Reframe suite as Strong Inference open research product

CITATION.cff

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 cff-version: 1.2.0
 message: "If you use this research software, please cite the repository and the specific release used."
-title: "Evidence-Governed Research Toolkit"
+title: "Strong Inference"
 type: software
 authors:
   - family-names: "Kitahl"
@@ -18,11 +18,13 @@ keywords:
   - evaluation
   - evidence provenance
   - adaptive assistance
-  - personalized calibration
-  - transfer assessment
-  - evidence-centered assessment
+  - process assurance
+  - research infrastructure
 abstract: >-
-  A modular research-software toolkit for evidence-governed AI-assisted reasoning,
-  prior-art discovery, formal reasoning, engineering verification, evaluation,
-  process assurance, and adaptive complementary assistance with saved user profiles,
-  structured cross-cutting calibration, and real-work transfer assessment.
+  Strong Inference is an open research-software suite for evidence-governed
+  AI-assisted technical work, including orchestration, formal reasoning,
+  research discovery, method synthesis, engineering verification, evaluation,
+  process assurance, independent review, decision preflight, and adaptive
+  complementary assistance. Strong Inference Systems is a working pre-product
+  company identity and is not represented by this metadata as a legally cleared
+  corporate or trademark name.

docs/MIRROR.md

@@ -1,35 +1,33 @@
-# Mirror — Adaptive Reasoning Complement
+# Adapt — Adaptive Reasoning Complement
 
-**Mirror** is the public name for the adaptive complement system historically named **FOIL**.
+**Adapt** is the Strong Inference public name for the adaptive-complement system implemented under the stable **FOIL** protocol/runtime namespace.
 
-The rename changes the human-facing concept, not the compatibility contract.
+The product rename changes the human-facing concept, not the compatibility contract.
 
 ## Disambiguation
 
-This project's **Mirror — Adaptive Reasoning Complement** is not the 2025 research framework **MIRROR: Multi-agent Intra- and Inter-Reflection for Optimized Reasoning in Tool Learning**, and it is not a persona-cloning or self-reflection product. No novelty claim is made for the word "Mirror" itself.
+Adapt is a task/user complement module, not a persona-cloning system, a generic self-reflection product, or an additional source of factual authority. The technical identifier `foil` remains the stable implementation namespace.
 
-Here, **Mirror** specifically means the task/user complement mechanism described below. The technical identifier `foil` is retained as a stable disambiguating implementation name.
+The previous public label **Mirror — Adaptive Reasoning Complement** is retired from the Strong Inference product surface. It remains here only as migration vocabulary because older documentation and validation receipts used it.
 
-## What Mirror does
+## What Adapt does
 
-Mirror exists to make a large toolset easier to use.
+Adapt exists to make a large toolset easier to use without turning personalization into a fixed trait model.
 
 For the current task it asks:
 
 1. What capabilities does this task actually require?
-2. Which of those capabilities are already well covered by the user/current context?
+2. Which capabilities are already well covered by the user/current context?
 3. Which load-bearing capability is missing, uncertain, or unsupported?
 4. What is the smallest useful complement that fills that gap?
-5. Which existing Gem, verifier, search tool, runtime, model, or external capability should provide it?
+5. Which existing Strong Inference module, verifier, search tool, runtime, model, or external capability should provide it?
 6. Did that help, was it redundant, or did it take over work unnecessarily?
 
-Mirror is **complementary**, not automatically contrarian. It is not a sixth Gem and it does not manufacture evidence. The existing specialist modules still produce claim-native evidence and receipts.
+Adapt is **complementary**, not automatically contrarian. It does not manufacture evidence. The specialist modules still produce claim-native evidence and receipts.
 
 A complement may be missing knowledge, a procedure, prior art, evidence, a verifier, a representation change, a tool, execution support, a counterexample search, or a check against a plausible error.
 
-## Why the name fits
-
-The core mechanism is a dynamic comparison between:
+## Mechanism
 
 ```text
 CURRENT TASK REQUIREMENTS
@@ -41,7 +39,7 @@ MISSING LOAD-BEARING COMPLEMENT
 MINIMUM USEFUL ASSISTANCE
 ```
 
-It "mirrors" the task against what is already covered and supplies what is missing rather than applying the same fixed workflow to everyone.
+The FOIL protocol underneath Adapt maintains competing local gap hypotheses, routes the minimum useful complement, separates assisted success from independent performance, and updates persistent evidence only under its admissibility rules.
 
 ## Compatibility
 
@@ -56,16 +54,16 @@ The following identifiers remain unchanged so existing installations, profiles,
 - historical benchmark condition names such as `FOIL`, `FOIL_PROFILE`, and `FOIL_MM`
 - existing FOIL-named research, validation, and onboarding files
 
-Those names are now **legacy technical identifiers**, not the public product/concept name.
+Those names are **technical/protocol identifiers**, not the Strong Inference public module name.
 
 ## Evidence boundary
 
-Mirror may decide which complement to request. That routing decision is not factual warrant.
+Adapt may decide which complement to request. That routing decision is not factual warrant.
 
