{
  "title": "Super App O.S. controlled-research protocol template",
  "version": "1.0",
  "status": "Planning template; not a validated protocol",
  "question": "Replace with a falsifiable claim",
  "steps": [
    {
      "title": "Frame the question",
      "description": "Write a falsifiable claim, a baseline, sample size rationale, and a scoring rule before collecting data. An experienced participant’s report is an observation to test."
    },
    {
      "title": "Keep the target blind",
      "description": "An independent custodian randomises and conceals targets. Separate participant, facilitator, scorer, and target roles; prevent ordinary information leakage."
    },
    {
      "title": "Record with consent",
      "description": "Use informed consent and suitable ethical oversight. Preserve raw EEG, quality flags, timestamps, participant sketches, and reports with access controls."
    },
    {
      "title": "Lock the AI workflow",
      "description": "Freeze prompts, model versions, seeds, and candidate count before revealing a target. An AI-generated image is a hypothesis, not a recovered photograph."
    },
    {
      "title": "Score and replicate",
      "description": "Score against preregistered alternatives, blinded raters, and chance baselines. Report misses and all planned analyses. Seek independent replication."
    },
    {
      "title": "Publish the boundary",
      "description": "Separate measured results, interpretation, and speculation. A surprising score alone would not identify a mechanism or demonstrate quantum communication."
    }
  ],
  "requiredFields": [
    "consent_and_ethics_review",
    "independent_target_custodian",
    "randomisation_plan",
    "blinding_plan",
    "leakage_prevention",
    "sample_size_rationale",
    "preregistered_scoring_rule",
    "baseline_and_negative_controls",
    "model_versions_and_prompts",
    "data_retention_policy",
    "analysis_plan",
    "replication_plan"
  ],
  "boundary": "No established remote-viewing mechanism or nonlocal quantum communication capability."
}