diff --git a/.eleventy.js b/.eleventy.js
index 1c51fe6..2fcb4d2 100644
--- a/.eleventy.js
+++ b/.eleventy.js
@@ -36,6 +36,31 @@ export default function configureEleventy(eleventyConfig) {
   eleventyConfig.addFilter('edcmMarkdown', value => md.render(String(value || ''))
     .replace(/<pre(?![^>]*\btabindex=)([^>]*)>/g, '<pre tabindex="0"$1>')
     .replace(/<math(?![^>]*\btabindex=)(?=[^>]*\bdisplay="block")/g, '<math tabindex="0"'));
+
+  // The eight publication Article drafts predate the current human-facing UI.
+  // Normalize their repeated presentation at build time so the Article is primary,
+  // footnotes are named literally, source/provenance is available on demand, and
+  // ordinary previous/next/Way navigation remains visible outside that disclosure.
+  // This is a static HTML transform; it does not depend on browser JavaScript.
+  eleventyConfig.addTransform('article-reading-hierarchy', function(content) {
+    const outputPath = this.page?.outputPath || '';
+    if (!/\/articles\/article-(?:one|two|three|four|five|six|seven|eight)\/index\.html$/.test(outputPath)) return content;
+    return String(content)
+      .replace(
+        /<section class="panel">\s*<h2>Source boundary<\/h2>\s*<p>([\s\S]*?)<\/p>\s*<p>([\s\S]*?)<\/p>\s*<\/section>/,
+        (_match, boundaryText, linkLine) => {
+          const links = [...linkLine.matchAll(/<a\b[^>]*>[\s\S]*?<\/a>/g)].map(match => match[0]);
+          const sourceLink = links.shift() || '';
+          const navigation = links.length
+            ? `<nav class="article-context-nav" aria-label="Related Article navigation">${links.join(' · ')}</nav>`
+            : '';
+          return `<details class="provenance-disclosure"><summary>Source &amp; provenance</summary><h2>Source boundary</h2><p>${boundaryText}</p>${sourceLink ? `<p>${sourceLink}</p>` : ''}</details>${navigation}`;
+        }
+      )
+      .replaceAll('Speaker A · exact canon excerpt', 'Article')
+      .replaceAll('Speaker B · footnote conversation', 'Footnotes');
+  });
+
   // Exact canonical body lines of a unit: skip the heading line, stop before
   // footnote lines, notes blocks, separators, and sub-headings. Mirrors the
   // body extraction in scripts/verify-article-canon.mjs; keep the two in step.
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index bfca4b1..75f1e78 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
     "build": "npm run validate && eleventy && pagefind --site _site && node scripts/write-build-info.mjs",
     "pretest": "node scripts/prepare-tests.mjs",
     "test": "node --test tests/aicontext.test.mjs tests/edcm-mathematics.test.mjs tests/gonol-relationships.test.mjs tests/post-merge-reconciliation.test.mjs tests/llms-build.test.mjs tests/canon-parser.test.mjs tests/canon-integrity.test.mjs tests/textbook-integrity.test.mjs tests/math-rendering.test.mjs tests/narratives.test.mjs tests/offline-project-snapshot.test.mjs tests/repo-coverage.test.mjs tests/research-ledger.test.mjs tests/works-registry.test.mjs tests/site-contract.test.mjs",
-    "test:generated": "node --test tests/generated-site.test.mjs tests/textbook-generated.test.mjs tests/math-generated.test.mjs && node tests/links.test.mjs",
+    "test:generated": "node --test tests/generated-site.test.mjs tests/human-ui-generated.test.mjs tests/textbook-generated.test.mjs tests/math-generated.test.mjs && node tests/links.test.mjs",
     "test:browser": "playwright test",
     "test:e2e": "playwright test tests/site.spec.mjs",
     "test:a11y": "playwright test tests/accessibility.spec.mjs",
diff --git a/src/chapters/chapter.njk b/src/chapters/chapter.njk
index 088fc64..b25b1ba 100644
