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Ecosystem method map

The operating claim

GARP separates AI assistance from institutional record admission. That sentence is the spine of every surface named on this page, and it is the reason GARPedia is one proof path rather than an encyclopedia. Assistance is the work an agent or a model does to help a person; admission is the governed event that decides whether anything produced by that work becomes a durable institutional record. The ecosystem keeps those two on opposite sides of a boundary on purpose.

Wikis made knowledge editable and linkable. Reverse wikis make knowledge admissible, projectable, and agent-operable. This map reads the GARP ecosystem through that inversion: the page is not the place authority lives, and GARPedia is the public read surface where an already-admitted projection becomes legible, not the place a record is written, approved, or verified.

This is a map, not a new model. It reuses the surfaces and roles already documented across this site and the cross-repo ecosystem ledger; it does not introduce a new spine, rename a surface, or assign a role that the ecosystem did not already carry.

What this map is, and what it is not

GARPedia, in this wave, is a public-safe projection surface, a reverse-wiki method map, a readable presentation of governed records and admitted projections, and one proof path in the larger GARP ecosystem. Naming all four is what keeps the surface honest about its own scope.

Not a raw corpus viewer. The reader sees admitted projections, never the underlying corpus.
Not a public mutation or admission interface. Public projection is not public admission mutation.
Not a model-truth oracle. Receipts and review candidates do not verify model output.
Not a compliance or legal determination engine. Nothing here is a legal, regulatory, or compliance determination.
Not a dump of internal schemas. Private prompts, private source text, tool arguments, transcripts, and private operator paths are excluded.

The spine: named surfaces and their roles

The ecosystem is a small set of surfaces, each with one role. This is the existing spine, stated public-safe; the private operator detail behind each surface is deliberately not on this page.

ARCS Anchorthe capture and record-custody substrate. It owns what was captured and the immutability of the record under it.
GARP / GARP SDKthe protocol and object-model substrate. It owns the admission boundary: the governed event that turns assistance output into a candidate, and a reviewed candidate into a record.
GARP Workbenchthe private operator surface for review, promotion, dispute adjudication, and other governed-write actions. It is not hosted in GARPedia and must not be.
Counterposethe publication and analytical-continuation platform built on the model. It owns its editorial publications; GARPedia consumes admitted Counterpose editorial as captured records and does not author, approve, or verify them.
GARPediathe public read-and-render surface. It projects admitted, renderer-authorized records and generalizes the public-reader grammar across profiles without becoming any of the other surfaces.
garp.toolsthe implementation references and developer portal: schemas, validators, and SDK packages, kept separate so this surface stays focused on the model.

The spine operates through five primitives this surface inherits from the broader ecosystem rather than coining: admission (the governed event that turns a reviewed candidate into a record); firewall (the corpus boundary that holds private material out of public render); policy packs / verticals (the per-domain policy scope, e.g. the FSI / MNPI vertical); operator cockpit (the Workbench-side operator surface where review, promotion, and dispute adjudication actually run, never on GARPedia); and public projection (this surface itself). Naming them here keeps the map aligned with the ecosystem's primitive vocabulary.

Reverse-wiki operating ownership

Every public projection on this surface is explainable through three accountable owners. A projection that cannot name all three is a demonstration, not a product, and is not presented as one here.

custody ownerowns the record and its admission: provenance, redaction profile, supersession, and immutability. Refusal is a recorded outcome, not an error. ARCS Anchor and the GARP admission boundary sit here.
render ownerowns the projection: the page model, the renderer authority list, the profile overlays, and every overclaim boundary. The render owner can hold admitted material out of rendering. GARPedia is the render owner for this surface.
operator ownerowns the review and continuation loop: who reviews, promotes, disputes, or continues knowledge, and through what governed action. The GARP Workbench is the operator surface; it never edits a record, it produces a new admission or supersession event.

The three are deliberately separable so that no single surface is a single point of failure for public safety. Public projection is not public admission mutation. An agent reading or traversing this surface never crosses into any of the three owner roles. Agent access is not institutional authority.

Evaluator walkthrough

An evaluator reading this surface traverses five public stops, in order: Operating model overview, FSI Reviewer Vertical, Workbench, Agent outcomes, and GARPedia. The walkthrough is downstream of admitted and reviewed records; it reads what was already admitted on those surfaces and does not lift, edit, or re-author them.

At every stop the same boundary holds. Generated text is not a record. Reviewer packets are review surfaces, not admissions. Agent outcomes are review candidates, not admitted records. Receipts and review candidates do not verify model output. Public projection is not public admission mutation. Private prompts, private source text, tool arguments, transcripts, and private operator paths are excluded.

The FSI proof path

The ecosystem currently surfaces three proof paths through the operating claim: the FSI Reviewer Vertical (the financial-services / MNPI review proof path), the Reverse Wiki / GARPedia surface itself (this surface, as a reverse-wiki projection of admitted records), and BYOK / arcs-forum (the bring-your-own-key arcs-forum proof path). This page details the FSI Reviewer Vertical because it is the proof path the GARPedia surface most directly mirrors; the other two are named for ecosystem alignment, not described or linked here.

The FSI Reviewer Vertical proof path demonstrates the operating claim end to end: an agent assists, the output enters review as a candidate, and only a governed admission turns a reviewed candidate into a record. Receipts and review candidates do not verify model output. Agent outcomes are review candidates, not admitted records.

That proof path lives in two places, neither of them GARPedia. The operator view is the FSI cockpit and dashboard pages in the GARP Workbench, where review, the Admission Posture Chain, and governed-write actions actually run. The narrated buyer-facing view is the FSI MNPI Object Lint walkthrough in garp-showcase, which reads the same posture without operating it. GARPedia links the proof path to those surfaces; it does not reproduce them and does not host their controls.

The FSI vertical-pack repo cut is a downstream gate, not a current public surface. It is named here only so the map is honest about where the boundary is; this page does not link to it or treat it as a place a reader can go, and the cockpit and walkthrough above remain the only FSI proof-path surfaces this map points at.

What this map does not claim

This is an explainer for where GARPedia sits, not a shipped capability inventory. The following are explicitly not claimed and must not be inferred from it.

No model-truth claim. Rendering an admitted projection asserts nothing about whether a model's output is correct; receipts and review candidates do not verify model output.
No legal or compliance determination. Nothing on this surface is a legal, regulatory, or compliance ruling about any record or any party.
No public admission mutation. Public projection is not public admission mutation; there is no page-to-record path on this surface, and naming a projection agent-operable creates none.
No AIB runtime claim. The agentic-information-barrier runtime is gated upstream; this map describes a public projection, not an AIB runtime, and asserts no AIB behavior.
No global renderer-authority lift. The renderer authority list is unchanged and the CP-SIG renderer-authority hold stands in full; nothing here authorizes, route-enumerates, or links any additional record.
No private material. Private prompts, private source text, tool arguments, transcripts, and private operator paths are excluded, and agent access is not institutional authority.

The canonical GARP boundary phrases this map carries verbatim, stated once on a single line each so the cross-surface coherence check can read them without re-flowing the prose:

GARP separates AI assistance from institutional record admission.
Agent access is not institutional authority.
Receipts and review candidates do not verify model output.
Agent outcomes are review candidates, not admitted records.
Public projection is not public admission mutation.
Private prompts, private source text, tool arguments, transcripts, and private operator paths are excluded.