{
  "schema_version": "1.1.0",
  "ledger_version": "v1.26",
  "last_updated": "2026-06-04",
  "source_of_truth": "metryval-3d/docs/audit/framework_reception_ledger_v1.md",
  "public_surface": "/methodology/frameworks",
  "headline": {
    "synthesized_count": 36,
    "methodology_citation_count": 9,
    "retired_count": 2,
    "removed_count": 1,
    "tier_distribution": {
      "tier_1": 23,
      "tier_2": 13,
      "tier_3": 0,
      "sidecar": 2
    }
  },
  "frameworks": [
    { "id": "F-01", "name": "Big Five / FFM (BFI-44)", "tier": "tier_1", "grade": "A", "status": "STRONG", "operationalized": true, "reception_summary": "March 2026 MASEM (N=45,477) reconfirmed Conscientiousness as primary predictor; Extraversion suppression on deep-task performance newly identified." },
    { "id": "F-03", "name": "HEXACO-PI-R + H-factor", "tier": "tier_1", "grade": "A", "status": "STRONG", "operationalized": true, "reception_summary": "April 2026 PLOS ONE meta-analysis reconfirmed H-factor superiority for well-being prediction." },
    { "id": "F-05", "name": "Need for Cognition (NfC)", "tier": "tier_1", "grade": "A", "status": "STRONG", "operationalized": true, "reception_summary": "Critical filter for AI misinformation resistance research 2025." },
    { "id": "F-06", "name": "Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ-10)", "tier": "tier_1", "grade": "A", "status": "STRONG", "operationalized": true, "reception_summary": "Survived 2024 regulation-suppression debate; March 2026 PSPB review reconfirmed validity." },
    { "id": "F-07", "name": "Bandura General Self-Efficacy (GSE)", "tier": "tier_1", "grade": "A", "status": "STRONG", "operationalized": true, "reception_summary": "2026 standard for agency-based resilience assessment." },
    { "id": "F-08", "name": "Self-Determination Theory (SDT)", "tier": "tier_1", "grade": "A", "status": "STRONG", "operationalized": true, "reception_summary": "Foundational for 2025-2026 remote-work and AI engagement models; meta-analytic support for the three basic needs." },
    { "id": "F-09", "name": "Schwartz Portrait Values (PVQ-21)", "tier": "tier_1", "grade": "A-", "status": "STABLE→STRONG", "operationalized": true, "reception_summary": "2026 validation in political legitimization discourse; circumplex shows cross-cultural resilience." },
    { "id": "F-10", "name": "Achievement Goal Theory (AGT 2x2)", "tier": "tier_1", "grade": "A-", "status": "STABLE→STRONG", "operationalized": true, "reception_summary": "March 2026 meta-analysis confirmed predictive validity for academic GPA." },
    { "id": "F-11", "name": "Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory / REI", "tier": "tier_1", "grade": "A-", "status": "STABLE→STRONG", "operationalized": true, "reception_summary": "March 2026 Acta Psychologica review reconfirmed dual-process validity." },
    { "id": "F-12", "name": "Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA-2)", "tier": "tier_1", "grade": "A", "status": "PROMOTED", "operationalized": true, "reception_summary": "Promoted to Tier 1 in 2026 as the standard for embodied cognition and interoception; demonstrated clinical and athletic validity." },
    { "id": "F-14", "name": "Social Value Orientation (SVO Slider)", "tier": "tier_1", "grade": "A", "status": "PROMOTED", "operationalized": true, "reception_summary": "Promoted to Tier 1 for mathematical robustness immune to self-report bias; 2026 gold standard for behavioral economics." },
    { "id": "F-15", "name": "Bateman & Crant Proactive Personality", "tier": "tier_1", "grade": "A-", "status": "STABLE→STRONG", "operationalized": true, "reception_summary": "Resilient factor structure across 2024-2026 workplace studies." },
    { "id": "F-30", "name": "Cate & John 2007 Future Time Perspective Scale (FTPS) — Opportunities + Limitations", "tier": "tier_1", "grade": "A", "status": "STRONG", "operationalized": true, "year_added_to_ledger": "v1.14", "reception_summary": "2024 PubMed work on maintaining a focus on opportunities in middle age; 2021 FTPS adolescent validation; workhorse lifespan-psychology instrument with no critique events. Limitations subscale validated in 2024-2026 longitudinal studies." },
