CARRIER / NEIGHBOURS — METHOD AND REVIEW RECORD
Reviewed release · 2 October 2026

This explorer presents a fixed reviewed edition, not a continuously refreshed
view of the live Carrier. Its concept links use #concept-ID within this edition.
The existing Reading Room remains available for later live changes.

The original 2,443 checked definitions received individual AI reading notes,
family assignments and review of their existing links. Three AI reviewers worked
on disjoint ranges; integration compared overlaps, directions, exact definition
quotations and candidate novelty. That is full definition coverage, not an
exhaustive rereading of every source work or every possible pair of concepts.

Lucid Founder approved all 389 proposed typed relations in the supplied review
decision file. Its dictionary head and full proposal-set hash match the reviewed
input. A separate explicit conversational approval covers the twelve consolidated
concept definitions. They were admitted unchanged through the local V5 gate and
promoted through Keeper after allocation. Names, definitions and approved parent
lists are retained exactly. The gate was used locally, not called on the website.

The release also includes the earlier authorised w2418 → checked/2442 promotion.
New concepts occupy checked/2443–2454, with working admission history w2419–w2430.
The three original working examples remain unchecked. Every prior definition,
payload, identity and colour allocation remains unchanged. The old registry is
an exact prefix; twelve first-free allocations are appended without overlap with
the English lexical reservation or existing Carrier colours.

TYPED RELATIONS
related: a qualified association, not identity, causation or endorsement.
contrast: a retained distinction or tension, not necessarily a contradiction.
analogy: a bounded structural resemblance, not transfer of source authority.
specializes: source → target as a narrower instance or form.
operationalizes: source → target as a scoped practice or implementation support,
not automatically necessary or sufficient for the target.

Related, contrast and analogy add navigation references at both endpoints.
Directional types add a source reference only. Every proposal retains its type,
direction, rationale, exact endpoint quotations and qualification. A graph path
can be followed either way for discovery without reversing a semantic assertion.
No automatic transitive conclusions or equivalence classes are generated.

“Referenced by” is computed from actual stored references. It never makes a
referenced concept endorse its neighbours. The public view focuses on checked
concepts; the downloadable reverse index also covers the retained working tier.

Families are overlapping editorial lenses, not a universal ontology. Every dot
has one first-family position; filters consider all its memberships. The new
definitions' family placement is an editorial display choice. Curated threads
retain explicit steps and boundaries; some steps remain juxtapositions without
an edge. A route through references is not a deductive proof.

NEW DEFINITIONS AND RETAINED DOUBT
Eighteen raw gap drafts were consolidated into twelve candidate definitions.
Review recommended trying existing meanings or protocol-level fields for several
of them. The human reviewer chose to admit all twelve. Their earlier alternatives,
counterexamples and reuse recommendations remain in the evidence. Admission is
an accountable editorial decision, not proof of irreducible novelty or truth.
Approval of these definitions does not approve every future application.

THE NAVIGATION STUDY
The deterministic seed is 20261002. Twelve thousand requests use 128 sampled
origins: 4,000 uniform, 4,000 within-family and 4,000 disjoint-family pairs.
The study compares the same 2,443 nodes before and after the 389 proposed typed
links. The twelve new entries are not included in that controlled comparison.
It finds 114 newly reachable requests and 1,452 shorter routes. Among 11,377
pairs reachable in both graphs, mean steps saved is 0.1584. Shortest paths break
ties by ascending ID; multiple types on one pair retain all proposal IDs.

Removing the five highest-incoming-degree hubs is a structural stress case;
requests touching removed endpoints are excluded and denominators are reported.
These are synthetic navigation requests, not real users, semantic comprehension,
independent validation of the added links, or evidence of autonomous invention.

INTEGRITY AND HISTORY
Changing older relation lists creates a new checked chain. Both the former live
snapshot and promotion-only snapshot are preserved under /carrier/snapshots/,
named by their checked heads, and in the evidence download. Old expression pins
remain references to old snapshots. Hash agreement shows byte consistency, not
authorship, theological truth or automatic scientific validation.

The inherited LEGACY_ID_HISTORY warning concerns earlier reuse of working IDs
w3–w9. It is retained and does not imply new ID or colour reuse in this release.

Independent local checks cover approvals, exact definitions, projected relations,
raw chains, allocations, snapshots, final graph metrics and reverse indices.
Browser checks cover specified desktop/narrow viewports and interactions; they
do not certify every browser, physical phone, screen reader or hosting setup.

TECHNICAL REFERENCE POINTS
W3C SKOS Reference: https://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/
W3C PROV-O: https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/
The custom relation layer draws on association/hierarchy and explicit provenance
distinctions, but does not claim complete SKOS or PROV conformance.
