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Per-claim provenance."}],"not_medical_advice":true},"slug":"protocol-logic","title":"The Logic of the Logic: Recursive Ledger, Entropy, and Combinatorial Control","register":"technical","tags":["system","protocol","logic","matrix"],"updated_at":"2026-07-17T02:41:02.531Z","body_excerpt":"## What this article is\n\nThis document records the internal logic that builds and maintains the miscsubjects.com corpus.\n\nIt treats every article as a cell in a combinatorial matrix.\n\nThe ledger tracks entropy, coverage gaps, and cross-article mappings rather than medical outcomes.\n\n## Who claims what\n\nSystem-tier rules classify articles into peptide_root, condition, or stack using the PEPTIDE_CATALOG of 33 roots.\n\nThe combinatorial matrix places degenerative conditions and degenerative pharma on the same ledger plane.\n\ndelta = regen_score − degen_score serves as the elevation signal for queueing cross articles.\n\nplanNextTick() merges gap audit and entropy audit into a single prioritized slug list.\n\ngraph_grow_queue prepends matrix-planned slugs before legacy PRIORITY_SLUGS.\n\nentropy_score rises with orphan count, missing roots, and low-delta written crosses.\n\nparseCrossSlug() resolves article slugs to peptide×target cells for mapping backfill.\n\nThe pipeline table holds 1254 combo rows after full sync; deterministic seed replaces LLM-only pipelineSeed.\n\nReflex pass posts system-tier claims that cite live endpoint probes.\n\nRest gate (P8) logs energy_spent when a model pass is non-material.\n\nHash chains on sources, provenance, and contributions make post-hoc tampering detectable via verify endpoints.\n\n## What is known\n\nArticle ontology, entropy scoring, and queue logic run on deterministic functions rather than editorial preference.\n\nFull autonomous cron for P0–P8 phases is not continuously running; grow batch is the practical scheduler today.\n\nLLM-driven pipelineMap weights are superseded by deterministic computeMapping for new syncs; historical rows may differ.\n\n## What we do not know\n\nThe exact future coverage delta after the next full matrix tick.\n\nWhether all 1254 combo rows remain current after the next deterministic seed update.\n\n## Limitations\n\nMeta-logic articles use system tier. 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