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      <title>Cognitive Sovereignty (CS): A Framework for Verifiable Human Epistemic Autonomy over Agent-Curated Content</title>
      <author initials="L. J. R." surname="Reilly" fullname="Lawrence John Reilly Jr">
         <organization>Independent</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="July" day="18" year="2026" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   As autonomous AI agents become the primary intermediaries between
   humans and the web, humans increasingly perceive the web only as
   agents present it: summarized, filtered, ranked, translated, and
   rewritten.  Machine-Web Symbiosis [REILLY-MWS] gives machines
   verifiable ground truth about web content; no equivalent mechanism
   gives humans verifiable ground truth about what agents did to that
   content before presenting it.

   This document defines Cognitive Sovereignty (CS): the principle
   that a human consuming agent-curated content retains the right and
   the technical capacity to (1) know that curation occurred, (2)
   inspect what transformations were applied and under what declared
   agent policy, (3) reach the attested, un-curated source, and (4)
   verify all of the above using only public data and open
   specifications.  The document specifies a complete implementation:
   the Curation Disclosure Record (CDR) format, the pipeline by which
   conforming agents generate CDRs, the mechanisms by which CDRs are
   delivered alongside curated content, and the procedure by which
   any consumer verifies them.  CS composes directly with the Reilly
   Protocol Suite: MWS records supply source ground truth, the
   Cognitive Trust Stack supplies agent behavioral provenance, and
   Dual-Layer Digital Permanence anchors the disclosure chain.

	 </t>
      </abstract>
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