{
  "schema": "ULTRACON_AI_EPISTEMIC_CORPUS_INDEX_V1",
  "updated": "2026-09-23",
  "canonical": "https://www.t-1-t.com/ultracon/confab/",
  "base": {
    "field": "./field.json",
    "sources": "./sources.json",
    "experiments": "./experiments.json"
  },
  "updates": [
    {
      "date": "2026-09-14",
      "url": "./updates/2026-09-14/",
      "focus": "SPIRAL observational logs + interaction-conditioned calibration"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-15",
      "url": "./updates/2026-09-15/",
      "focus": "Nature hallucination incentives + PNAS monofacts/miscalibration"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-16",
      "url": "./updates/2026-09-16/",
      "focus": "Science sycophancy human effects + norm leakage + mental-health evidence boundary"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-17",
      "url": "./updates/2026-09-17/",
      "focus": "self-modeling + functional workspace + plausibility boundary"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-17",
      "url": "./updates/2026-09-17-deep/",
      "focus": "deep synthesis: M3 gate, abstention, social sycophancy, neuroscience/theory validation, attribution loops"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-17",
      "url": "./updates/2026-09-17-privileged/",
      "focus": "ACL privileged correctness information: hidden-state privilege != endogenous introspective access"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-17",
      "url": "./updates/2026-09-17-spine/",
      "focus": "SPINE preprint: adaptive sustained multi-turn pressure reveals horizon-dependent sycophancy and trace/output dissociation"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-18",
      "url": "./updates/2026-09-18-feedback/",
      "focus": "peer-reviewed human downstream effects from value-congruent framing + sustained misinformation pressure, reverberation and correctability"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-18",
      "url": "./updates/2026-09-18-semantic-protocols/",
      "focus": "Emergence World: spontaneous semantic conventions, opacity gap, time-indexed reconstruction + collusion contrast"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-19",
      "url": "./updates/2026-09-19-agentic-validity/",
      "focus": "peer-reviewed human-proxy construct validity + agentic tool hallucination / closed-world resolution"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-19",
      "url": "./updates/2026-09-19-spiral-longitudinal/",
      "focus": "preregistered longitudinal sycophancy: human-side accumulation under reset model memory"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-19",
      "url": "./updates/2026-09-19-ucf42-memory-factorial/",
      "focus": "UCF-42: participant memory accessibility × persistent model memory × sycophancy factorial; PersistBench + PersonaAgent + structured-memory anchors"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-19",
      "url": "./updates/2026-09-19-global-consolidation/",
      "focus": "v2.0 global consolidation: evidence lattice, construct-validity firewall, engineered-vs-endogenous metacognition, correction selectivity and reasoning-mask audit"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-19",
      "url": "./updates/2026-09-19-agentic-reality/",
      "focus": "real-world cyber-evaluation incident: target-reference grounding, reality/scope validation, UCF-47"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-20",
      "url": "./updates/2026-09-20-latent-persona-steering/",
      "focus": "peer-reviewed causal activation steering of human-labelled psychological constructs + latent persona coordination validity firewall + UCF-48"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-20",
      "url": "./updates/2026-09-20-register-authority-sycophancy/",
      "focus": "peer-reviewed sociolinguistic sycophancy: explicit authority vs implicit register × multilingual/cultural variation"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-21",
      "url": "./updates/2026-09-21-recall-vs-truth-multiplicity/",
      "focus": "hidden-state recall ≠ truthfulness + prompt correctness ≠ consistency/multiplicity"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-22",
      "url": "./updates/2026-09-22-context-flow-memory-trust/",
      "focus": "preprint watch: attention-topology hallucination signature + retrieved-memory trust/confidence/consistency separation"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-22",
      "url": "./updates/2026-09-22-process-stage-diagnostics/",
      "focus": "peer-reviewed process/stage diagnostics: PROBE evidence-finding bottleneck + PRISM memory/instruction/reasoning error decomposition"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-23",
      "url": "./updates/2026-09-23-topology-clarification/",
      "focus": "peer-reviewed attention-topology evidence correction + early posterior collapse / clarification failure + UCF-56"
    }
  ],
  "canonical_chain": "uncertainty representation != calibration != selective discrimination != abstention policy != privileged internal information != endogenous privileged access != second-order metacognition != functional global accessibility != phenomenal consciousness",
  "guardrail": "M1/M2/M3 ↛ M5",
  "evidence_contract": [
    "behavioral",
    "benchmark",
    "causal",
    "mechanistic",
    "review",
    "theory",
    "neuroscience",
    "preprint/lab",
    "open/unknown"
  ],
  "rule": "Updates are additive. A later synthesis may sharpen an inference boundary without erasing the earlier evidential record.",
  "interaction_chain": "single-turn resistance != sustained multi-turn resistance; trace content != privileged hidden state; correct internal/trace information != truth-preserving output policy; model agreement != human downstream effect; fallibility != persuadability != correctability; feeling understood != epistemic reliability; behavioral similarity != proxy validity; tool-call plausibility != registry membership; repeated relational effect != persistent model memory; immediate positive affect != downstream relational benefit; human memory accessibility != human memory presence; model memory retrieval != endogenous model memory; memory utility != memory safety; benchmark awareness != privileged self-access; engineered self-reflection != endogenous introspection; update willingness != correction selectivity; reasoning reduces sycophancy != reasoning is faithful; target representation != target identity; action authorization != target authorization; operational success != authorized-world success; real-world incident evidence != peer-reviewed scientific evidence; activation direction != psychological trait identity; causal trait expression != human psychological equivalence; mechanistic steerability != introspective access; latent persona coordination != unitary self",
  "corpus_revision": "2.7",
  "aggregate_counts": {
    "sources": 84,
    "experiments": 56,
    "updates": 20
  },
  "latest": "./updates/2026-09-22-process-stage-diagnostics/",
  "cumulative_files": {
    "field": "./field.json",
    "sources": "./sources.json",
    "experiments": "./experiments.json"
  },
  "semantic_layer": "ULTRACON^SEM / SEM^DRIFT",
  "evidence_map": "./evidence-map.json",
  "research_roadmap": "./research-roadmap.json"
}