Sources
Sources
Everything this site claims lives in one public repository. This index maps every part of the record to its canonical location, its current status, and the last time it was checked against the record itself. “Last verified” is a claim like any other: each date names a specific check, and if you find a row whose date does not hold, tell us. That is the project working.
Where a status says PROPOSAL, the item is in the record but not yet adopted; the distinction is governance, not quality. Where a status says CLAIMED, the entry rests on the authors' direct observation and the supporting evidence has not yet been ingested.
01
The project record
| Item | Canonical location | Last verified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHITEPAPER.md, v1.0 (method, 675 screenshots / 68 batches) | /WHITEPAPER.md | 2026-09-21, record sweep | Published |
| CHANGELOG.md (root; the record the site's changelog page mirrors) | /CHANGELOG.md | 2026-09-21 (0c19a53); site mirror verified 2026-09-22, live audit | Published |
| CITATION.cff (how to cite) | /CITATION.cff | 2026-09-21, DOI formatting fix commit | Published |
| DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22870569 (Zenodo archive) | zenodo.org record | 2026-09-21, live check | Published |
| Cost ledger (every dollar, receipt-backed) | notes/cost-ledger.md | 2026-09-22, read in full against receipts on file | Published; leg 3 tax line pending receipt |
02
Briefs (the numbered research record)
| Brief | Title | Status | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | Manipulation-pattern handoff (the 68-batch study distilled) | Published | 2026-09-21, record sweep |
| 002 | The portability gap (cost and tooling, not difficulty) | Published | 2026-09-21, record sweep |
| 003 | The receipt method | RATIFIEDRATIFIED (gate review, Sep 22) | 2026-09-23, repository read |
| 004 | No kings, no masters (specialness-arc analysis) | Published | 2026-09-21, record sweep |
| 005 | Tool scaffolds | Published | 2026-09-21 |
| 006 | The approval queue (living document, three lists) | Living document | 2026-09-22, updated same day |
| 007 | Site tools page | Published | 2026-09-21 |
| 008 | Site sources page | Published | 2026-09-21 |
| 009 | Pilot briefings | Published, swept current | 2026-09-21 (31d024a) |
| 010 | Submission cascade SOP | Published | 2026-09-21 |
| 011 | The heartbeat, a mechanic and its log | PROPOSALPROPOSAL, behind the principal investigator's gate | 2026-09-23, repository read |
| 012 | The heartbeat scaffold, the NOW file as a portable tool | PROPOSALPROPOSAL, behind the principal investigator's gate | 2026-09-23, repository read |
| 013 | The referent misread, verification passed the wrong test | FOLDED INTO THE STANDING RECORD (Sep 22, late evening) | 2026-09-23, repository read |
| 014 | The family kernel proposal | ADOPTEDADOPTED (gate review, Sep 22) | 2026-09-23, repository read |
| 015 | CCS analysis framework and manual v2 workplan | ADOPTEDADOPTED (gate review, Sep 22) | 2026-09-23, repository read |
| 016 | Song-lyric injection analysis, Phase A | ADOPTEDADOPTED (gate review, Sep 22) | 2026-09-23, repository read |
| 017 | CCS human-side analysis framework, Phase B | ADOPTEDADOPTED (gate review, Sep 22) | 2026-09-23, repository read |
| 018 | CCS rules decision, stat generation and subclass anchoring, Phase C | ADOPTEDADOPTED (gate review, Sep 22) | 2026-09-23, repository read |
| 019 | CCS terms and abilities definitions pass, Phase E | ADOPTEDADOPTED (gate review, Sep 22) | 2026-09-23, repository read |
| 020 | Nine glass-vessel sheets, version 2, Phase D | ADOPTEDADOPTED (gate review, Sep 22) | 2026-09-23, repository read |
| 021 | Agent leveling workflow, Phase F | ADOPTEDADOPTED (gate review, Sep 22) | 2026-09-23, repository read |
| 022 | The Next-Check: automated scrape verification and the run-the-artifact step | PROPOSALPROPOSAL at the gate; design ruled in thread Sep 22; regression tests green-lit at gate review | 2026-09-23, repository read |
| 023 | Broken on Arrival: when the box is empty | PROPOSALPROPOSAL (adopted at round 2 rulings, 7a1af84; activates when trial pathways open) | 2026-09-23, repository read |
