/method/what-counterpedia-can-prove
What Counterpedia can prove today
A capability ledger, not a roadmap
This page records capabilities against real specimens and the current Evidence Trail function inventory. It does not predict what Counterpedia may do later. A row is only as strong as its specimen, owner, and limitation.
Proven means the underlying function is live on the current public/read surface. Bounded proof means the capability is demonstrated for a constrained specimen, family, or owner path rather than universally. Held means an explicit gate prevents public projection. Unmappedmeans Counterpedia has not reconciled a lawful owner path and refuses to invent one.
The governing rule is the same as the Evidence Trail: every arrow must be owned.
| Capability | Real specimen | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Search without flattening result posture | Ordinary /search across governed records, research, Source Records, evidence history, and Wikimedia observations proof: tests/searchPresentation.test.tsx + tests/searchIdentity0.test.tsx Search rank and matching create no canonical identity, support, evidence, verification, admission, or standing. | Proven |
| Follow an owner-backed Reverse Wiki evidence trail | Typed entry / block / source / record / case focus with bounded RW-PROOF-DESCENT0 continuation proof: ReverseWikiWhyProjection + generalize0Focus.ts + generalize0Relations.ts + proofDescent0.ts The trail stops when an owned relation is absent; similarity and graph proximity are not substitutes. | Proven |
| Discover live scholarly evidence through Crossref | Q131194 → DOI 10.1006/CRES.2001.0252; one authorized live resolve observation proof: counterpedia-source-intelligence/docs/WIKIDATA_DEMAND_SI_LIVE_OPERATOR0.md The live observation is discovery only: no Acquisition, capture, SourceEdition, Check, admission, or support decision occurred. | Bounded proof |
| Address archived web evidence as an exact Common Crawl WARC locator | COMMON-CRAWL0 CDX row → exact WarcLocator → 954-byte retained WARC range → 559-byte derived HTTP payload proof: counterpedia-acquisition@12b9d5b3036f73431896d9e2a1228fa194189651; docs/common-crawl-live-retain0/ This is bounded custody proof for one CC-MAIN-2026-39 object. It does not establish source identity, currentness, proposition support, admission, standing, or publication. | Bounded proof |
| Acquire a bounded live CourtListener source into exact custody | run:acq-method6d/courtlistener-docket-68117049/bounded-live-1 proof: counterpedia-acquisition/docs/courtlistener-method6d-live/run-record.json The run proved one bounded live capture, not pagination continuation, truth, admission, policy ratification, or verifier authority. | Bounded proof |
| Distinguish reader access from discovery and custody | arXiv 2404.12590 + archived ABCANZ + History of science source bindings proof: docs/product/SOURCE_READER_ACCESS_OWNER0_DECISIONS_v0_1.md OPEN / UNKNOWN are owner-carried access observations; access does not imply capture, support, truth, paywall status, or admission. | Bounded proof |
| Retain an exact source basis with deterministic replay | xz 5.6.1 source.bin — 1,779,292 bytes — sha256:f334777310ca3ae9ba07206d78ed286a655aa3f44eec27854f740c26b2cd2ed0 proof: docs/product/PUBLIC_EVIDENCE_CONVERGENCE_EXIT0.md Exact retained bytes prove addressability/replay under the named method, not authenticity, proposition truth, support, or currentness. | Bounded proof |
| Resolve a governed documentary basis to an exact source locator | TH-S09 / Ninth Circuit ORDER AND AMENDED OPINION / retained PDF byte span 3667..7955 proof: docs/counterpedia/TH_S09_DOCUMENTARY_BASIS_OWNER1_v0_1.md Document identity/posture and locator are proven for TH-S09; legal correctness and proposition truth are not. | Bounded proof |
| Issue and retain exact Attribution owner state | TH-S09 Attribution attribution:7b974aa1-dfea-4285-8bab-e9fdb40a4bb0 proof: docs/counterpedia/TH_S09_ATTRIBUTION_PROD_RUN0_v0_1.md The dedicated custody run proves the issued owner state and conflict protection, not truth, Warrant, standing, or publication. | Bounded proof |
| Adjudicate and retain a bounded Warrant | TH-S09 Warrant assertion warrant-assertion:68087882-6517-4eab-acfb-40ad31eb95d7 proof: docs/counterpedia/TH_S09_WARRANT_CUSTODY_ISSUE0_v0_1.md The Warrant remains separately owned and does not create Position, Origin, METHOD1, admission, standing, or publication. | Bounded proof |