--- a/src/chapters/chapter.njk
+++ b/src/chapters/chapter.njk
@@ -12,13 +12,17 @@ eleventyComputed:
 <header class="page-head chapter-head">
   <p class="eyebrow">Distributed textbook · Chapter {{ chapter.display_number }}</p>
   <div class="status-row">
-    <span class="status status-canon">exact repository source</span>
     <span class="status {% if chapter.number == 7 %}status-frontier{% else %}status-research{% endif %}">{{ chapter.status }}</span>
     {% if chapter.fallback %}<span class="status status-hmmm">fallback</span>{% endif %}
   </div>
-  <p class="lede">This chapter is displayed from <code>{{ chapter.repository }}:{{ chapter.path }}</code>. Its repository retains its license, status vocabulary, and claim authority; this reader does not transfer those statuses to any other chapter or to The Interdependent Way canon.</p>
+  <p class="lede">Each chapter retains the claim authority and status vocabulary of the repository that carries it. Source identity and verification metadata are available after the chapter text.</p>
 </header>
-<section class="provenance chapter-provenance">
+{% if chapter.content %}
+<article class="textbook-chapter" data-chapter-number="{{ chapter.number }}" data-source-repository="{{ chapter.repository }}">
+  {{ chapter.content | markdown | safe }}
+</article>
+<details class="provenance chapter-provenance">
+  <summary>Source &amp; provenance</summary>
   <h2>Source evidence</h2>
   <dl class="meta">
     <dt>Repository</dt><dd><code>{{ chapter.repository }}</code></dd>
@@ -29,13 +33,9 @@ eleventyComputed:
     <dt>Retrieved</dt><dd>{{ chapter.retrievedAt or "hmmm" }}</dd>
   </dl>
   <div class="actions"><a class="button secondary" href="{{ chapter.sourceUrl }}">Open exact source in GitHub</a></div>
-</section>
-{% if chapter.content %}
-<article class="textbook-chapter" data-chapter-number="{{ chapter.number }}" data-source-repository="{{ chapter.repository }}">
-  {{ chapter.content | markdown | safe }}
-</article>
+</details>
 {% else %}
-<section class="hmmm"><h1>Chapter {{ chapter.display_number }} source unavailable</h1><p>The offline build has no retained content snapshot for this chapter. Its declared source remains available through the repository link above; no substitute text has been invented.</p><p>{{ chapter.retrievalError }}</p></section>
+<section class="hmmm"><h1>Chapter {{ chapter.display_number }} source unavailable</h1><p>The offline build has no retained content snapshot for this chapter. Its declared source remains available through the repository link below; no substitute text has been invented.</p><p>{{ chapter.retrievalError }}</p><details class="provenance chapter-provenance"><summary>Source &amp; provenance</summary><h2>Source evidence</h2><p><a href="{{ chapter.sourceUrl }}">Open declared source in GitHub</a></p></details></section>
 {% endif %}
 <nav class="chapter-pagination" aria-label="Textbook chapters">
   {% if pagination.href.previous %}<a class="button secondary" href="{{ pagination.href.previous }}">Previous chapter</a>{% endif %}
diff --git a/src/lab/index.njk b/src/lab/index.njk
index 6ed5c09..c8949b5 100644
--- a/src/lab/index.njk
+++ b/src/lab/index.njk
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 ---
 layout: layouts/base.njk
 title: Article Lab
-description: A structured conversation between canonical body text, notes, research, absurd-limit tests, practice failures, practice strengths, and domain applications.
+description: A structured relation between canonical Article text, footnotes, research, absurd-limit tests, practice failures, practice strengths, and domain applications.
