Ideas, narrowing
Superseded and historical work, preserved with its succession recorded:
what each piece explored, what was wrong or incomplete, what survived into the current
programs, and what replaced it. Nothing here is deleted — a research record that hides
its earlier selves is hiding its error-correction, which is the only part that proves
the process works.
GCE — Guardrail Composability Explorer
2025 · coursework MVP (AI-285) · superseded
- Explored
- Whether composed guardrails behave the way intuition about their individual scores
predicts — toggle rails, watch the composition diverge. The question was right.
- What was wrong
- The front-door framing scored composition with a single coefficient family — the
lineage CC-Framework's metric taxonomy now records as "Deprecated; legacy formula
preserved until v0.4." A composed behavior is not one scalar: without dependence
evidence it is a set of feasible worlds, and a coefficient silently picks one.
- What survived
- The question itself, and the 10%-and-10% intuition pump — now the canonical example
of the theory that replaced it, and the instrument on this site's front page.
- Superseded by
- Dependence-aware partial identification: sharp Fréchet–Hoeffding bounds with endpoint
witnesses (CC-Framework). The supersession is itself a registered claim with an
executable trigger — if the taxonomy that records it is rewritten, the claim comes due.
The guardrail-composition line
2025 · three repositories · superseded
- Explored
- Early tooling and theory sketches for guardrail composition —
guardrails-cc, ghost-guardrail-composer,
guardrail-comp-theory.
- Status
- Each carries "[SUPERSEDED by cc-framework]" on its GitHub About line, where the label
travels with the repository rather than depending on this page.
- What survived
- The composition problem, restated precisely enough to be bounded rather than scored.
The exploration era
2025 and earlier · historical
- Explored
- Wide-ranging earlier work — the ghost-protocol family, cubits-os, resonance-theory,
and related repositories — from before the current claim discipline existed.
- Status
- Labeled "[HISTORICAL]" on GitHub and preserved as records of earlier exploration, not
as current claims. The profile's standing rule: any unlabeled repository from 2025 or
earlier should be read the same way; current work is what's pinned, plus this site.
- What survived
- The habit of building the thing to find out — now pointed at narrower questions with
named falsifiers.