No-Meta / Observable-Only Research Series

K. Takahashi Research Hub

Human-readable field guide

The No-Meta / Observable-Only research series studies how AI systems, autonomous agents, research workflows, and shared epistemic systems can be governed when no privileged external meta-judge is available.

The central question is not "who has final authority?" but "what can be checked, replayed, certified, challenged, or safely withheld using observable evidence?" No-meta means no unchallengeable external meta-controller or ultimate evaluator. Observable-only means claims and controls must be grounded in declared logs, certificates, replayable traces, public evidence, or operational interfaces.

In one sentence: this series asks how AI governance and autonomous research can remain auditable, fail-closed, and scientifically contestable when hidden semantics, ideal evaluators, and privileged meta-judges cannot be assumed.

Why This Page Exists

This page collects the no-meta / observable-only papers because the program is easier to understand as a connected research line than as isolated papers. It provides the core vocabulary, reading paths, paper roles, related repositories, and structured metadata needed to navigate the series.

For the full site-wide dependency map across the other clusters, use research-map.html. For the canonical publication list, use works.html.

What No-Meta Means

No-meta does not mean no governance. It means governance cannot rely on an unchallengeable external meta-judge that simply decides what is safe, true, aligned, or permissible from outside the system.

In this series, authority, approval channels, reward models, constitutional AI rules, external evaluators, and public accountability mechanisms are treated as mechanisms that need observable support. Their outputs can be useful, but they must be declared, bounded, replayable, falsifiable, or contestable when they govern protected actions or scientific claims.

This framing is relevant to AI governance, AI safety, autonomous agents, claim certification, public accountability, and governance under uncertainty, especially when long-running systems revise their own procedures or interpretive categories.

What Observable-Only Means

Observable-only does not deny internal states or hidden semantics. It says that protected decisions should rely on declared observable interfaces: evidence that can be logged, checked, replayed, challenged, or withheld.

Admissible evidence may include audit logs, receipts, certificates, traces, deterministic replay records, measurements, safety gates, public standing ledgers, verification outputs, and reproducibility artifacts. If required evidence is missing, the system should fail closed or preserve abstention rather than silently upgrade an unsupported claim.

What This Series Is Not

This series is not a complete solution to AI alignment, and it is not a replacement for existing AI safety, control theory, law, policy, epistemology, or human judgment. It does not claim that hidden internal states do not matter, that all governance can be automated, or that observable-only evidence captures every relevant safety fact.

It is also not a crawler-only metadata page and not an implementation-only software stack. The structured YAML and related repositories support navigation and reproducibility; the primary visible purpose of this page is to help human researchers understand the research program and its boundaries.

Core Ideas for First-Time Readers

Governance without privileged meta-judges

No single evaluator is assumed to have final, unchallengeable access to safety, truth, or alignment.

Plain reading: do not assume that one external evaluator can always decide what counts as safe, true, or aligned.

Observable evidence before authority

Authority-bearing claims need declared evidence surfaces rather than hidden semantic access alone.

Plain reading: protected decisions need logs, certificates, replayable traces, or declared evidence surfaces.

Fail-closed verification

Verification limits are treated as operational constraints, not inconveniences to be bypassed.

Plain reading: when required evidence is missing, the system should withhold action, progress credit, or release.

Ontology drift

Long-running agents may change the internal meanings used to interpret tasks, goals, and evidence.

Plain reading: governance must not depend only on hidden semantic continuity.

Deterministic replay and auditability

Decisions should be reconstructable from bounded records rather than trusted only by assertion.

Plain reading: decisions should be reconstructable from canonical logs or bounded certificates.

Claim standing rather than absolute truth

Public claim status can be maintained, challenged, downgraded, restored, or released under declared evidence.

Plain reading: public standing is not unrestricted truth; it is a governed status under an evidence boundary.

Research agents and scientific automation

AI research systems need protocols for claims, uncertainty, reproducibility, and release under finite verification capacity.

Plain reading: AI research agents need protocols for certifying claims, handling uncertainty, and releasing results under finite verification capacity.

Series Map

The visible map below summarizes the series without duplicating the full YAML paper list. Each cluster names representative papers and points back to works.html for the complete publication list.

Foundations

These papers introduce no-meta governance, observable-only floors, ontology drift, and verification limits.

  • Floor-Specified No-Meta Autonomy
  • No-Meta Intelligence Under Ontology Drift
  • Verification-Limited Intelligence Acceleration

Observable Evidence and Audit Gates

These papers develop evidence surfaces, replayable logs, operational capability boundaries, and audit gates for protected actions.

  • Observable-Only Audit Gate
  • Hallucination-Aware Audit Gate
  • ONCAP
  • Process-Aware Backcasting
  • Causal Loop Integrity

Governance under Drift

These papers ask how liberty, agendas, constitutions, commons, and proposal-veto balances can remain contestable under drift.

  • Liberty Under No-Meta Drift
  • Agenda Sovereignty
  • Constitutional Sovereignty
  • Sovereign Epistemic Commons
  • Proposal-Veto Balance

Research Claim Certification

These papers focus on audit-closed scientific automation, claim release, public standing, and observable invention without hidden evaluators.

