The complete archive
Three necessary conditions — lineage, anchor, rate — that any contamination-resistant evaluation design must satisfy, and what seven candidate families actually purchase against them.
The mechanism by which recursive use erodes a categorical benchmark’s discriminative function — requiring neither vendor intent, training-data leakage, nor exogenous drift.
Capacity conditions — bandwidth, semantic reach, self-reference depth — under which substrate-independent audit ceases to be informative.
Externality conditions for substrate-independent audit, derived from the 2008 Gaussian copula collapse.