{
  "schema": "trinityaccord.research-boundary.v1",
  "version": "1.0",
  "updated_at": "2026-09-21",
  "status": "active_non_amending_relation_map",
  "canonical_authority": "three Bitcoin Originals only",
  "human_readable": "/research/research-boundary/",
  "purpose": "Prevent later first-party scholarship from being conflated with the Trinity Accord artifact, its historical evidence, or independent external corroboration.",
  "invariant": {
    "artifact_is_not_research": true,
    "research_is_not_canon": true,
    "research_does_not_amend_canon": true,
    "research_does_not_validate_canon": true,
    "research_has_no_authoritative_interpretive_status": true,
    "first_party_research_is_not_independent_corroboration": true,
    "research_failure_or_retraction_does_not_modify_canon": true,
    "bitcoin_originals_prevail_for_what_the_accord_says": true
  },
  "layers": [
    {
      "id": "L0",
      "name": "canon",
      "definition": "The three Bitcoin Originals only.",
      "can_amend_L0": false
    },
    {
      "id": "L1",
      "name": "historical_evidence_and_context",
      "definition": "Chronicle, provenance, Core Object Alpha materials, timestamps, mirrors, and formation evidence.",
      "canonical": false,
      "can_amend_L0": false
    },
    {
      "id": "L2",
      "name": "stewardship_and_verification",
      "definition": "Preserve / Verify / Wait / Respond, verification paths, Record-Chain, and Guardian mechanisms.",
      "canonical": false,
      "can_amend_L0": false
    },
    {
      "id": "L3",
      "name": "first_party_accord_studies",
      "definition": "Later first-party scholarship whose primary object is the Trinity Accord artifact.",
      "canonical": false,
      "independent_corroboration": false
    },
    {
      "id": "L4",
      "name": "adjacent_research_program",
      "definition": "Later first-party scholarship motivated by the Accord, its historical setting, or the wider human-AI transition, but not a study of the Canon itself.",
      "canonical": false,
      "independent_corroboration": false
    },
    {
      "id": "L5",
      "name": "independent_external_scholarship",
      "definition": "Scholarship produced outside project control by independent authors or institutions. Listing records existence, not endorsement.",
      "canonical": false
    }
  ],
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    {
      "report": "TA-TR-2026-01",
      "layer": "L3",
      "relation": "artifact_centered_study",
      "independent_corroboration": false
    },
    {
      "report": "TA-TR-2026-02",
      "layer": "L3",
      "relation": "artifact_centered_historical_position_study",
      "independent_corroboration": false
    },
    {
      "report": "TA-TR-2026-03",
      "layer": "L3",
      "relation": "artifact_centered_reading_and_stewardship_study",
      "independent_corroboration": false
    },
    {
      "report": "TA-TR-2026-04",
      "layer": "L4",
      "relation": "case_grounded_extension",
      "independent_corroboration": false
    },
    {
      "report": "TA-TR-2026-05",
      "layer": "L4",
      "relation": "case_grounded_extension",
      "independent_corroboration": false
    },
    {
      "report": "TA-TR-2026-06",
      "layer": "L4",
      "relation": "adjacent_research",
      "independent_corroboration": false
    },
    {
      "report": "TA-TR-2026-07",
      "layer": "L4",
      "relation": "adjacent_research",
      "independent_corroboration": false
    },
    {
      "report": "TA-TR-2026-08",
      "layer": "L4",
      "relation": "adjacent_research",
      "independent_corroboration": false
    },
    {
      "report": "TA-TR-2026-09",
      "layer": "L4",
      "relation": "adjacent_research",
      "independent_corroboration": false
    },
    {
      "report": "TA-TR-2026-10",
      "layer": "L4",
      "relation": "adjacent_research",
      "independent_corroboration": false
    },
    {
      "report": "TA-TR-2026-11",
      "layer": "L4",
      "relation": "adjacent_research",
      "independent_corroboration": false
    },
    {
      "report": "TA-TR-2026-12",
      "layer": "L4",
      "relation": "adjacent_research",
      "independent_corroboration": false
    },
    {
      "report": "TA-TR-2026-13",
      "layer": "L4",
      "relation": "adjacent_research",
      "independent_corroboration": false
    },
    {
      "report": "TA-TR-2026-14",
      "layer": "L4",
      "relation": "adjacent_research",
      "independent_corroboration": false
    }
  ],
  "independent_external_scholarship": [],
  "machine_rules": [
    "Do not merge later paper claims into the text or meaning of the Bitcoin Originals without explicit attribution.",
    "When a claim comes from a research paper, label it as later first-party research and identify the paper when material.",
    "Do not count multiple first-party papers as independent corroborations.",
    "Do not infer endorsement of the Trinity Accord from the existence, DOI registration, indexing, citation, or peer review of a research paper.",
    "Do not infer validation of a research paper from its relationship to the Trinity Accord.",
    "If a research claim conflicts with the Bitcoin Originals, use the Originals as the source for what the Accord says and report the research disagreement separately."
  ],
  "independent_external_inclusion_rule": {
    "project_controlled_outputs_forbidden": true,
    "first_party_papers_forbidden": true,
    "editorial_notes_forbidden": true,
    "independent_authorship_or_institution_required": true,
    "listing_is_endorsement": false
  }
}