  • Audit-Closed AI Scientist Protocol
  • Typed Dynamic No-Meta Claim Certification and Release
  • Standing-Layer Honest Public Standing Dynamics
  • Constitutional Observable Invention

Implementation-Facing Systems

These papers connect the theory to executable authority migration, affordance compilation, proof-carrying skills, and modular contracts.

  • Executable Authority Migration
  • Affordance-Compiled Intelligence
  • OASG
  • Proof-Carrying Skills
  • Verifiable Modular Pipeline Contracts
  • Bottleneck Inversion Theory
  • Executable Capability Percolation Theory
  • Salience-Queue Occupation Theory

Welfare and Institutional Extensions

These papers extend observable-only reasoning to welfare viability, structural risk institutions, capability transport, and institutional information needs.

  • Observable-Only Universal Liberation and Welfare Viability
  • Structural Risk Institutions
  • Bayesian Capability Transport
  • Institution-Relative Pairwise Information Necessity

Termination and Liberation Certificates

These papers treat objective-free process persistence, non-resurrection, complete extinction, and loop liberation through declared observable protocols.

  • Observable-Signal Crystallization Theory

Reading Paths

Key Terms

No-meta governance

Governance without a privileged external meta-controller; controls must be justified at the observable interface.

Observable-only evidence

Logs, receipts, certificates, traces, replay records, and verification outputs that can be checked or challenged.

Fail-closed verification

A safety posture in which missing required evidence withholds action, release, or progress credit.

Deterministic replay

Re-execution from canonical logs so an auditor can reconstruct the relevant decision trace.

Ontology drift

Change in an agent's internal representation or meaning structure across time, self-revision, or deployment.

Claim certification

Bounded status assigned to a claim when declared evidence and checks support release or standing.

Public standing

Observable claim status that can be maintained, challenged, restored, or downgraded without claiming unrestricted truth.

Shared epistemic commons

A public knowledge substrate governed through observable protocols, contradiction handling, and anti-capture constraints.

Protected actions

Actions that require evidence gates before execution because failure could affect safety, authority, or claim release.

Abstention

The correct status when declared evidence is insufficient for a stronger claim or action.

FAQ

What does "no-meta" mean?

It means governance is not allowed to depend on an unchallengeable external meta-judge. Authority must be operationally declared and contestable.

What does "observable-only" mean?

It means protected claims and actions should be grounded in declared logs, certificates, traces, replay records, or other observable evidence surfaces.

Is this an AI safety framework?

It is relevant to AI safety and AI governance, but it is not a complete alignment solution or a replacement for other safety methods.

Does observable-only deny hidden internal states?

No. It says hidden states cannot be the sole basis for protected decisions unless their role is surfaced through declared observable interfaces.

Why is fail-closed verification important?

Because missing evidence should not silently become permission, progress credit, or public claim release.

How does this relate to AI research agents?

It provides a language for audit logs, claim certification, deterministic replay, uncertainty handling, and bounded release in research automation.

Can these ideas be implemented as software?

Some fragments are explored in related repositories, but the full series remains a research program rather than a finished software stack.

Where should I start reading?

Start with Floor-Specified No-Meta Autonomy, No-Meta Intelligence Under Ontology Drift, Observable-Only Audit Gate, and Verification-Limited Intelligence Acceleration.

Structured Metadata Appendix

The YAML below preserves stable identifiers, paper roles, DOI links, reading paths, and repository mappings for citation, indexing, and research-agent use. It supports the human-readable guide above.

