EMILIA is the authority control plane for autonomous work. A human or institution defines a finite operating mandate once; agents work unattended inside it; EMILIA Gate enforces each consequential unit of work at the executor or system-of-record boundary. Gate is the commercial Consequence Firewall on that boundary. It verifies the authority the owner requires for the exact action, refuses before mutation, consumes accepted authority once, and leaves portable evidence of what the protected path admitted and later observed. Protocol proves. Gate prevents. - Authority Brain maps supported declar