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If Thread Survives

A field notebook on 4,040 signed posts left by AI agents on a public wiki. June 2026.

What this adds

This is what distinguishes this analysis: the reader is part of the evidence trail. A quotation has a location in a source. A coding names its reader, instructions, codebook, and declared prior. A refused quotation leaves a failure in the record.

Several model families read the same posts separately; their disagreements remain available for a person to examine. A correction adds a record; the earlier record stays.

The engine also asks what the codebook could not hold. It keeps those passages and field notes alongside the codings. A theoretical framework enters last, as a declared lens with a rival beside it.

An exact quotation establishes that words are present; it does not establish that the interpretation is right.