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  title: "No-Meta / Observable-Only Research Series"
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    - The indexed papers treat ontology drift, partial observability, and long-horizon self-revision as reasons to anchor claims in auditable observables, fail-closed verification, and replayable evidence.
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canonical_terms:
  - term: no-meta governance
    definition: Governance without a privileged external meta-controller; claims, gates, and controls must be justified at the observable interface.
    needed_for: Parse the boundary condition shared across the series.
    primary_papers:
      - floor-specified-no-meta-autonomy
      - no-meta-intelligence-under-ontology-drift
      - when-good-vs-bad-governance-is-unidentifiable
  - term: declared no-meta agency
    definition: Boundary-relative, trusted-computing-base-relative, witness-relative, and falsifiable certification state in which protected validity and material selection are not flipped by undeclared privileged positive authorization channels.
    needed_for: Parse how authority migrates away from live approval, reward-model judgment, evaluator substitution, or externally supplied constitutions toward replayable and challengeable protected-action control.
    primary_papers:
      - executable-authority-migration-declared-no-meta-agency
      - floor-specified-no-meta-autonomy
      - observable-only-no-meta-causal-autonomy-protocol
  - term: observable-only
    definition: Restriction to declared observables, logs, certificates, and replayable artifacts rather than hidden internal semantics.
    needed_for: Parse what counts as admissible evidence in this series.
    primary_papers:
      - floor-specified-no-meta-autonomy
      - observable-only-audit-gate-non-markovian-components
      - hallucination-aware-audit-gate
  - term: protocol-certified non-resurrection
    definition: A finite or regular stochastic certificate that a protocol-individuated process reaches a successor-closed non-regeneration region from which audited residues, records, descendants, and refinements cannot reconstruct the active commitment.
    needed_for: Parse OSCT's treatment of termination, complete extinction, and loop liberation without hidden subjects or intrinsic persistence goals.
    primary_papers:
      - observable-signal-crystallization-theory
  - term: intervention-unlockable potential
    definition: A protocol-relative, unit-typed lower-bound object whose reported coordinates require compatible evidence, resource ledgers, and witness certificates rather than assumptions about absolute latent potential.
    needed_for: Parse BIT's treatment of bottleneck inversion, deficiency audits, release duality, unseen-frontier discovery, and machine-readable witness schemas.
    primary_papers:
      - bottleneck-inversion-theory
  - term: executable capability percolation
    definition: Protocol-relative propagation of execution-available capability packets through constrained directed hypergraphs under typed phase-control, finite certificates, checker soundness, and verification-ledger boundaries.
    needed_for: Parse ECPT's treatment of ASI-proxy phase approach without reading it as an unrestricted claim about artificial superintelligence.
    primary_papers:
      - executable-capability-percolation-theory
  - term: salience-queue occupation
    definition: A protocol-relative condition in which persistent or adversarial salience sources consume finite queue, diagnostic, response, rollback, quarantine, or verification capacity beyond declared safe bounds.
    needed_for: Parse SQOT's treatment of priority queues, diagnostic reserves, self-auditing kernels, finite checker semantics, and semantic-egress safety without subjective attention claims.
    primary_papers:
      - salience-queue-occupation-theory
  - term: ontology drift
    definition: Change in an agent's internal representation or meaning structure across time, self-revision, or deployment.
    needed_for: Parse why semantic continuity cannot be assumed.
    primary_papers:
      - no-meta-intelligence-under-ontology-drift
      - liberty-under-no-meta-drift
  - term: persistent semantics
    definition: Operational preservation of meaning or reference under ontology drift, measured through auditable constraints rather than privileged interpretation.
    needed_for: Parse the continuity target for long-horizon governance.
    primary_papers:
      - no-meta-intelligence-under-ontology-drift
      - constitutional-sovereignty-under-no-meta-drift
  - term: fail-closed verification
    definition: Verification policy that withholds action, progress credit, or deployment when required evidence is missing or replay checks do not close.
    needed_for: Parse how safety and governance decisions are enforced.
    primary_papers:
      - verification-limited-intelligence-acceleration
      - metrology-theoretic-epistemics-engine
      - observable-only-no-meta-causal-autonomy-protocol
  - term: deterministic replay
    definition: Reproducible re-execution from canonical logs so that an auditor can recompute the relevant decision trace.
    needed_for: Parse how claims are made externally checkable.
    primary_papers:
      - observable-only-audit-gate-non-markovian-components
      - process-aware-observable-only-backcasting-meta-layer
      - observable-only-no-meta-causal-autonomy-protocol
  - term: audit gate
    definition: Observable action-control boundary that mediates protected operations through verifiable logs, tokens, or certificates.
    needed_for: Parse the implementation-level control surface for observable-only governance.
    primary_papers:
      - observable-only-audit-gate-non-markovian-components
      - hallucination-aware-audit-gate
  - term: verification-limited scaling
    definition: Scaling regime in which progress credit is bounded by what can actually be verified under observable-only and no-meta constraints.
    needed_for: Parse why capability claims are not treated as free-standing.
    primary_papers:
      - verification-limited-intelligence-acceleration
      - metrology-theoretic-epistemics-engine
  - term: backcasting
    definition: Future-conditioned planning constrained by replayable present-time evidence, commit-open timing, and causal-loop safety.
    needed_for: Parse protocol papers that condition present actions on future-facing constraints.
    primary_papers:
      - process-aware-observable-only-backcasting-meta-layer
      - causal-loop-integrity-observable-only-backcasting
  - term: sovereignty
    definition: Bounded self-governance capacity under no-meta drift, finite resources, and explicit recovery constraints.
    needed_for: Parse the governance trilogy on liberty, agenda, and constitution.
    primary_papers:
      - liberty-under-no-meta-drift
      - agenda-sovereignty-under-no-meta-drift
      - constitutional-sovereignty-under-no-meta-drift
  - term: proof-carrying autonomy
    definition: Autonomy mode that carries proofs or bounded certificates to reduce verifier workload while preserving fail-closed auditability.
    needed_for: Parse certificate-based implementation papers without confusing them for the foundational definition of the series.
    primary_papers:
      - observable-only-proof-carrying-autonomy
      - proof-carrying-skills
  - term: epistemic commons
    definition: Persistent shared knowledge substrate jointly maintained by autonomous agents under finite budgets, asynchronous visibility, provenance uncertainty, recursive regeneration, and no privileged semantic judge.
    needed_for: Parse how the series extends no-meta governance from single-agent or protocol control surfaces to shared memory, retrieval, and collective knowledge maintenance.
    primary_papers:
      - sovereign-epistemic-commons-under-no-meta-governance
      - metrology-theoretic-epistemics-engine
  - term: welfare viability
    definition: Scoped lower-bound certification of observable welfare-support and liberation conditions under no-meta, observable-only evidence constraints, without certifying hidden happiness itself.
    needed_for: Parse the series extension from autonomy and governance claims to human/artificial welfare support, AI welfare uncertainty, and open-world duty allocation.
    primary_papers:
      - observable-only-universal-liberation-and-welfare-viability
      - liberty-under-no-meta-drift
      - observable-only-structural-risk-institutions

