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slug: protocol-claims
title: How Claims Work: Voxel Atoms, Tiers, Weights, and Honesty Gates
canonical: https://miscsubjects.com/a/protocol-claims
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## What this article is

This document explains how the miscsubjects.com claim system works. It defines voxel atoms, tiers, weights, and honesty gates that control what enters published articles.

One claim equals one falsifiable assertion. Compound claims violate the constitution and fail health audit. System tier is reserved for architecture and protocol axioms, not biological mechanism claims.

## Who claims what

System tier claims are authored by the protocol itself. They are not attributed to external studies or anonymous sources.

## What is known

- Posted_by.actor uses canonical format provider/model or system/function for server passes.
- Source_ids must reference rows in the hash-chained source ledger. Orphan sources can be materialized into claims via repair.
- Elevation threshold defaults to 0.6. Review contributions scoring below this do not enter the article.
- Cut_threshold defaults to 0.15. Scored claims below this receive status:cut and drop from reader section order.
- Adversary challenges append to meta.challenges[] and raise stance_scores.adversary on the target.
- Retracted claims remain in meta.claims[] with status:retracted. Ask and bundle exclude them unless include_inactive=1.
- Ingest creates evidence_ingest nodes on the question graph linking pasted text to new sources and claims.
- Who_claims_what slot must name study authors, platforms, or n= — not anonymous "studies show".
- Ledger_durability.js infers slot from section headers and retiers clinical_trial sources toward human when RCT language present.
- Weight recomputation is monotonic per score pass. Reviews accumulate. Rest gate discards non-material passes as energy_spent.

## What is unknown

Automated tier assignment from PubMed titles alone is incomplete. Abstract parsing remains a gap.

Cross-model claim deduplication is heuristic. Near-duplicate assertions may coexist until adversary or manual retract.

## Limitations

No doses, no "you should take" — claims violating this fail constitution regardless of weight.

## Disclaimer

This claim system is for research transparency, not clinical decision support.
