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Hypothesis Registry
Hypothesis Registry
| ID | Hypothesis | Category | Confidence | Status | Supports | Depends On | Competes With | Kill Condition | Next Test | Last Updated | Evidence Runs | Dependency Risk | Product Relevance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H001 | Procedural Invariance: Independently developed procedural artifacts contain recurring structural elements despite surface terminology differences. | Structural | Moderate | Active | FE-013; ECR-000001 | None | H012; H013 | Diverse artifacts require unrelated representations with no stable structural overlap. | Compare within-family stability across canonical, paraphrased, and structural packets in ECR-000002 | 2026-07-01 | FE-012C; FE-013; ECR-000001; ECR-000002 planned | Medium | Research-only unless replicated |
| H002 | Representation Independence: Underlying procedural structure is more stable than any single surface representation. | Representation | Low-Moderate | Active | FE-012C; FE-013 | H001 | H012; H014 | Primitive, AST, constraint, and natural-language representations produce unrelated results. | Compare primitive, AST, and constraint stability within ECR-000002 families | 2026-07-01 | FE-012C; ECR-000001; ECR-000002 planned | Medium | Potential Clarity relevance |
| H003 | Multi-Model Convergence: Independent model families converge on similar procedural structures when given the same artifact and instrument. | Reliability | Moderate | Active | FE-012C; FE-013 | H001; H015 | H013; H014 | Agreement falls apart across diversified artifacts or repeatability runs. | Cross-model comparison in ECR-000002 across recognition conditions | 2026-07-01 | FE-012C; ECR-000001; ECR-000002 planned | High | Research-only |
| H004 | Repeatability: The same model family produces materially similar structural analyses across fresh runs. | Reliability | Low-Moderate | Active | FE-012C repeatability work | H015 | H013; H014 | Same-model outputs drift materially across repeated runs without explainable packet ambiguity. | Repeatability extension after FE-013 execution | 2026-06-30 | FE-012C repeatability | High | Research-only |
| H005 | Procedural Grammar: Procedural artifacts have recoverable grammar-like structures. | Structural | Low-Moderate | Active | FE-012A; FE-012C; FE-013 | H001 | H008; H012; H013 | Extracted structures cannot be compared meaningfully beyond superficial wording. | Compare whether grammar-like structure persists under reduced recognizability in ECR-000002 | 2026-07-01 | FE-012A; FE-012C; FE-013; ECR-000002 planned | High | Potential Clarity and EDF relevance |
| H006 | Control Flow: Loops, branches, sequencing, and termination conditions are stable features of procedural artifacts. | Control Flow | Moderate | Active | FE-012C; FE-013 | H001 | H014 | Control-flow features vary randomly across model, run, or representation. | Compare control-flow shape across ECR-000002 recognition conditions | 2026-07-01 | FE-012C; FE-013; ECR-000002 planned | Medium | Potential EDF relevance |
| H007 | Constraint Preservation: Procedural artifacts may be better compared by invariant constraints than by literal primitive sequence. | Constraint | Low | Active | FE-013 | H002; H005 | H012; primitive-sequence-only comparison | Constraint extraction is inconsistent or fails to explain drift better than primitive comparison. | Compare constraint stability to primitive drift within ECR-000002 families | 2026-07-01 | FE-013; ECR-000001; ECR-000002 planned | Medium | Potential Clarity relevance |
| H008 | Procedural AST Recovery: Procedural artifacts can be represented as AST-like structures. | Representation | Low | Active | FE-013 | H005 | H002; forced formalism | AST schema forces artificial structure or models cannot extract comparable trees. | Compare AST presence and AST stability across ECR-000002 recognition conditions | 2026-07-01 | FE-013; ECR-000001; ECR-000002 planned | Medium | Research-only |
| H009 | Clarity Relevance: Research findings about procedural reasoning can improve Clarity’s belief-management model. | Product Relevance | Low-Moderate | Active | Clarity relevance tracking | H001; H007 | Research-only interpretation | Findings do not improve belief tracking, confidence updates, or decision quality. | Record product relevance observations in ECR-000002 without letting them drive extraction | 2026-07-01 | ECR-000001; ECR-000002 planned | Medium | Clarity candidate |