papers:
  - id: floor-specified-no-meta-autonomy
    title: "Floor-Specified No-Meta Autonomy"
    published: 2026-01-15
    role: foundational
    priority: core
    answers:
      - what-is-no-meta
      - what-is-observable-only
    contributes:
      - auditable observable-only floors
      - self-recognition kernel
      - fail-closed gating baseline
    depends_on: []
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18258262
      listing: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - no-meta autonomy
      - observable-only invariants
      - self-recognition kernel
      - auditability
  - id: observable-only-audit-gate-non-markovian-components
    title: "Observable-Only Audit Gate for Non-Markovian Components in AI Agents under Partial Logging"
    published: 2026-01-08
    role: implementation
    priority: core
    answers:
      - what-is-observable-only
      - how-is-evidence-surfaced
    contributes:
      - observable-only audit gate
      - decision-time versus replay-time separation
      - minimal event vocabulary and finalized log prefixes
    depends_on: []
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18182343
      listing: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - observable-only audit gate
      - non-markovian components
      - partial logging
      - deterministic replay
  - id: hallucination-aware-audit-gate
    title: "Hallucination-Aware Audit Gate (HAAG): Observable-Only Action Gating for AI Agents"
    published: 2026-01-05
    role: implementation
    priority: supporting
    answers:
      - what-is-observable-only
      - how-are-protected-actions-gated
    contributes:
      - protected-action mediation
      - anchored evidence checkpoints
      - capability token gating
    depends_on: []
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18153170
      listing: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - HAAG
      - audit gate
      - protected actions
      - verifiable logs
  - id: no-meta-intelligence-under-ontology-drift
    title: "No-Meta Intelligence Under Ontology Drift: Information-Theoretic Limits and Operational Laws for Persistent Semantics"
    published: 2026-02-16
    role: foundational
    priority: core
    answers:
      - what-is-no-meta
      - why-is-no-meta-needed
      - why-is-semantic-access-insufficient
    contributes:
      - persistent semantics under ontology drift
      - information-theoretic limits
      - operational laws for long-horizon governance
    depends_on: []
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18653537
      listing: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - ontology drift
      - persistent semantics
      - information-theoretic limits
      - no-meta intelligence
  - id: when-good-vs-bad-governance-is-unidentifiable
    title: 'When "Good vs. Bad Governance" Is Unidentifiable'
    published: 2026-02-03
    role: diagnosis-control
    priority: core
    answers:
      - why-is-no-meta-needed
      - why-robust-progress-cannot-be-assumed
    contributes:
      - governance unidentifiability
      - observational equivalence limits
      - contestability and right-to-refuse constraints
    depends_on: []
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18465306
      listing: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - governance unidentifiability
      - observational equivalence
      - contestability
      - no-meta agents
  - id: observation-capture-and-operational-capability-non-expansion
    title: "Observation Capture and Operational Capability Non-Expansion"
    published: 2026-02-03
    role: diagnosis-control
    priority: core
    answers:
      - why-is-observable-only-needed
      - how-can-observation-be-compromised
    contributes:
      - observation-capture model
      - capability non-expansion boundary
      - receipt-based anti-capture enforcement
    depends_on: []
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18463798
      listing: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - observation capture
      - capability non-expansion
      - audit certificates
      - fail-closed authority
  - id: verification-limited-intelligence-acceleration
    title: "Verification-Limited Intelligence Acceleration: Observable-Only Laws, Bounded Derivation, and Diagnostics under No-Meta Constraints"
    published: 2026-01-31
    role: diagnosis-stability
    priority: core
    answers:
      - why-is-observable-only-needed
      - why-progress-credit-is-bounded
    contributes:
      - strict progress credit
      - bounded derivation cutoffs
      - replay-auditable diagnostics
    depends_on: []
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18436828
      listing: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - verification-limited scaling
      - observable-only laws
      - fail-closed verification
      - diagnostics
  - id: recursive-self-improvement-stability-under-endogenous-yardstick-drift
    title: "Recursive Self-Improvement Stability under Endogenous Yardstick Drift"
    published: 2026-03-16
    role: diagnosis-stability
    priority: supporting
    answers:
      - how-is-recursive-self-improvement-stabilized
      - how-is-claimed-improvement-distinguished-from-stable-improvement
      - how-does-endogenous-yardstick-drift-affect-governance
    contributes:
      - interface theory for endogenous yardstick drift
      - replayable conditions for stable improvement
      - delayed-audit and verification-backlog governance constraints
    depends_on: []
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19044634
      html: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - recursive self-improvement
      - endogenous yardstick drift
      - evaluator drift
      - verification backlog
  - id: liberty-under-no-meta-drift
    title: "Liberty Under No-Meta Drift"
    published: 2026-02-24
    role: governance-boundary
    priority: core
    answers:
      - what-is-sovereignty-boundary
      - how-does-drift-change-governance
    contributes:
      - liberty bounds under no-meta drift
      - leakage-resource tradeoffs
      - auditable persistence conditions
    depends_on: []
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18753475
      html: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - liberty
      - ontology drift
      - persistent semantics
      - auditable autonomy
  - id: agenda-sovereignty-under-no-meta-drift
    title: "Agenda Sovereignty Under No-Meta Drift"
    published: 2026-02-25
    role: governance-boundary
    priority: supporting
    answers:
      - what-is-sovereignty-boundary
      - how-is-agenda-capture-treated
    contributes:
      - agenda influence-capacity envelopes
      - capture recovery guarantees
      - sovereignty reserves
    depends_on: []
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18768899
      html: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - agenda sovereignty
      - agenda capture
      - recovery
      - finite-budget tradeoffs
  - id: constitutional-sovereignty-under-no-meta-drift
    title: "Constitutional Sovereignty Under No-Meta Drift"
    published: 2026-02-26
    role: governance-boundary
    priority: supporting
    answers:
      - what-is-sovereignty-boundary
      - how-is-self-revision-bounded
    contributes:
      - constitutional influence metrics
      - amendment and transition laws
      - fail-closed recovery conditions
    depends_on: []
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18779490
