This entry is not an identity, title, personality type, or moral status. It is a principle-intersection geometry used to map coherent expression, shadow risk, relational impact, timing, restoration, and scaling behavior.

2. Core Function

Simulates another node’s internal state-space without projection.

3. Coherent Expression

understanding without consumption.

4. Shadow / Inversion Expression

over-identification, projection, performative empathy.

5. Registry Mapping

Source depth: direct

Interface: EIₐ

6. Template Expansion Notes

The full ARCHETYPE-TEMPLATE.md expansion should add:

principle basis and Sigma boundaries
interface stack profile
operator and coupling profiles
scaling risks
diagnostics
restoration arc
AI-mediated use
symbolic / teaching translation

Entry Closure

Empathic Witness maps a coherent agency pattern in the Interface family and must remain audit-bound rather than identity-bound.