Atlas is a small, structured world-model research program for physics-identification experiments.

Its claims are tied to reproducible scripts, regression tests, evidence records and documented retractions. Results are published only within their verified experimental scope.

World-model research often evaluates prediction quality without establishing identifiability.

Atlas uses constrained architecture, small environments, controlled physics, reproducible experiments and explicit evidence ledgers.

Its approach separates immutable, slowly changing, dynamic and controllable latent components; restricts where actions may enter the representation; compares random and information-seeking data collection; and preserves failed claims when results do not survive verification.

Genesis cannot claim to construct its own operational reality unless the laboratory can distinguish discovery from reproduction.

Atlas contributes the epistemic discipline required for that distinction. It helps Genesis ask whether a relation was truly present in the observations, whether the architecture forced the representation, and whether the claimed distinction survives intervention, reproduction, and transfer.