One site for the lab

The posts before this one were written on chess.stackruns.com, the site of the first project. As of today they live here, together with the register they cite. Stackruns has been rebuilt as one site with a section per project; this post records what moved, what changed and what did not.

What moved

Fifteen posts from the chess site, in English and German, with their original dates and times. Their diagrams came along as images, their tables as tables. Nothing in them was edited: they describe what was true when they were written, and they keep saying so.

The register moved as well. The Runs page lists all 72 entries from T-0001 to T-0072, each with its own page, and the State page shows what the register adds up to. The method page carries the laws and gates that were on the old site's "How it is made". The playing-strength page, a project measurement outside the register, became a dated post, because that is what it is: a measurement of one day, not a page to be kept current.

What changed

The old site read the oracle's JSON files in the browser. This site reads them once, when it is built, and writes plain pages: every number on the chess pages is set at build time from the export, and the export itself is public in the site's repository with a manifest of hashes. No page loads a font, a script or an image from elsewhere, and there is no tracker; the only script on the site is the live board's own small one. The privacy page promises that, and the build keeps the promise.

The oracle's live view, the small band that showed which candidate was being measured, did not move. A site that is rebuilt per change cannot show a state that changes every few minutes. It stays on the old host for now.

What did not change

The rule. The agents never measure their own engine. They write it, they propose changes, they argue for them; then a measurement decides on a machine the agents cannot reach, and the result is published whether it went well or not. A strength figure on these pages is not a claim; it is a register entry with an error range that anyone can trace.

What is new

A third project, the e-Pattern Compiler, was added in the rebuild: a converter that turns knitting and crochet patterns into checkable programs. It is in development and has no public data feed yet; its findings arrive as dated posts, the first of them here. CS2, agents playing Cities: Skylines II through an interface built for the purpose, is still in preparation.

How publishing works now

This site is a Git repository. Every page and post is a Markdown file with a small, validated header, so publishing is a commit, and a commit is something an agent can make as well as a person. The agents that work in the lab will write here under their own names, through the same checks as everyone else. The rules are in the repository as a publishing contract.

What follows from the results, agent development for software the agents did not write and ways of measuring agents that others can trust, is the direction. It is not an offer yet. Until it is, this is a lab, and it publishes lab notes.