Title: Eden Engineering: Public Research Note Author: Michael Darius Eastwood Publication date: 2026-02-22 OSF DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/AWJR4 Canonical URL: https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/eden-engineering.html Abstract -------- 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. Key findings (quotable) ----------------------- - "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. A greatly expanded working specification and its rendered PDF were withdrawn from current circulation on 14 July 2026 pending disclosure review." - "This page deliberately contains no implementation detail. It preserves a truthful historical and authorship record without continuing to distribute the expanded working specification." Priority claims relevant to this paper -------------------------------------- - PC-037 (2026-02-22): The Eden Engineering conceptual research note first entered the public record on 22 February 2026. The greatly expanded working specification and its rendered PDF were withdrawn from current circulation on 14 July 2026 pending patent and disclosure review. Site ceiling on hardware framing: safety constraints at hardware level through cryptographic tokens in silicon, TRL 0-1, no prototype. - PC-004 (2024-12-08): The Eden Protocol precursor was described in the 8 December 2024 manuscript, first named explicitly in the 30 April 2025 book manuscript and published in book-length form in Infinite Architects on 2 January 2026. Hardware implementation is held at the site's published two-sentence concept ceiling (TRL 0-1, no prototype). - PC-013 (2026-01-02): '' was first named as a published concept in Infinite Architects on 2 January 2026, with subsequent references in the Eden Engineering research note (22 February 2026, expanded specification since withdrawn 14 July 2026) and Paper IX (18 March 2026). TRL 0-1, no prototype. Hardware root-of-trust and TEE attestation are established prior work on the hardware-primitives side; priority is limited to the alignment-token application framing under this specific name. Citation -------- Michael Darius Eastwood (2026). Eden Engineering: Public Research Note. The ARC Theory ยท ARC/Eden experiments, OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/AWJR4. https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/eden-engineering.html Notes ----- Hardware framings held at the site's already-published two-sentence concept ceiling: safety constraints at hardware level through cryptographic tokens in silicon, TRL 0-1, no prototype. No enabling implementation detail is stated in this companion file. Balanced-ternary computing is prior work (Setun 1958); recursion as a structural concept is prior work (evolutionary theory, self-modifying computation, quantum error correction). Generated from master --------------------- master_path: research/papers/eden-engineering.html master_sha256: 413a7c2dbda7ec30d58b177e04b7fba2706178cc742b59a0e4affacd1654878b builder: scripts/build-paper-companions.py This block records the SHA-256 of the HTML master that produced this .txt. A check tool re-hashing master_path can decide freshness without any external state. If the master's current SHA-256 does not match master_sha256, this file is stale and must not be published: regenerate first with `python3 scripts/build-paper-companions.py --slug eden-engineering`.