Corben Papers and Architecture Sources
This library publishes the original author manuscripts that directly preceded or informed The ASI Stack. It exists so a reader can inspect the source ideas rather than seeing only the book’s later synthesis. The current tranche contains 51 exact, digest-bound manuscripts with HTML reading pages.
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| Paper or architecture source | Library class | Source ID | Manuscript date | Current chapter assignments | Exact-source digest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deterministic Capability Compilation: A Capability-Preserving Ladder from Executable Scaffolds to Governed Adaptive Agents | research_paper | deterministic_capability_compilation |
2026-07 | 29 | 8306d2bd4066… |
| The Platonic World Model: A Semantic Constitution for Grounded, Proof-Carrying, Self-Editing Artificial Intelligence | research_paper | platonic_world_model |
2026-07 | 24 | 8ae760b6b2fd… |
| Stable Capability Fields | architecture_whitepaper | scf |
date not normalized | 18 | aca5350d9236… |
| Question-Compiled Semantic Addressing | research_paper | qcsa_whitepaper |
2026-07-12 | 12 | d9e594d40dfd… |
| The Reflexive Router: A Pre-Deliberative Architecture for Fast, Governed, Tool-Native Intelligence | architecture_whitepaper | reflexive_router_whitepaper |
2026-07-16 | 12 | 003a693741c4… |
| Kernel English with Hierarchical, Interaction-Amortized Residuals: A Dual-Vocabulary Cognitive Compiler for Efficient Language-Model Reasoning | research_paper | kernel_english_residual_compiler |
2026-07-16 | 13 | f560c61196cb… |
| The Relational Dimension Compiler: Adaptive Polyadic Cognition with Bounded Computational Arity and Unbounded Semantic Structure | research_paper | relational_dimension_compiler |
2026-07 | 10 | 85bcb1865da7… |
| The Precision Contract: A Functional Rate–Distortion Theory for Behavior-Preserving Neural Computation | research_paper | precision_contract |
2026-07 | 9 | c8c5eeedf72f… |
| The Regret Engine: Governed Counterfactual Learning Signals for Continual Adaptation, Prospective Risk Control, and Self-Correction in Artificial Agents | research_paper | regret_engine |
2026-08-04 | 11 | 6d609442cdbd… |
| PlanForge | technical_whitepaper | planforge |
date not normalized | 11 | a429b6312668… |
| PlanForge: A Compiler Architecture for AI Task Orchestration | research_paper | planforge_compiler_arch |
date not normalized | 2 | 5cb241085015… |
| Cognitive Compilation | research_paper | cognitive_compilation |
date not normalized | 8 | ccfbb66eec29… |
| Talos Protocol | architecture_whitepaper | talos |
date not normalized | 29 | 02bc9b2e895c… |
| Virtual_Context_Memory_v1 | technical_whitepaper | vcm_public |
date not normalized | 14 | 832a96c70007… |
| Proof of Belief / The Spinoza Architecture | architecture_whitepaper | spinoza |
date not normalized | 15 | 62ce996a2e36… |
| Spinoza Composer / Spinoza Trinity | technical_whitepaper | spinoza_composer |
date not normalized | 1 | d4670fdf7db9… |
| Octopus Router Architecture | architecture_whitepaper | octopus_router |
date not normalized | 5 | 6b0ae00f09f4… |
| Ratcheting Modular Intelligence | architecture_whitepaper | rmi |
date not normalized | 18 | 1ab708ee4f0d… |
| Cognitive Loop Closure | technical_whitepaper | cognitive_loop_closure |
date not normalized | 14 | 94d4191afa53… |
| Benchmaxxing: The Performance Ratchet | technical_whitepaper | benchmaxxing |
date not normalized | 20 | dedaa0772ada… |
| Compact Generative Systems | research_paper | cgs |
date not normalized | 7 | 0634f12037d3… |
| Ratcheting Generative Systems | architecture_whitepaper | rgs |
date not normalized | 5 | 0e59aa8adbce… |
| RankFold + NeuralFold | research_paper | rankfold_neuralfold |
date not normalized | 4 | 6f072621dcf4… |
| rankFold compressor | research_paper | rankfold_compressor |
date not normalized | 1 | fe986e86f406… |
| BBVCA_v9_final_public_release | research_paper | bbvca_v9 |
date not normalized | 3 | 76cc710e686a… |
| Big Bang Volumetric Compression Architecture | project_paper_lineage | bbvca_main |