    { "id": "F-31", "name": "Welzel Emancipative Values (WVS-based)", "tier": "tier_1", "grade": "A", "status": "STRONG", "operationalized": true, "year_added_to_ledger": "v1.14", "reception_summary": "2024 Worldwide divergence of values paper + 2024 Rethinking Measurement Equivalence in Comparative Political Research + 2025 emancipative-values/life-satisfaction paper; foundational to WVS cross-cultural research." },
    { "id": "F-32", "name": "Rest 1999 DIT-2 P-score (incl. Bebeau & Thoma 2003 N2)", "tier": "tier_1", "grade": "A", "status": "STRONG", "operationalized": true, "year_added_to_ledger": "v1.14", "reception_summary": "2024 Moral reasoning development norms for DIT-2; 2020 factor analysis; APA PsycNET 2024 entries; active norming work continuing." },
    { "id": "F-33", "name": "Davis 1983 Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) Empathic Concern", "tier": "tier_1", "grade": "A", "status": "STRONG", "operationalized": true, "year_added_to_ledger": "v1.14", "reception_summary": "2023 MASEM meta-analysis; 2025 Assessing Cognitive and Affective Empathy Through IRI; 2021 Frontiers systematic review; gold-standard empathy measure." },
    { "id": "F-39", "name": "Subjective Vitality Scale (SVS-6)", "tier": "tier_1", "grade": "A", "status": "STRONG", "operationalized": true, "year_added_to_ledger": "v1.16", "reception_summary": "2025 Italian and German validations confirmed full measurement invariance across gender and age; SDT-aligned eudaimonic well-being core indicator. SVS-6 supersedes SVS-7 by dropping item #2 to restore unidimensionality." },
    { "id": "F-40", "name": "Self-Concealment Scale (SCS)", "tier": "tier_1", "grade": "A", "status": "STRONG", "operationalized": true, "year_added_to_ledger": "v1.16", "reception_summary": "Cronbach's alpha 0.89 unidimensional; meta-analytic r(SCS, Neuroticism) ~ 0.44, r(SCS, Wood Authentic Living) ~ -0.47 confirm independence from both. 2024 cross-age equivalence study (PMID 39227903) confirmed stability." },
    { "id": "F-41", "name": "NEO PI-R / PI-3 Openness-to-Feelings (O3 facet)", "tier": "tier_1", "grade": "A", "status": "STRONG", "operationalized": true, "year_added_to_ledger": "v1.16", "reception_summary": "Distinct construct from REI Experientiality (meta r = 0.35-0.45). Load-bearing for v5.4 kill-trigger #8 (r(P-Intuitive, O3) > 0.50 → decompose into Faith-in-Intuition + Affective-Intuition). 2024-2026 reception stable." },
    { "id": "F-44", "name": "Wood Authenticity Scale — Authentic Living + Self-Alienation subscales", "tier": "tier_1", "grade": "A", "status": "STRONG", "operationalized": true, "year_added_to_ledger": "v1.17", "reception_summary": "Wood et al. 2008 J Couns Psychol primary instrument; 12-item scale partitioned into 3 subscales. v5.4 wires 4 verbatim Authentic Living items + 2 reverse-scored Self-Alienation markers as v5.4 S unipolar (items 338-343). 2024-2026 reception strong; Authentic Living survives cross-cultural invariance tests." },
    { "id": "F-45", "name": "REI Faith in Intuition subscale (Pacini & Epstein 1999)", "tier": "tier_1", "grade": "A", "status": "STRONG", "operationalized": true, "year_added_to_ledger": "v1.17", "reception_summary": "Faith in Intuition items show stable factor loadings (~0.7-0.8) across replications; distinct from NEO O3 (F-41) at meta r = 0.35-0.45. v5.4 wires 4 near-verbatim items as v5.4 P unipolar (items 348-351), supersedes legacy bipolar Analytic-Intuitive items 1-8." },
    { "id": "F-46", "name": "Steger Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ) — Presence + Search subscales", "tier": "tier_1", "grade": "A", "status": "STRONG", "operationalized": true, "year_added_to_ledger": "v1.19", "reception_summary": "2023 17-country measurement invariance study (N=3867, EHHI) confirmed approximate global MI for Presence subscale. MLQ-P predicts lower all-cause mortality + cardiovascular events (N>130,000). Item 9 (reverse-keyed Search) disrupts non-English-translation factor loading; omitted from Metryval operationalization." },
