# WP35 — The Social Compression Hypothesis (project instructions)

Mandate: docs/MANDATE_VERBATIM.txt (pasted by the PI 2026-11-01). Series conventions: ../../HARMONISATION.md. Working paper number 35, folder economie/social-compression-hypothesis, future remote gitsrv:srv/git/wp35_uqo.git (push only with PI authorisation).

Rules that bind every edit in this repository:

1. No fabricated data, runs, citations or numbers. Every number in the paper traces to a file under results/ produced by a script under src/wp35/ or scripts/, with the command recorded in results/logs/execution_log.md.
2. Labels: EMPIRICAL (observed data), SIMULATED (agent-based), CONJECTURE, PROPOSITION (proved). Never mix.
3. research/preregistration.md is frozen (hash in research/decisions.md) before any D/K × outcome association is computed. Deviations are logged as numbered amendments in research/decisions.md.
4. Raw files in data/raw/ are immutable (hashes in data/metadata/source_registry.json). Missing ≠ zero. Dates keep their ranges.
5. Python: .venv/bin/python (3.12, pinned in pyproject.toml). Tests: .venv/bin/pytest. Paper: cd paper && make.