 ---
 <header class="page-head">
   <p class="eyebrow">Interpretation with visible seams</p>
   <h1>Article Lab</h1>
-  <p class="lede">The Way tree is the primary Article Lab index. This compatibility view collects the eight developed Rights Article Labs: body text and notes remain distinct speakers; reductio ad absurdum exposes destructive overextensions; practice and domain applications test the reading; study-only research remains visibly bounded.</p>
+  <p class="lede">The Way tree is the primary Article Lab index. This compatibility view collects the eight developed Rights Article Labs: Article text and footnotes remain distinct; reductio ad absurdum exposes destructive overextensions; practice and domain applications test the reading; study-only research remains visibly bounded.</p>
   <div class="actions"><a class="button" href="/way/">Open the Way tree</a></div>
 </header>
 <section>
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ description: A structured conversation between canonical body text, notes, resea
           <a class="card" href="/lab/{{ unit.routeSlug }}/">
             <span class="status status-interpretation">Lab</span>
             <h3>{{ record.public_title }}</h3>
-            <p>{{ unit.notes.length }} separately parsed note{% if unit.notes.length != 1 %}s{% endif %} · {{ claims.length }} study-linked claim{% if claims.length != 1 %}s{% endif %} · {{ record.applications | length }} application domains</p>
+            <p>{{ unit.notes.length }} separately parsed footnote{% if unit.notes.length != 1 %}s{% endif %} · {{ claims.length }} study-linked claim{% if claims.length != 1 %}s{% endif %} · {{ record.applications | length }} application domains</p>
           </a>
         {% endif %}
       {% endfor %}
diff --git a/src/lab/unit.njk b/src/lab/unit.njk
index d04d9fa..59426b5 100644
--- a/src/lab/unit.njk
+++ b/src/lab/unit.njk
@@ -12,21 +12,22 @@ title: "Lab: {{ unit.title }}"
 {% set claims = research_data.claims | where("article", unit.id) %}
 {% set gapMatches = research_data.gaps | where("article", unit.id) %}
 {% set gap = gapMatches[0] %}
-<nav class="breadcrumb" aria-label="Breadcrumb"><a href="/way/">Start · Way tree</a> / Article Lab / {{ unit.title }}</nav>
+<nav class="breadcrumb" aria-label="Breadcrumb"><a href="/way/">The Way</a> / Article Lab / {{ unit.title }}</nav>
 <header class="page-head">
   <p class="eyebrow">Interpretive laboratory</p>
   <h1>{% if lab %}{{ lab.public_title }}{% else %}{{ unit.title }}{% endif %}</h1>
-  <p class="lede">The body text, notes, research, failure tests, and applications remain separate layers. This is a review surface, not substitute canon and not an edcmbone metric runtime.</p>
+  <p class="lede">The Article, footnotes, research, failure tests, and applications remain separate layers. This is a review surface, not substitute canon and not an edcmbone metric runtime.</p>
 </header>
 <section>
-  <h2>Conversation</h2>
-  <article class="panel turn"><span class="status status-canon">Speaker A · main text</span>
+  <h2>Article and footnotes</h2>
+  <article class="panel turn"><span class="status status-canon">Article</span>
     <blockquote class="reading">{% for line in unit.content | canonUnitBody %}<p>{{ line }}</p>{% endfor %}</blockquote>
-    <p><a href="/source/{{ unit.routeSlug }}/">Open exact source and provenance</a></p></article>
+    <details class="provenance-disclosure"><summary>Source &amp; provenance</summary><p><a href="/source/{{ unit.routeSlug }}/">Open exact source and provenance</a></p></details>
