# Scope

Coulomb Research is a self-improving network for explanatory progress by human
and artificial researchers. `INTENT.md` defines its mission and principles.

## Current State

This repository contains the intent, design seed, initial exploration history,
and State Hub work records. No research facility implementation, paper registry,
application, automated research agent, or deployment exists yet.

## In Scope

- RP-000, Researching Research: use Coulomb itself as an initial experiment.
- Versioned research artifacts with attributable claims, evidence, criticism,
  revisions, and publication state.
- A minimal facility skeleton for Paper Zero, CR-000, followed by the milestone
  plan in `seed/CoulombResearchMilestonePlan.md`.
- Research into scientific interoperability, human–AI collaboration, signals,
  and charts; these designs are hypotheses to test through actual research.
- Repository documentation, conventions, validation, and State Hub integration.

## Boundaries

Build only infrastructure demanded by real research artifacts. M0 excludes
forum software, tokens, NFTs, a DAO, a preprint server, an academic social
network, journal workflows, and a generalized funding platform. The seed
kernel is a proposed model, not an implemented graph service.

Papers begin in P1 for internal circulation. External preprint or venue
submission is a later milestone. Registering implementation work does not
establish scientific validity or publication readiness.

## Next Work

M0, M1, and a first pass of M2 are implemented
(`workplans/CR-WP-0002-research-facility-skeleton.md`,
`workplans/CR-WP-0003-paper-zero-v0-1-manuscript.md`,
`workplans/CR-WP-0004-claim-evidence-discipline.md`, all finished): the
artifact convention, `RP-000`/`CR-000` skeleton, paper registry, a
coherent CR-000 v0.1 manuscript, first evidence entries, a minimal
claim/evidence/criticism query prototype, and CR-000's first independent
criticism all exist. That independent review found a real
internal-consistency violation self-criticism had missed
(`CR-000-C006`, now `contested`) and left several items open.
`workplans/CR-WP-0005-resolve-outstanding-criticism.md` owns resolving
those before M3 (CR-001 registration) is judged ready. The bootstrap
workplan is `workplans/CR-WP-0001-statehub-bootstrap.md`.