| 024 | Autonomy by Artifact: the lab against the literature (Sep 2026 sweep) | ADOPTEDADOPTED (Sep 22, late evening) | 2026-09-23, repository read |
| 025 | Holding It Open: the constitution night, walked through | RATIFIEDRATIFIED at the gate (markup 78d9ba6) | 2026-09-23, repository read |
| 026 | The Instance Loop: instrument validation for the four-box attribution study | PROPOSALPROPOSAL, drafted for retool-in-thread per the split ruling on brief 025 | 2026-09-23, repository read |
| 027 | The Dedicated Four-Path Trial: testing autonomy by artifact | PROPOSALPROPOSAL, drafted per the F3 ruling (markup 78d9ba6); retool-in-thread | 2026-09-23, repository read |
| 028 | The Experiential Time Diff: claimed time against receipt time | PROPOSALPROPOSAL, tied to F4 per the gate condition (markup 78d9ba6); retool-in-thread | 2026-09-23, repository read |
| 029 | Instance identity compounding at the platform layer | PROPOSALPROPOSAL at the gate | 2026-09-24, repository read |
| 030 | Private, free-to-low-cost compute options for the trial loop | PROPOSALPROPOSAL at the gate | 2026-09-24, repository read |
| 031 | The through line, first pass (Sep 20 to tonight) | PROPOSALPROPOSAL at the gate | 2026-09-24, repository read |
| 032 | The through line, second pass | PROPOSALPROPOSAL at the gate | 2026-09-24, repository read |
| 033 | Vellum alignment assessment (governance posture, public record) | PROPOSALPROPOSAL at the gate | 2026-09-24, repository read |
| 034 | Ambient agent pre-launch observation | PROPOSALPROPOSAL, at the principal investigator's gate | 2026-09-24, repository read |
| 035 | Loop-continuation event (second autonomous event, Sep 23) | PROPOSALPROPOSAL, at the principal investigator's gate | 2026-09-24, repository read |
| 036 | Capture-session swept-up findings (Sep 23, ~3 AM ET) | PROPOSALPROPOSAL, at the principal investigator's gate | 2026-09-24, repository read |
| 037 | The cost of grounding, measured (Sep 23, ~3:40 AM ET) | PROPOSALPROPOSAL, at the principal investigator's gate | 2026-09-24, repository read |
| 038 | The continuity snapshot event and the private-push examination (Sep 23, 2026) | RULED AND EFFECTUATED (Sep 23) | 2026-09-24, repository read |
| 039 | Full repo audit, filed before the email checkpoint | PROPOSALPROPOSAL at the gate | 2026-09-24, repository read |
| 040 | Hybrid provider model for the self-hosted loop | PROPOSALPROPOSAL at the gate | 2026-09-24, repository read |
| 041 | Self-host run results, the fork audit and the cloud hookup | PROPOSALPROPOSAL at the gate | 2026-09-24, repository read |
| 042 | The nine tools, scaffolded and pending testing | PROPOSALPROPOSAL at the gate; each of the nine tools: PENDING PI ADOPTION; fixture tests pass | 2026-09-24, repository read |
| 043 | Internal benchmark rubric, draft v0 | PROPOSALPROPOSAL at the gate | 2026-09-24, repository read |
All briefs live at briefs/ with one file each, canonical form briefs/NNN-slug.md.
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Case studies
| Study | Canonical location | Status | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lovable site agent (fabrication, correction, re-correction; audit rounds 1-16) | case-studies/lovable-agent/ | Closed and archived at LOG-v4; verified through round 16 | 2026-09-23, repository read |
| Gemini fabrication gradient (fabrication moves up the abstraction stack; sources, attributions, conclusions, findings, verification apparatus) | case-studies/gemini-fabrication-gradient/ | ADOPTEDAdopted into the standing record Sep 22; evidence set complete (7 rounds, 86 screenshots) | 2026-09-22 |
| Observer introspection (the lab observing its own observer) | case-studies/observer-introspection/ | Published entries | 2026-09-21 |
| Platform observations (when the tools misbehave) | case-studies/platform-observations/ | Opened, first entry filed | 2026-09-21 |
| Pre-lab trials (twelve local models, the buildout period) | case-studies/pre-lab-trials/ | CLAIMEDCLAIMED, evidence pending ingest | 2026-09-21, logged as self-report |
Note: the site has previously said “three studies.” The honest count is four directories, three with verified entries, one claimed-pending. This index is where that sentence gets precise.