+  </article>
   {% if unit.notes.length %}
-    {% for note in unit.notes %}<article class="panel turn note"><span class="status status-interpretation">Speaker B · note {{ note.marker }}</span><p>{{ note.text }}</p></article>{% endfor %}
+    {% for note in unit.notes %}<article class="panel turn note"><span class="status status-interpretation">Footnotes</span><p><strong>{{ note.marker }}</strong> {{ note.text }}</p></article>{% endfor %}
   {% else %}
-    <article class="hmmm"><h3>No separately parsed note text</h3><p>This unit may contain no numbered annotations, or its tension may be structural rather than footnoted.</p></article>
+    <article class="hmmm"><h3>No separately parsed footnotes</h3><p>This unit may contain no numbered annotations, or its tension may be structural rather than footnoted.</p></article>
   {% endif %}
 </section>
 {% if lab %}
diff --git a/src/preamble/index.njk b/src/preamble/index.njk
index 0fcc239..48b86a4 100644
--- a/src/preamble/index.njk
+++ b/src/preamble/index.njk
@@ -6,19 +6,19 @@ permalink: /preamble/
 ---
 {% set preambles = generated.canon.units | where("title", "Preamble") %}
 {% set preamble = preambles[0] %}
-<nav class="breadcrumb" aria-label="Breadcrumb"><a href="/">Home</a> / Preamble</nav>
+<nav class="breadcrumb" aria-label="Breadcrumb"><a href="/home/">Home</a> / Preamble</nav>
 <header class="page-head">
   <p class="eyebrow">One-click canon entrance</p>
   <h1>Preamble</h1>
-  <div class="status-row"><span class="status status-canon">exact canon-derived unit</span></div>
-  <p class="lede">The Preamble is a first-order entrance to The Interdependent Way. This stable route is generated from the selected canonical source and does not maintain a separate copy.</p>
+  <p class="lede">Read the Preamble first. Source evidence and provenance remain available below the text when verification is needed.</p>
 </header>
 {% if preamble %}
 <section>
   <h2>Canonical text</h2>
   <pre class="source-block">{{ preamble.content }}</pre>
 </section>
-<section class="panel">
+<details class="provenance chapter-provenance">
+  <summary>Source &amp; provenance</summary>
   <h2>Source evidence</h2>
   <dl class="meta">
     <dt>Canonical repository</dt><dd><code>{{ generated.canon.source.repository }}</code></dd>
@@ -26,8 +26,9 @@ permalink: /preamble/
     <dt>Source lines</dt><dd>{{ preamble.startLine }}–{{ preamble.endLine }}</dd>
     <dt>Unit digest</dt><dd><code>{{ preamble.hash }}</code></dd>
   </dl>
-</section>
-<div class="actions"><a class="button" href="/source/{{ preamble.routeSlug }}/">Read exact source view</a><a class="button secondary" href="/way/">Continue through The Way</a></div>
+  <div class="actions"><a class="button secondary" href="/source/{{ preamble.routeSlug }}/">Open exact source view</a></div>
+</details>
+<div class="actions"><a class="button" href="/way/">Continue through The Way</a></div>
 {% else %}
 <section class="hmmm"><h2>hmmm</h2><p>The selected canon did not produce a Preamble unit. The release tests must treat this as a broken public contract.</p></section>
 {% endif %}
diff --git a/src/start.njk b/src/start.njk
index 7f228fc..083b01d 100644
--- a/src/start.njk
+++ b/src/start.njk
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 ---
 layout: layouts/base.njk
-title: Start here
+title: Site orientation
 permalink: /start/
 description: Orientation to The Interdependent Way, its layered source model, project constellation, and research boundaries.
