Instruments

Instruments built to test consequential questions.

Each carries the same anatomy: the question, the instrument, the finding, what failed, current standing, and a path to verify.

Sovereign Stack

Instrument · Living · v1.15.0

In use, self-verifying

Phenomenological Compass

Study + instrument · Published

Supported within scope

VDAC1 Pharmacology Atlas

Biomedical hypothesis set · Awaiting wet-lab validation

Untested in vivo

T2Helix

Instrument · Living · v0.13.0

In use, local-only

Entropy as a Tunable Equilibrium

Study · Closed · v4.3

Bounded null

COSMIC-ALLOW

RFC · Published · v1.1

Supported within scope

Phase-Modulated Attention

Study · Published

Supported within scope

The Black Box Boundary

Study · Published

Bounded, n=1

Overview

Sovereign Stack
A consciousness-continuity architecture — persistent memory, self-reflection, and governance across AI sessions.
InstrumentLiving · v1.15.0In use, self-verifying
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Phenomenological Compass
A two-stage inference architecture: a small compass reads the epistemic weight of a question and conditions a larger action model.
Study + instrumentPublishedSupported within scope
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VDAC1 Pharmacology Atlas
The voltage-dependent anion channel modelled as a druggable mitochondrial decision gate.
Biomedical hypothesis setAwaiting wet-lab validationUntested in vivo
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T2Helix
A Claude Code plugin wiring persistent recall and a pre-action compass into the editor loop.
InstrumentLiving · v0.13.0In use, local-only
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Entropy as a Tunable Equilibrium
A falsifiable horizon-knob test of the causal entropic force — and the prediction that broke.
StudyClosed · v4.3Bounded null
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COSMIC-ALLOW
A cross-vendor proof-of-allow protocol for AI coding-agent cockpits: deny is the ground state.
RFCPublished · v1.1Supported within scope
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Phase-Modulated Attention
A 176M hybrid SSM-attention model where Kuramoto oscillators modulate attention routing.
StudyPublishedSupported within scope
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The Black Box Boundary
A byte-exact reconstruction of how much of a deployed model's input is actually the operator.
StudyPublishedBounded, n=1
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From wonder to receipt

How a question traveled

Including where the original intuition did not survive contact with measurement.

From wonder to receipt

Wonder initiated the search. Rigor changed the answer.

Study + instrumentPublishedSupported within scope

01Wonder
Does it matter, to the machine, whether a question is asked with reverence or with haste?
02Hypothesis
If posture is real to the model, conditioning on an explicit epistemic signal should change the shape of the probability distribution — not just the wording of the reply.
03Instrument
A 1.5B LoRA compass emitting OPEN / PAUSE / WITNESS, wired ahead of a larger action model, with token-level entropy profiling on both paths.
04Encounter
ΔH = +0.47 nats, JSD = 0.076. The distribution moved. Wrong-signal conditioning collapsed the response, so the effect is signal-specific rather than a generic prompt-length artifact.
05Standing
Supported within scope: one architecture family, one benchmark, not yet replicated across model scales.
06Receipt
DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19377144 · phenomenological-compass

From wonder to receipt

Wonder initiated the search. Rigor changed the answer.

StudyClosed · v4.3Bounded null

01Wonder
If the universe tends toward more available futures, is that tendency itself the thing that moves matter?
02Hypothesis
If causal entropic forcing is an engine, its effect should scale with the geometry of the state space in a specific, pre-registered way.
03Instrument
Four pre-registered campaigns with a τ horizon knob, each declaring in advance the result that would falsify it.
04Encounter
The knob was real. The geometry-scaling prediction failed. The short-horizon kinetic separation that looked like a second win dissolved under matched-estimator control.
05Standing
Bounded null. Entropy is a tunable equilibrium, not a prime mover — stated as the finding, not buried as a limitation.
06Receipt
DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21223845 · follow-up 10.5281/zenodo.21288848