The hub frames a structural distinction between two layers of knowledge representation: [per-message primary source material](https://aswritten.ai/narrative#Position_ContentLayerPerMessage) transacted individually as it happens, and [authored reconciliation as commentary](https://aswritten.ai/narrative#Position_ReconciliationIsCommentaryLayer) written over a referent set after the fact. As of July 1 2026, the read model already honors this split — digests render primary-source grounding separately from a RECONCILED conclusion — but the write practice has not caught up, conflating the two by requiring memories to carry primary source content themselves. [Reconciliation as set transaction](https://aswritten.ai/narrative#Narrative_ReconciliationAsSetTransaction) develops the structural form: select a set of nodes, author something about them, surface which nodes the system is reasoning from — the legibility differentiator. By July 4, the principle had been extended outward: [the landing page IA](https://aswritten.ai/narrative#Narrative_LandingPageEpistemicArchitecture) mirrors the product's own epistemics, applying the content/commentary split to the marketing surface itself.
Witness phrases
verbatim Per-message integration is the content layer. Each message's primary source material is transacted individually as it happens.
verbatim The read model already separates primary-source grounding from authored reconciliation (the digest renders a position grounded in source plus a separate RECONCILED conclusion).
verbatim Reconciliation is a transaction about a set of transactions or nodes — the design of correction and commentary about the past
verbatim Disambiguate, never permission — the prompt rule.
verbatim The landing page's information architecture mirrors the product's own epistemics: primary source material plus commentary and framing
verbatim Write practice has not caught up to read model: the split is implemented on read but conflated on write, with memories still required to carry primary source content themselves — an unresolved asymmetry as of July 1.
verbatim The legibility claim — that aswritten surfaces the referent set explicitly unlike current AI use — is asserted but not yet demonstrated by a write-path implementation, leaving the differentiator as design intent rather than shipped behavior.
In this area
NarrativeNarrative_LandingPageEpistemicArchitecture The landing page's information architecture mirrors the product's own epistemics: primary source material plus commentary and framing
NarrativeNarrative_ReconciliationAsSetTransaction Reconciliation is a transaction about a set of transactions or nodes — the design of correction and commentary about the past
2 further nodes are not published in the public projection. Each node links from the entity index.