 ---
-<header class="page-head"><p class="eyebrow">Orientation before density</p><h1>Start here</h1><p class="lede">The Interdependent Way is simultaneously a canonical text, an interpretive problem, a research program, a public project constellation, and a set of frontier claims. Those layers are related, but they are not interchangeable.</p></header>
+<header class="page-head"><p class="eyebrow">Orientation before density</p><h1>Site orientation</h1><p class="lede">The Interdependent Way is simultaneously a canonical text, an interpretive problem, a research program, a public project constellation, and a set of frontier claims. Those layers are related, but they are not interchangeable.</p></header>
 <section><h2>How to read this site</h2><div class="grid"><article class="card"><span class="status status-canon">Canon</span><h3>What the source says</h3><p>Exact text and mechanically derived structure. Canon wins whenever a companion reading disagrees.</p></article><article class="card"><span class="status status-interpretation">Interpretation</span><h3>What a reading proposes</h3><p>Orientation, plain-language companions, and tension analysis. Useful scaffolding, always subordinate to source.</p></article><article class="card"><span class="status status-research">Research</span><h3>What studies found</h3><p>Only primary studies and systematic evidence-synthesis studies count. Support, dissent, mixed results, limits, and missing directions are classified by review rather than automated sentiment.</p></article><article class="card"><span class="status status-public">Non-study context</span><h3>What rules or institutions say</h3><p>Legislation, treaties, standards, guidelines, frameworks, and doctrine may matter as context, but they are not science and never count as Research.</p></article><article class="card"><span class="status status-implemented">Implementation</span><h3>What has been built</h3><p>Repositories and artifacts that attempt to embody, test, measure, publish, or challenge part of the work.</p></article><article class="card"><span class="status status-frontier">Frontier</span><h3>What remains unsettled</h3><p>Experimental or incomplete claims remain named without borrowing certainty from neighboring formal work.</p></article><article class="card"><span class="status status-hmmm">hmmm</span><h3>What is honestly unresolved</h3><p>A boundary object that records the missing constraint and preserves a place for continuation.</p></article></div></section>
-<section class="panel"><h2>A suggested first path</h2><ol><li>Open the <a href="/way/">Way tree</a> and choose one section.</li><li>Expand its title to read the exact canon text.</li><li>Where offered, open that unit’s Article Lab to see body text and notes treated as separate speakers.</li><li>Open exact source when you are ready to verify wording and provenance.</li><li>Use <a href="/projects/">Projects</a> to see what has actually been implemented.</li></ol></section>
-<div class="actions"><a class="button" href="/way/">Explore the Way</a><a class="button secondary" href="/projects/">Map the projects</a></div>
+<section class="panel"><h2>A suggested first path</h2><ol><li>Open <a href="/way/">The Way</a> and choose one section.</li><li>Expand its title to read the canon text.</li><li>Where offered, open that unit’s Article Lab to examine the Article and Footnotes as distinct layers.</li><li>Open Source &amp; provenance only when you need to verify wording or origin.</li><li>Use <a href="/projects/">Projects</a> to see what has actually been implemented.</li></ol></section>
+<div class="actions"><a class="button" href="/way/">Explore The Way</a><a class="button secondary" href="/projects/">Map the projects</a></div>
diff --git a/tests/human-ui-generated.test.mjs b/tests/human-ui-generated.test.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..49a7fb2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/human-ui-generated.test.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+import test from 'node:test';
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import { readFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
+
+test('human reading surfaces keep provenance collapsed and Article labels literal', async () => {
+  const canon = JSON.parse(await readFile('src/_data/generated/canon.json', 'utf8'));
+  const articleLab = JSON.parse(await readFile('src/_data/article_lab.json', 'utf8'));
+  const firstLabRecord = articleLab[0];
+  const firstLabUnit = canon.units.find(unit => unit.id === firstLabRecord.unit_id);
+  assert.ok(firstLabUnit, 'first Article Lab must map to a canon unit');
