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Source maturity labels

How ModelBreeder.com classifies source reports as established practice, emerging practice, conceptual synthesis, speculative analogy, implementation note, or rejected directive.

Research statusEditorial method for source-backed synthesis Publication statePublished Reviewed byMichael Kappel Source reports3

Direct answer

A source report is evidence, not automatic truth. ModelBreeder.com uses maturity labels to decide how aggressively a claim can be promoted into public teaching, architecture, tooling, and .uai active memory.

LabelMeaningSite handling
Established practiceSupported by common engineering practice or mature toolingCan become direct implementation guidance.
Emerging practiceUsed in current tools or papers but still shiftingAdd caveats, compatibility rules, and tests.
Conceptual synthesisCoherent framework built from multiple ideasUse as theory, not as product claim.
Speculative analogyUseful metaphor or future scenarioKeep clearly labeled and bounded.
Implementation notePackage or site-specific recordUse for current project operations.
Rejected directiveSource instruction that conflicts with the site contractPreserve in /docs, record rejection, do not implement.

Promotion process

pseudocode
PROCEDURE promote_source_claim(claim)
    label <- CLASSIFY_MATURITY(claim)
    SWITCH label
        CASE "Established practice": ADD_TO_GUIDE(claim)
        CASE "Emerging practice": ADD_WITH_TESTS_AND_LIMITS(claim)
        CASE "Conceptual synthesis": ADD_TO_THEORY(claim)
        CASE "Speculative analogy": ADD_TO_SPECULATION_BOUNDARY(claim)
        CASE "Implementation note": ADD_TO_OPERATIONS_OR_UAI(claim)
        CASE "Rejected directive": RECORD_REJECTION(claim)
    END SWITCH
END PROCEDURE

Current application

The Rust runtime files are source-code evidence. The Four Fs and local tiny-model reports are conceptual and emerging practice. The instruction to remove safeguards is a rejected directive because it conflicts with governed release, no-op, reversibility, and mutualist persistence.

Source reports used for this guide

These reports are preserved verbatim in the site archive. The guide above is an editorial synthesis and may narrow, qualify, or reorganize claims from the source material.