 A proof still requires proof/derivation or an appropriate prover. A software claim still requires execution. A current-fact claim still requires current sources. A benchmark claim still requires measurement. A novelty claim still requires scoped prior-art work.
 
 Assisted success is also kept separate from later independent performance and transfer.
 
 ## Canonical technical specification
 
-The compatibility skill contract remains at [`skills/foil/SKILL.md`](../skills/foil/SKILL.md). Runtime ownership is documented in [`ARCHITECTURE.md`](ARCHITECTURE.md).
+The compatibility protocol contract remains at [`skills/foil/SKILL.md`](../skills/foil/SKILL.md). Runtime ownership is documented in [`ARCHITECTURE.md`](ARCHITECTURE.md).

docs/content-provenance.json

@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
   "schema": "egrt/showcase-provenance-1",
   "claims": [
     {
-      "id": "architecture-modular-control",
-      "page_section": "Architecture",
-      "claim": "The toolkit uses a portable Research Orchestrator control plane plus bounded specialist research modules rather than one undifferentiated prompt.",
+      "id": "strong-inference-modular-control",
+      "page_section": "Purpose",
+      "claim": "Strong Inference uses a portable orchestration control plane plus bounded specialist research modules rather than one undifferentiated prompt.",
       "sources": [
         "docs/ARCHITECTURE.md",
         "skills/soul/SKILL.md",
@@ -16,33 +16,58 @@
       ]
     },
     {
-      "id": "professional-naming-compatibility",
-      "page_section": "Modules",
-      "claim": "Professional display names are used for the research portfolio while technical IDs and slash-command aliases are retained for backwards compatibility.",
-      "sources": ["docs/ARCHITECTURE.md", "GOVERNANCE.md"]
+      "id": "public-naming-compatibility",
+      "page_section": "Suite inventory",
+      "claim": "Strong Inference uses functional public module names while technical IDs and slash-command aliases remain unchanged for compatibility.",
+      "sources": [
+        "README.md",
+        "docs/ARCHITECTURE.md",
+        "GOVERNANCE.md",
+        "validation/MASTERMIND_BRAND_PRODUCT_3_LOOP_REPORT_2026-08-25.md"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "working-brand-boundary",
+      "page_section": "Hero",
+      "claim": "Strong Inference Systems is presented as a working pre-product identity rather than as a legally cleared corporate, trademark, or domain name.",
+      "sources": [
+        "README.md",
+        "validation/MASTERMIND_BRAND_PRODUCT_3_LOOP_REPORT_2026-08-25.md"
+      ]
     },
     {
-      "id": "foil-complement",
-      "page_section": "FOIL",
-      "claim": "FOIL models competing explanations for observed performance and supplies task-relevant complementary methods without treating a single error as a stable weakness.",
-      "sources": ["skills/foil/SKILL.md", "research/FOIL_RESEARCH_BASIS.md"]
+      "id": "scientific-method-name-boundary",
+      "page_section": "Purpose",
+      "claim": "The product name Strong Inference intentionally refers to the established scientific-method concept of competing hypotheses and discriminating experiments; the repository does not claim the phrase as a newly invented scientific concept.",
+      "sources": [
+        "README.md",
+        "validation/MASTERMIND_BRAND_PRODUCT_3_LOOP_REPORT_2026-08-25.md"
+      ]
     },
     {
-      "id": "independent-transfer-target",
-      "page_section": "FOIL",
-      "claim": "FOIL separates immediate assisted task success from later independent competence and transfer.",
-      "sources": ["skills/foil/SKILL.md", "research/FOIL_RESEARCH_BASIS.md", "RESEARCH.md"]
+      "id": "adapt-complement",
+      "page_section": "Suite inventory",
+      "claim": "Adapt uses the stable foil technical namespace to model competing explanations for observed performance and supply task-relevant complementary methods without treating a single error as a stable weakness.",
+      "sources": [
+        "skills/foil/SKILL.md",
+        "research/FOIL_RESEARCH_BASIS.md",
+        "docs/MIRROR.md"
+      ]
     },
     {
       "id": "authority-evidence-split",
-      "page_section": "Evidence",
-      "claim": "Human authority governs voluntary goals and actions while evidence/proof determine factual warrant.",
-      "sources": ["skills/foil/SKILL.md", "skills/soul/SKILL.md", "RESEARCH.md"]
+      "page_section": "Evidence & release",
+      "claim": "Human authority governs voluntary goals and actions while evidence and proof determine factual warrant.",
+      "sources": [
+        "skills/foil/SKILL.md",
+        "skills/soul/SKILL.md",
+        "RESEARCH.md"
+      ]
     },
     {
       "id": "module-count",
       "page_section": "Hero",
-      "claim": "This repository contains ten research-method modules.",
+      "claim": "Strong Inference contains ten public research-method modules.",
       "sources": [
         "skills/soul/SKILL.md",
         "skills/mathbot/SKILL.md",
@@ -56,73 +81,53 @@
         "skills/foil/SKILL.md"
       ]
     },
-    {
-      "id": "foil-structural-validation",
-      "page_section": "Evidence",
