{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "policyId": "mde-claim-governance-v1",
  "dateModified": "2026-09-13",
  "source": "research/priority.json",
  "assertionQuarantine": "research/data/assertion-quarantine.json",
  "description": "Fail-closed projection policy for the public priority-claim register. It preserves canonical wording and limitations, withholds private paths, and never invents validation, replication or falsification status.",
  "identity": {
    "personId": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person",
    "programmeId": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme",
    "claimsCollection": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/"
  },
  "defaults": {
    "claimStatus": "public-record",
    "evidenceStatus": "not-classified-in-canonical-ledger",
    "falsificationStatus": "not-specified-in-canonical-ledger"
  },
  "explicitFalsifierFields": [
    "falsifier",
    "falsification",
    "falsification_criteria",
    "kill_condition",
    "kill_conditions",
    "test_threshold"
  ],
  "privateEvidencePrefixes": [
    "evidence/",
    "legal/",
    "private/",
    "case-files/",
    "_archive/",
    "api/",
    "book-research-docs/"
  ],
  "correctionEntryIds": [
    "AQ-016",
    "AQ-017",
    "AQ-018",
    "AQ-019",
    "AQ-020",
    "AQ-021",
    "AQ-022"
  ],
  "outputs": {
    "claimsJsonl": "research/data/claims.jsonl",
    "falsification": "research/data/falsification.json",
    "corrections": "research/data/corrections.json",
    "anchors": "research/data/anchor-manifest.json"
  },
  "forbiddenWording": {
    "note": "Programme-wide bans applied to research surfaces. Executable enforcement lives per-claim in research/data/claims-ledger.json (each claim's prohibitedWording list), which scripts/check-prohibited-wording.py scans across HTML, TXT, JSON leaf strings, JSON-LD and meta surfaces with mention-versus-use discrimination. This top-level register is the policy record of what has been ruled banned and why, so a reader can trace a ruling to its date without opening the ledger.",
    "entries": [
      {
        "id": "FW-001",
        "phrase": "one number does two jobs",
        "reason": "the earlier framing named one quantity doing the correction-ceiling and conversion-exponent jobs at once; withdrawn as vacuous on 2026-08-12 because both consequences arise from one accumulation law, so agreement is forced and a test that cannot fail is not a test. The replacement is one accumulation law with two consequences.",
        "date": "2026-08-12",
        "enforcedBy": "research/data/claims-ledger.json claim CEILING-DERIVATION-LAW prohibitedWording"
      },
      {
        "id": "FW-002",
        "phrase": "measured two independent ways ... must agree",
        "reason": "the withdrawn agreement test: if both exponents arise because accumulation is independence-limited, they share a law, agreement is forced, and a test that cannot fail is not a test. Withdrawn 2026-08-12 before filing; cross-class to same-class correction-exponent ratio carries the unification instead.",
        "date": "2026-08-12",
        "enforcedBy": "research/data/claims-ledger.json claim CEILING-DERIVATION-LAW prohibitedWording"
      },
      {
        "id": "FW-003",
        "phrase": "runaway",
        "reason": "banned on research surfaces because 'runaway growth' is a term of art in planet formation (planetesimal accretion). The programme's subject is unbounded growth on a fixed substrate; say 'unbounded growth', never 'runaway'. Ruled 2026-08-12.",
        "date": "2026-08-12",
        "enforcedBy": "research/data/claims-ledger.json claim CEILING-DERIVATION-LAW prohibitedWording"
      }
    ]
  },
  "publicCopyCorrections": [
    {
      "id": "COPY-AQ-021-RESEARCH-HUB",
      "path": "research/index.html",
      "find": "at least four independent research programmes",
      "replace": "a versioned set of related external research developments",
      "expectedMatches": 1,
      "reason": "A fixed heterogeneous convergence count is not a replication finding."
    },
    {
      "id": "COPY-AQ-018-PRESS",
      "path": "press/release.html",
      "find": "First experimental validation of. Pilot scale. Full-scale experiment pending funding.",
      "replace": "This is the programme's own pilot-scale experimental report, not an unqualified first-in-field validation. Full-scale experiment pending funding.",
      "expectedMatches": 1,
      "reason": "First-in-field validation requires a complete prior-art and independent-review basis that is not established here."
    },
    {
      "id": "COPY-AQ-019-MOAT",
      "path": "moat/index.html",
      "find": "Original concepts, none in prior literature",
      "replace": "Named concepts; no blanket prior work claim",
      "expectedMatches": 1,
      "reason": "Naming, synthesis and underlying concept originality are different propositions."
    },
    {
      "id": "COPY-CEILING-LAW-CLAIMS-REGISTER-20260816",
      "path": "research/claims/index.html",
      "find": "The ceiling of stable self-improvement is the reciprocal of the correction exponent. Feed the law one assumption, that same-class correctors accumulate corrections the way independent samples do, and it returns two.",
      "replace": "The ceiling of stable self-improvement is the reciprocal of the correction shortfall, one minus the correction exponent. Feed the law one assumption, that same-class correctors accumulate corrections the way independent samples do, so the exponent is one half, and it returns two.",
      "expectedMatches": 1,
      "reason": "The 1/gamma law form was retracted 16 August 2026 with the derivation printed; corrected to the shortfall form alpha_crit = 1/(1 - gamma). Both forms coincide at gamma = one half."
    },
    {
      "id": "COPY-CEILING-LAW-ORPHAN-QUESTION-20260816",
      "path": "questions/what-is-michael-darius-eastwoods-potential-discovery/index.html",
      "find": "the ceiling of stable self-improvement is the reciprocal of the correction exponent (alpha_crit = 1/gamma), and two is what the law returns under one stated assumption still on trial",
      "replace": "the ceiling of stable self-improvement is the reciprocal of the correction shortfall (alpha_crit = 1/(1 − gamma), corrected 16 August 2026 from the retracted 1/gamma form), and two is what the law returns under one stated assumption still on trial",
      "expectedMatches": 1,
      "reason": "Same retraction; this generated page's slug is no longer in the questions record (orphan, flagged for re-source or retirement) but remains served, so the correction applies in place. Replace-string aligned 20 August 2026 to the page's minus-entity typography after the dash reading pass normalised the spaced hyphen; the maths wants a minus, and the transform's to-string must match the artefact's bytes."
    },
    {
      "id": "COPY-CORPUS-SCALE-QUALIFIER-20260818",
      "path": "research/claims/index.html",
      "find": "19 papers and 22 OSF components are different quantities",
      "replace": "25 papers and 26 OSF components are different quantities",
      "expectedMatches": 1,
      "reason": "The corpus grew at the 17 August 2026 catalogue rebuild; the rendered claims register still carried the pre-rebuild quantities in its interchangeability qualifier."
    }
  ]
}