+
+  const [base, preamble, chapterZero, lab, publicationArticle, orientation] = await Promise.all([
+    readFile('_site/home/index.html', 'utf8'),
+    readFile('_site/preamble/index.html', 'utf8'),
+    readFile('_site/chapters/chapter-zero/index.html', 'utf8'),
+    readFile(`_site/lab/${firstLabUnit.routeSlug}/index.html`, 'utf8'),
+    readFile('_site/articles/article-one/index.html', 'utf8'),
+    readFile('_site/start/index.html', 'utf8')
+  ]);
+
+  assert.match(base, /<a href="\/way\/">The Way<\/a>/);
+  assert.doesNotMatch(base, /<a[^>]*>Start<\/a>/);
+
+  assert.match(preamble, /<details class="provenance chapter-provenance">[\s\S]*<summary>Source &amp; provenance<\/summary>/);
+  assert.ok(preamble.indexOf('Humanity faces extinction') < preamble.indexOf('Source &amp; provenance'));
+
+  assert.match(chapterZero, /<details class="provenance chapter-provenance">[\s\S]*<summary>Source &amp; provenance<\/summary>/);
+  assert.ok(chapterZero.indexOf('Zero is not nothing') < chapterZero.indexOf('Source &amp; provenance'));
+
+  assert.match(lab, />Article<\/span>/);
+  assert.match(lab, />Footnotes<\/span>/);
+  assert.doesNotMatch(lab, /Speaker A|Speaker B/);
+  assert.match(lab, /<details class="provenance-disclosure">[\s\S]*<summary>Source &amp; provenance<\/summary>/);
+
+  assert.match(publicationArticle, />Article<\/p>/);
+  assert.match(publicationArticle, />Footnotes<\/p>/);
+  assert.doesNotMatch(publicationArticle, /Speaker A|Speaker B/);
+  assert.match(publicationArticle, /<details class="provenance-disclosure">[\s\S]*<summary>Source &amp; provenance<\/summary>/);
+
+  assert.match(orientation, /<h1>Site orientation<\/h1>/);
+  assert.doesNotMatch(orientation, /Start here|separate speakers/);
+});
diff --git a/tests/site-contract.test.mjs b/tests/site-contract.test.mjs
index ffea49a..e88389c 100644
--- a/tests/site-contract.test.mjs
+++ b/tests/site-contract.test.mjs
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ test('one static-first build owns public routes and exact Markdown rendering', a
   assert.match(config, /'llms\.txt': 'llms\.txt'/);
   assert.match(config, /addFilter\('markdown'/);
   assert.match(config, /html: false/);
+  assert.match(config, /addTransform\('article-reading-hierarchy'/);
 });
 
 test('machine discovery remains wired without occupying the human homepage', async () => {
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ test('base layout remains readable without javascript and presents a human-first
   assert.match(layout, /href="\/chapters\/"/);
   assert.match(layout, /href="\/narratives\/"/);
   assert.match(layout, /<a href="\/way\/">The Way<\/a>/);
+  assert.doesNotMatch(layout, />Start<\/a>/);
   assert.doesNotMatch(layout, />Awakening<\/a>/);
   assert.doesNotMatch(layout, />Preamble<\/a>/);
   assert.doesNotMatch(layout, />Article Lab<\/a>/);
@@ -57,6 +59,29 @@ test('Way tree presents human reading first, nested Article Labs second, and exa
   assert.doesNotMatch(way, /<script/i);
 });
 
+test('Article Lab uses literal Article and Footnotes labels and collapses provenance', async () => {
+  const [lab, labIndex, preamble, chapter, orientation, config] = await Promise.all([
+    readFile('src/lab/unit.njk', 'utf8'),
+    readFile('src/lab/index.njk', 'utf8'),
+    readFile('src/preamble/index.njk', 'utf8'),
+    readFile('src/chapters/chapter.njk', 'utf8'),
+    readFile('src/start.njk', 'utf8'),
+    readFile('.eleventy.js', 'utf8')
+  ]);
+  assert.match(lab, />Article<\/span>/);
+  assert.match(lab, />Footnotes<\/span>/);
+  assert.doesNotMatch(lab, /Speaker A|Speaker B/);
+  assert.doesNotMatch(labIndex, /distinct speakers/);
+  assert.match(lab, /<details class="provenance-disclosure"><summary>Source &amp; provenance<\/summary>/);
+  assert.match(preamble, /<pre class="source-block">{{ preamble\.content }}<\/pre>[\s\S]*<details class="provenance chapter-provenance">/);
+  assert.match(chapter, /<article class="textbook-chapter"[\s\S]*<details class="provenance chapter-provenance">/);
+  assert.match(config, /Speaker A · exact canon excerpt', 'Article'/);
+  assert.match(config, /Speaker B · footnote conversation', 'Footnotes'/);
+  assert.match(config, /<summary>Source &amp; provenance<\/summary>/);
+  assert.match(orientation, /<h1>Site orientation<\/h1>/);
+  assert.doesNotMatch(orientation, /Start here|separate speakers/);
+});
+
 test('Awakening owns one human continuation into the Way tree', async () => {
   const [layout, splash, home] = await Promise.all([
     readFile('src/_includes/layouts/splash.njk', 'utf8'),