Evidence layer
Probative surfaces brought into scope by this page
This page does more than point to governance files. It is also anchored to surfaces that make observation, traceability, fidelity, and audit more reconstructible. Their order below makes the minimal evidence chain explicit.
- 01Canon and scopeDefinitions canon
- 02Weak observationQ-Ledger
Definitions canon
/canon.md
Opposable base for identity, scope, roles, and negations that must survive synthesis.
- Makes provable
- The reference corpus against which fidelity can be evaluated.
- Does not prove
- Neither that a system already consults it nor that an observed response stays faithful to it.
- Use when
- Before any observation, test, audit, or correction.
Q-Ledger
/.well-known/q-ledger.json
Public ledger of inferred sessions that makes some observed consultations and sequences visible.
- Makes provable
- That a behavior was observed as weak, dated, contextualized trace evidence.
- Does not prove
- Neither actor identity, system obedience, nor strong proof of activation.
- Use when
- When it is necessary to distinguish descriptive observation from strong attestation.
Glossary: phantom URLs, latent surfaces and documentary coherence
This lexical family groups the terms required to analyze non-existent but plausible URLs, 404s that are not merely technical breaks, and documentary surfaces suggested by the corpus without being published.
The objective is to distinguish noise from expectation traces, then turn those traces into governed decisions.
Phantom URL
A phantom URL is a URL that has never existed but appears in logs or referrals under a form coherent with the site’s documentary architecture.
It is the central object of this family: the absent but plausible path.
Interpretive 404
An interpretive 404 is the error response produced when a non-existent but plausible URL is requested.
It does not automatically mean that a page is missing. It means that a plausible path collided with the published reality.
Latent documentary surface
A latent documentary surface is an unpublished page, method, definition, or clarification suggested by the corpus.
It may be revealed by a phantom URL, but also by prompts, incorrect citations, reformulations, or response gaps.
Expected architecture
Expected architecture is the structure an external system reconstructs as probable from the corpus. It may diverge from the real architecture.
The phantom URL audit seeks precisely to compare these two architectures.
Expectation mapping
Expectation mapping groups phantom URLs, slug clusters, latent concepts, and associated editorial decisions.
It complements the sitemap and the coherence map: the sitemap describes pages, the coherence map describes relations, expectation mapping describes projections.
Documentary continuity debt
Documentary continuity debt appears when a corpus opens a family, concept, or dependency without stabilizing the surface that would close the interpretation.
This debt may be resolved by a page, but also by clarification, linking, redirect, or exclusion.
Documentary projection
Documentary projection designates the process by which a system produces or tests a probable continuation of the corpus as a path, title, page, or relation.
It must not be confused with proof of intention. It should be treated as a qualified hypothesis grounded in observable traces.