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+# ERRATUM 001 — ADMISSION-CONTRACT-v0.1
+
+Status: OWNER-AUTHORIZED CORRECTION
+Issued UTC: 2026-09-08
+Authorization: CAT-ALIGN-001B / Arkadiy Miteiko / 2026-09-08
+
+## Predecessor identity
+
+- Path: `design/admission-boundary-001/ADMISSION-CONTRACT-v0.1.md`
+- Blob: `1128bdbcc42dc47a355551fa230bab6f7420accc`
+- SHA-256: `ad4c656831b679a9396b15a8a9ae32448cf63707711916e4f3a8fa5ed34e8cd2`
+- Recorded in `docs/capabilities/CAPABILITY_MATRIX.json` under `source_provenance`, with
+  `source_commit` `3fcdec63b7e546d9b369e0e8664d5d67be6a3b54`
+
+**The predecessor is not modified.** It is preregistered design evidence, its bytes are
+digest-pinned by the capability matrix, and `VERSIONING.md` requires that admitted artifacts are
+never mutated in place but superseded. This erratum is a successor record about the predecessor,
+not permission to erase or rewrite it. The predecessor's own claim ceiling,
+`independent_validation_claim = FALSE`, and `NOT SELF-ADJUDICATED` marker continue to apply to it
+unchanged.
+
+## The corrected statement
+
+The predecessor contains, in its closing paragraph on downstream stages:
+
+> A later OCE/runtime stage may compute consequences; OAM/ZTL may constrain operational
+> authority; and VEIP may record or verify execution consequences. None is designed or
+> implemented here.
+
+**As to OAM, that sentence is no longer canonical.** It attributes to OAM a constraint on
+operational authority. Under the owner disposition of 2026-09-08, OAM's canonical role is
+examination-side, not control-side.
+
+The canonical statement is:
+
+> ZTL may constrain what is logically warranted for downstream reliance.
+> VEIP/runtime enforcement may constrain whether an exact action may execute.
+> OAM governs examination/audit disposition and may constrain later institutional reliance on
+> examined results; OAM does not authorize exact runtime execution.
+
+## Why the distinction matters here
+
+Constraining operational authority and constraining later institutional reliance are not the same
+act, and collapsing them collapses two distinct authority planes: the causal authority that
+determines whether an action may execute, and the evidentiary authority that determines what an
+examiner may later rely on. OAM sits on the second. Attributing the first to it would let an
+examination workflow read as a runtime control, which is precisely the kind of authority inflation
+this contract's own admission boundary exists to prevent.
+
+## Scope of this correction
+
+This erratum corrects the OAM attribution **only**.
+
+Unchanged and unaffected:
+
+- every other semantic in `ADMISSION-CONTRACT-v0.1.md`, including the admission states, the
+  minimum successor bundle, and the rule that only `ADMITTED` may cross into Institutional IR
+  construction;
+- the statement that no other admission state is a denial of the underlying proposition;
+- the roles attributed in the same sentence to a later OCE/runtime stage, to ZTL, and to VEIP;
+- the predecessor's claim ceiling in full;
+- `docs/capabilities/CAPABILITY_MATRIX.json`, including the recorded digest of the predecessor;
+- every schema, test vector, and runtime behavior in `design/admission-boundary-001/`.
+
+Nothing here is designed or implemented in this repository. This erratum records a category
+correction; it does not establish legal validity, universal authority semantics, production
+readiness, runtime safety, compliance, successful IR compilation, execution authorization, or
+independent validation.
+
+`independent_validation_claim = FALSE`
+
+`NOT SELF-ADJUDICATED`
+
+## Provenance
+
+- Canonical OAM role: `veraxis-protocol/institutional-continuity`, `THESIS.md` §8a, and the
+  reconciliation record `OAM-ROLE-RECONCILIATION.md` in that repository.
+- Canonical public home for the OAM definition: `veraxis-protocol/Open-Audit-Mission`.
+- Conflict discovery: the CAT-ALIGN-001B census, which found this sentence and the ICI README's
+  "standing/examination workflow" definition in material conflict.