Beacon is the Suite institution for discovery and signals. It helps users locate and interpret information across Satoshium systems while preserving institutional authority, attribution, traceability, and context.
Interoperability allows Beacon to publish Discovery Signals and supporting discovery metadata that reference authoritative objects maintained by other Suite institutions without transferring or duplicating their authority.
Beacon may discover authoritative intelligence and related references originating from Atlas. Atlas remains authoritative for the intelligence it publishes; Beacon preserves references and discovery context without assuming Atlas authority.
Navigator owns workflow definition and orchestration. Beacon may participate in Navigator-directed workflows by performing discovery and returning Discovery Signals or supporting discovery metadata through stable references.
Beacon has now exercised Certifier interoperability in production. Beacon directly observed the canonical Certification Package SC-CERT-2026-0001 and published BEAC-2026-0001 as a Discovery Signal identifying its active Operational certification condition. Certifier retains authority for the certification decision, class, lifecycle, and status.
Beacon may discover SREG records and related metadata maintained by Registry. Registry remains authoritative for registered records and their lifecycle state.
Beacon may help users locate Chronicle Entries and preserved historical context. Chronicle retains authority over its historical record; Beacon provides discovery references rather than reproducing Chronicle authority.
Beacon may discover Integrity References maintained by Anchor and bounded Trust Statements produced by Attestor through governed attestation and rule-constrained evaluation. Each institution retains authority over its canonical objects; Beacon provides discovery and reference context only.
BEAC-2026-0001 provides Beacon's first real production evidence that cross-institution discovery can preserve both direct provenance and institutional authority.
The Discovery Signal also preserves relationships to SREG-2026-0001, CHR-2026-0001, and ANCH-2026-0001 as related Suite objects. Those relationships provide context; they do not replace Beacon's direct provenance from SC-CERT-2026-0001.
Interoperability improves discovery while preserving responsibility within the institution that owns each authoritative object. A Beacon reference does not transfer, replace, or duplicate the authority of the source institution.
Each Suite institution retains authority over its canonical objects. Beacon connects those objects through discovery, signals, metadata, and stable references. The production relationship between SC-CERT-2026-0001 and BEAC-2026-0001 is the first exercised example of this model.
Beacon's first production interoperability path remains direct from SC-CERT-2026-0001 to BEAC-2026-0001. Related Suite objects provide context and relationships without replacing Beacon's direct provenance.
Beacon does not replace other Suite institutions and does not inherit their authority. It discovers and signals while preserving references to authoritative objects maintained by the institutions responsible for them.