| H010 | EDF Relevance: Execution-oriented artifacts exhibit structural patterns relevant to EDF. | Product Relevance | Low | Active | EDF relevance tracking | H006; H011 | Research-only interpretation | Execution artifacts do not show separable coordination, sequencing, allocation, or synchronization structure. | Record EDF relevance observations in ECR-000002 without treating them as validation | 2026-07-01 | ECR-000001; ECR-000002 planned | High | EDF candidate |
| H011 | Reasoning/Execution Separation: Reasoning-heavy and execution-heavy artifacts exhibit distinct structural profiles. | Structural | Low | Active | FE-012B; FE-013 | H001; H006 | H005 | Reasoning and execution artifacts remain indistinguishable under multiple representations. | Compare P001, P002, and P003 profiles across ECR-000002 conditions | 2026-07-01 | FE-012B; FE-013; ECR-000001; ECR-000002 planned | High | EDF candidate |
| H012 | Vocabulary Bias: Provided primitive vocabularies may artificially increase agreement. | Bias | Moderate | Active | FE-012C concerns | None | H001; H002; H005 | Vocabulary-free extraction produces the same structures. | Compare canonical, paraphrased, and structural wording effects in ECR-000002 | 2026-07-01 | FE-012C; FE-013; ECR-000002 planned | Medium | Research-only |
| H013 | Recognition Bias: Models may reconstruct known frameworks from training rather than extracting structure from packets. | Bias | Moderate | Active | FE-012C concerns | None | H003; H004; H005 | Better-blinded or novel artifacts preserve agreement without recognition. | Run recognition-sensitivity comparison in ECR-000002 | 2026-07-01 | FE-012C; ECR-000001; ECR-000002 planned | High | Research-only |
| H014 | Prompt Robustness: Small prompt changes should not materially alter recovered procedural structure. | Reliability | Low | Active | Instrument design concerns | H015 | H003; H006 | Minor prompt changes produce major structural drift. | Use shared instruction block across ECR-000002 recognition variants as a bounded robustness check | 2026-07-01 | ECR-000001; ECR-000002 planned | Medium | Research-only |
| H015 | Measurement Instrument Reliability: The packet-based measurement instrument can reliably collect comparable procedural-structure outputs. | Instrument | Moderate | Active | FE-012C packet instrument | None | H014; H013 | JSON validity, schema compliance, and agreement collapse across runs. | Evaluate schema compliance and usable outputs across all ECR-000002 conditions | 2026-07-01 | FE-012C; FE-013; ECR-000001; ECR-000002 planned | Critical | Supports all downstream product relevance screening |
| H016 | Structural Recognition: Some models may recognize procedural families from control-flow topology alone, while others require lexical or semantic cues. | Bias | Low | Active | Recognition sensitivity analysis | H013 | H013; H002 | If graph-only topology variants consistently reduce recognition while preserving extracted structure, then recognition is not primarily topology-driven. | Compare EXP-001 topology perturbation variants in ECR-000003 | 2026-07-02 | ECR-000002; ECR-000003 planned | High | Research-only |
| H017 | Procedural Compression: Different surface representations of the same underlying procedure may compress into a stable recovered procedural structure. | Representation | Low | Active | Representation sensitivity analysis | H002; H015 | H002 | If narrative, bullet, graph, and transition-table representations produce materially unrelated recovered structures, the compression hypothesis weakens. | Compare EXP-002 representations in ECR-000003 | 2026-07-02 | ECR-000003 planned | High | Research-only |
| H018 | Procedural Isomorphism: Different domains can instantiate the same procedural structure, allowing isomorphic procedures to be recognized as structurally similar despite different subject matter. | Structural | Very Low | Proposed | Representation sensitivity analysis | H002; H015 | domain-semantic dependence | If isomorphic procedures with identical control-flow produce unrelated structural extractions, the isomorphism hypothesis weakens. | Compare EXP-003 domain variants in ECR-000003 | 2026-07-02 | ECR-000003 planned | High | Research-only |