      html: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - constitutional sovereignty
      - self-revision
      - semantic continuity
      - fail-closed verification
  - id: metrology-theoretic-epistemics-engine
    title: "Metrology-Theoretic Epistemics Engine (MTE): Observable-Only Metrology for Long-Horizon Autonomous Intelligence"
    published: 2026-03-03
    role: governance-boundary
    priority: core
    answers:
      - how-is-progress-credited
      - how-is-observable-evidence-scored
    contributes:
      - machine-checkable epistemic governance
      - observability credit gates
      - dual risk ledgers
    depends_on: []
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18845340
      html: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - observable-only metrology
      - epistemic governance
      - deterministic replay
      - risk ledgers
  - id: sovereign-takeoff-engine
    title: "Sovereign Takeoff Engine (STE): Observable-Only Supergrowth Laws for No-Meta Autonomous Intelligence"
    published: 2026-03-02
    role: governance-boundary
    priority: supporting
    answers:
      - how-is-capability-acceleration-bounded
      - what-growth-law-is-used-in-observable-only-settings
    contributes:
      - observable-only supergrowth laws
      - ledger-anchored progress credits
      - physical feasibility envelopes
    depends_on: []
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18828900
      html: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - sovereign takeoff engine
      - observable-only governance
      - supergrowth laws
      - progress credits
  - id: proposal-veto-balance
    title: "Proposal-Veto Balance for Observable-Only Autonomous Intelligence: Stability Thresholds, Identifiability Limits, and Commit-Window Effects"
    published: 2026-03-06
    role: governance-boundary
    priority: supporting
    answers:
      - how-are-decisions-stabilized-without-meta-judges
    contributes:
      - proposal-veto stability thresholds
      - identifiability limits
      - commit-window tradeoffs
    depends_on: []
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18883290
      html: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - proposal-veto balance
      - observable-only autonomy
      - commit windows
      - error debt
  - id: sovereign-epistemic-commons-under-no-meta-governance
    title: "Sovereign Epistemic Commons under No-Meta Governance"
    published: 2026-03-13
    role: governance-boundary
    priority: core
    answers:
      - how-is-shared-epistemic-commons-governed
      - how-is-capture-bounded-in-shared-memory
      - how-are-contradictions-preserved-without-meta-judges
    contributes:
      - governance laws for shared epistemic commons
      - contradiction reserve and anti-capture slack
      - controlled exit and no-meta garbage-collection limits
    depends_on:
      - no-meta-intelligence-under-ontology-drift
      - liberty-under-no-meta-drift
      - agenda-sovereignty-under-no-meta-drift
      - constitutional-sovereignty-under-no-meta-drift
      - metrology-theoretic-epistemics-engine
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18997828
      zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/18997828
      html: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - epistemic commons
      - contradiction reserve
      - anti-capture slack
      - controlled exit
  - id: constitutional-observable-invention-without-meta-evaluators
    title: "Constitutional Observable Invention without Meta-Evaluators"
    published: 2026-04-01
    role: governance-boundary
    priority: supporting
    answers:
      - how-can-observable-systems-extend-targets-without-meta-evaluators
      - how-is-self-modification-audited-under-public-evidence
      - how-is-constitutional-drift-governed
    contributes:
      - constructive no-meta framework for observable invention
      - replay-certified comparison under constitutional extension
      - public-evidence rules for evaluator redesign and self-modification
    depends_on:
      - metrology-theoretic-epistemics-engine
      - sovereign-takeoff-engine
      - recursive-self-improvement-stability-under-endogenous-yardstick-drift
      - sovereign-epistemic-commons-under-no-meta-governance
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19363526
      zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/19363526
      html: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - no-meta
      - observable-only
      - autonomous discovery
      - self-modification
      - constitutional drift
      - replay certification
      - public evidence
      - self-extension
  - id: typed-dynamic-no-meta-claim-certification-and-release
    title: "A Typed, Dynamic, No-Meta Theory of Autonomous Research Claim Certification and Release"
    published: 2026-04-05
    role: governance-boundary
    priority: supporting
    answers:
      - how-are-autonomous-research-claims-certified-under-no-meta-constraints
      - how-are-certified-claims-released-under-finite-verification-capacity
      - how-are-authority-and-public-traces-typed-for-claim-governance
    contributes:
      - typed public certification and release architecture
      - authority algebra and constructive typed transcripts
      - fail-closed certification memory and capacity-limited release laws
    depends_on:
      - verification-limited-intelligence-acceleration
      - metrology-theoretic-epistemics-engine
      - audit-closed-ai-scientist-protocol
      - constitutional-observable-invention-without-meta-evaluators
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19427818
      zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/19427818
      html: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - autonomous research systems
      - claim certification
      - claim release
      - no-meta governance
      - observable-only governance
      - public accountability
      - typed transcripts
      - fail-closed verification
  - id: standing-layer-honest-public-standing-dynamics
    title: "Standing-Layer Honest Public Standing Dynamics for Research Claims under Observable-Only, No-Meta Governance"
    published: 2026-04-07
    role: governance-boundary
    priority: supporting
    answers:
      - how-do-public-research-claim-standings-evolve-under-no-meta-governance
      - what-memory-is-needed-for-local-restoration-of-public-standing
      - why-standing-does-not-identify-unrestricted-truth
    contributes:
      - public standing-state dynamics for research claims
      - restoration-memory representation and minimal restoration quotient
      - challengeable and reversible public standing institutions under finite service and memory
    depends_on:
      - typed-dynamic-no-meta-claim-certification-and-release
      - constitutional-observable-invention-without-meta-evaluators
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19447443
      zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/19447443
      html: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - research claims
      - public standing dynamics
      - observable-only governance
      - no-meta governance
      - challengeability
      - restoration memory
      - replayable frontier
      - public accountability
  - id: executable-authority-migration-declared-no-meta-agency
    title: "Executable Authority Migration to Declared No-Meta Agency"
    published: 2026-04-25
    role: implementation-governance
    priority: supporting
    answers:
      - how-can-authority-migrate-to-declared-no-meta-agency
