# Governance and research memory

The repository owner maintains the initial project. No scientific board, institutional partnership or independent review panel is claimed at launch. Invite relevant practitioners and affected stakeholders before registering a service-specific study.

## Distinct decisions

Maintainers accept or reject contributions for inclusion. Domain reviewers assess evidence and scope. Qualified professionals review hazardous physical proposals. These decisions are separate; merging a file never certifies scientific truth or authorizes physical work. Contributors disclose conflicts and AI involvement. Preserve substantiated dissent alongside any synthesis.

## Permanent records

Hypotheses, experiments and results keep their canonical paths and EDC IDs. Never delete failed hypotheses or recycle their IDs. `research/falsified/` and `research/unresolved/` are indexes pointing to canonical hypotheses. State changes add a dated, reasoned history entry and update all indexes. Evidence references must resolve. Supersession links to a new record and explains the relationship.

Original launch records are unresolved hypotheses and proposed analyses. Simulated, observational and physical experimental results use distinct kinds. Support within tested conditions requires at least two documented independent replication entries linked to qualifying experimental results, explicit conditions and review of independence. The schema checks minimum metadata, not whether replication is valid.

## Corrections and review

Use a pull request for a correction; link the affected claim and evidence. Keep the earlier state in version history and explain the correction in the record. Review the framing after each completed audit or material change in evidence, without an automatic time-based consensus or arbitrary vote threshold. Record why to continue, narrow, replace or stop.

## Reuse and rights

Original project code, documentation, schemas, research records and website assets are offered under the [MIT License](../LICENSE), to the extent contributors hold rights in them and unless a file states otherwise. Preserve the copyright and permission notices when redistributing copies or substantial portions. Citation is encouraged for reproducibility and adds no license conditions. Incoming data needs a stated license, provenance and permission to redistribute; externally linked research retains its own terms. No institution endorses the project merely because its source is cited. Avoid personal data; remove accidentally committed secrets from history through an incident-specific process while retaining a non-sensitive correction record.