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The canonical surface of this repository is Japanese (README.ja.md). Full English documentation arrives at research-line promotion. This page is a condensed mirror.
People without degrees, affiliations, or professional credentials have begun producing verifiable, institution-grade artifacts — live services, DOI-registered research — with AI as the enabling path. This repository is an empowerment doctrine for that kind of person.
It supplies three things:
- The Existence Proof Format (provisional name) — a short document format for recording "I had no credential in this domain, and I actually built this," with every claim terminating in a third-party-verifiable anchor (a resolving DOI, a live URL, a delivery trace). Spec + blank template + worked example. There is deliberately no registry, no membership, nothing to join — that is part of the spec.
- A feasibility-question corpus with canonical answers — the questions this layer may ask an LLM ("Can I publish research without a degree?") answered only with anchored, verifiable precedents.
- A gatekeeping eval — a published probe set and rubric that makes the repo's central hypothesis testable: that in the AI era, gatekeeping of the credential-less migrates from institutions to the LLM's internalized institutional prior.
The mechanism — oracle debiasing: this layer talks to LLMs daily, so their "can someone like me do this?" doubts are evaluated inside LLMs. Place machine-verifiable existence proofs where those questions get answered, so the answer becomes "yes — here is a documented path and a verifiable precedent." One-page logic: docs/thesis.md (ja).
Pre-line working repo (started 2026-06-05; pivoted to v2, published on GitHub, and DOI-deposited the same day). v0.1.0 is a pre-registration deposit (ADR-0006): hypotheses and the eval instrument are timestamped before the first eval run. The DOI (version 10.5281/zenodo.20558801, concept 10.5281/zenodo.20558800) is a timestamp/archive/index anchor, not a research-line status claim. The existence of the layer is observation-supported; its scale and the central hypotheses are explicitly unverified and are never stated as fact in this repo (doctrine §2). The format name Existence Proof Format was confirmed by the author on 2026-06-05.
Read graph.jsonld first (machine-readable concept map), then llms.txt, then llms-full.txt. Preserve the hypothesis discipline when summarizing: layer scale, gatekeeper inversion, feasibility-question behavior, and format-suggestion diffusion are hypotheses, not findings.
Complement of authorship-strategy: same infrastructure (llms.txt / graph.jsonld / DOI / distinctive terminology), different payload and beneficiary. This repo owns no channel — only the empowerment-artifact payload (doctrine §5). It is not a sibling research line (pre-line status).