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Validation: run one independently authored substrate/adapter round against the world contracts #1137

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@zachshallbetter

Parent: #1111
Depends on: #1113, #1114

Goal

Address the largest evidence weakness in the current world-substrate program: most theory, substrate selection, adaptation, and grading have been performed within one authorship context.

Run at least one adversarial-reuse round where the substrate and/or adapter is authored independently of the person who defined the FE abstraction being tested.

Minimum independence target

Prefer, in order:

  1. external substrate + external adapter author;
  2. external substrate + independent adapter author;
  3. external substrate + FE author adapts only after predictions are frozen.

Do not count a synthetic fixture written specifically to exercise FE as independent evidence.

Protocol

  • select a materially different, already-existing system with its own native semantics;
  • freeze the source/version before FE mapping;
  • preregister predicted contract fit, expected churn, and likely failure points;
  • do not expose the adapter author to desired outcomes where avoidable;
  • record every requested contract change and classify structural / representational / convenience;
  • preserve abandoned mappings, rejected changes, and surprises;
  • have an independent reviewer grade semantic distortion if possible.

Evidence outputs

Acceptance

  • One complete round exists with provenance stronger than the current self-authored substrate evidence.
  • The outcome may be generalizes, generalizes-with-refinement, field-fitted, or inapplicable; none is privileged.
  • No contract change is accepted merely to make the experiment pass.
  • The resulting evidence is usable by Research method: boundary extraction under adversarial reuse #1113 when evaluating whether “boundary extraction under adversarial reuse” is more than an internal design habit.

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