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What Counterpedia can prove today

A capability ledger, not a roadmap

This page records capabilities against real specimens and the current Evidence Trail function inventory. It does not predict what Counterpedia may do later. A row is only as strong as its specimen, owner, and limitation.

Proven means the underlying function is live on the current public/read surface. Bounded proof means the capability is demonstrated for a constrained specimen, family, or owner path rather than universally. Held means an explicit gate prevents public projection. Unmappedmeans Counterpedia has not reconciled a lawful owner path and refuses to invent one.

The governing rule is the same as the Evidence Trail: every arrow must be owned.

CapabilityReal specimenStatus
Search without flattening result posture

Ordinary /search across governed records, research, Source Records, evidence history, and Wikimedia observations

proof: tests/searchPresentation.test.tsx + tests/searchIdentity0.test.tsx

Search rank and matching create no canonical identity, support, evidence, verification, admission, or standing.

Proven
Follow an owner-backed Reverse Wiki evidence trail

Typed entry / block / source / record / case focus with bounded RW-PROOF-DESCENT0 continuation

proof: ReverseWikiWhyProjection + generalize0Focus.ts + generalize0Relations.ts + proofDescent0.ts

The trail stops when an owned relation is absent; similarity and graph proximity are not substitutes.

Proven
Discover live scholarly evidence through Crossref

Q131194 → DOI 10.1006/CRES.2001.0252; one authorized live resolve observation

proof: counterpedia-source-intelligence/docs/WIKIDATA_DEMAND_SI_LIVE_OPERATOR0.md

The live observation is discovery only: no Acquisition, capture, SourceEdition, Check, admission, or support decision occurred.

Bounded proof
Address archived web evidence as an exact Common Crawl WARC locator

COMMON-CRAWL0 CDX row → exact WarcLocator → 954-byte retained WARC range → 559-byte derived HTTP payload

proof: counterpedia-acquisition@12b9d5b3036f73431896d9e2a1228fa194189651; docs/common-crawl-live-retain0/

This is bounded custody proof for one CC-MAIN-2026-39 object. It does not establish source identity, currentness, proposition support, admission, standing, or publication.

Bounded proof
Acquire a bounded live CourtListener source into exact custody

run:acq-method6d/courtlistener-docket-68117049/bounded-live-1

proof: counterpedia-acquisition/docs/courtlistener-method6d-live/run-record.json

The run proved one bounded live capture, not pagination continuation, truth, admission, policy ratification, or verifier authority.

Bounded proof
Distinguish reader access from discovery and custody

arXiv 2404.12590 + archived ABCANZ + History of science source bindings

proof: docs/product/SOURCE_READER_ACCESS_OWNER0_DECISIONS_v0_1.md

OPEN / UNKNOWN are owner-carried access observations; access does not imply capture, support, truth, paywall status, or admission.

Bounded proof
Retain an exact source basis with deterministic replay

xz 5.6.1 source.bin — 1,779,292 bytes — sha256:f334777310ca3ae9ba07206d78ed286a655aa3f44eec27854f740c26b2cd2ed0

proof: docs/product/PUBLIC_EVIDENCE_CONVERGENCE_EXIT0.md

Exact retained bytes prove addressability/replay under the named method, not authenticity, proposition truth, support, or currentness.

Bounded proof
Resolve a governed documentary basis to an exact source locator

TH-S09 / Ninth Circuit ORDER AND AMENDED OPINION / retained PDF byte span 3667..7955

proof: docs/counterpedia/TH_S09_DOCUMENTARY_BASIS_OWNER1_v0_1.md

Document identity/posture and locator are proven for TH-S09; legal correctness and proposition truth are not.

Bounded proof
Issue and retain exact Attribution owner state

TH-S09 Attribution attribution:7b974aa1-dfea-4285-8bab-e9fdb40a4bb0

proof: docs/counterpedia/TH_S09_ATTRIBUTION_PROD_RUN0_v0_1.md

The dedicated custody run proves the issued owner state and conflict protection, not truth, Warrant, standing, or publication.

Bounded proof
Adjudicate and retain a bounded Warrant

TH-S09 Warrant assertion warrant-assertion:68087882-6517-4eab-acfb-40ad31eb95d7

proof: docs/counterpedia/TH_S09_WARRANT_CUSTODY_ISSUE0_v0_1.md

The Warrant remains separately owned and does not create Position, Origin, METHOD1, admission, standing, or publication.

