Meta research integration contract
Status: implementation contract; not DATA and not EVID.
Canonical work branch: develop after reviewed merge.
Release branch: main remains release-only.
Independent axes
The following are intentionally not interchangeable:
- the human-defined 11 research directions;
- Stage 0-10 scientific/developmental maturity;
- research axis: empirical-technical / epistemological-methodological / philosophical-ethical;
- Recursive Epistemics Edition 1.8 Parts I-XI;
- RQ/H/experiment/review/EVID state;
- paper/publication state.
The exact 11 direction names/order are currently not recoverable from a source-bound repository or prior-chat artefact. Therefore the registry locks the count and the rule against mutation but deliberately leaves identities unpopulated. Automation must never manufacture DIR-01..DIR-11 titles from another taxonomy.
Scientific invariants
- implementation != DATA;
- DATA != EVID;
- Human Review != independent replication;
- DOI != peer review;
- AI synthesis/critique != independent external evidence;
- internal replication != external independent replication;
- an error that motivated governance does not prove that governance works;
- human approval, study consent, external review and independent replication cannot be generated by repository automation.
Meta programme
RQ-EPIST-002 and RQ-ETH-001 remain prospective until their human/ethics gates are satisfied. RQ-META-003, -004 and -005 cover model dependence, recursive source contamination and governance utility/cost. Their registered study specifications authorize no execution and create no scientific EVID.
Active digital-sense work
Digital sensory integration belongs to the existing Gateway/MSBA and multimodal research programme. It does not create a twelfth direction or a new Stage. Any branch cleanup must first verify that unique work is present in develop; branch names alone are not evidence of completion.