Admission criterion for the Contact and Revelation Program. Every record must clearly answer at least one of five questions (CONTACT, REVELATION, TEMPORALITY, PERSPECTIVE, AUTHORSHIP) — otherwise it is rejected from this branch. Explicitly excludes pure network-topology studies, raw synchronization studies, and any study whose only outcome is a single "unity index." Explicitly permits observer-architecture comparisons, adversarial simulations, compression pipelines, factorial authorship designs, and preregistered design-only human protocols.
Source proposition: A focused research program requires an explicit admission criterion.