Governance / public policy
Rules before results.
The editorial system is designed to make conflicts and uncertainty legible, not to claim that they do not exist.
Inclusion
A record must be relevant to synthetic research or its evaluation and have at least one attributable public source. Inclusion is not an endorsement.
Evidence
Claim documentation, artifact availability, method review, independent reproduction, human-reference validation, and limitations are six separate checks. None substitutes for another.
Corrections
Any person may submit a correction with a source. Organizations receive a reasonable response window, but they do not receive approval rights over editorial conclusions.
Conflicts
Funding, employment, advisory, commercial, and data-access relationships are disclosed where they could affect interpretation.
Commercial activity
Payment, sponsorship, backlinks, or advertising cannot purchase inclusion, ordering, an evidence check, or removal of supported criticism.
Scoring
The Index does not publish an overall score until the task, reference set, uncertainty, protocol, and failure costs can be disclosed together.
Recusal
A person with employment, funding, investment, advisory, data-access, or material commercial ties may provide facts but cannot review or score the affected system.
Ordering
Registry presentation is alphabetical unless another public, reproducible rule is stated. Featured or sponsored placement is prohibited.
Research feed
Automated literature discovery creates unreviewed candidates only. Editorial records must link to an original scholarly source, label publication status, state the human reference, and publish a finding boundary with equal prominence.
Policy version 0.3 draft · 17 July 2026 · material changes will be logged.