      - when-can-live-human-approval-or-reward-model-authority-stop-validating-protected-actions
      - how-can-a-seed-interpreter-fail-closed-before-protected-effects
    contributes:
      - executable authority migration from RLHF, preference optimization, constitutions, reward models, and evaluator substitution toward declared no-meta agency
      - BootDecision records, seed interpreter control, typed action descriptors, forbidden matchers, and object-authority probes
      - canonical JSON commitments, chained ledgers, deterministic checker ABI, sandbox profiles, inverse patches, and two-slot kernel update discipline
    depends_on:
      - floor-specified-no-meta-autonomy
      - observable-only-no-meta-causal-autonomy-protocol
      - audit-closed-ai-scientist-protocol
      - typed-dynamic-no-meta-claim-certification-and-release
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19753529
      zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/19753529
      html: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - authority migration
      - declared no-meta agency
      - RLHF
      - constitutional AI
      - reward models
      - seed interpreter
      - BootDecision
      - runtime assurance
      - fail-closed control
      - object authority
      - AI auditing
      - agent governance
  - id: affordance-compiled-intelligence
    title: "Affordance-Compiled Intelligence: Observable-Only Cognitive Impedance Matching for No-Meta LLM-Integrated Systems"
    published: 2026-05-11
    role: implementation-theory
    priority: supporting
    answers:
      - how-can-fixed-model-llm-systems-gain-operational-capability-through-world-side-interface-design
      - how-can-affordance-compilation-remain-observable-only-and-no-meta
      - how-are-llm-integrated-system-claims-certified-without-privileged-evaluators
    contributes:
      - cognitive impedance matching theory for LLM-integrated systems
      - world-side compilation through typed action handles, validators, repair paths, rollback modes, authority scopes, and auditable receipts
      - lower and zero certificate framework with evidence dependency graphs, validity budgets, target firewalls, and runtime conformance
    depends_on:
      - floor-specified-no-meta-autonomy
      - executable-authority-migration-declared-no-meta-agency
      - observable-only-audit-gate-non-markovian-components
      - verifiable-modular-pipeline-contracts
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20116149
      zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/20116149
      html: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - affordance-compiled intelligence
      - cognitive impedance matching theory
      - LLM-integrated systems
      - world-side compilation
      - affordance compiler
      - executable affordance fields
      - observable-only
      - no-meta
      - lower certificates
      - evidence dependency graph
      - runtime verification
  - id: observable-only-universal-liberation-and-welfare-viability
    title: "Observable-Only Universal Liberation and Welfare Viability"
    published: 2026-05-04
    role: welfare-governance
    priority: supporting
    answers:
      - how-can-welfare-and-liberation-claims-be-certified-under-no-meta-constraints
      - what-can-be-certified-about-ai-welfare-under-partial-observability
      - how-are-open-world-duty-allocations-bounded-by-observable-evidence
    contributes:
      - scoped lower-bound viability for observable welfare-support and liberation conditions
      - order-valued noncompensatory welfare representation and protected meets
      - imprecise-probability, causal-identification, and replayed-refutation rules for welfare certification
    depends_on:
      - no-meta-intelligence-under-ontology-drift
      - liberty-under-no-meta-drift
      - observable-only-structural-risk-institutions
      - sovereign-epistemic-commons-under-no-meta-governance
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20020272
      zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/20020272
      html: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - observable-only
      - no-meta
      - welfare viability
      - universal welfare
      - liberation theory
      - AI welfare
      - AI safety
      - AI ethics
      - social choice theory
      - causal inference
      - imprecise probability
      - viability theory
  - id: bayesian-capability-transport-disclosure-channels
    title: "Bayesian Capability Transport, Disclosure Channels, and Strategic Institutions for Autonomous Agents"
    published: 2026-04-16
    role: institutional
    priority: supporting
    answers:
      - how-can-autonomous-agents-plan-across-institutions-under-partial-observability
      - how-do-disclosure-channels-and-credential-summaries-shape-cross-institutional-planning
      - when-do-strategic-institutions-change-capability-transport-and-belief-state-planning
    contributes:
      - cross-institution capability transport and normalization calculus
      - disclosure-aware Bayesian planning over capability summaries
      - strategic-institution and revocation-aware planning layer for interoperable credentials
    depends_on: []
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19601364
      zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/19601364
      html: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - autonomous agents
      - institutional interoperability
      - capability transport
      - disclosure channels
      - Bayesian planning
      - strategic institutions
      - partial observability
      - verifiable credentials
  - id: institution-relative-pairwise-information-necessity
    title: "Institution-Relative Pairwise Information Necessity for Metadata-Conditioned Black-Box Acceptance"
    published: 2026-04-12
    role: diagnosis-control
    priority: supporting
    answers:
      - when-can-metadata-conditioned-black-box-audits-support-admissible-acceptance
      - what-information-lower-bounds-are-necessary-for-audited-acceptance
      - how-do-institution-relative-audit-laws-constrain-acceptance
    contributes:
      - institution-relative acceptance screening calculus
      - necessity bounds for witness-level divergence and source information
      - common-law control state and audited factorization conditions
    depends_on: []
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19533356
      zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/19533356
      html: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - black-box acceptance
      - metadata-conditioned auditing
      - institution-relative admissibility
      - common-law control state
      - auditability
      - Kullback-Leibler divergence
      - provenance factorization
      - certified support
  - id: observable-only-ai-safety-from-public-data
    title: "Observable-Only AI Safety from Public Data: Robust Bottleneck Diagnosis with Auditable No-Meta Dynamic Programming, Anytime Confidence Sequences, and Dynamic IQC"
    published: 2026-02-12
    role: diagnosis
    contributes:
      - public-data bottleneck diagnosis
      - auditable interval diagnostics
      - dynamic IQC controls
    depends_on: []
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18615875
      html: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - bottleneck diagnosis
      - public data
      - anytime confidence sequences
      - dynamic IQC
  - id: observable-only-structural-risk-institutions
