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Current papers and supporting protocols & contracts.

Papers

Research papers, mechanism papers, synthesis, and boundary results.

When Ai Collapses Fact And Assumption

Making Ai Omitted Scope Visible With Vdg

Ai Answers Can Come With Silent Tech Debt

Stop Calling Every Ai Miss A Hallucination

Contract Authority Under Ai

Thesis Experimental Methodology

  • 2026-02
    In iterative development, workflows that externalize authority into a versioned contract exhibit measurably lower regression and drift than workflows that modify code directly via conversational prompts.

Contract Centered Iterative Stability

Why Verified Deduction Gap

  • 2026-02
    AI systems produce probabilistic outputs. Identical prompts do not guarantee identical responses. Small contextual changes alter the conditional distribution of answers. In internal ticket experiments conducted under reset conditions, one pattern became clear: the central problem was not only correctness, but struct...

Contract Centered Engineering

  • 2026-02
    Writing a production-grade system required sustained effort: design, implementation, review, integration, testing, deployment, and iteration. Producing even a single complete implementation demanded coordination across roles. Producing multiple independent implementations of the same system was rarely practical outs...

Breaking The Loop

  • 2026-02
    Large language models generate coherent text with high fluency. They are less reliable at preserving structural integrity across long iterative edits.

Protocols & Contracts

Explicit source-of-truth artifacts and response-structure documents that support the papers without pretending to be the final live authority surface.

Artifact Projection

Attack Types Triage Rules

Convergence Contract

  • This contract defines a deterministic, safe convergence process that synchronizes Google Docs “artifact” documents into version-controlled Markdown artifacts under artifacts/ . The system converges derived repository state to match the current set of eligible Source Documents while enforcing representation and safet...

Implementation Notes Extraction Protocol

Publishing Repository

Source Of Truth Extraction Protocol

Vdg Contract