# Publication status

This snapshot is structurally valid and materially improved, but still
evidentially incomplete.

## Ready for public beta

- project-authored taxonomy and relational object model;
- stable IDs, generated normalized tables, and a denormalized atlas view;
- frozen source snapshot plus a transparent versioned curation overlay;
- 6 priority control-effect claims checked against primary empirical sources
  and rewritten to bounded observed endpoints;
- 5 previously source-less legal instruments corrected and linked to official
  primary sources;
- deduplicated public claim–source edges, frozen checksums, and typed Parquet;
- explicit evidence boundaries, limitations, failure modes, and negative
  findings.

## Research candidates, not citation-ready claims

- the 101 source records that do not yet participate in any checked
  claim–source relation;
- the 112 of 118 control-effectiveness claims without a checked empirical
  source;
- claim–source edges marked context-only or pending claim check;
- legal-status implementations without a checked legal claim relation;
- project mechanisms supported only by self-authored project provenance;
- gate definitions before implementation-level pass/fail/uncertain assessments
  and supporting evidence are published;
- the legal-instrument table before an explicit implementation–instrument
  bridge is added;
- prospective Brazil and United States records before their dated
  observations.

## Stable-release gate

A stable release requires:

1. all claims used in the executive portfolio checked against primary sources;
2. no established effect claim without a checked empirical source and a
   bounded observed endpoint;
3. no duplicate public claim–source edge;
4. independent review of the central policy packages;
5. source licences and attribution checked;
6. frozen checksums and a reproducible derived view;
7. no unresolved legal status or applicability field in the public portfolio.

The beta must not receive a DOI. A DOI should be minted only when the stable
release gate is met.

## Priority evidence wave

The initial register labelled six implementations `Established — component
effect`. Primary-source review found that none of the original policy-effect
claims was supported as written. The curation layer therefore separates two
levels:

- each of the six claim records now states only the empirical endpoint that
  was actually observed; and
- each implementation is classified according to how directly that endpoint
  supports the proposed control.

The result is one established bounded component effect (immediate recognition
of taught manipulation techniques), three strong inferences, and two open
questions. The WhatsApp and data-portability entries preserve negative
implementation evidence instead of converting it into a positive effect
claim. Full designs, samples, endpoints, and limitations are in
[review/PRIORITY_VERIFICATION.md](review/PRIORITY_VERIFICATION.md).

The derived atlas applies the same discipline to legal status: an
implementation retains its working-register legal class only when a linked
legal claim has been checked against a primary source; otherwise the public
class is provisional.

The two project mechanisms remain provisional. A canonical link to a
self-authored research agenda establishes provenance, not external or
claim-specific support.