Updates and sources

A dated record, not a moving target

Public claims should remain tied to manuscript versions and evidence cutoffs. New evidence may strengthen, narrow, or overturn parts of the argument.

Research log

19 Aug 2026

Website research refresh

Rechecked OpenAI and Hugging Face incident disclosures and Anthropic's multi-agent report. Added newer harness work, including Self-Harness and HELIX, as supporting evidence rather than proof of recursive leverage.

15 Aug 2026

Technical paper v0.1

Formalized recursive leverage as a causal estimand and specified retained-versus-reverted lineage protocols, transplant assays, reporting requirements, falsification tests, and safety constraints.

14 Aug 2026

Book manuscript v0.5 evidence cutoff

External-review manuscript consolidated the incident reconstruction, neuroscience analogy, machine-institution hypothesis, causal framework, and experimental program.

Primary sources

Recursive harness research

Recursive Harness Self-Improvement · Self-Harness · HELIX

Project source ledger

The working claim-source ledger is available as a download for transparent review.

Download ledger v0.3