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# WP35 — Decision log and amendments

ID Date Phase Decision Reason Before/after seeing results
D-001 2026-11-01 0 Use Seshat Polaris-2026 (GitHub snapshot, commit 55ca5fbc2b) as the primary historical source; Equinox-2020 as robustness Current official snapshot per seshatdatabank.info/data; MIT-licensed repository; contains CrisisDB consequences before
D-002 2026-11-01 0 Obtain V-Dem v16 from the official vdemdata R package (commit f4dd26922e) rather than the web form Programmatic, hash-verifiable, same data; no credentials needed before
D-003 2026-11-01 1 Pre-registration frozen. SHA-256(research/preregistration.md) = ecda8804e17f931789be8e274ba1ff989000de356700a85b638b043928182e3a Mandate: pre-register before examining outcome associations before (no association computed)
D-004 2026-11-01 1 = z(\log D) - z(K)$ with $ standardized but not logged $ is a bounded share/latent score that can be 0; the mandate allows the log form only when strictly positive before
D-005 2026-11-01 1 Historical unit = polity, not polity-year; CrisisDB test = severity conditional on crisis; add polity hazard (Y2) and modern onset panel (Y4–Y6) 93.7% of Polaris facts are undated; CrisisDB is crisis-selected (150/626 polities) before
D-006 2026-11-01 1 Macro-regions and era blocks fixed in configs/regions.yaml (10 macro-regions, 6 eras) Needed for FE and leave-region-out; 42 regions too many for N≈150 before
D-007 2026-11-01 1 No paid LLM API calls; literature verified via Crossref/public pages No keys configured; mandate forbids unapproved spending —
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