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Research foundations
Read the questions, principles and source framework behind Autorite.
Source documents are preserved as written. Baseline freeze approval and research execution remain pending.
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Foundations
Research Constitution
The principles governing claims, evidence, scope and revision.
Foundational Questions
The six initial questions and their Cycle 1 focus.
Problem Contracts
What must be specified for preservation, representation and reachability problems.
Formal Capability Contract
How mathematical structures are selected by a problem’s obligations.
Domain Programs
Domain-specific workstreams and the limits of cross-domain transfer.
Baseline Package Guide
An index of the baseline package and its freeze rule.
Archive & provenance
Legacy Genealogy
How earlier Autorite work enters the research record without privileged authority.
DAM X Archaeology Template
A template for source-based archaeology; source documents are still required.
Cycle & governance
Research Program
The Cycle 1 packages, checkpoint and exit requirements.
Cycle 01 Manifest
Declared research commitments, non-goals and closure outputs.
Cycle Governance — Baseline
Finite Cycle lifecycles within an open-ended research program.
Methods & records
Research Graph Specification
The graph’s object types, relations and epistemic status vocabularies.
Research protocols
RP002A — History and Prediction
The question, worlds, baselines and interpretation limits for testing history usefulness.
RP003 — Local–Global Preservation
Controls and counterexamples for local and path-level preservation judgments.
RP004 — Branching Lineages
Copying, branching, duplication and merging across alternative lineage representations.
RP005A — Constraints and Viable Futures
Structural reachability and conditional benefits of targeted restrictions.
Publishing & operations
Publishing & Domain Plan
The updated two-site architecture and its shared research record.
Site Information Architecture
The responsibilities, navigation and canonical URL split of the two sites.
GitHub Operating Model
Versioning, research workflow and review conventions.