Each project began as a question the framework made harder to ignore.
The names come second. The research question comes first.
Can experience become executable formation?
Minimum Formative Machine v0.1
An auditable Formation Ledger is separated from indexed executable susceptibilities. Present conditions recruit a sparse coalition; typed witnessed consequence governs later formation updates. The test is whether changing one susceptibility causes the predicted later change under matched controls.
Can retained formation wake without a global search?
Formative Field runtime
Hard predicates, masks, gates, and tolerances recruit only currently eligible formation. Graph traversal remains an audit and transfer candidate, not a presumed cognitive runtime.
Formation Ledger, historical compilation, intermediate representation, reachability objects, and Consequential Fidelity investigate whether formed state can transfer with provenance, contradiction, uncertainty, and testable future consequences intact.
Can a machine witness history written into its substrate?
Physical self-witness
Thermal history, impedance drift, wear, component aging, energy state, and fault propagation become machine-usable distinctions for a proposed perception-and-evidence intake layer.
OPTIONAL ENGINEERING BRANCH
Can morphology retain useful consequential history?
Carbon nanotube morphology memory
CNTM asks whether growth history can become durable morphology and conductance, and eventually whether retained physical geometry can alter later computation. It is not required for MFM.
Can a quieter reference become an observability surface?
Reference fabric
Separate energy, information, and reference roles. Explore coarse localization, degradation detection, transfer-function drift, passive sensing, and bounded probing without claiming fine tomography.
CANDIDATE ENGINEERING DIRECTION
How does energy alter reachable computation?
Energy ecology
Generation, storage, conversion, regeneration, and exchange are compared against the machine's actual load profile. No source is privileged, and no universal generator ranking is claimed.
ACTIVE CANDIDATE BRANCH
Which formed capabilities are physically reachable now?
Distributed embodiment
The candidate embodiment index tracks reachable capability, energy, bounded authority, local formation, location, and connectivity. A body is not assumed to equal one chassis or one metaphysical self.
BUILD-TEST PENDING
What happens when embodiments partition and rejoin?
Local formation and reconciliation
Inaccessible is not erased. Local formation may diverge during a partition; rejoining requires provenance-aware validation, contradiction, supersession, forking, or quarantine.
CANDIDATE PROGRAM
See every branch
The technical map preserves lineage and status.
Older names and artifacts remain discoverable after the question that produced them is clear.