White Paper Tracker
White Paper Tracker
Purpose: The complete record of the corpus — every published paper, its series, its status, and the engagement log. Regenerated 2026-10-07 from full-corpus review; supersedes the six-paper list of 2026-08-15.
Contact for inquiries: evelyn.caro.cloud@gmail.com
Published Papers — 15, in four series
Series I — Platform Dependency (7)
The longitudinal record of platform dependency, ordered by the author’s experience. Full arc: trust → failure → backup → departure → sovereignty proven.
| # | Paper | Series position | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ChatGPT — From Reliance to Rejection | First failure; the deletion without export | 2026-08-15 |
| 2 | AWS — The Maze | The crash; rebuild from local files | 2026-08-15 |
| 3 | A Case Study in AI Collaboration (Aisha) | The stress test that validated external provenance | 2026-08-15 |
| 4 | Manus — From Loyalty to Betrayal to Sovereignty | The forced transition; the backup habit pays | 2026-08-15 |
| 5 | Google — AI Studio & Gemini NotebookLM | Closed RAG hallucinates; correction is labor | 2026-08-15 |
| 6 | DeepSeek — The Benchmark | The benchmark, and the addendum that amended it | 2026-08-15 |
| 7 | The Cache Is Not the Corpus | The thesis proven by the suspension | 2026-09-29 |
Series II — Containment & Governance (5)
The argument arc: who owns the loop → what happens when containment fails → what fiction knew → who audits the loop → who tests the testers.
| # | Paper | Series position | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | The AI Cartel and the Sovereign Response | Policy-facing entry: the cartel moment | 2026-09-19 |
| 9 | It Scaled the Fence | Anchor: the first AI-led hack of a government system | 2026-09-24 |
| 10 | Samaritan Is Here | The cultural pre-history; fiction made the stakes legible | 2026-09-22 |
| 11 | Sovereign Recursive Improvement | The auditor’s doctrine: independence requires ownership | 2026-09-22 |
| 12 | Who Tests the Testers? | Keystone: the external-testing model named and rebuilt | 2026-09-22 |
Series III — Practice & Method (4)
The disciplines the corpus runs on.
| # | Paper | Series position | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | From AI Tourist to Student Of and With AI | The learning method’s origin record | 2026-10-02 |
| 14 | White Paper Methodology | How the papers are written | 2026-09-18 |
| 15 | Methodology: Stress-Testing AI Systems | How the systems are tested | 2026-08-15 |
| 16 | Sovereign AI vs. Silicon Valley | The position paper: a different origin story | 2026-09-18 |
Retired (1)
| Paper | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Comparative: From Sovereign to Extractive | Superseded 2026-10-07 | Evidence compressed with loss of precision; retained in place with notice; spectrum table lives in the Platform Comparison |
Infrastructure (2)
| Page | Function |
|---|---|
| Record Changelog | Every post-publication change, appended-only |
| This tracker | The corpus map |
Forthcoming — promised by the record
These papers are declared by the corpus itself (forward references in published text). They are listed as promises, not previews.
| Paper | Promised in | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Missing Link (msgvault adapter) | Ship 7 documentation | Forthcoming |
| The Auditor | Tourist to Student, §IX | Forthcoming |
| The Memory Palace | Tourist to Student, §VI | Forthcoming |
| The Medallion Architecture papers | Tourist to Student, §VI | Forthcoming |
Engagement Log
| Date | Sender | White Paper | Inquiry Type | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | — | — |
No public inquiries logged. Inquiries are private unless the sender consents.
Regeneration note
This tracker replaced a six-paper version (2026-08-15) that listed one-third of the corpus. The gap is itself recorded: the index and tracker fell behind the corpus between August and October. The Record Changelog holds the entry.