research-document DOC-FE-BND-V1.1-GATE-CHECKLIST-001-FRONTIER
Stage A gate checklist — v1.1 frontier
Stage A gate checklist — v1.1: document frontier
Source and coverage
- Source:
research/evaluations/FE-BOUNDARY-2026-07-24-v1.1/stage-a-gate-checklist.md - Canonical ID:
FE-BND-V1.1-GATE-CHECKLIST-001 - Lifecycle status:
blocked-before-stage-b - Artifact type:
research-document - Version: 1.1.0
- Confidence: 0.99
- Inclusion rule: explicit authority/current-state dependency
- Analysis unit: BOUNDARY-EXPERIMENT
Phase 1 — knowledge extraction
- Primary objective: Test mechanism-level non-redundancy under primary-source comparison, blinding, recognition control, and independent review.
- Primary claims: The protocol can discriminate non-redundancy, full subsumption, integration-only value, and underdetermination if its gates pass. Current experimental classification remains inconclusive.
- Supporting evidence: The source's declared references and the co-analyzed records listed in the analysis-unit frontier.
- Methodology: Two-stage preregistered mechanism-card construction and blinded mapping with role separation and adjudication.
- Accepted/current findings: The protocol and current blocked state control experimental interpretation; source-curator completion is not Stage A completion.
- Rejected or unsupported findings: Same-provider synthesis or an incomplete machine pilot authorizes Stage B. A proposed narrower definition silently supersedes the experiment.
- Assumptions: Operational cards and comparator sources can be made sufficiently symmetric and blind. Independent reviewers can apply lossless-subsumption criteria reliably.
- Limitations: Independent completeness audit, blinding, recognition, sealed-key custody, and Stage B reviewers remain incomplete or absent.
- Known uncertainties: Whether blinding gates can pass; Whether any mechanism is non-subsumed; Reviewer agreement and adjudication stability.
- Declared headings inspected: Stage A gate checklist — v1.1; Acceptance conditions; Current mandatory blocks.
Phase 2 — unresolved unknowns
- Whether blinding gates can pass
- Whether any mechanism is non-subsumed
- Reviewer agreement and adjudication stability
Phase 3 — adversarial challenge
The successor boundary synthesis proposes a working classification while the controlling experiment remains inconclusive.
Evidence that would materially change this assessment includes a completed independent replication, a preregistered negative control, a matched causal comparison, a governance disposition, or a demonstrated failure of the measurement and integrity instruments relevant to this source.
Top five traceable opportunities
| Rank for this document | Record | Opportunity | Category | Frontier score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RFR-2026-016 | Complete blinded mechanism-boundary adjudication | Validation | 492 |
| 2 | RFR-2026-001 | Negative non-isomorphic control benchmark | Measurement | 495 |
| 3 | RFR-2026-004 | Recognition-control replication | Validation | 394 |
| 4 | RFR-2026-002 | Independent human procedural-extraction baseline | Human Factors | 491 |
| 5 | RFR-2026-010 | Systematic boundary and practitioner study | Theory | 246 |
The opportunity records contain source sections, challenged assumptions, supporting evidence, dependencies, methodology, outputs, and success criteria. Repeated opportunities are semantic links to one repository-wide record rather than duplicated records.