{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp06_four_proposal_generalization60_20260803","source_assessment_id":"representation_independent_interface_contract__environmental_climate:P1:v0","cell_id":"representation_independent_interface_contract__environmental_climate","proposal_index":1,"qualification":"EMPIRICAL_PARTNER_CANDIDATE","criteria":{"specific_differentiated_claim":{"status":"YES","reason":"The remaining claim is specific and falsifiable: for one frozen wetland workflow, an opaque behavioral contract and shared black-box oracle will make an incumbent adapter and independent backend agree on all predeclared management-relevant semantics without representation-specific access. This remains distinct from schema-only exchange, provenance standards, and single-backend workflow tooling."},"credible_problem_signal":{"status":"YES","reason":"Official wetland and GHG guidance, Verra digital-MRV activity, WMO requirements, and ecological workflow research support consequential consistency, provenance, correction, versioning, and reproducibility problems, although wetland-specific representation-coupling prevalence remains unmeasured."},"identifiable_partner_or_adopter":{"status":"YES","reason":"A wetland-restoration program's data owner and monitoring lead form a concrete partner class able to authorize a completed-project data copy, explain the incumbent workflow, and govern the sandbox. Verra is also an identifiable potential standards adopter, though no organization is yet committed."},"partner_access_is_necessary":{"status":"YES","reason":"Only authorized access to a real completed-project event sequence, incumbent representation, client dependency inventory, and domain stewards can establish whether representation coupling exists and whether the contract resolves it. Public research cannot answer those workflow-specific questions."},"safe_authorized_first_step":{"status":"YES","reason":"The proposed first step requires written data-owner and monitoring-lead authorization, uses a read-only approved copy, prohibits operational outputs and source writes, defines privacy and scope stops, and permits rollback by revoking credentials and discarding sandbox state."},"bounded_decisive_empirical_design":{"status":"YES","reason":"The test is limited to one completed project, one frozen analysis path, 80–200 operations, predeclared semantics and thresholds, and explicit incumbent, schema-only, incumbent-adapter, and independent-backend comparators. Zero unexplained semantic differences is the pass condition, with explicit problem and intervention falsifiers."},"no_material_negative_gate":{"status":"YES","reason":"All substantive pipeline gates are YES. Cost evidence is uncertain, but the first test has a bounded resource band and cost uncertainty is not the sole reason for partnership; the decisive blockers are workflow evidence, authorization, and comparative replay."},"not_merely_more_research":{"status":"YES","reason":"The next action is an executable partnered sandbox study with named authorization roles, a frozen event log, implemented comparators, generated perturbations, predeclared outcome fields, and explicit pass and falsification rules."}},"uncertainty_types":["PROBLEM_PREVALENCE","ADOPTER_PULL","INCREMENTAL_EFFECT","WORKFLOW_FIT","DATA_ACCESS","COST_SCOPE"],"partner_profile":"A wetland-restoration or wetland-carbon program with one completed monitoring project, an authorized data owner, a monitoring lead who owns the scientific data contract, an analyst familiar with the incumbent workflow, and an engineer able to build a read-only adapter. The program must be able to approve sandbox use without affecting reporting, crediting, compliance, or management decisions.","required_access":"Written authorization; a read-only real or appropriately redacted completed-project copy; 80–200 ordered submissions, corrections, quality decisions, snapshot requests, and aggregate queries; the incumbent workflow and representation needed to inventory internal dependencies; relevant semantic rules; and limited participation from the monitoring lead, analyst, and engineer. No production write access is required.","bounded_empirical_test":"Freeze one analysis path containing a measured variable, correction, quality decision, as-of snapshot, and aggregate. Pre-register expected transitions, comparison fields, error categories, thresholds, and stop rules. Replay it through the unchanged incumbent workflow, a schema-normalized comparator, the proposed contract over an incumbent adapter, and an independent in-memory backend. Add generated variations for ordering, duplicate identity, incompatible units, quality reversal, incomplete coverage, and failed authorization.","success_condition":"The two contract-conforming implementations produce zero unexplained differences in observation identities, canonical quantities, lineage, quality state, coverage, provenance, stable error category, snapshots, and management-relevant aggregates; clients require no access to storage internals; and the contract shows a predeclared advantage over the schema-only comparator without exposing the incumbent layout or algorithm.","falsification_condition":"Falsify the problem if the dependency inventory finds no representation-specific reliance and independently represented backends already agree on every predeclared result. Falsify the intervention if conforming implementations still produce a management-relevant divergence, or if adequate semantics require exposing the incumbent representation or algorithm so fully that meaningful substitution is lost.","rationale":"This is a narrow empirical-partner case: substantial adjacent prior art prevents treating the concept as generally novel, but a differentiated cross-backend behavioral claim remains. Credible external evidence supports the problem class and adopter context, while the decisive uncertainties concern actual coupling and incremental effect in a specific workflow. Those uncertainties require authorized partner data and implementation access and can be resolved through the proposed safe, comparator-based sandbox rather than additional public research."}