Method · AAP v1.0.0
Archive Attestation Protocol
A versioned grammar for saying what the archive knows, how it knows it, and where evidence ends. Documentary claims, editorial interpretation, uncertainty, and theory-fiction remain separate registers.
Eight epistemic states
These labels describe a claim's relation to evidence. They do not rank cultural importance, and circulation never upgrades a claim's truth status.
- primary-local
- Quoted directly from a locally held source, with a locator and verified checksum.
- primary-external
- Observed directly at a stable external source, with an access date and captured evidence.
- derived
- Mechanically inferred from attested inputs by a named and quoted rule.
- interpretive
- Human editorial analysis supported by identified claims, not presented as source fact.
- unverified
- Not established by the searched evidence. Absence alone does not make the claim false.
- contested
- Credible evidence points in different directions, or only part of a compound claim is supported.
- refuted
- Positive contrary evidence, or a documented exhaustive scoped review, establishes the error.
- exhibit-fiction
- Intentionally authored theory-fiction whose public surface disclaims documentary existence.
Review is a separate axis
Every claim also carries one review state: draft, reviewed, superseded, or withdrawn. Changes require a named human review record. Machine recurrence cannot trigger a status transition.
Conformance record
Reviewed claims
5 public claims and 5 human review transitions currently exercise the protocol across the Numogram, Pandemonium, and this method page.
If successor systems adopt this grammar, an editorial convention may become a shared epistemic discipline through circulation.
A local source describes the numogram as ten numbered zones grouped into five nine-sum syzygies.
corpus-passage · short-quote
Numogram source passage
raw::numogram::3
The Numogram, or Decimal Labyrinth, is composed of ten zones (numbered 0-9) and their interconnections. These zones are grouped into five pairs (syzygies) by nine-sum twinning [zygonovism]. The arithmetical difference of each syzygy defines a current (or connection to a tractor zone). Currents constitute the primary flows of the numogram.
Applying the locally attested difference rule to the 8-1 syzygy yields tractor zone 7.
derivation-rule · short-quote
Numogram difference rule
raw::numogram::3
The arithmetical difference of each syzygy defines a current (or connection to a tractor zone).
A local source passage states that the Pandemonium system contains 45 demons, one for every pair of numogram zones.
corpus-passage · short-quote
Pandemonium matrix count passage
raw::unleashing-the-numogram::33
There are 45 demons in the system (lines drawn between every pair of zones), but the 5 most important are the syzygetic demons, the demons that prowl the two zones of each syzygy
The archive-generated interference sigils on the Pandemonium pages are non-canonical theory-fiction figures.
local-file · full-quote
Pandemonium exhibit implementation note
module docstring, theory-fiction register
Sigils are archive-generated interference figures, labeled non-canonical — the Ccru's own drawn sigils live in the corpus and are not reproduced here.