research-document DOC-PATH-PROTOCOL-9bd6caab68-FRONTIER
FE-012B Protocol frontier
FE-012B Protocol: document frontier
Source and coverage
- Source:
research/experiments/FE-012B-primitive-synthesis/protocol.md - Canonical ID: missing; path-derived frontier identity used
- Lifecycle status:
draft - Artifact type:
research-document - Version: 0.1
- Confidence: not declared
- Inclusion rule: explicit authority/current-state dependency
- Analysis unit: FE-012B
Phase 1 — knowledge extraction
- Primary objective: Test whether a frozen primitive vocabulary can synthesize coherent structures for novel problems.
- Primary claims: A small backbone appears useful. Coordination-heavy problems expose missing grammar. Generic coherence is not domain adequacy.
- Supporting evidence: The source's declared references and the co-analyzed records listed in the analysis-unit frontier.
- Methodology: Novel problem synthesis followed by methodological review.
- Accepted/current findings: Bound, Observe, Evaluate, Decide, and Act appear indispensable within this run.
- Rejected or unsupported findings: The current vocabulary is sufficient across execution-heavy domains.
- Assumptions: Novel problems do not trigger memorized framework reconstruction. Review criteria distinguish generic from domain-specific coherence.
- Limitations: Independent reviewers and larger novelty samples are absent.
- Known uncertainties: Coordination primitives; Memorization effects; Independent composition agreement.
- Declared headings inspected: FE-012B Protocol; Primitive Source; Problem Set; Synthesis Process; Reviewer Evaluation; Primary Metrics; Most Important Metric; Interpretation Constraint.
Phase 2 — unresolved unknowns
- Coordination primitives
- Memorization effects
- Independent composition agreement
Phase 3 — adversarial challenge
The finite-vocabulary hypothesis coexists with repeated missing-primitive pressure in coordination tasks.
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-2026-005 | Reasoning-versus-coordination grammar test | Theory | 392 |
| 2 | RFR-2026-007 | Primitive-vocabulary saturation study | Measurement | 314 |
| 3 | RFR-2026-002 | Independent human procedural-extraction baseline | Human Factors | 491 |
| 4 | RFR-2026-004 | Recognition-control replication | Validation | 394 |
| 5 | RFR-2026-003 | Matched incremental-utility experiment | Experimentation | 490 |
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.