CHROMATIC PASSAGE / JOB 140
The life of a conversation

Open publication/index.html for the recorded interactive artwork.
Open publication/conversation.html for the full static correspondence.
Open publication/method.html for method, findings and limits.

This research record contains one A-authored seed, six fixed protections,
24 actual proposed replies from two alternating AI contributors, and the
counterpart decision on each proposal. The final turn 25 is review only.
The animated field follows the committed record. The separate proposed
field remains available even when it was declined.

The first source is not a mutually accepted contract. A and B are
pretrained AI role sessions, not newly trained colour-only organisms.
The record includes prose intent and feedback; those are part of their
context. Interpretation is not a hidden original sentence. No general
medium superiority, inner experience or quantified information-density
advantage is claimed.

QUICK REPRODUCTION (from this directory)

python tools/reproduce.py
node tools/transport.cjs verify
node publication/tests/test-motion.cjs
node publication/tests/test-player.cjs

These commands verify the retained artifacts and decisions. They do not
resample AI creativity or pretend to regenerate a private mental process.
The audit checks all frozen hashes, raw packets, first submissions,
canonical field files, decisions, transitions and public-data values.
The transport step reopens all 25 original CVP2 PNGs and checks equal
USL1 packet bytes, equal field objects, spoken-colour round trips and
actual concept bindings with the included supplied implementation.

DEPENDENCIES

Tested local Python 3.12.14, NumPy 2.3.5 and Node 24.19.
The inherited tensor validator imports NumPy. No model API is needed.
Optional figure/video recreation uses Pillow 12.3, Matplotlib 3.10.7
and ffmpeg installed on PATH:

python tools/export_public.py
python tools/plot_lifeline.py
python tools/render_passage.py --video
python tools/build_publication.py

The complete browser player is static and buildless. It needs no remote
runtime, account, analytics, geolocation, live model or automatic upload.
The downloadable film is silent, 250 seconds, 1280x960, 12 fps, with VTT/SRT.
Video pixels are lossy presentation; original exact PNGs are in artworks.
The transport PNG contains the field envelope, not the whole charter,
permission record or interpretation. Exact original JSON formatting is
retained separately; the carrier guarantees object/packet equality.

RECORD MAP

inputs/seed.json             Source, creator intent, priorities, charter
inputs/seed-field.json       Canonical exact field bytes for parent pin
inputs/charter-v1.json       Fixed six-condition charter
protocol/                   Plan, instructions, local prospective freeze
conversation/turn-01..25/    Immutable packet, submission, receipt
conversation/beats/         Reviewed proposals with before/after fields
conversation/state.json     Final derived operational state
artworks/                   Exact fields, USL1, CVP2, spoken-colour files
common/                     Frozen Carrier data and transport dependencies
analysis/                   Counts, interpretations, audits, development
tools/                      Coordinator, replay, renderer and packaging
publication/                Static source player, method and gallery

PROVENANCE AND LIMITS

Six explicit protections were chosen by A, not learned from preferences.
No silent repair makes a submitted proposal eligible. Counterpart
acceptance remains separate from machine eligibility. More edits do not
imply better art. Twenty-four dependent proposals are one case, not 24
independent participants. Charter amendment was not tested.
One retrospective AI interpreter reads author commentary too, so its
reading is informed, not blinded. Chapters are post-exchange groupings.
Contributors share a model family; exact backend build identity is not
independently authenticated. File-access boundaries are instructions,
not operating-system isolation. Human viewer response was not measured.
Model-token costs, billed effort, energy, and ergonomic costs were not
instrumented. A local hash freeze is not external preregistration.

The legacy state warning for old working IDs is preserved by the supplied
validator; this field uses exact pinned checked definitions. Integrity
does not authenticate the source or prove present online freshness.

RENDERING VERIFICATION

Pure motion and inert-DOM tests, static links and local figure/video
inspection are included. Local browser navigation was security-blocked;
no physical-browser, phone, live WordPress or deployed-site test is
claimed. No browser security boundary was bypassed.

PUBLICATION PRIVACY

The user's supplied screen recording and private working conversations
are not part of the research/publication download. Recorded A/B artistic
submissions and task disclosures are intentionally included. Historical
author credits already embedded in the pinned public Carrier chain are
preserved rather than rewritten.

The outer publication kit has a separate upload folder and WordPress
copy desk. The research ZIP excludes the rendered MP4 and nested ZIPs
to avoid redundant archives; the public film is alongside its download.
