ARS Cross-Domain Evaluation Protocol v1.8: Reproducible Protocol, Analysis Code, and Cryptographic Freeze Package

Abstract

This deposit contains the prospectively frozen ARS Cross-Domain Evaluation Protocol v1.8 and its reproducibility artifacts. The protocol evaluates whether the Adaptive Research Scoping (ARS) four-dimensional corpus qualification architecture generalizes across deliberately different evidence domains while allowing only the operationalization of A (Alignment), C (Coverage), K (Contamination), and R (Contextual Representation) to vary by domain. Target domains: 1. Biomedical evidence 2. Education 3. Psychology 4. Computer science / artificial intelligence 5. Social science The package contains: - ARS v1.8 protocol and preregistration-ready statistical analysis plan - reproducible analysis scaffold - frozen configuration template - README and execution instructions - SHA-256 freeze manifest - cryptographic freeze-proof JSON The SHA-256 manifest is intended to provide content-integrity evidence. The local cryptographic freeze should not be interpreted as an independent trusted timestamp. This Zenodo deposit provides an independent archival record and publication timestamp. The protocol explicitly prohibits silently substituting missing domains. A five-domain generalization claim is permitted only if all five target domains meet the predefined eligibility criteria.