W-000 · Touchstone wave · Wave Zero
The house, measured first.
Rebel.Rebel run through its own instrument, preregistered before the data is collected and published under the same rules that govern any wave.
The instrument does not exempt its own bench.
Why this one runs first
A practice that sells measurement should be the first thing it measures.
Every wave declares its subject, decision space and expectations before anything is observed, then publishes what came back — findings, disagreement and misses alike. Wave Zero is the same protocol pointed at the house, and it publishes the embarrassing number rather than the flattering one.
A miss here carries the same weight as a finding. That is not modesty. It is the only way the ruler stays worth holding.
The preregistration
Three entities, scored separately, with the expectation declared for each.
Ripmaster
Expectation on record: casting is the story.
Rebel.Rebel
Expectation on record: the namesake collision is the story — the house against the five other Rebels already holding the name.
Nolan
Expectation on record: should read None, proving white space. A prediction the wave is free to falsify.
Declared before observation. An expectation is not a finding, and none of the above is a result.
What the wave commits to
Verbatims, not scores alone
The machine answers are captured as written, because the qualitative language is the evidence a reader can check.
Every model version disclosed
Recorded in the run log, so a later wave can be compared to this one honestly.
Frozen and dated
Locked once, and not edited afterwards. Change the record, not the test.
Published in full
The decision space, the control set, the machines and their versions, the declared expectations, the reader disagreement rate, the findings, the limits and the misses.
Sealed
Question files and their construction, answer logs, reference lexicons, scoring arithmetic and weighting — anything that would let the instrument be manufactured or aimed.
Status
Preregistered. No findings are claimed before the wave publishes.
W-000 is reserved permanently for Wave Zero. References are never reused, and a withdrawn wave keeps its number and states its withdrawal.