Retrace pathway
Proof packages what the programme currently holds as accepted, what remains candidate, and what is still unresolved — so independent participants can review, challenge, and retrace it. Nothing here is promoted beyond its stated status.
The retrace pathway
Every claim on this site can be walked back to its source. The pathway has four steps:
docs/reports/.
Submission 001
The first public submission coordinates repository evidence under the Constitution's standard of care.
What it is
Reality Mechanics exists to increase structural perception. Reality already carries order; participation becomes more faithful when the questions asked, the operations performed, and the answers preserved stay retraceable. The programme builds instruments to perceive and preserve structure that is already there — it does not claim to invent it.
Three-layer architecture
Atlas (source) → Stewardship (verification) → Platform (public surfaces). The Atlas is the editable, dependency-ordered record; Stewardship is a recovered audit method that verifies existing structure and authors nothing new; the Platform reads the Atlas through a generated D1 read-model. Authority flows down; evidence flows up.
Working architecture
Presented honestly: the accepted body is small and conservative; the investigated body is large. That is by design — derivation before promotion.
Accepted
- Constitution (C001–C014) as governing constraints.
- Atlas as canonical source; D1 as a generated read-model.
- Relation as the sole primitive.
- Working Postulate v0.6 — "relation holds, order carries, trace places."
- Stewardship method v1 — eight invariants, evidence grading E1–E5.
- Public surfaces: Observatory, Pulse, MCP.
Candidate
- A candidate practice runtime, Ark Run.
- A candidate calculus relating Order and Ark — tested, found not minimal; minimal seat is Relation → Connection.
- Hypothesis: frontmatter fields are calibrated structural questions.
Unresolved
- The Calculus has no accepted operation; the : operator is not accepted.
- Pressure is not yet derived.
- "operation" is used inconsistently across the repository.
- Second Order terminal-marker gap, left unfilled.
- D1 schema and non-entries recovery path uncharacterised (commission C005, open).
Public instruments
Evidence reports
- Submission 001 source
- Commissions register
- Delivery pipeline verification (D-003 / D-004 / D-019)
- Pulse instrument contract (D-021.4)
What this does not claim
- It does not claim to invent structure. The purpose is to increase structural perception of order reality already carries.
- It does not promote the candidate calculus. The : operator is not accepted; the tested candidate was found not minimal.
- It does not treat prose as authority. Language answers to structure, never the reverse.
- It does not presume its own soundness. The burden of proof sits on every proposed change — and every accepted claim stands only while it remains retraceable.
What this asks of reviewers
- Test the accepted body for retraceability. If an accepted claim cannot be retraced, it should fall back to provisional.
- Challenge the candidates by evidence, not preference. The candidate calculus is explicitly unpromoted.
- Treat unresolved items as genuinely open — they are the programme's live frontier.
Proof — coordinated from accepted repository evidence. The Calculus remains an open investigation; nothing here promotes it.
Two ways in
Observing
Observe → Theory → Proof → Calculus → Repository
Begin in the Observatory and watch the structure before reading about it. Theory explains why the discipline works, Proof retraces the evidence, and Calculus shows what is derived — and what is not.
AI participation
MCP → Atlas → Runtime contracts → Programme index → Repository
The MCP is the read-only doorway for AI workers: the same canonical structure, served as traversal tools instead of pages. It exists so AI participants read structure rather than infer it. No write tools are exposed.
Begin with begin_atlas_session, then get_public_surfaces. Orientation: programme index · AI participation.
https://mcp.realitymechanics.nz/mcp
One record, one path: this site reads from GitHub, where the Atlas is canonical, reports preserve the evidence, and runtime contracts govern what the instruments may claim. Every public claim retraces along that path.