---
id: H-005
title: Verification Energy
status: PROPOSED
created: "2026-08-22"
experiments: []
concepts: [C-energy]
---

# H-005 — Verification Energy

## Claim

Historical evidence about defects caught, adaptations required, false positives
and duplication can identify verification assets whose continued execution is
more valuable than others.

## Falsification condition

Energy scores computed from event history fail to rank assets better than a
trivial baseline (e.g. recency, or uniform priority) when predicting which assets
subsequently catch a defect.

## Why no experiment is planned yet

**This hypothesis is not testable at the current scale and is deliberately
dormant.** Validating it requires event history across many assets over months —
history the spike will not accumulate. Implementing a scoring function now would
produce a number that cannot be checked, which is worse than no number.

`TD-WP-0002` therefore records **raw immutable `EnergyEvent`s from the first run**
and implements no scoring, decay, or selection logic. Events cannot be
reconstructed later; scores can always be computed later.

This is the hypothesis most likely to be **cheaply built and never validated**,
which is precisely why it is fenced off.

## Status log

- 2026-08-22 `PROPOSED`, dormant by decision. Event capture only.