Latent Studios / Deterministic Investigative Systems

MC-NEWS / Research Control Plane

Discover the news. Capture exact bytes. Propose anchored claims. Inspect provenance, contradictions, epistemic states and cryptographic replay receipts.

v1.2 PROTOCOL LOCKEDV1.4 RESEARCH MATRIXLOCAL LEDGERINITIALIZING

Captured artifacts0

Claim candidates0

Admitted claims0

Ledger leaves0

Replay receipts0

00 / MC-NEWS / INVESTIGATIVE CONTROL PLANE

Find the account. Inspect the evidence. Reproduce the result.

Federated search, attributable perspectives, historic references and conditional investigative pathways. Index references are discoveries; only captured bytes and admitted claims enter the deterministic evidence ledger.

P01â€“P12 UNMODIFIEDCONTROL MODULE V1.3EDITORIAL LENSES â‰ EVIDENCE

Federated research query

Parallel, individually identified discovery catalogs. Results can converge on the same underlying publisher or wire report.

OPERATOR-CONTROLLED

Issue, entity, incident, policy, or investigation

Required exact phrase (optional)

Restrict indexed source hostname (optional)

File extension, index-filter only

Discovery window (where engine supports it)

Engine selection Â· different indexes, NOT automatically independent evidence

GDELT / global news HN Algolia / community Crossref / research Library of Congress / archives

Preserve raw API responsesReady; no live claims inferred.

Site and file-type restrictions are verified on returned URLs. Indexes may not support those operators natively. File extensions are hints until exact bytes and media type are acquired. Blocked CORS, API quotas and HTTP errors are explicitly recorded.

Responding catalogs0

Discovery links0

Distinct domains0

Proven evidence roots0

Engine response audit

DISCOVERY

Waiting for live search.

Coverage & evidence mesh

LOCAL SVG WITNESS

Drawn from captured claims and current search metadata. Connections do not assert source independence.

Research results

0 INDEX LINKS

Run a query across the selected catalogs. No example headlines are fabricated.

Selected investigation docket

11 / THREE-PERSPECTIVE EDUCATIONAL REVIEW

Three quick reads. One evidence ledger.

Conservative and liberal frames must be attributed to actual source material, not imagined by the software. The bipartisan view separates independently cited cross-perspective themes from the mechanically admitted shared evidence.

Register a sourced perspective

Each frame is a cited review annotation, not a ClaimAtom and not an input to P11. A cross-perspective theme requires two attributable references.

ATTRIBUTION REQUIRED

Descriptive frame

Citable source URL (HTTPS)

Source identity / attribution

Policy question or issue

Brief, descriptively worded statement of the attributed argument

Unanchored web links are citable references, not captured source proofs.

Shared evidence / unresolved questions

Equal access to viewpoints does not force equal evidentiary support. Contradictions remain visible. Motives, political alignments and audience reactions are excluded from epistemic adjudication.

12 / HISTORY Â· ADJACENCY Â· CONDITIONAL PATHWAYS

Look backward, sideways, and forward.

History is a sourced comparison, not proof of recurrence. Future branches are explicit if/then research hypotheses with observable checkpoints, not forecasts or assertions that events will occur.

Historical precedent / adjacent information

Relationship

Reference HTTPS URL

Reference title

Relevant date (optional)

Declared comparable feature / difference

Conditional pathways

IF â€” factual condition or pending decision

THEN â€” an investigative implication to test (not a prediction)

OBSERVE â€” checkable future evidence

Evidence context URL (optional)

No estimated probability, no political outcome prediction.

Pathway map

SVG / RESEARCH MODEL

13 / BOUNDED SOURCE ACQUISITION

Crawl by declared scope. Preserve what was acquired.

Browser crawler for HTTPS hosts that permit cross-origin reads and expose a robots.txt with supported simple rules. A deeper unrestricted acquisition fleet is a separate, opt-in transport adapterâ€”not an invisible browser bypass.

