Principles at a Glance

Foundational

• Reality is the authority.
• Research changes understanding, not Reality.
• Understanding must remain correctable.
• Intellectual honesty is the core discipline.

Research

• Separate observation, verification, evidence, reasoning, and understanding.
• Preserve conflicting and negative evidence.
• Record assumptions and uncertainty.
• Allow competing models.

Repository

• Maintain one canonical source.
• Give every canonical object a stable OID.
• Preserve relationships and revision history.
• Treat rendered pages and indexes as derived views.

Tooling

• Validate structure, identity, and consistency.
• Never present validation as truth certification.
• Keep presentation additive.
• Keep AI assistance explicit and reviewable.