Numbers assigned 17 August 2026. Dates read from the publishing record 18 August. One date is a claim; two dates are a record. Where a written date is not recoverable from the file record, a bound is printed and never rounded into a date. References are permanent and never reused, never reassigned, and never renumbered to tidy a gap. L-006 is reserved. V- is the Observance sequence, one a year at most. F- is the Faculties sequence. W-000 is reserved for Wave Zero — the house measured first. Written and published dates follow the dating law.

Touchstone™

Hypotheses declared before the wave. Findings, disagreement and misses published after.

W-000 · Wave Zero Preregistered

The house, measured first. Embarrassing number included.
W-001 · Touchstone Wave 1 Preregistered

The public market read. Published, not sold — inclusion cannot be bought.

A method cannot earn trust by being right only in private.

Letters, Papers and Field Notes.

The Clothes Needed the Wind

The Luxury of Leaving the Water Alone

Don’t Break Character

The Witness Wore Stripes

The Standard at the Counter

An Open Application for a Job I Cannot Get

The Question Stopped Dressing Up

Category Is Dead. Identity Is the New Scarcity.

The Borrowed Sentence

Worth the Squeeze

Gravitational Pull

The Second Pass

The Archaeology of the Unguarded

Figs Bruise. Rhinestones Shine.

The Answer Has No Page Two

The Stripe He Took Off

The Marketplace Needed a Cowboy

What Great Adaptations Actually Do

The Man Who Became the Horse

She Borrowed the Shirt. Then She Bought the Store.

Dupe

Attention

Discernment

Judgment

Sovereignty

Restraint

Co-Author or Land On It

Correct Compounds

Hypotheses declared before the wave. Findings, disagreement and misses published after.