Controlled crawler Â· sequential execution

Seed URLs (one HTTPS URL per line; each host remains isolated)

Maximum link depth

Maximum captured pages

Minimum interval per host

Content capture mode

Idle

Fails closed if robots rules cannot be read or use syntax outside the supported conservative subset; no credentials, login bypass, opaque fetch, private-network targets, or cross-host link following. No guarantee that a website grants automated acquisition beyond robots policy or its terms. Crawl ends if the tab closes.

Page-level crawler log

LIVE OBSERVATIONS

No crawl attempted.

Acquisition adapter contract

For sites blocking browser reads, an independently owned and configured acquisition node can accept this JSON job specification, enforce its own robots/terms/rate controls, and return raw bytes plus a captured acquisition envelope. The UI never treats a returned summary as original source bytes.

NOT DEPLOYED

Live discovery / federated search

P01 is an external-state observation, never a truth determination.

LIVE INPUT â‰ REPLAY

Search terms

Discovery provider

Time window

Topic lenses

No search performed in this session.

External search links open provider websites. Browser-accessible discovery APIs return metadata only. The article itself is not captured until its bytes are acquired or imported.

Discovery results

0 RESULTS

Enter a topic and run a live search.

Evidence acquisition

P02 â†’ P03 â†’ P04 â†’ P05. Source bytes are hashed before ledger admission.

UTF-8 / FILE BYTES / SHA-256

Acquire direct URL

Direct cross-origin browser fetch. No proxy, scraped article substitution or CORS bypass.

HTTPS URL

Source ID

Where cross-origin reads are blocked, use a downloaded source file or explicit local text capture instead.

Import original file

PDF, HTML, JSON, XML, TXT, image, or other byte payload. Binary documents can be archived before an external parser is registered.

Artifact file

Source ID

Capture UTF-8 text (operator-supplied, not asserted original HTTP bytes)

Provenance / source URL or note

Captured artifacts

Each acquisition has a unique acquisition identity; identical bytes reuse the same content identity.

Artifact / acquired from	Bytes	Media type	SHA-256	Action

ClaimCandidate â†’ typed ClaimAtom

P06 external proposal â†’ P07 normalize â†’ P08 bind â†’ P09 provenance â†’ P10 compare â†’ P11 adjudicate â†’ P12 commit.

NO DIRECT PROSE-TO-FACT

Capturing an assertion is not establishing the underlying world proposition. Manual claims remain proposals until a verified source span and explicit evidence relationship are admitted.

Source artifact

Claim kind

Subject identifier (ASCII)

Registered predicate

Object / value

Assertor (ASCII source/entity ID)

Polarity

Modality

Evidence relation

Event time (Unix seconds, optional)

Valid interval start (Unix seconds)

Valid interval end (Unix seconds)

Location identifier (ASCII, optional)

Quantity mantissa (exact integer, optional)

Quantity base-10 scale (if quantity set)

Registered unit (if quantity set)

Exact source excerpt (must occur in captured UTF-8 source bytes; one occurrence selected)

Excerpt occurrence (1-based)

Manual EXTERNAL_PROPOSAL; no automatic corroboration.

Candidate queue / admission

0 PENDING

Canonical claims & current epistemic state

Comparative story differential

Set overlap, distinct propositions, exact polarity contradiction, modality and attribution changes.

RELATIONAL, NOT A BIAS SCORE

Source A

Source B

Source dependency graph

Known copies collapse to common roots. Unknown independence provides zero corroboration votes.

Child source

Parent source

Relationship

Evidence basis (operator-supplied, recorded)

No unverified dependency is silently treated as proven independence.

Root source

Independence evidence artifact SHA-256

Operator-declared; not an external certification.

Source	Roots	Count eligibility	Explanation

Append-only Merkle evidence ledger

Corrections are new state leaves; existing leaves are not rewritten by the runtime.

Current Merkle root

0 LEAVESSHA-256ODD-NODE DUPLICATION

Index	Claim	State	Leaf hash	Previous state

Capsule receipts

Canonical, domain-separated deterministic receipts. Machine-local time is excluded.

Capsule	Status	Reason codes	Receipt SHA-256

Replay & archive verification

Hash source bytes, anchors, canonical ClaimIDs, receipt identities, ledger leaves and computed Merkle root.

