docs/research/_archive/README.md

docs/research/_archive — historical research reviews

This directory holds research-flavored, point-in-time documents: the cross-model adversarial wave reviews and recon audits that critiqued the framework at a specific commit. They are preserved verbatim for provenance and are not maintained as current truth.

What's current instead. For live research/methodology, read docs/METHODOLOGY.md, the standing reconnaissance and landscape notes still in docs/research/, and the accepted ADRs under docs/adrs/. For the live framework state, see docs/OVERVIEW.md and BACKLOG.md. Where an archived review and a current doc disagree, the current doc wins.

Each archived WAVE_*_FINAL_REVIEW.md file's original path under docs/research/ still contains a one-line redirect stub so older prose references (e.g. ADR-007's citation of Wave-13 "Finding 2") keep resolving.

Contents

Archived file	Original path	What it is	Superseded by
WAVE_7_10_FINAL_REVIEW.md	docs/research/WAVE_7_10_FINAL_REVIEW.md	Cross-model adversarial check of Waves 7–10	docs/METHODOLOGY.md; docs/V1_V8_COVERAGE.md
WAVE_13_FINAL_REVIEW.md	docs/research/WAVE_13_FINAL_REVIEW.md	Wave 13 adversarial cross-model review (ADR-007 cites Finding 2)	ADR-007; BACKLOG.md
WAVE_14_FINAL_REVIEW.md	docs/research/WAVE_14_FINAL_REVIEW.md	Wave 14 adversarial cross-model review	docs/TROUBLESHOOTING.md; BACKLOG.md
WAVE_15_FINAL_REVIEW.md	docs/research/WAVE_15_FINAL_REVIEW.md	Wave 15 multi-angle self-critique + fix wave	docs/V1_V8_COVERAGE.md; BACKLOG.md
WAVE_16_RECON_AUDIT.md	(already archived here)	Wave 16 reconnaissance audit of the recon/landscape docs	the recon/landscape docs it audited

Why archive instead of delete

These reviews are the framework's adversarial audit trail — they record which claims were challenged, which were fixed, and which were left open. Several accepted ADRs cite them by path. Archiving (rather than deleting) preserves the provenance and keeps those citations resolvable, while signalling that the reviews are snapshots superseded by the current methodology and coverage docs.

Non-research point-in-time artifacts (wave logs, the dated cross-family / final-verify review bundles) live in the sibling docs/_archive/ instead.