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Evidence & acceptance

Success is demonstrated by working constitutional tests. Each test joins a principle to observable behavior and reproducible evidence.

Core demonstrations

Distributed identity

One object world, more than one machine

An unchanged client collaborates with an object that moves among local memory, persistent storage, and a remote host while identity and inspectability remain coherent.

Proves: workspace-not-universe, message orientation.
Replaceability

Swap a subsystem live

Two independently developed network or storage stacks satisfy the same protocol family; either can be selected without modifying clients or forking the system.

Proves: protocols, composition, experimentation.
Reproducibility

Realize it elsewhere

A project developed in one workspace is realized on a clean host with the intended versions, capabilities, tests, and environmental constraints resolved and explained.

Proves: explicit knowledge, commercial viability.
Semantic reasoning

Ask architectural questions

The environment can explain responsibilities, trace the evidence for a capability, predict the consequences of replacement, and flag an unauthorized dependency.

Proves: semantic reasoning and traceable evidence.
Domain composition

Tools share models

Two distinct tools manipulate one persistent model through shared protocols; one role or protocol family is reused in a second domain.

Proves: models own meaning; tools are compositions.
Research freedom

Add a computing model without a fork

A researcher introduces and compares a scheduler, concurrency model, or interface arrangement as a replaceable collaboration inside the system.

Proves: experimentation is first-class.

Evidence states

Capability claims are always labeled: declared, structurally supported, tested, observed, or violated. A name alone is never treated as proof.

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