    { "id": "F-47", "name": "Stanovich Actively Open-Minded Thinking (AOT)", "tier": "tier_1", "grade": "A", "status": "STRONG", "operationalized": true, "year_added_to_ledger": "v1.19", "reception_summary": "Stanovich's central dispositional construct for Rationality Quotient (distinct from IQ). Stanovich & Toplak 2024 Thinking and Reasoning review confirmed active research program; 2025 Frontiers Psychology German civic-action study demonstrated cross-cultural validity; 2024 ART-Y extended to adolescents." },

    { "id": "F-16", "name": "Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI)", "tier": "tier_2", "grade": "B", "status": "STABLE", "operationalized": true, "reception_summary": "2024 validation of the shortened Brief-ZTPI in digital contexts." },
    { "id": "F-17", "name": "Consideration of Future Consequences (CFC)", "tier": "tier_2", "grade": "B", "status": "STABLE", "operationalized": true, "reception_summary": "2025 discriminant validity check vs. ZTPI reconfirmed unique variance." },
    { "id": "F-18", "name": "Body Awareness Questionnaire (BAQ)", "tier": "tier_2", "grade": "B", "status": "STABLE", "operationalized": true, "reception_summary": "Niche application; stable but lacks MAIA-2 breadth." },
    { "id": "F-20", "name": "Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode (TKI)", "tier": "tier_2", "grade": "B", "status": "STABLE", "operationalized": true, "reception_summary": "Dominant in corporate settings; academic value moderate due to forced-choice format." },
    { "id": "F-23", "name": "Brief-COPE", "tier": "tier_2", "grade": "C", "status": "DEMOTED", "operationalized": true, "reception_summary": "Demoted Tier 1 → Tier 2. 2025 factor structure failures (range 2-11 factors across cultures); heterogeneous-factor critique." },
    { "id": "F-24", "name": "Rotter Locus of Control (I-E)", "tier": "tier_2", "grade": "C", "status": "DEMOTED", "operationalized": true, "reception_summary": "Demoted Tier 1 → Tier 2. 2026 critique of global vs. domain-specific measurement utility; superseded by Health-LOC, Work-LOC variants." },
    { "id": "F-34", "name": "Higgins 2001 Regulatory Focus Questionnaire (RFQ) — Promotion + Prevention", "tier": "tier_2", "grade": "B", "status": "STABLE", "operationalized": true, "year_added_to_ledger": "v1.14", "reception_summary": "2017 German RFQ + 2019 + Italian RFQ adaptation papers; 2024-2026 quiet (no factor-structure failures, no critical events) — specialty domain steady-state." },
    { "id": "F-35", "name": "Hilbig 2013 H-Active / H-Reactive cooperation split", "tier": "tier_2", "grade": "B", "status": "STABLE", "operationalized": true, "year_added_to_ledger": "v1.14", "reception_summary": "2020 Beautiful Complexity of Human Prosociality; specialized 2D-internal H-factor decomposition; stable but niche. Used as Content Evolution Amendment 2 in v5.4 launch lock." },
    { "id": "F-36", "name": "Crandall 1975 Social Interest Scale (SIS) — Adlerian", "tier": "tier_2", "grade": "B", "status": "STABLE", "operationalized": true, "year_added_to_ledger": "v1.14", "reception_summary": "2024 Further validation of the social interest scale: Peer ratings and interpersonal attraction; niche but continued validation; Adlerian-tradition adjacent." },
    { "id": "F-37", "name": "Rotter 1967 Interpersonal Trust Scale (ITS)", "tier": "tier_2", "grade": "C+", "status": "STABLE", "operationalized": true, "year_added_to_ledger": "v1.14", "reception_summary": "2024 ITS-delinquent-adolescents paper + ERIC empirical-comparison-of-four-generalized-trust-scales; old-school like Rotter LOC (F-24). Newer General Trust Scale exists but ITS remains widely cited." },
    { "id": "F-38", "name": "MFT Binding Foundations subscale (Graham, Haidt, Nosek 2009)", "tier": "tier_2", "grade": "B", "status": "STABLE", "operationalized": true, "year_added_to_ledger": "v1.14", "reception_summary": "2023 Moral Foundations Theory: Validation and replication of the MFQ-2; 2025 Italian MFQ-2 adaptation. Binding-foundations CONSTRUCT preserved structurally even after Atari 2024 Fairness split. Instrument-level MFQ-30 concerns are about the questionnaire form, not the construct." },
