OAM is the examination and audit-authority workflow within Open Institutional Computation.
It governs who may examine a bounded institutional-continuity claim, what evidence is examined, how disposition/correction/replay are recorded, and whether an examination result is fit for later institutional reliance.
OAM does not create institutional authority, compile policy, establish ZTL logical warrant, or authorize exact runtime execution.
OIC → admitted machine-operational control state
ZTL → bounded logical warrant
VEIP → exact-action / execution-integrity boundary
OAM → examination, audit disposition, correction and later reliance
OAM may affect whether an institution subsequently relies on, accepts, corrects, escalates, or rejects an examined result. That is examination and evidentiary authority, not runtime causal authority.
Canonical category thesis: https://github.com/veraxis-protocol/institutional-continuity/blob/main/THESIS.md
Architecture definition only. No production implementation or readiness claim.