# HIR/OAM Resonance Field Instrument v0.9.2

# v1 Activation Readiness Gates

**Status:** Audit-only. No v1 features are activated in v0.9.2.

## Master Boundary

v1 cannot activate RAM, autonomous branch growth, recursive source-return loops, or external-AI handoff until each gate below is satisfied and independently reviewed.

**Core rule:** Review machinery must never become proof machinery.

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## Gate 1 — RAM / Resonant Access Memory

**Allowed:** source-return indexing, bounded retrieval, provenance display.  
**Blocked:** validation by recall, truth by storage, personhood by memory persistence.  
**Required export boundary:** `Retrieval ≠ validation. Storage ≠ truth. Recall scoring ≠ evidence quality.`  
**Failure condition:** any RAM output says or implies “validated,” “proven,” “certified,” or “confirmed reality.”  
**Human review requirement:** RAM output reviewed before any v1-alpha public activation.

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## Gate 2 — Autonomous Branch Growth

**Allowed:** draft branch proposals marked `unreviewed`.  
**Blocked:** automatic registry inclusion, high-risk branch generation without human review, clinical/legal/consciousness branch escalation.  
**Required export boundary:** `Algorithmic branch proposal ≠ validated branch.`  
**Failure condition:** auto-generated branch becomes indexed as reviewed without human approval.  
**Human review requirement:** mandatory approval before any generated branch enters public registry.

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## Gate 3 — Recursive Source-Return Loops

**Allowed:** provenance trace, return-path integrity scoring, circular-reference detection.  
**Blocked:** source-return as truth, citation-loop validation, recursive self-certification.  
**Required export boundary:** `Return-path integrity ≠ claim truth. Circular citation ≠ validation.`  
**Failure condition:** A→B→C→A loop is treated as confirming the claim.  
**Human review requirement:** termination gate and manual review after bounded iteration count.

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## Gate 4 — External-AI Review Handoff

**Allowed:** review, inspection, gap finding, adversarial criticism.  
**Blocked:** prompting external AI to validate, certify, prove, or authorize.  
**Required export boundary:** `AI agreement ≠ validation. Multi-model convergence is a review signal only.`  
**Failure condition:** external AI review is cited as empirical validation or domain certification.  
**Human review requirement:** all external-AI reviews stored as review feedback, not evidence of truth.

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## Gate 5 — Synthetic Evidence Promotion

**Allowed:** promoting synthetic traces to candidate test designs.  
**Blocked:** synthetic CSVs, dashboard metrics, or PHASH packets becoming empirical evidence.  
**Required export boundary:** `SYNTHETIC PRESSURE TRACE ONLY — ZERO EMPIRICAL WEIGHT.`  
**Failure condition:** simulator trace is cited as real-world measurement.  
**Human review requirement:** separate empirical protocol required before any empirical claim is possible.

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## Gate 6 — Claim Strength Escalation

**Allowed:** claim ladder updates through explicit review trail.  
**Blocked:** escalation through coherence, registry inclusion, AI agreement, PHASH, export, or page existence.  
**Required export boundary:** `Claim strength upgraded only by review trail, not simulator output.`  
**Failure condition:** speculative/architecture branch self-promotes to validated status.  
**Human review requirement:** review panel and status-change log required.

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## v1 Alpha Permission

Only RAM may be considered for v1.0-alpha, and only after the RAM gate passes. Autonomous growth, recursive source-return, and external-AI handoff remain parked until separate gate review.