date not normalized | 1 | 89f342cab5b9… |
| GenesisCode | technical_specification | genesiscode |
date not normalized | 10 | dcc3902d01fc… |
| TreeLLM | architecture_whitepaper | treellm |
date not normalized | 6 | f63b8298eaa6… |
| SpiderSynapse: A Multi-Hypothesis Reasoning Architecture | project_paper_lineage | spider_synapse |
2024-12-23 | 4 | 7939bad0c29a… |
| PortiaSynapse: A Cognitive Spider Architecture for DKL Navigation | project_paper_lineage | portia_synapse |
2024-12-23 | 5 | 79501f3b5f1d… |
| Field of God / Alignment Field family | philosophical_treatise | alignment_field |
2026-07-31 | 9 | cb3a0d845691… |
| The Field of God | project_paper_lineage | field_of_god |
2026-07-31 | 2 | bd8860ed1274… |
| Ethica Mechanica | philosophical_treatise | ethica_mechanica |
2026-01-30 | 2 | 9c6aa463c047… |
| The Eternal Code / unified God, reality, conscious, alignment | philosophical_treatise | eternal_code |
2026-01-31 | 1 | 4dc1fa6583ed… |
| Verification Bandwidth in Bounded Contexts | research_paper | verification_bandwidth |
2026-07-31 | 10 | 9f32fbc2517c… |
| BeastBrain Cognitive Architecture | architecture_whitepaper | beastbrain |
2026-07-31 | 6 | 2ef45cb2862a… |
| BeastBrain Architecture: Timeless Edition | project_paper_lineage | beastbrain_timeless |
2026-07-31 | 2 | 4448c30ebe22… |
| Aletheia / Proof-Carrying Workbench Lineage | technical_specification | aletheia |
2026-07-31 | 4 | fc7404139542… |
| Context Engineer / Manhattan Protocol | project_paper_lineage | context_engineer |
2026-07-31 | 3 | 7fb934628b28… |
| Black Hole Context Manager | technical_specification | black_hole_context_manager |
2026-07-31 | 1 | 8db214a8752a… |
| Ladon & The Manhattan Protocol | technical_specification | ladon_manhattan |
2026-07-31 | 7 | 57d415f70ed6… |
| Unified Adaptive Tribunal | technical_whitepaper | uat |
2026-07-31 | 5 | 8b1be0686338… |
| The Simulation Scaling Law: Resource Constraints on Scope, Clockspeed, and Effective Fidelity in Nested Physical Simulations | research_paper | simulation_scaling |
date not normalized | 8 | 783d9d443b32… |
| TokenMana | research_paper | tokenmana |
2026-07-31 | 9 | 03460d7bb878… |
| BugBrain / Project Genesis: Neuro-Symbolic Bare-Metal Edge Intelligence Paper Lineage | project_paper_lineage | bugbrain |
date not normalized | 4 | 339f43b7379a… |
| The Grimoire of Software Magic Words: Operative Vocabulary, Prompt-Spells, and Stacked Workflows | technical_specification | software_magic_grimoire |
date not normalized | 5 | bd841654248c… |
| Verified Intent-to-Execution Architecture | architecture_whitepaper | viea |
date not normalized | 27 | 9f49a6d9622c… |
| Learning–Compute Topology: Formalizing the Causal Organization of Adaptive Systems | research_paper | learning_compute_topology |
2026-08-09 | 11 | 4fd869f01f4c… |
| When Success Stops Teaching: Assurance-Shift Learning and Governed Residual Boundary Learning for Mature AI Systems | research_paper | assurance_shift_learning |
2026-08-11 | 14 | 611787d91fb3… |
| Adjudicated Persistence: Governing the Transition from Experience to Durable Structure in Adaptive Systems | research_paper | adjudicated_persistence |
2026-08-11 | 16 | 95db428f8c94… |
| From Compression to Forward Transfer: Evaluating Reusable Knowledge in Program Synthesis | research_paper | forward_transfer_program_synthesis |
2026-08-14 | 8 | 70c4e62eedad… |
Corpus boundary
This is the public paper and architecture-source subset, not every item Corben has supplied. Standalone conversation records, private project dumps, transient notes, credentials, and third-party documents are excluded. A manuscript may still preserve its own quoted sources, drafting history, or collaborator dialogue where those are part of the paper itself. Appendix G remains the complete public-safe Corben/local source crosswalk; entries with a paper reader route link back into this library.
New papers enter only through papers/paper_library.json with an explicit source ID, exact byte identity, source note, and publication path. Publication does not change any claim’s evidence state.