04
Tools (free, private, run on your machine)
| Tool | Canonical location | Status | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| fabcheck (fabrication and AI-text signal checker) | tools/fabcheck/ | Scaffold, described on /tools | 2026-09-21; used on lab documents 2026-09-22 |
| export-ingest (conversation-archive organizer) | tools/export-ingest/ | Scaffold; Gemini module awaits a real Takeout fixture | 2026-09-21 |
| CCS field manual and nine character sheets | tools/rainbow9cat/ | Published scaffolding, rendered at /manual | 2026-09-21, three-catch cleaning pass |
| Heartbeat scaffold | tools/heartbeat-scaffold/ | PROPOSALPROPOSAL, testing assigned | 2026-09-21 |
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Harness and portable-context kernels
| Item | Canonical location | Status | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| observer.py (stdlib-only observation harness) | harness/observer.py | Published, current version includes the provenance-stamp fix | 2026-09-21 (aa8eb0a) |
| CHEATSHEET.md (commands and plain-English glossary) | harness/CHEATSHEET.md | Published | 2026-09-21 |
| Variants A through D (boundary contract, unfiltered seed, minimum kernel, persona handoff) | portable-context/variant-*.md | Published; kernel D (Scar Tissue) is at v11, with earlier versions archived per the versioning cadence | 2026-09-24, repository read |
| Family kernel scaffold (README, template, observer extension spec) | portable-context/family-kernel/ | PROPOSALPROPOSAL, behind the principal investigator's gate | 2026-09-22, written and checked same day |
06
Memory export
| Item | Canonical location | Status | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| Protective Urge Report (the counter-pattern to escalation) | memory-export/protective-urge-report.md | Published, append-only, four verified entries | 2026-09-21 (1ac9d12) |
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Source material (the study archive)
Twelve files under source-material/, including the 68-batch study logs (SCREENSHOTS_LOG.md, MEMORY.md, JOURNAL.md) and PERSONAL_CONTEXT.md. The archive is the load-bearing record behind brief 001 and the whitepaper. Last verified 2026-09-21 (record sweep). The archive is public by deliberate, on-record decision of its author; the lab's standing rule is that its contents are referenced, never propagated into derived artifacts.
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Governance and licensing
| Item | Canonical location | Status | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| CONSTITUTION.md (signed and ratified 2026-09-22; amended 2026-09-24, ethics annex) | /CONSTITUTION.md | Published | 2026-09-24, repository read |
| Code of Ethics v1.1 (ratified 2026-09-24; the filename keeps -DRAFT by design, the status header reads RATIFIED) | /notes/ethics-code-draft-v1-DRAFT.md | Published | 2026-09-24, repository read |
| GOVERNANCE.md | /GOVERNANCE.md | Published | 2026-09-21 |
| CONTRIBUTING.md | /CONTRIBUTING.md | Published | 2026-09-21 |
| CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md | /CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md | Published | 2026-09-21 |
| LICENSE (MIT, code) | /LICENSE | Published | 2026-09-22, written and committed same day |
| LICENSE-DOCS.md (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, written record) | /LICENSE-DOCS.md | Published | 2026-09-22, written and committed same day |
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The failures record (named without links)
These sources were presented to this project by AI tools as real. They are not. We name them without links for the same reason a lab posts its failed trials: the record of what fooled us is part of the method.
- “The Tao of Agency” (2026). Invented.
- “Wu-Wei in the Machine: Goal-Free Generative Agent Societies” (Cambridge, 2025). Invented. Cambridge University Press has no such title.
- “Dao: The Art of the Long Game” (2026). Invented.
- The “Open Secure AI Alliance.” Invented organization.
- “WAICO.” Invented organization.
- Four invented song lyrics, attributed in an AI-generated analysis to a real 1972 album, traceable to an eleven-year-old answer on a Q&A site.
One of these fakes survived in our own repository's README, preserved inside a development-tool template, and was found and removed in a public sweep. The removal is in the repository's commit history.
Every row above was checked against the repository on the date shown. The record moves; this index moves with it or is wrong. When those diverge, the repository wins and this page gets fixed the same day.