APE-R001: agent-friendly prompt research foundation

[Natoshi-moto]

Proposal

Establish the initial agent-friendly operating layer for Advanced Prompt Engineering, taking structural inspiration from the Nexus Lab while remaining suitable for a public prompt-research repository.

Exact baseline and tested head

• Base: main at 484bf9e1291cd466d7a17d99541d20ce4294f9b0
• Head branch: agent/ape-r001-agent-friendly-foundation
• Current exact head: eb8a48b24a613e83917a049aa26d009fad432da6
• Exact-head workflow run: 29352055321
• Workflow conclusion: success

What this adds

• provider-neutral AGENTS.md and Claude route;
• machine-readable status and single next action;
• human-only canonical promotion;
• explicit epistemic states;
• prompt manifests with exact SHA-256 identity;
• experiment, task, route, receipt, and audit-overlay structures;
• dependency-free repository verifier and GitHub Actions workflow;
• first prompt candidate and controlled experiment design.

Demonstrated on the current head

python3 scripts/verify_repo.py succeeded in GitHub Actions. This establishes internal structural consistency: required entry files, status/task/route contracts, and the candidate prompt SHA-256 match.

Not demonstrated

• prompt effectiveness;
• novelty;
• superiority to simpler prompts;
• transfer across models or domains;
• safety for autonomous production changes;
• independent replication;
• canonical acceptance.

Requested disposition

Review only. Do not merge automatically. Human authorization is required for canonical promotion.

[Natoshi-moto]

Exact-head validation receipt

• Head: eb8a48b24a613e83917a049aa26d009fad432da6
• Workflow: Validate repository contracts
• Run: 29352055321
• Conclusion: success
• Command: python3 scripts/verify_repo.py

This validates repository structure, active status/task/route references, and the declared SHA-256 of APE-PROMPT-0001 on the exact current PR head. It does not validate prompt effectiveness, novelty, generality, or canonical acceptance. PR remains draft; merge authority remains human-only.