The raising framework the ARC Theory motivates: the Eden Protocol as engineering constraints.
The Eden research programme asks whether safety properties can remain effective as recursively improving systems become more capable, and distinguishes developmental alignment from constraints applied only at the boundary.
A conceptual Eden Engineering paper first entered the public record on 22 February 2026. The specification and its rendered PDF were removed from the OSF record on 14 July 2026 during a disclosure review. That review produced Version 6.2 of 31 July 2026, which is now the version of record. Restoring the matching copy to the OSF record is outstanding.
This page deliberately contains no implementation detail. It preserves a truthful historical and authorship record without continuing to distribute the expanded working specification. The withdrawal covers the expanded hardware implementation specification only; the research papers of the ARC and Eden programme remain open and fully available.
Nothing here is a retraction of empirical results published separately. Version 6.2 of 31 July 2026 is the version of record. It is 44 words shorter than the superseded 6.1 and adds no implementation detail. Earlier revisions remain in the repository's version history, as published research should; superseding a document is not the same as pretending it never existed. Each separate paper remains governed by its own evidence classification, limitations and falsification criteria.
Readers may consult the research hub, Paper III, Paper V, and the Eden Vision paper for independently published research and philosophical context.
v1.2: The provenance note at the end has been corrected for accuracy. No claim, date, result or status has changed.
Michael Darius Eastwood conceived and directs this research programme and is the author of this work. Across the programme, he has used more than six AI systems in parallel, under his own instructions, to stress-test his arguments, identify possible errors, and assist in preparing draft text from his own outlines. He determines what is adopted, revised or rejected and takes responsibility for the published content. These systems are tools, not authors.