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tegwick 087cea6239 Implement M0: research facility skeleton (CR-WP-0002) 
Add docs/ResearchArtifactConvention.md defining program/paper/paper-local
identifier namespaces, file layout, publication metadata, and provenance
conventions. Register RP-000 (Researching Research) with CR-000 (Paper
Zero) as an honest draft skeleton: outline manuscript with explicit
[MISSING]/[CONJECTURE] markers, five conjectural claims transcribed from
the M2 example list, and empty evidence/criticism files. Add the
facility-level paper registry and a small validation script covering
registry parsing, id uniqueness, publication-metadata agreement, and
Markdown link integrity.

Close CR-WP-0002 and hand off M1 (Paper Zero v0.1 manuscript) as
CR-WP-0003, per the workplan's residual-handoff requirement.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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RP-000 — Researching Research

Why This Program Exists

RP-000 uses Coulomb Research to study itself. Its first and defining paper, CR-000, is not a description of Coulomb Research written from the outside — it is Coulomb Research's own first experiment, conducted using the artifact conventions and publication interface the facility itself provides.

This program exists because the facility's central conjecture — that a small cybernetic kernel of actors, propositions, evidence, actions, and resources can support real scientific coordination, with conventional institutions treated as interoperability surfaces rather than internal necessities — is itself a proposition that should be held to the same standard as any other research claim: stated explicitly, exposed to criticism, and checked against evidence rather than assumed true because it motivated the repository.

See seed/CoulombResearchKernel.md for the kernel this program's artifacts are built on, and seed/CoulombResearchMilestonePlan.md (M0–M2) for the milestone sequence this program currently implements.

Scope

In scope for RP-000:

  • CR-000 and any later papers whose subject is Coulomb Research's own design, mechanisms, or effectiveness (self-referential research).
  • Testing whether the claim/evidence/criticism representation defined in docs/ResearchArtifactConvention.md is actually useful for conducting research (the M2 exit question), using CR-000 as the test case.

Out of scope for RP-000:

  • Papers whose research domain is independent of Coulomb Research itself (e.g. CR-001, planned under M3, belongs to a different program).
  • Building software or infrastructure beyond what M0's minimal facility skeleton requires; RP-000 is a research program, not an implementation workplan. Implementation work for the facility is tracked separately in workplans/ (see workplans/CR-WP-0002-research-facility-skeleton.md).

Status

RP-000 currently hosts one paper, CR-000 (Paper Zero), registered as a draft skeleton at publication stage P1 (internal circulation). See research/registry/papers.yaml for the authoritative paper list and papers/paper-000/README.md for CR-000's current state.