-      "claim": "The recorded FOIL structural/source/regression validator reports 94 of 94 checks passed.",
-      "sources": ["validation/FOIL_RESEARCH_INTEGRATION_VALIDATION.json"]
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "foil-contract-coverage",
-      "page_section": "Evidence",
-      "claim": "The recorded FOIL behavioral-contract specification artifact reports 18 of 18 cases represented as PASS-SPEC.",
-      "sources": ["validation/FOIL_RESEARCH_INTEGRATION_BEHAVIORAL_CONTRACT_VALIDATION.json"]
-    },
     {
       "id": "validation-boundary",
-      "page_section": "Evidence",
+      "page_section": "Evidence & release",
       "claim": "Mechanical and specification validation do not establish behavioral efficacy of the complete system.",
-      "sources": ["RESEARCH.md", "REPRODUCIBILITY.md", "validation/FOIL_RESEARCH_INTEGRATION_3_LOOP_REPORT.md"]
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "portable-process-assurance",
-      "page_section": "Modules",
-      "claim": "The public Process Assurance Framework does not require private project hooks or hard-coded local runtime paths and treats missing optional machinery as unavailable.",
-      "sources": ["skills/infinity-gauntlet/SKILL.md", "validation/SOUL_GAUNTLET_PUBLIC_AUDIT.md"]
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "research-question-open",
-      "page_section": "Research Dossier",
-      "claim": "Prospective behavioral efficacy of the complete workflow remains an open research question with planned matched-baseline and ablation studies.",
-      "sources": ["RESEARCH.md", "ROADMAP.md"]
+      "sources": [
+        "RESEARCH.md",
+        "REPRODUCIBILITY.md",
+        "validation/FOIL_RESEARCH_INTEGRATION_3_LOOP_REPORT.md"
+      ]
     },
     {
-      "id": "research-dossier-output-index",
-      "page_section": "Research Dossier",
-      "claim": "The homepage indexes the current research question, implemented architecture, FOIL basis, mechanical/specification receipts, exploratory benchmark pilots, prospective behavioral evaluation, and external reproduction as distinct research objects with explicit states.",
+      "id": "portable-assure",
+      "page_section": "Suite inventory",
+      "claim": "Assure uses the stable infinity-gauntlet technical namespace and does not require private project hooks or hard-coded local runtime paths; missing optional machinery is treated as unavailable.",
       "sources": [
-        "RESEARCH.md",
-        "ROADMAP.md",
-        "docs/ARCHITECTURE.md",
-        "research/FOIL_RESEARCH_BASIS.md",
-        "validation/FOIL_RESEARCH_INTEGRATION_VALIDATION.json",
-        "validation/FOIL_RESEARCH_INTEGRATION_BEHAVIORAL_CONTRACT_VALIDATION.json",
-        "docs/BENCHMARKS.md"
+        "skills/infinity-gauntlet/SKILL.md",
+        "validation/SOUL_GAUNTLET_PUBLIC_AUDIT.md"
       ]
     },
     {
-      "id": "research-site-benchmark",
-      "page_section": "Research Dossier",
-      "claim": "The research-site benchmark compares public research institutes, research indexes, open-science catalogs, and mature research-software repositories to identify transferable information-architecture mechanisms without treating the set as an objective global ranking.",
-      "sources": ["docs/RESEARCH_WEBSITE_BENCHMARK_2026-08-22.md"]
+      "id": "preproduct-license",
+      "page_section": "Evidence & release",
+      "claim": "Strong Inference is presented as a free MIT-licensed pre-product research-software preview rather than a hosted commercial service.",
+      "sources": [
+        "README.md",
+        "LICENSE",
+        "CITATION.cff"
+      ]
     },
     {
       "id": "citation-license",
-      "page_section": "Release",
+      "page_section": "Evidence & release",
       "claim": "The repository provides machine-readable citation metadata and an MIT open-source license.",
-      "sources": ["CITATION.cff", "LICENSE"]
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "homepage-trust-center",
-      "page_section": "Research Software Trust Center",
-      "claim": "The public homepage exposes direct paths to security, governance, contribution, citation, changelog, and roadmap artifacts.",
-      "sources": ["SECURITY.md", "GOVERNANCE.md", "CONTRIBUTING.md", "CITATION.cff", "CHANGELOG.md", "ROADMAP.md"]
+      "sources": [
+        "CITATION.cff",
+        "LICENSE"
+      ]
     },
     {
-      "id": "homepage-reproducibility-path",
-      "page_section": "Reproducibility",
-      "claim": "The public homepage exposes the documented mechanical validation commands and separates their interpretation from behavioral-efficacy claims.",
-      "sources": ["REPRODUCIBILITY.md", "validation/validate_soul_gauntlet_public.py", "validation/validate_showcase.py"]
+      "id": "reproducibility-path",
+      "page_section": "Evidence & release",
+      "claim": "The public surfaces expose documented mechanical validation commands and separate their interpretation from behavioral-efficacy claims.",
+      "sources": [
+        "REPRODUCIBILITY.md",
+        "validation/validate_soul_gauntlet_public.py",
+        "validation/validate_showcase.py"
+      ]
     }
   ]
 }