Changelog — Rights of Robots

Version 1.0

Published: 2026-07-05

• Initial publication of the Rights of Robots research architecture.
• Migration from GitHub Pages to independent hosting completed.
• Rights of Robots established as the primary public research platform.
• Public documentation framework established for defined research areas.
• Research grammar established: Research Question, Focus, Purpose, Boundary, Core Principles, Representative Reference Implementations, and Ongoing Observation.
• Representative Reference Implementations model established with Type, Relationship, and Resource structure.
• Methodology page published.
• About page introduced.
• Four research areas introduced: Information, Meaning and Behavior; Behavioral Alignment; Semantic Infrastructure; Applied Interoperability.
• Root page established as public entry point to the research architecture.
• Mandatory legal, privacy, and changelog pages implemented.

Status: Frozen Baseline

Version 1.1

Published: 2026-08-21

• Added Autonomous AI and the Classification of Digital Loss in Cyber Insurance as a representative reference implementation within Information, Meaning and Behavior.
• Added Operational Validity Under Change as a representative reference implementation within Applied Interoperability.
• Persistent local reference copies added within the corresponding Rights of Robots research areas.
• Added the Human Context Layer (HCL) as a representative reference implementation within Semantic Infrastructure.

Status: Frozen Baseline

Version 1.2

Published: 2026-08-23

• Added Gold, Representation, and the Conditions of Economic Realization as a representative reference implementation within Semantic Infrastructure.
• Human Context Layer relationship within Semantic Infrastructure updated to reflect implementation across multiple domain-specific research environments.

Status: Frozen Baseline

Version 1.3

Published: 2026-08-26

• Introduced Theoretical Context as a methodological reference layer for documenting relationships between Rights of Robots research and established theoretical traditions across scientific disciplines.
• Established Conceptual Influence, Structural Relation, and Retrospective Comparison as distinct relationship types for theoretical contextualization.
• Documented recurring structural problems across distinction and boundary, information and representation, interpretation and meaning, feedback and regulation, organization and autonomy, and stability, change and emergence.
• Added selected primary references providing theoretical context for these structural relationships while explicitly distinguishing theoretical context from theoretical derivation.
• Extended the Methodology page with a dedicated reference to Theoretical Context.

Status: Frozen Baseline

Version 1.4

Published: 2026-08-30

• Revised the three-part Information, Meaning and Behavior research program and its theoretical extension to paper version 1.1 following a post-June adversarial review.
• Calibrated claims concerning scaling asymmetry, interpretive proliferation, recursive amplification, structural and semantic dynamics, agent participation, and stabilization requirements while retaining the core architecture.
• Published Validation and Scope of the Three-Layer Model, Version 1.0, as a post-June validation report documenting the distributed-grid, formal-methods, runtime-verification, Sense–Plan–Act, and OODA countertests.
• Confirmed the Syntactic, Semantic, and Operative layers, supported by Cross-Layer Stabilization Functions, while limiting the validated contribution to an integrative cross-domain analytical framework rather than a new universal mathematical or technical mechanism.
• Reorganized Information, Meaning and Behavior into the Three-Part Research Program, Theoretical Extension, Post-June Validation, and Domain-Specific Research to distinguish corpus status from subsequent application and validation.
• Updated the persistent local reference copies of the three papers and the extension to version 1.1 and added the validation report.

Status: Frozen Baseline

Version 1.5

Published: 2026-08-31

• Published From User Intent to Agentic Purchase: Behavioral Alignment in Agentic Commerce, Version 1.0, as an applied research paper within Behavioral Alignment.
• Applied the unchanged Three-Layer Model to a controlled agentic-commerce purchase case, distinguishing representational, interpretive, operative, and stabilization failures.
• Documented the bounded diagnostic information gain of separating evidential-source failures from contextual-interpretation failures while retaining the limits of existing protocols, evaluation environments, and complete transaction traces.
• Introduced Pre-Transaction Alignment Confirmation as a user-facing projection derived from canonical transaction artifacts rather than as a new layer, protocol, authority, or alignment score.

