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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> Assistant: claude-code Assistant-Model: sonnet Assistant-Process: 228422@bnt-lap001 Assistant-Session: 49089735-86e1-4d29-8a6e-74c26947f8c4
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# RP-000 — Researching Research
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## Why This Program Exists
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RP-000 uses Coulomb Research to study itself. Its first and defining paper,
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`CR-000`, is not a description of Coulomb Research written from the outside —
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it is Coulomb Research's own first experiment, conducted using the artifact
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conventions and publication interface the facility itself provides.
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This program exists because the facility's central conjecture — that a small
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cybernetic kernel of actors, propositions, evidence, actions, and resources
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can support real scientific coordination, with conventional institutions
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treated as interoperability surfaces rather than internal necessities — is
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itself a proposition that should be held to the same standard as any other
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research claim: stated explicitly, exposed to criticism, and checked against
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evidence rather than assumed true because it motivated the repository.
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See `seed/CoulombResearchKernel.md` for the kernel this program's artifacts
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are built on, and `seed/CoulombResearchMilestonePlan.md` (M0–M2) for the
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milestone sequence this program currently implements.
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## Scope
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In scope for RP-000:
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- CR-000 and any later papers whose subject is Coulomb Research's own
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design, mechanisms, or effectiveness (self-referential research).
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- Testing whether the claim/evidence/criticism representation defined in
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`docs/ResearchArtifactConvention.md` is actually useful for conducting
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research (the M2 exit question), using CR-000 as the test case.
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Out of scope for RP-000:
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- Papers whose research domain is independent of Coulomb Research itself
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(e.g. `CR-001`, planned under M3, belongs to a different program).
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- Building software or infrastructure beyond what M0's minimal facility
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skeleton requires; RP-000 is a research program, not an implementation
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workplan. Implementation work for the facility is tracked separately in
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`workplans/` (see `workplans/CR-WP-0002-research-facility-skeleton.md`).
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## Status
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RP-000 currently hosts one paper, `CR-000` (Paper Zero), registered as a
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draft skeleton at publication stage P1 (internal circulation). See
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`research/registry/papers.yaml` for the authoritative paper list and
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`papers/paper-000/README.md` for CR-000's current state.
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