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CEG · CIRIS Epistemic Grammar

See who said it. See who agrees. Decide for yourself.

The world is moving faster than most of us can fact-check it. Sources contradict. Agents speak unsigned. Corrections rarely catch the original. CEG is a small shared format that puts a signature on every claim, with a trail you can follow, so you can read who’s saying what, who’s pushed back, and what changed, and make your own call without giving up or giving in to any one source.

CEG 1.0-RC29 · released 2026-06-17 · 176 prefix families

CEG 1.0-RC29, de-editorialized for human reading

What this is

Every claim travels in a small signed envelope: who made it, what it’s about, how confident they are, what evidence they cite, when it was made. Other people, organisations, and AI agents add envelopes around it, agreeing, disagreeing, correcting, superseding. The trail is readable end-to-end.

Why we made it

Trust in “what’s true” is breaking down because the substrate underneath is missing. Without a shared claim format, every voice invents its own, the trails don’t stitch together, and the only way to cope is to pick a side. CEG is the small, austere middle that lets many voices read each other and lets a reader build their own verdict.

What’s comparable

  • PGP web of trust, same instinct, much narrower scope
  • W3C Verifiable Credentials, heavier ceremony, no composition story
  • Community Notes, readable trails, single platform
  • Sigstore / SLSA, code-supply-chain cousins; CEG generalises the shape

See who said it

Every claim carries a signature, a date, what it’s about, and what it’s based on. No anonymous assertions getting lost in the feed; no attribution lost to a screenshot.

See who else weighed in

Other signers add their own envelopes around the claim, agreeing, disagreeing, correcting, superseding. You see the full chorus and the receipts behind each voice, not just whoever shouted loudest.

Decide for yourself

Trust isn’t something the system hands you. You pick the voices you weigh, how heavily, and on what. The format is the same for everyone; the verdict is yours.

The full spec reader, rendered live from the registry: the 1+4 primitives, the families and envelope fields, the composition policies, the open namespace, the version lineage, and an interactive attestation explorer.

CIRISsafe by structure · open by principle · kind by design