Research program documents

Status: proposed operating system; no field study or published finding exists

• Source ledger — dated external inputs, departures, permissions boundaries, and monitoring rules.
• Benchmark formation protocol and evidence map — formal benchmark definition, input classes, source-to-design traceability, validation argument, release requirements, and current publication disclosures.
• Benchmark publication standard — release classes, front-matter, source receipts, validity strands, reproducibility packages, correction rules, citation/archive readiness, and exact public-release gates.
• Benchmark evolution protocol — material-change triggers, semantic versioning, evidence review, compatibility, linking studies, monitoring, suspension, correction, and retirement.
• Credibility evidence register — claim-by-claim record of what evidence exists, what wording it currently permits, and what remains blocked.
• Authors, contributors, and publication accountability — organizational authorship, unassigned individual roles, CRediT requirements, review independence, and exact approval evidence required before a citable release.
• Publication disclosures — funding, conflicts, human-participant, data, AI-use, review, licensing, correction, and intended-use disclosures with incomplete fields left visibly blocking.
• Research operations runbook — staged work order and receipt map from role appointment and citable archive through job analysis, controlled pilot, and outcome linkage.
• Reviewer appointment and signed review protocol — copy-ready named-reviewer intake, qualification, independence, conflict, scope, finding, and signed disposition records.
• Publication integrity workflow — correction, suspension, retraction, retirement, public-notice, remediation, preservation, and closeout operations.
• Archive and DOI deposition packet — provider due diligence, metadata, rights/file manifest, version/concept identifier policy, deposit sequence, and independent verification.
• Job analysis and content blueprint protocol — proposed mixed-method practice analysis, expert review, traceability fields, fairness checks, and approval gates for converting the ontology into representative assessment content.
• Prospective job-analysis preregistration candidate — pre-fieldwork research questions, sampling logic, analysis commitments, deviations, governance, and recruitment gates; it is a draft candidate, not a registered or authorized study.
• Job-analysis recruitment protocol — population, frame, coverage, sample-size rationale, contact authority, messages, screening, dispositions, incentives, monitoring, and release tables.
• Participant consent and rights protocol — granular consent, plain-language drafting frame, accessibility, data separation, AI/provider boundaries, withdrawal, correction, incidents, and activation gates.
• Job-analysis coding and adjudication protocol — unitization, codebook, coder qualification, independent double coding, agreement/action rules, adjudication, negative cases, and traceability.
• Rater qualification, calibration, and drift protocol — future assessment-rater selection, anchors, blinding, qualification, agreement/severity evidence, adjudication, and drift response.
• Controlled assessment pilot plan — staged no-consequence pilot, task-portfolio selection, sampling, administration, outcomes, analysis, stop rules, and progression decisions.
• Prospective outcome-linkage protocol — independent criteria, temporal ordering, selection effects, analysis, fairness/accessibility, reference evidence, replication, and prohibited use.
• Public claim receipt operations — claim classes, intake, evidence ladder, approval matrix, exact wording, surface binding, expiry, correction, and high-risk blocked claims.
• Quarterly FDE field report template — evidence-led executive signal, market/source synthesis, capability ledger, research state, integrity dashboard, methods, visual contract, and claim checks.
• Family benchmark-depth traceability — all 55 proposed family-specific behaviors, evidence sets, applied tasks, constraint injections, failure signals, alternatives, reference prompts, outcomes, and non-inference limits, bound to the released ontology.
• Synthetic reproducibility demonstration — fixed synthetic input, deterministic expected output, runner, manifest, and an explicit boundary against human-validation claims.
• FDE field intelligence brief — 2026-09-01 — targeted review of 15 first-party records describing the emerging operating model, with explicit limitations and field-research questions.
• Field notes: the title tells you almost nothing; certification is the floor; the field-to-product loop; owning the boundary; domain expertise as part of the stack; one title, five jobs; and specialization is where value gets measured — source-linked editorial analysis translating current first-party records into observable hiring and benchmark questions; no prevalence, pass-rate, or validity estimate is asserted.
• Multi-cohort FDE research program — proposed executive, firm, practitioner, adjacent-role, candidate, reference, and longitudinal studies with explicit sampling, analysis, ethics, fairness, and publication controls.
• Survey instrument modules and cognitive-test appendix — versioned candidate question bank, response anchors, routing, cognitive probes, pilot controls, and field-authorization receipt; no item is authorized for fielding.
• Market landscape — 2026-08-31 — non-exhaustive product scan and strategic implications.
• Publication template — required structure for future method, findings, integrity, correction, and retraction records.
• Chart and data-product contract — inspectability, status, accessibility, privacy, and anti-ranking requirements.
• Phase 2 research agenda — preregistered workstreams and activation gates for trust status, verification, integrity controls, adaptive probes, measurement, decay, the aggregate register, review, and publication.
• Commissioned interview intake and job-analysis protocol — fail-closed reconstruction and prospective-supplement path for the unverified 500-practitioner/50-executive assertion.
• Study register — append-only claim, evidence, blocker, and study-state record.
• Aggregate substantiation rules — record-level eligibility, deduplication, analysis, traceability, and release-receipt rules for count and research claims.
• Three-layer outcome architecture and Shared Work Challenge proposal — synthetic-only contracts separating factual records, multidimensional interpretation, credential issuance, any future scalar authorization, and condition-specific human-only, AI-only, and human-with-AI research.
• Independence and institutional firewall — the proposed external-majority decision body, role/data/funding separation, reserved terminology, and structural-entity decision required before consequential human outputs can be called official.

The authoritative statement of what is currently available remains Live Versus Planned. None of these documents authorizes participant recruitment, real-data intake, a score, a credential, a legal claim, or external publication.

Bibliographic metadata for the research program is maintained in the root references library. The source ledger is the controlling record of how a source influenced the design and which conformance or endorsement claims remain unavailable.

Strict operational receipts and synthetic contract tests live in SCHEMAS/research-ops. They do not contain real reviewer, participant, archive, DOI, approval, or result records.