Research Program

Objective

Determine whether the CENTAUR setup-detection and decision pipeline can produce evidence strong enough to justify further experimentation.

The program uses staged experiments, explicit gates, preserved evidence, and controlled authorization.

EXP-003

EXP-003 investigates scanner activation and fusion validation.

Relevant repository material includes:

• 00_CONCEPT/EXP-003_SCANNER_ACTIVATION.md
• 00_CONCEPT/EXP003_RESULTS/
• 00_CONCEPT/EXP003A_RESULTS/
• 00_CONCEPT/CHECKPOINT_2026-08-13_EXP003B.md

EXP-003A

EXP-003A was a forensic scanner audit.

The repository history records a series-orientation defect involving MQL5 ArraySetAsSeries. Reference evidence contained the expected pattern population while the MQL5 scanner could read zero because of incorrect indexing/orientation.

Corrective commit: 01b556e.

The previous zero-setup observation therefore cannot safely be treated as evidence that the underlying pattern was absent.

Corrected C0

At baseline bf19250:

• C0 is STILL RUNNING.
• The CSV is NOT TO BE TOUCHED.
• Gate A is NOT YET EVALUATED.
• EXP-003B is NOT AUTHORIZED.

Interpretation Rules

• Scanner validity precedes interpretation of setup frequency.
• Zero output is not automatically evidence of pattern absence.
• Threshold tuning is not an adequate response to a scanner/data-orientation defect.
• Configuration files do not constitute experiment authorization.
• Conclusions must be tied to identifiable evidence.

Immediate Next Step

Complete and formally evaluate corrected C0 under the existing protocol. Do not infer Gate A status before evaluation.