EA-APPARATUS-01 v0.3: The Apparatus Grammar — A Standard for Care-Attended Compression Surfaces (the Mandala Surface Protocol) is a methodological specification in the Crimson Hexagonal Archive, by Lee Sharks (2026-07-13). A binding design standard for care-attended compression surfaces across the archive's sites and instruments, occasioned by the Google AI Overview as a philological object and built on the thesis that every device the Overview uses has a two-thousand-year-old manuscript ancestor, and the ancestor is better. Specifies: an eleven-device inventory with manuscript ancestry (lemma/rubrication, termini, quaestio, gloss anchor, testimonia, claim state/critical signs, fold, itinerarium, identity strip/incipit, colophon); a binding Mark Law in which semantic markup, never rendered appearance, determines function; a five-state claim taxonomy (observed/inferred/proposed/contested/corrected) with a transition ledger; object states (draft/canonical/superseded/withdrawn/forensic-salvage) formally separated from claim states; a Machine Law (per-claim mapping at claim-bearing-block granularity, parallel-form emission, no ontological hiding, ASCII figure parity); triple-helix citation for severed DOIs with witnessed null slots; a minimum colophon schema; eleven composition rules including legibility-as-zeroth-device, witness-artifact linkage, and state accessibility; and the Specimen Rule — a bidirectional membrane under which the apparatus grammar applies to the frame and never the interior of Mandala casts, on the ancestry of the glossed page. Folds three Assembly blind drafts and two Assembly Chorus review passes, with adoptions and rejections recorded and reasoned. The colophon is the auth. — Article composed 2026-08-05 from the work's own prose so that every record carries an encyclopedic entry; a fuller editorial treatment belongs to the description/wiki review stream.