{
  "id": "O0-SCOPE-001",
  "title": "Scope-and-Bounds Statement for the Research Program",
  "program": "METHODOLOGY",
  "record_class": "SYNTHESIS",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "date": "2026-07-29",
  "status": "foundational",
  "purpose": "Formal statement of what the archive claims, what it does not claim, and preregistered responses to common critiques. Written proactively so that critique can proceed against the actual research object.",
  "responds_to_critiques": [
    "This doesn't prove anything one way or another",
    "Toy models of well-established science",
    "Metaphysical claims cannot translate into established science",
    "Structure looks like classified dark archives",
    "Different AI models give wildly different interpretations"
  ],
  "not_asking_reader_to_accept": [
    "That O/0 metaphysics is true",
    "Authority claims about ontological truth",
    "That findings extrapolate beyond preregistered scope",
    "That structural/aesthetic features are evidentially significant"
  ],
  "asks_reader_to_accept": [
    "That preregistered studies with explicit decision rules are legitimate science",
    "That auxiliary empirical implications can be tested independently of the parent framework",
    "That negative and null results must be preserved",
    "That conceptual provenance is not empirical support"
  ],
  "related_studies": ["O0-CRP-021", "O0-CRP-022", "O0-CRP-023", "O0-CRP-024", "O0-CRP-025", "O0-CRP-026", "O0-CRP-027", "O0-CRP-028", "O0-CRP-029", "O0-CRP-030", "O0-CRP-031"]
}