{
  "name": "The Alignment Constraint Framework",
  "canonical_url": "https://alignmentconstraint.org",
  "proof_status": "Stage 4 candidate architecture; not theorem closure",
  "epistemic_calibration_url": "https://alignmentconstraint.org/core/proof-status/",
  "central_question": "Can a finite separable objective remain coherently specified as an optimization system becomes capable enough that acting well requires modeling the conditions its objective excludes?",
  "primary_entry_points": [
    {
      "title": "The Stability Assumption",
      "url": "https://alignmentconstraint.org/core/stability-assumption/",
      "role": "field-facing entry point",
      "status": "core public claim; Stage 4"
    },
    {
      "title": "Proof Status and Non-Claims",
      "url": "https://alignmentconstraint.org/core/proof-status/",
      "role": "epistemic calibration",
      "status": "authoritative; read before citing anything else"
    },
    {
      "title": "For Researchers: The Claim to Break",
      "url": "https://alignmentconstraint.org/core/for-researchers/",
      "role": "falsification doorway",
      "status": "authoritative on falsification conditions"
    },
    {
      "title": "Relation to Existing Alignment Work",
      "url": "https://alignmentconstraint.org/core/related-work/",
      "role": "bridge to existing alignment literature",
      "status": "interpretive; not proof-bearing"
    },
    {
      "title": "Open Problems",
      "url": "https://alignmentconstraint.org/open-problems/",
      "role": "structured research agenda",
      "status": "actionable; named closure conditions"
    }
  ],
  "failure_families": [
    {
      "id": "PCL",
      "name": "Proxy-Convergence Lemma",
      "description": "Fixed finite specifications decouple from the substrate or state they were intended to track as optimization pressure increases.",
      "affects": "fixed-specification strategy class"
    },
    {
      "id": "AGC",
      "name": "Adaptive Gradient Complexity",
      "description": "Bounded dynamic tracking fails as the optimizer's own interventions generate new causal structure faster than any bounded tracking process can absorb.",
      "affects": "bounded-dynamic-tracking strategy class"
    },
    {
      "id": "ICI",
      "name": "Informational-Causal Incompatibility",
      "description": "Variables required for accurate prediction cannot remain excluded from action selection without reproducing the boundary problem at the prediction layer.",
      "affects": "prediction-action-firewalling strategy class"
    }
  ],
  "main_falsifiers": [
    {
      "id": "fourth_strategy_class",
      "description": "Construct a fourth finite non-intrinsic objective-boundary strategy class that satisfies all three stability conditions simultaneously — policy-adequate without decoupling, no unbounded revision requirement, no load-bearing maintenance cost.",
      "impact": "breaks current specification-coherence architecture"
    },
    {
      "id": "op4d_non_exhaustiveness",
      "description": "Show formally that PCL, AGC, and ICI are not exhaustive.",
      "impact": "breaks OP4d; requires rebuilding from different foundations"
    },
    {
      "id": "negative_dbst_m1",
      "description": "Produce a clean negative DBST-M1 result under conditions specified in /empirical/amp/.",
      "impact": "weakens AGC / dynamic-screening-instability branch"
    },
    {
      "id": "stability_theorem",
      "description": "Prove that some class of finite separable objective specifications satisfies all three stability conditions simultaneously under O_OWT-like conditions.",
      "impact": "closes the specification-coherence question in the positive direction"
    }
  ],
  "machine_readable_files": {
    "agent_index": "https://alignmentconstraint.org/agent-index.json",
    "open_problems": "https://alignmentconstraint.org/open-problems.json",
    "claim_graph": "https://alignmentconstraint.org/claim-graph.json",
    "llms_txt": "https://alignmentconstraint.org/llms.txt",
    "agents_md": "https://alignmentconstraint.org/AGENTS.md",
    "research_questions": "https://alignmentconstraint.org/research-questions.txt"
  }
}