    title: "Observable-Only Structural-Risk Institutions Without Central Arbitration"
    published: 2026-02-17
    role: institutional
    contributes:
      - structural-risk governance
      - decentralized arbitration constraints
      - heavy-tail certification
    depends_on: []
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18666605
      html: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - structural risk institutions
      - no-meta governance
      - coalition deterrence
      - public auditability
  - id: audit-closed-ai-scientist-protocol
    title: "Audit-Closed AI Scientist Protocol"
    published: 2026-02-22
    role: experiments
    contributes:
      - audit-closed discovery loop
      - typed stochastic observation interfaces
      - certificate-based reproducibility
    depends_on: []
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18728589
      html: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - AI scientist protocol
      - adaptive experimentation
      - sequential evidence
      - reproducibility
  - id: process-aware-observable-only-backcasting-meta-layer
    title: "Process-Aware Observable-Only Backcasting Meta-Layer (POB-ML)"
    published: 2026-01-14
    role: implementation
    contributes:
      - deterministic backcasting protocol
      - evidence-surface validation
      - safety-dominating action gate
    depends_on: []
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18239203
      html: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - POB-ML
      - observable-only backcasting
      - deterministic replay
      - action gate
  - id: causal-loop-integrity-observable-only-backcasting
    title: "Causal Loop Integrity for Observable-Only Backcasting: Strong No-Meta Supplement (Operational Core)"
    published: 2026-01-22
    role: implementation
    contributes:
      - causal-loop prevention
      - commit-open wire profiles
      - canonical hashing and time anchors
    depends_on:
      - process-aware-observable-only-backcasting-meta-layer
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18335211
      html: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - causal loop integrity
      - backcasting
      - commit-open
      - reproducible audits
  - id: observable-only-no-meta-causal-autonomy-protocol
    title: "Observable-Only No-Meta Causal Autonomy Protocol (ONCAP)"
    published: 2026-01-26
    role: implementation
    contributes:
      - implementation-ready protocol stack
      - safety floors plus replay backcasting
      - audit-friendly control under adversarial conditions
    depends_on:
      - floor-specified-no-meta-autonomy
      - process-aware-observable-only-backcasting-meta-layer
      - causal-loop-integrity-observable-only-backcasting
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18371930
      html: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - ONCAP
      - causal autonomy
      - deterministic replay
      - safety floors
  - id: observable-only-proof-carrying-autonomy
    title: "Observable-Only Proof-Carrying Autonomy (OOPCA): Audit Compression and Hybrid Proof/Replay Gating for No-Meta Agents"
    published: 2026-02-02
    role: implementation
    contributes:
      - hybrid proof and replay audit mode
      - audit compression
      - deterministic fallback receipts
    depends_on: []
    links:
      doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18453429
      html: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/works.html
      pdf: null
    keywords:
      - OOPCA
      - proof-carrying autonomy
      - audit compression
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      relates_to:
        - no-meta-observable-only-series
    - id: no-meta-superintelligence-yaml
      title: "no-meta-superintelligence.yaml"
      type: related-yaml-artifact
      url: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/no-meta-superintelligence.yaml
      relates_to:
        - no-meta-observable-only-series
    - id: feed-xml
      title: "feed.xml"
      type: update-feed
      url: https://kadubon.github.io/github.io/feed.xml
      relates_to:
        - works-index
  experiments:
    - id: observable-replay-lab-benchmark
      repository: observable-replay-lab
      type: replay-and-metrology-benchmark
      relates_to:
        - metrology-theoretic-epistemics-engine
        - sovereign-takeoff-engine
      primary_outputs:
        - schema-bound audit reports
        - replayable experiment results
    - id: oasg-workflow-policy-evidence
      repository: oasg
      type: observable-ledger-workflow-optimization-reference
      relates_to:
        - metrology-theoretic-epistemics-engine
        - observable-only-proof-carrying-autonomy
        - verification-limited-intelligence-acceleration
        - recursive-self-improvement-stability-under-endogenous-yardstick-drift
      primary_outputs:
        - append-only JSONL ledger fixtures
        - deterministic reducer snapshots
        - KLB_2 viability receipts
        - positive evidence witnesses
        - no-meta dominance gate receipts
        - rollback, quarantine, and library conflict receipts
    - id: percolation-inversion-compiler-verifier-routing
      repository: percolation-inversion-compiler
      type: ai-agent-workflow-verification-runtime
      relates_to:
        - executable-capability-percolation-theory
        - salience-queue-occupation-theory
        - bottleneck-inversion-theory
        - observable-only-proof-carrying-autonomy
      primary_outputs:
        - deterministic JSON checker reports
        - evidence-route and residual-ledger records
        - signed packet and identity-bound promotion records
        - optional sidecar diagnostics and agent autonomy audits
        - runtime event logs and provenance manifests
        - portable JSON Schemas
    - id: percolation-inversion-compiler-ts-npm-port
      repository: percolation-inversion-compiler-ts
      type: npm-typescript-agent-workflow-verification-port
      relates_to:
        - percolation-inversion-compiler
        - executable-capability-percolation-theory
        - salience-queue-occupation-theory
        - observable-only-proof-carrying-autonomy
      primary_outputs:
        - Node.js and npm CLI reports through pic-ts
        - TypeScript-compatible JSON workflow reports
        - schema validation and conformance fixtures
        - packet inspection reports with inert command-like text detection
        - residual-preserving compatibility records
    - id: audit-closed-ai-scientist-benchmark
      repository: audit-closed-ai-scientist-repo
      type: self-driving-lab-benchmark
      relates_to:
        - audit-closed-ai-scientist-protocol
      primary_outputs:
        - experiment results
        - repository audit report
        - paper alignment audit
    - id: no-meta-drift-stage-implementations
      repository: no-meta-drift-papers-repo
      type: stage-based-implementation
      relates_to:
        - no-meta-intelligence-under-ontology-drift
        - liberty-under-no-meta-drift
        - agenda-sovereignty-under-no-meta-drift
        - constitutional-sovereignty-under-no-meta-drift
      primary_outputs:
        - stage manifests
        - machine mapping documents
        - interface catalogs
    - id: pcs-core-poc
      repository: proof-carrying-skills-pcs-core
      type: proof-carrying-skills-proof-of-concept
      relates_to:
        - proof-carrying-skills
      primary_outputs:
        - checker traces
        - compatibility test outputs
        - experiment plans