LOCAL WITNESS

Import archive JSON

An integrity check establishes consistency with the exported evidence. It does not independently authenticate an external publisher, recover missing evidence or prove substantive claims.

No verification run yet.

Runtime conformance bench

Runs locally against the JavaScript workstation implementation, not the historical Python reference.

Fixture	Expected	Actual	Result

Primitive execution contract / P01â€“P12

12 PRIMITIVES â€” NO REPLACEMENTS

Release claims

Byte capture with SHA-256 and exact anchors; candidate isolation; conservative provenance; deterministic P11 Boolean/integer adjudication; local append-only history, Merkle roots and receipt checks.

Only captured inputs participate in deterministic replay. Live queries are intentionally outside that equivalence boundary.

Unimplemented boundaries

No SEC/RECAP live benchmark or native PDF semantic parser, no Ed25519 verification, no comprehensive formal schema registry, no independent implementation parity, no decentralized oracle, and no proof of publisher truth.

The six-state vocabulary is preserved; unsupported higher-assurance transitions are not inferred.

Operational controls

Local IndexedDB storage is not independent, remote, immutable custody. Exported hashes support later verification, but deleting browser data or editing archives remains possible.

Reference identifiers

BUILD: MC_NEWS_UNIVERSAL_RESEARCH_MATRIX_V1_4_0 / PRESERVED CORE: MC-NEWS-v1.2.0

Implemented: discovery/capture, candidate admission, typed normalization subset, source anchors, graph provenance, exact contradiction, states, local ledger, Merkle, receipts, replay, browser tests.

Remaining: exhaustive schemas, signer authority, independent replay oracle, SEC/docket tests, parser corpus, decentralized transport. P01â€“P12 replacement authorization: NONE. Added: federated control, sourced three-view review, historical/adjacent comparison, bounded crawl, SVG mesh. V1.4: universal subject research matrix, specialty-separated inquiry carousel, source method/limitations table, documented counterviews and challenge records. Pending: backend deep crawl, live API validation, automated semantic extraction and independent source grading.

Gate: COMMITTED â‰ TRUE | Independent proof requires evidence | Rhetoric cannot affect P11.

14 / UNIVERSAL RESEARCH MATRIX / V1.4.0

One subject. Every relevant line of inquiry.

Historical record, documentary view, opposing view, professional positions, empirical studies and source-critical limitations. No claim or perspective is silently rewritten into another proposition. Research notes remain separate from P01â€“P12 ledger state.

P01â€“P12 LOCKEDCITED REFERENCE LIBRARYLIVE DOCUMENT HASHES NOT IMPLIED

Investigation selector

SUBJECT AGNOSTIC

Subject / investigation

Create a new subject

Exact proposition or question to research

Local research annotations. Ledger remains independent.

Research dossier

Choose a subject.

REFERENCE DATA

Inquiry carousel

01/10

View and counterview are source-attributed readings; a qualifying study is not a political endorsement. Missing counterevidence is marked as a gap, never invented for visual symmetry. A hyperlink is not captured source bytes or a validated ClaimAtom.

Clinical / scientific / primary-source research table

METHODOLOGY + LIMITATIONS

Source category

Search methods, findings or citations

Type / discipline	Source, date and link	Claim, conclusion or position	Method / population	Limits / missing evidence	Custody

Register another attributable source

A registered link is a research reference only. The Capture and Claims tabs perform cryptographic evidence admission.

Evidence class

Specialty lane (for professional guidance)

Professional discipline / domain

Title / identifiable source

Publication date

Original source HTTPS URL

DOI / permanent identifier

What this specific source states / tests

Study method, sample, population, experiment or basis

Limitations, disagreement, scope and uncertainty

Source URL required; no invented citations

Challenge and reproduce

Exact counterexample, alternative explanation, missing variable or study

Immutable adjudication only occurs after P03 hashing, P08 exact source binding, P09 provenance, P10 comparison and P11 rule evaluation. This sidecar never mints ClaimAtoms or alters P11.