Editorial policy: the site claims only what its reader can verify — research/law-like claims live on Zenodo+GitHub; the site carries posture and pointers

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What

Codify the editorial rule the steward has set, so all future copy follows it without relitigating:

THE RULE: the site may only claim what its reader can verify at the reader's own rung.

• A site visitor can: install the agent, read the receipts, see the tests run, press the stop, follow a DOI. → Claims of this kind are site-legal.
• A site visitor cannot: check a derivation, audit a statistical registration, referee a physics claim. → Claims of this kind (law-like claims, research results, theory language) stay OFF the site — they live where the verification apparatus lives: Zenodo (dated, archived, citable) and GitHub (runnable, diffable).
• The one permitted bridge is posture, not content: the site may say we make dated falsifiable predictions, they are archived at these DOIs, a script grades them without our vote, and losses are published — because a reader can verify the posture by following the links. It may not restate the predictions' content.
• Corollary for /safety and /proof: claims about our system (measured, test-linked) are site-legal; claims about nature are not. Reword accordingly wherever the line is close.

Why (recorded so the reasoning survives contributor turnover)

1. Anti-laundering. A registered bet restated in marketing format becomes a claim stripped of its kill condition — inflated by the medium alone. The project's entire credibility architecture depends on claims carrying their failure modes; the site format cannot carry them.
2. Mission decoupling. The humanitarian commitments (e.g. the survival card) must not be hostage to the research program's fate. If a major research bet fails — and the bets are designed so they can — the card, the receipts, and the stop button lose nothing. Separate rungs, separate fates.
3. Credibility economics. Grand claims on a product site read as self-promotion and cost adoption among exactly the audiences the mission needs. Understatement plus checkable links is the register that survives hostile readers.
4. The charge is delivery, not aggrandizement. The message must be hearable; volume that centers the messenger drowns it.

Acceptance

• This rule referenced from CONTRIBUTING or the README copy-guidelines section.
• Existing pages audited once against it (the /proof "measured vs model" tags already embody it; extend that spirit).