Bounded proof
Compose a deterministic Position from exact owner reads

TH-S09 live owner-bound Position projection; payload sha256:05ae5b04867e76707c8c600fb891cfa0d280842cb494ecd84ebc16b3f5035c83

proof: docs/counterpedia/TH_S09_POSITION_COMPOSITION0_v0_1.md

This is live custody-backed bounded proof; there is no durable universal Position authority or general public Position service.

Bounded proof
Run a named mechanical Check over exact inputs

xz / ECF-514 / USB / pitch assessment Check specimens

proof: /check and specimen acceptance suites

Check is method-relative; an established mechanical result does not automatically establish semantic support, truth, authenticity, or standing.

Proven
Preserve Check attempt-to-attempt history

Amnesiac custody → Countergraph check-attempt-lineage-projection/v0.1

proof: docs/product/CHECK_ATTEMPT_HISTORY_UX0.md + countergraph/check_attempt_lineage_projection.py

RECHECK is structural lineage only; the history surface does not re-evaluate the Check or infer support, truth, currentness, or authority.

Bounded proof
Carry a portable Check basis to another verifier/runtime

Real xz C1 direct-mode portable Check over the exact retained source bytes

proof: counterpedia-agent/docs/CHECK_PORTABLE0_REAL_XZ.md + COUNTERPEDIA_PROOF_UX0

Portable replay is proven for selected artifact families; it is not a claim that every record has a portable verifier package.

Bounded proof
Traverse governed evidence structure without minting authority

Countergraph governed projections and bounded AgentReadSurface

proof: countergraph/docs/CG-AGENT-READ0.md + Counterpedia Countergraph live inspector

Graph traversal carries upstream relations; proximity, connectivity, and packaging do not create support, standing, admission, contradiction, or truth.

Bounded proof
Expose the governed public record to agents

Counterpedia read-only MCP/API machine surfaces

proof: /search agent access + public machine/read-model surfaces

Agent access is read-only with respect to canonical standing and grants no hidden operator, admission, or publication authority.

Proven
Show a subject-first discovery/evidence progression

Q131194 subject profile with accepted discovery lineage and plain-language evidence progression

proof: WIKIDATA-PROFILE-DISCOVERY-CASE0 + WIKIDATA-PROFILE-CASE-PRODUCT1

The profile preserves Wikimedia observation posture; display does not promote discovered material into admitted Counterpedia claims.

Proven
Project governed Counterpose continuation

CP-SIG continuation class

proof: Reverse-Wiki functional grammar + renderer-authority hold

Held: captured/admitted material is not renderer-authorized merely because custody exists.

Held
Attach structured Counterforum disagreement to the trail

No reconciled specimen yet

proof: Counterforum repository/owner reconciliation pending

Unmapped: Counterpedia makes no implementation or authority claim for Counterforum in v2 yet.

Unmapped

Common Crawl breadcrumb: one bounded historical specimen

Bounded proof

Follow the owned trail from the observed URL to the retained bytes. This is a historical retained representation; it does not describe the current web page.

  1. observed URL

    URLhttps://www.example.com/

  2. crawl selected from CDX row

    crawlCC-MAIN-2026-39

  3. capture timestamp selected from CDX row

    timestamp20260904131850

  4. exact archive locator

    WARC locatorcrawl-data/CC-MAIN-2026-39/segments/1788492699475.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20260904131603-20260904161603-00865.warc.gz · offset 639725720 · length 954

  5. retained exact custody

    retained WARC rangesha256:bf1b3b5e62a2a76b133290162419d8fc5edefae1c5a9f254fae1ee7644eddf54 · 954 bytes

  6. deterministic extraction

    HTTP entity payloadsha256:ff67a9d764d6a2367a187734e697f6a53217db9a21c101d410a113ca871a299d · 559 bytes

Status remains Bounded proof. Custody does not establish source identity, currentness, proposition support, admission, standing, or publication.

How to read this ledger

  • Discovery is not evidence.
  • Reader access is not custody.
  • Exact custody is not authenticity or truth.
  • Documentary association is not proposition support.
  • Attribution is not Warrant.
  • Warrant is not admission or standing.
  • Position composition is not universal Position authority.
  • A Check result is scoped to its named method.
  • Graph traversal does not create semantic authority.
  • Portable replay does not mean every record has a portable proof package.