---
id: appendix-guide-authority-v1
title: Appendix - Guide and Authority
description: Defines appendix scope, authority boundaries, and precedence relative to canonical v1 specs.
family: appendices-v1
group: Orientation
path: specification/appendices/appendix-guide-and-authority-v1
---

# Appendices

Appendices are supporting documents for the consolidated AEON v1 spec set.

Authority rule:

- Canonical rules live in the top-level v1 specs and companion references.
- Appendices are informative unless a canonical document explicitly delegates a topic to an appendix.
- If an appendix conflicts with a canonical v1 document, the canonical v1 document wins.

See:

- `../supersession-table.md`
- `../AEON-spec-v1.md`
- `../AEON-v1-compliance.md`
- `../AEOS-spec-v1.md`

Parser and grammar aids:

- `appendix-grammar-flow.md` - context-card illustrations for legal Core v1 parser flow.

Evolution and forward-compatibility aids:

- `appendix-directive-block-capabilities.md` - informative v1 reservation for directive-block capability declarations and future v2 activation.