# CLAUDE.md — WP31: PRISME-SLM (execution mandate)

This repository executes UQO Working Paper 31, PRISME: Intervention-Supervised Sparse Workspace Editing for Small Language Models (author: Simon-Pierre Boucher, UQO). The full research mandate (phases 0–15, immutable rules, hypotheses H1–H7, baselines, ablations, paper structure) was supplied by the author on 2026-10-29 and is reproduced in docs/MANDATE.md. Working rules that bind every session in this repository:

1. Scientific truth first: never fabricate runs, metrics, citations, hardware or proofs. Every number in the manuscript traces to a run id in experiments/runs/ and results/claim_registry.csv.
2. Phases are executed in order with acceptance gates logged in PROGRESS.md; failures go to FAILURES.md, design changes to DECISIONS.md. Unfavourable runs are never deleted.
3. Minimal falsifiable version first (no persistent memory, no RAG, no MoE, no RL, no tool use).
4. Resource boundaries: laptop (M5 Max) + existing MacLustr SSH access only; no purchases, no new credentials.
5. Independent train / calibration / dev / locked-test splits; test splits are not read before protocol/preregistration.md is frozen (see protocol/locked_test_manifest.json).