Research brief

Status: complete; published 2026-08-19

Scope as inventoried (v0 held), excluding eval tooling and observability mechanics (R12). Layer questions answered: rule promotion (H10 revised), eval ownership (H28), the fine-tuning debate (CD-19), flywheel practice, distillation economics, reward design. Maintainer POV: interview 01 and the fn7 framework (rule promotion); Batch C kickoff (eval ownership).

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Source: research/R06-intelligence-and-learning/brief.md in the evidence repository behind this site.