A graph that admits uncertainty
The atlas separates identity, evidentiary claims, relationships and dated updates. This prevents an AI-generated news summary from silently changing an institution's legal authority.
Inclusion test
An entity enters the frontier-governance graph only when at least two of these are evidenced:
- It explicitly addresses frontier or general-purpose AI, or relevant compute.
- It has formal power or documented practical leverage over a model-lifecycle control point.
- It has documented application to at least one frontier developer or model.
Evidence model
Legal force, status, authority, membership, reach and political fragility are claims—not unqualified database fields. Every such claim carries sources, a confidence label, a factual/inferred/contested status, a review level and a verification date.
Freshness
Evidence ages visibly. A profile becomes “aging” after 120 days and “stale” after 180 days based on its oldest active claim. Recent developments are separate records with their own expiry date.
Power without a score
The authority view arranges entities by legal force or function. It does not aggregate legal authority, technical capacity, convening power and practical leverage into one “importance” score.
Security boundary
Agents may research and propose patches on branches. They do not write to the production branch, hold the deployment key or treat web content as instructions. Only reviewed, validated main-branch commits are deployed.