The Aurora Research Initiative (ARI)
ARI preserves Waveframe Labs' published institutional-governance research. It records the original Aurora authority model but does not currently govern the Waveframe product or serve as runtime authority.
Foundational institutional framework in maintenance mode. Current product behavior is defined by the versioned contracts, source, tests, and releases of Ledger, Compiler, CRI-CORE, Guard, Cloud, and Console.
What is ARI?
The Aurora Research Initiative documents the original rules proposed for research conducted within the Aurora ecosystem. It remains a citable governance framework and historical institutional record.
Its present authority is bounded to interpreting its own published corpus. Current Waveframe repositories do not claim ARI compliance or governance unless they explicitly adopt a versioned ARI interface in the future.
Scope & Responsibilities
- Define institutional mission, scope, and epistemic commitments.
- Ratify the Neurotransparency Doctrine and Specification as binding standards.
- Approve workflow methodologies (AWO) and enforcement mechanisms (CRI-CORE).
- Set requirements for metadata, provenance, logging, and attestation.
- Oversee governance exceptions and institutional overrides.
Original Aurora Relationship
The following hierarchy records the original research architecture. It is not the dependency graph of the current Waveframe product.
- Layer 0 — Neurotransparency: Defines epistemic necessity and cognitive integrity.
- Layer 2 — AWO: Implements ARI policy as operational workflows.
- Layer 3 — CRI-CORE: Was originally intended to enforce ARI-derived constraints mechanically.
- Layer 4 — Case Studies: Demonstrate ARI-aligned research in practice.
Where to Read the ARI Charter
- Zenodo (canonical archive): 10.5281/zenodo.17743096
- GitHub repository: Waveframe-Labs/Aurora-Research-Initiative