Precise answers for common reviewer questions.
Does Mech Invariants certify scientific truth?
No. It records and validates evidence objects. A passing bundle means the candidate claim passed declared protocol checks under declared assumptions, data, thresholds, and transformations. Domain truth requires domain validation and replication.
Why use the word "mechanistic"?
"Mechanistic" means the claim is not just a score or output. It names a candidate structure, the transformations it should survive, and the evidence path used to test it. The protocol is intended to make the mechanism of the claim inspectable.
What is an obstruction record?
An obstruction record is a failed or high-defect evidence bundle. It identifies a loop, transformation family, or condition under which a candidate invariant does not compose cleanly. That failure is useful because it narrows the boundary of the claim.
Why include persistence?
Single-threshold results are easy to overfit. Persistence records whether a candidate remains stable across a filtration variable such as noise level, sampling density, scale range, perturbation strength, or model variation.
Why keep the public repo thin?
A thin repo proves the evidence protocol is executable without exposing protected data, immature domain adapters, or sensitive benchmark logic. It creates credibility without creating unnecessary IP or execution risk.
What should not be claimed?
Avoid semantic inflation.
Do not describe the scaffold as production-ready, regulatory certification, a truth engine, or a completed scientific discovery platform. It is a pre-alpha protocol scaffold for evidence-bundle validation and synthetic invariant demos.