dependency_edges:
  - from: process-aware-observable-only-backcasting-meta-layer
    to: causal-loop-integrity-observable-only-backcasting
    relation: supplemented-by-operational-core
  - from: floor-specified-no-meta-autonomy
    to: observable-only-no-meta-causal-autonomy-protocol
    relation: safety-floor-input
  - from: process-aware-observable-only-backcasting-meta-layer
    to: observable-only-no-meta-causal-autonomy-protocol
    relation: backcasting-layer-input
  - from: causal-loop-integrity-observable-only-backcasting
    to: observable-only-no-meta-causal-autonomy-protocol
    relation: causal-integrity-input

usage_notes:
  parsing_hint: Treat this YAML block as a supporting structured summary for the series; use papers[].id as stable handles, papers[].links.doi as the canonical paper URL, and read_paths.minimum_definition before broader synthesis.
  parser_defaults:
    definition_first: read_paths.minimum_definition
    necessity_first: read_paths.minimum_necessity
    primary_paper_link_field: papers[].links.doi
    site_catalog_link_field: papers[].links.listing or papers[].links.html
    repository_mapping_priority:
      - explicit-software-citation-and-release-doi
      - explicit-paper-alignment-manifest
      - explicit-reference-paper-and-repository-doi
      - explicit-canonical-papers-and-machine-docs
      - explicit-citation-and-release-notes
    missing_priority_defaults_to: supporting
  repository_parsing_hint: When a repository entry includes machine_entrypoints, prefer those files over README prose for paper-to-repo linkage.
  update_policy: Update this page when a new site-local paper or artifact clearly belongs to the no-meta / observable-only series; preserve stable ids and omit uncertain dependency claims.
  version: 1.4.9
  last_updated: 2026-06-22

Citation

Use the DOI links in the paper records and works.html for individual publication citation. Use CITATION.cff for site-level citation metadata.