    { "id": "F-42", "name": "Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire short form (FFMQ-15)", "tier": "tier_2", "grade": "B", "status": "STABLE", "operationalized": true, "year_added_to_ledger": "v1.16", "reception_summary": "2025 MDPI psychometric evaluation confirmed 5-factor structure for Chinese-speaking clinical populations. 4-facet vs 5-facet debate ongoing: Observing facet does not consistently load with other 4 in non-meditator samples; Metryval wires all 5 but scores from only 4 per Gu 2016 recommendation. Ceiling effect for advanced practitioners." },
    { "id": "F-43", "name": "Revised Aesthetic Fluency Scale (Smith & Smith 2023)", "tier": "tier_2", "grade": "B", "status": "STABLE", "operationalized": true, "year_added_to_ledger": "v1.16", "reception_summary": "2023 PLOS ONE IRT validation replaced 5-point response scale with 3-point knowledge scale after disordered-thresholds analysis. Knowledge-based operationalization provides incremental variance over BFAS Aesthetic Openness + NEO O2. Metryval Tier-2 caveat: production wiring uses 7-point Likert familiarity framing for UI uniformity; format revisit deferred to v6.0." }
  ],
  "sidecar_frameworks": [
    { "id": "S-01", "name": "Adult Attachment / ECR-R", "grade": "B", "status": "STABLE" },
    { "id": "S-02", "name": "Short Dark Triad / SD3 (Narcissism G/V)", "grade": "B", "status": "STABLE" }
  ],
  "retirements": [
    {
      "id": "R-01",
      "former_framework_id": "PVT",
      "name": "Polyvagal Theory",
      "kind": "removed",
      "date_retired": "2026-05-07",
      "rationale_summary": "Grossman et al. 2026 39-expert international consensus paper 'Why The Polyvagal Theory is Untenable' (Clinical Neuropsychiatry 23(1), 100-112) formally rejected PVT as scientifically untenable. Items 17-18 reanchored on the Defense Cascade Model (Schauer & Elbert 2010), validated by the Peritraumatic Response Questionnaire (PTRQ 2025). Sidecar flag renamed PD (Passive Defense). Item text unchanged."
    },
    {
      "id": "R-02",
      "former_framework_id": "F-13",
      "name": "Abele Big Two (Agency-Communion)",
      "kind": "retired",
      "date_retired": "2026-05-18",
      "rationale_summary": "v1.14 audit cycle 1 (2026-05-15) retired the operationalizing items 45-52 + 170-173 to remove construct contamination with v5.4 SDT 4-regulation on the A-axis. A-axis now operationalized solely by 12 SDT items (215-226). The Abele Big Two construct itself remains scientifically valid (2026 PROMOTED to Tier 1 in v1 reception research as the primary structural model for social perception); Metryval simply no longer measures it via dedicated items."
    },
    {
      "id": "R-03",
      "former_framework_id": "F-26",
      "name": "Moral Foundations Theory (MFQ-30 instrument)",
      "kind": "retired",
      "date_retired": "2026-05-19",
      "rationale_summary": "v1.18++ Aaron decision D-1(A) closure. The 2026-05-18 items × framework fidelity audit flagged items 157 + 166 as MISMATCHED against F-26 — items use first-person somatic empathic-distress register (canonical Davis IRI Empathic Concern), not third-person moral-judgment register (canonical MFQ-30). NLM v2 deep-research validation (41 sources) confirmed. Path A retirement chosen over Path B re-authoring; MFQ-30 instrument-level obsolescence (Atari et al. 2024-2025 MFQ-2 supersession) compounds with the items-misattribution gap. Care/Harm CONSTRUCT remains scientifically valid; survives in Metryval via F-38 MFT Binding subscale + F-33 IRI EC empathic-distress functional overlap. Items 157 + 166 re-attribute to F-33."
    }
  ],
  "methodology_citations": [
    {
      "id": "M-01",
      "former_framework_id": "F-02",
      "name": "IPIP-50 (Goldberg 1992)",
      "citation_role": "LLM personality benchmarking ground-truth precedent (2025-2026 adoption). Not a measurement Metryval uses; no items, no architectural-influence trail."