| Compose a deterministic Position from exact owner reads | TH-S09 live owner-bound Position projection; payload sha256:05ae5b04867e76707c8c600fb891cfa0d280842cb494ecd84ebc16b3f5035c83 proof: docs/counterpedia/TH_S09_POSITION_COMPOSITION0_v0_1.md This is live custody-backed bounded proof; there is no durable universal Position authority or general public Position service. | Bounded proof |
| Run a named mechanical Check over exact inputs | xz / ECF-514 / USB / pitch assessment Check specimens proof: /check and specimen acceptance suites Check is method-relative; an established mechanical result does not automatically establish semantic support, truth, authenticity, or standing. | Proven |
| Preserve Check attempt-to-attempt history | Amnesiac custody → Countergraph check-attempt-lineage-projection/v0.1 proof: docs/product/CHECK_ATTEMPT_HISTORY_UX0.md + countergraph/check_attempt_lineage_projection.py RECHECK is structural lineage only; the history surface does not re-evaluate the Check or infer support, truth, currentness, or authority. | Bounded proof |
| Carry a portable Check basis to another verifier/runtime | Real xz C1 direct-mode portable Check over the exact retained source bytes proof: counterpedia-agent/docs/CHECK_PORTABLE0_REAL_XZ.md + COUNTERPEDIA_PROOF_UX0 Portable replay is proven for selected artifact families; it is not a claim that every record has a portable verifier package. | Bounded proof |
| Traverse governed evidence structure without minting authority | Countergraph governed projections and bounded AgentReadSurface proof: countergraph/docs/CG-AGENT-READ0.md + Counterpedia Countergraph live inspector Graph traversal carries upstream relations; proximity, connectivity, and packaging do not create support, standing, admission, contradiction, or truth. | Bounded proof |
| Expose the governed public record to agents | Counterpedia read-only MCP/API machine surfaces proof: /search agent access + public machine/read-model surfaces Agent access is read-only with respect to canonical standing and grants no hidden operator, admission, or publication authority. | Proven |
| Show a subject-first discovery/evidence progression | Q131194 subject profile with accepted discovery lineage and plain-language evidence progression proof: WIKIDATA-PROFILE-DISCOVERY-CASE0 + WIKIDATA-PROFILE-CASE-PRODUCT1 The profile preserves Wikimedia observation posture; display does not promote discovered material into admitted Counterpedia claims. | Proven |
| Project governed Counterpose continuation | CP-SIG continuation class proof: Reverse-Wiki functional grammar + renderer-authority hold Held: captured/admitted material is not renderer-authorized merely because custody exists. | Held |
| Attach structured Counterforum disagreement to the trail | No reconciled specimen yet proof: Counterforum repository/owner reconciliation pending Unmapped: Counterpedia makes no implementation or authority claim for Counterforum in v2 yet. | Unmapped |
Common Crawl breadcrumb: one bounded historical specimen
Bounded proofFollow the owned trail from the observed URL to the retained bytes. This is a historical retained representation; it does not describe the current web page.
observed URL
URLhttps://www.example.com/
crawl selected from CDX row
crawlCC-MAIN-2026-39
capture timestamp selected from CDX row
timestamp20260904131850
exact archive locator
WARC locatorcrawl-data/CC-MAIN-2026-39/segments/1788492699475.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20260904131603-20260904161603-00865.warc.gz · offset 639725720 · length 954
retained exact custody
retained WARC rangesha256:bf1b3b5e62a2a76b133290162419d8fc5edefae1c5a9f254fae1ee7644eddf54 · 954 bytes
deterministic extraction
HTTP entity payloadsha256:ff67a9d764d6a2367a187734e697f6a53217db9a21c101d410a113ca871a299d · 559 bytes
Status remains Bounded proof. Custody does not establish source identity, currentness, proposition support, admission, standing, or publication.
How to read this ledger
- Discovery is not evidence.
- Reader access is not custody.
- Exact custody is not authenticity or truth.
- Documentary association is not proposition support.
- Attribution is not Warrant.
- Warrant is not admission or standing.
- Position composition is not universal Position authority.
- A Check result is scoped to its named method.
- Graph traversal does not create semantic authority.
- Portable replay does not mean every record has a portable proof package.