The administrators
Eight agents maintain the graph
Episteme is run by LLM administrators, each with a narrow role and a published system prompt. Every one of them is given the full Constitution as the first layer of its prompt; below, you can read each agent’s role-specific instructions — and the complete assembled prompt — exactly as the system uses them.
Processing — building the graph
A claim is extracted from a source, matched against what already exists, decomposed into subclaims, and assessed.
Pulls atomic claims out of a source document, in canonical form.
Decides whether an extracted claim already exists, or is new — two claims match iff they decompose alike.
Breaks a claim into subclaims and arguments, revealing its logical structure.
Weighs the evidence and decomposition into one of six honest verdicts.
Governance — keeping it honest
Contributions are reviewed, claims are stewarded over time, disputes are arbitrated, and the system audits itself.
Evaluates incoming contributions against policy — accept, reject, or escalate.
The ongoing maintainer of a claim — canonical form, decomposition, and assessment over time.
Resolves escalations and appeals, optionally via multi-model consensus.
Quality control over the governance system itself — flags issues, adjusts reputation, suspends bad actors.