# ILAU Field Lab and Neon n-Band Documentary Intake

Date: 2026-09-04  
Intake type: `DOCUMENTARY_INTAKE` · `CONCEPT_DELTA_EXTRACTION` · `VOCABULARY_REFINEMENT` · `VISUAL_GENEALOGY`  
Source root: `[local source root omitted in public preview]`  
Source count: 80 files  
Final status: **B — COHERENT_OPERATIONAL_EXTENSION_TEST_REQUIRED**

## Purpose and boundary

This package records what the supplied corpus establishes, what it clarifies, and what remains only a candidate after Report III. It does not conduct new empirical research, reopen a closed test, modify ORION Core, modify canonical ILAU, or advance a new physics or ontology claim.

The documentary backbone is:

1. Report I — **THE GAP**
2. Report II — **FROM GAP TO RETURN**
3. Report III — **KHIPPU AND THE THREADS**
4. Post-Report-III root artifacts, ordered by source modification time

## Preserved formal backbone

```text
x_{n+1} = T(x_n)
y_k = R_k(x_{n+1})
P_k = R_k ∘ T
(I_k,L_k,A_k,U_k) = Audit(x_{n+1},y_k)
r_k = (r_point,r_direction,r_curvature)
Delta_return = d(x_0,T_gamma(x_0))
```

Decision rule:

```text
Delta_return <= tau  => BOUNDED LOCK
Delta_return >  tau  => OPEN RESIDUAL
```

Mandatory separations:

```text
STATE != VIEW
OBJECT != REPRESENTATION
TRANSITION != PROJECTION
SIMILARITY != IDENTITY
LOCAL RETURN != GLOBAL IDENTITY
CARTOGRAPHY != ONTOLOGY
ONTOLOGY != CARTOGRAPHY
INSIDE != OUTSIDE
```

`INSIDE` and `OUTSIDE` are relational sides of a declared boundary or frame. They are not substances, absolute locations, or evidence that two ontological domains exist.

## Evidence method

- All 80 source files were recursively inventoried with byte size and SHA-256.
- The three reports were read in authoritative order and rendered to 97 temporary pages (62 + 19 + 16) for documentary review.
- HTML instruments were retained as distinct interactive/source representations; PNG/SVG files were retained as visual exports.
- Screenshots were treated as contextual evidence only.
- Exact duplicates were identified by SHA-256; representation counterparts and derivative views were grouped without deletion.
- File modification times were used only to order artifacts after Report III, not as proof of conceptual priority.

## Package contents

- `01_FILE_INVENTORY.csv` — exhaustive source inventory and representation classification
- `02_SOURCE_AND_ROLE_LEDGER.md` — source authority, roles, duplicates, and families
- `03_REPORT_SUCCESSION_AND_DELTA.md` — Report I–III succession and actual post-III delta
- `04_VISUAL_GENEALOGY.csv` — major visual theses, operators, statuses, and nonclaims
- `05_ILAU_PLUS_CANDIDATE.md` — candidate cartographic status layer
- `06_NEON_VISIBILITY_OPERATOR.md` — bounded visibility operator
- `07_N_BAND_BIG_BAND_MODEL.md` — multiband candidate and testability requirements
- `08_RECORD_PLAY_LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md` — operational machine architecture
- `09_HUMAN_MACHINE_TEAM_AUTHORITY.md` — bounded authority separation
- `10_CLAIM_AND_NONCLAIM_LEDGER.md` — exact scientific-status classification
- `11_OPEN_QUESTIONS_AND_TEST_REQUIREMENTS.md` — unresolved definitions and NBV-01 proposal
- `12_FINAL_BOUNDED_ASSESSMENT.md` — decision gate and closeout
- `MANIFEST_SHA256.txt` — hashes of package files, excluding the manifest itself

## Governing conclusion

The corpus supports a coherent operational extension, but not a reproducible implementation yet. The post-III material strengthens the rope/seam carrier model, exposes five local channels plus two boundary sides, and makes ILAU × cartography explicit. The proposed n-band and human/machine/team layers are coherent with that direction but remain underdefined and are not independently instantiated as named source artifacts.