# Autorite 2.0 — Zero Paper v0.1
**Status:** BASELINE CANDIDATE → freeze after review. **Date:** 2026-10-07.

## Opening position
Autorite 2.0 begins without a theory to defend. It begins with questions whose answers are allowed to alter the architecture of the program itself. Autorite 1.x is intellectual ancestry, not epistemic authority. Unknowns are represented; negative results are retained; major claims remain attached to scope, assumptions, evidence and revision history.

## Program aim
Discover which structures of **change, preservation, representation and revision** genuinely recur across specified domains, which remain domain-specific, and what formal or empirical consequences follow.

## What changes
Models → Questions; Documents → Claims/Evidence; Equations → Declared mathematical roles; Analogies → Tested transfers; Fixed foundation → Open formal foundation; Success → Correction capacity.

## We do not yet claim
No privileged ontology, universal continuation theory, universal adaptation metric, final status for DAM X/ARM/SERA/DAF, fundamental status for ARM's 81 cells, or guaranteed cross-domain unification.

## Cycle 1
RP002A Predictive Sufficiency; RP003 Local–Global Preservation; RP004 Branching Lineage; RP005A Restrictive Constraints and Viable Futures. DAM X archaeology runs in parallel.

## Commitment
**Autorite 2.0 does not commit to preserving inherited structures. It commits to preserving the trace of why they are retained, revised, separated or abandoned.**