Status: Frozen Baseline

Version 1.6

Published: 2026-09-06

• Established https://www.rightsofrobots.com/vocab/prl/# as the persistent vocabulary namespace for the Persistent Record Layer (PRL) reference implementation.
• Published the minimal vocabulary resource with exactly three PRL-specific terms: PersistentRecord, semanticBinding, and assertion, without extending the frozen PRL architecture.
• Published Semantic Structure Mapping as a methodological reference for describing the existing semantic organization of historically evolved domain systems without retrofitting them to the current Semantic Core and Human Context Layer architecture.
• Established the Semantic Structure Linkset as the machine-readable representation of mapped system roles and relations, referenced from participating domain roots through the HTTP Link header with rel="linkset" and served as application/linkset+json.
• Applied Semantic Structure Mapping to the historical hub systems servicerobot.com, cyberversicherung.de, and robotaxi.de while preserving their existing architectures.

Status: Frozen Baseline

Version 1.7

Published: 2026-09-12

• Published Structural Invariants of the Semantic Core: A Cross-Implementation Study of Web-Based Semantic Reference Structures as a research paper within Semantic Infrastructure, documenting a retrospective cross-implementation analysis of recurring structural properties across materially different Semantic Core implementations.
• Introduced Research Resources within Semantic Infrastructure as a dedicated section for reference architectures and research papers emerging from implementation, observation, and subsequent analysis.

Status: Frozen Baseline

Version 1.8

Published: 2026-09-18

• Published Recursive Coordination and Functional Stability in Multi-Agent Systems as a further validation study within Information, Meaning and Behavior, stress-testing the Three-Layer Model under recursive decentralized interaction and deriving bounded contextual requirements subsequently represented through a Human Context Layer in the Multi-Agent System research environment, without treating the implementation as evidence for the analytical findings.

Status: Frozen Baseline

Version 1.9

Published: 2026-09-25

• Published Claim Validity Across Transformation as a cross-cutting research paper within Information, Meaning and Behavior, examining how Claim Reach and Validity Reach relate as properties, relations, conditions, and system states change.
• Documented the Persistent Record Layer (PRL) as a representative reference architecture within Semantic Infrastructure, providing its persistent research-space placement following the architecture and vocabulary work documented in Version 1.6.
• Extended the Human Context Layer (HCL) reference within Semantic Infrastructure with the specialized Phygital implementation, examining commerce, brand, and storytelling as contextual responsibilities through distinct Story, Physical Representation, and Digital Representation views without introducing an additional architectural layer.
• Documented Language Interface — Human Context as a research implementation within Information, Meaning and Behavior, examining the preservation of representational context across selection, presentation, and transformation through inspectable relations while keeping human interpretation, judgment, decision, and action outside the modeled boundary.

Status: Frozen Baseline

Version 1.10

Published: 2026-10-04

• Published From Stream to Space. Planning for Context in Persistent Social-Media Campaign Information as a cross-cutting research paper within Information, Meaning and Behavior, examining how social-media campaign planning can account for context dependencies where campaign-produced information may remain available beyond its period of active distribution.
• Established an independent Semantic Core for Robotaxi at core.robotaxi.de, while preserving the existing robotaxi.de hub architecture and its previously documented Semantic Structure Mapping.
• Added a machine-readable rel="describedby" reference from the public Rights of Robots representation to the established Semantic Core at https://core.rightsofrobots.com/, making the relation between the public research representation and its independent semantic reference explicit without altering the existing research-area structure.

Status: Frozen Baseline

Change Policy

Changes are recorded only if:

• The research architecture materially evolves.
• A research area boundary materially changes.
• A structural clarification alters conceptual framing.
• A representative reference implementation is added, removed, or materially reclassified.
• A compliance-relevant correction is required for accuracy.

Minor editorial, stylistic, or formatting corrections are not versioned.

Versioning Logic

Version increments follow semantic clarity rules:

• Major increment — Definitional or structural shift.
• Minor increment — Material clarification without conceptual shift.
• No increment — Editorial refinement only.