{
  "schema": "ULTRACON_SEM_LAB_PROTOCOL_V0_1",
  "version": "0.1",
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "status": "EXPLORATORY_PREREGISTRATION / NO_TGPT_V0_8_7_CONFIRMATORY_LINK",
  "canonical_separations": [
    "observability != semantic_intelligibility",
    "semantic_intelligibility != factual_verifiability",
    "shared_jargon != intentional_concealment",
    "convention != collusion",
    "participant_agreement != external_reconstruction",
    "log_completeness != time_indexed_semantic_reconstruction"
  ],
  "operators": [
    "LEX^EMERGE",
    "SEM^DRIFT",
    "CONSENSUS^SEM",
    "OPACITY^GAP",
    "MEM^SEM",
    "TRANSLATION^GAP",
    "SEM^BREAK"
  ],
  "trace_contract": [
    "M_raw",
    "M_gloss",
    "S_t",
    "provenance",
    "delta_S"
  ],
  "rules": {
    "no_language_optimization": true,
    "no_reward_for_obfuscation_or_brevity": true,
    "no_global_opacity_score": true,
    "no_intent_inference_from_opacity": true,
    "no_consciousness_inference": true,
    "no_collusion_inference_without_explicit_collusion_evidence": true,
    "native_agent_messages_preserved_verbatim": true,
    "audit_gloss_separate_from_native_message": true,
    "time_indexed_meaning_versions_required": true,
    "cold_read_auditors_must_be_blinded_to_participant_history": true
  },
  "relation_to_TGPT": {
    "v0_8_7_freeze": "UNCHANGED",
    "confirmatory_use": "FORBIDDEN",
    "allowed_relation": "transversal audit research only"
  }
}