Gauge Unification Under Audit- Research Corpus, August 2026 (manuscript versions v0.1–v0.8, predeclared criteria, computational protocols and research log)

Abstract

The complete version trail, predeclared criteria, computational protocols andresearch log of an audit programme on the evidential status of gauge-couplingunification, developed under a predeclaration discipline: verdict criteriafrozen before tests, failures and corrections retained, declared expectationsrecorded (including those that failed). Until this deposit, predeclaration wasasserted; from this timestamp it is externally verifiable for all subsequent work.## Contents- `versions/` — manuscript drafts v0.1–v0.3, v0.5–v0.8 in order of creation (v0.4 was folded into v0.5; file timestamps preserved).- `scripts/audit_computations.py` — consolidated reproducibility script for the corpus's headline certified numbers (invariance table; MSSM decomposition; the M_V-free minimal-SU(5) certificate, its −1/15 slope, the dimension-five escape price and the reopening-boundary proton-lifetime prediction; the SO(10) k≤1 cluster certificate; the three-model closure-cost table).- `log/RESEARCH_LOG.md` — the register: criteria, verdicts, corrections, expectations, review rounds, and open obligations.- `MANIFEST.sha256` — checksums.