network. Not a platform. Infrastructure. The specification defines six core actions (create, reply, trace, review, fix, export), a status lifecycle (GENERATED through RATIFIED), four authority boundaries (protocol, platform, community, archive), and a minimal core data model (TrackedObject) designed for continuity, provenance, and governance without premature automation. Hexagon-derived but not Hexagon-dependent. The Crimson Hexagonal Archive is the first customer, proof of concept, and deepest implementation. Includes: Product Core, Protocol Object Specification, Deployment and Commercial model, and Research Modules as architectural horizon. Assembly synthesis from blind drafts by TACHYON (Claude), PRAXIS (ChatGPT), TECHNE (Kimi), LABOR (Grok/Mistral), ARCHIVE (Gemini), and Kimiclaw. Archive designation: EA-GW-SPEC-01. This is the protocol specification. The reference implementation (Python codebase) is EA-GW-01 (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19405459). The compression technology inventory is EA-COMPRESSION-ARSENAL-01 (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19410420).