    },
    {
      "id": "M-02",
      "former_framework_id": "F-19",
      "name": "Seligman Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ)",
      "citation_role": "Legacy citation, no architectural trace post-v5.4. Attributional style is not measured by any Metryval dim."
    },
    {
      "id": "M-03",
      "former_framework_id": "F-21",
      "name": "Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventory (ROCI-II)",
      "citation_role": "SJT-format design-influence citation only; not a measured construct. F-20 TKI is the items-operationalized SJT framework."
    },
    {
      "id": "M-04",
      "former_framework_id": "F-27",
      "name": "Self-Monitoring Scale (Snyder 1974)",
      "citation_role": "S facet originally loosely echoed SMS via Transparent↔Diplomatic framing; post-Wood-AL realignment (2026-05-18) S now operationalizes Authentic Living and the SMS architectural link is gone."
    },
    {
      "id": "M-05",
      "former_framework_id": "F-28",
      "name": "Kegan Constructive-Developmental Theory",
      "citation_role": "Aaron decision D-3(B) closure (v1.18++). Developmental-stage rationale for I_CR Post-Conventional moral reasoning is 'broadly inspired by' not 'specific item-phrasing influenced by' per NLM v2 stricter rubric. DIT-2 (F-32) is the operationalized framework on I_CR."
    },
    {
      "id": "M-06",
      "former_framework_id": "F-29",
      "name": "Loevinger Ego Development (WUSCT)",
      "citation_role": "Same I_CR developmental-stage trace as M-05; weak architectural-influence per NLM v2 stricter rubric. DIT-2 (F-32) is the operationalized framework. Ego-development construct itself remains scientifically valid; WUSCT instrument-layer scoring reliability crisis stands."
    },
    {
      "id": "M-07",
      "former_framework_id": "F-04",
      "name": "Big Five Aspect Scales (BFAS)",
      "citation_role": "Round-3 #10 closure (v1.26, 2026-06-04). Zero dedicated Metryval items. BFAS's Openness-vs-Intellect aspect split was the design rationale for splitting P (Intuitive) from P_A (Analytic) as separate v5.4 dims, but those dims are operationalized via F-11 REI + F-45 REI Faith in Intuition + F-05 NfC + F-47 AOT + F-41 NEO O3, not BFAS scale items. Architectural-influence only; BFAS construct remains scientifically gold-standard."
    },
    {
      "id": "M-08",
      "former_framework_id": "F-22",
      "name": "Faith in Intuition (Epstein)",
      "citation_role": "Round-3 #10 closure (v1.26, 2026-06-04). Zero dedicated Metryval items. Epstein's Faith in Intuition is the conceptual ancestor operationalized in v5.4 by F-45 REI Faith in Intuition subscale (Pacini & Epstein 1999, items 348-351); the construct is captured by F-45's items, so F-22 itself is a cited precedent, not a separately-operationalized framework."
    },
    {
      "id": "M-09",
      "former_framework_id": "F-25",
      "name": "Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20)",
      "citation_role": "Round-3 #10 closure (v1.26, 2026-06-04). Zero dedicated Metryval items. Alexithymia adjacency informed the C-Somatic-Awareness pole framing (Cerebral vs Body-Trusting Somatic), but C is operationalized via F-12 MAIA-2 Trusting + Noticing items, not TAS-20. Design-influence citation only; was the sole Tier-3 framework, so its demotion leaves 0 Tier-3 in the synthesis count."
    }
  ],
  "version_history": [
    {
      "version": "v1.26",
      "date": "2026-06-04",
      "summary": "Round-3 critique #10 — F-04 BFAS + F-22 Faith in Intuition + F-25 TAS-20 (architectural-influence only, zero dedicated items) demoted from the synthesized count to methodology citations M-07/M-08/M-09 per the Colquitt 2019 zero-items-plus-design-influence criterion. Headline 39 synthesized + 6 methodology citations -> 36 + 9. Tier distribution: tier_1 24->23, tier_2 14->13, tier_3 1->0. All 36 synthesized frameworks now item-operationalized (the prior 36+3 operationalized/architectural split collapses). No items changed (claim-hygiene move). Note: the JSON version_history skipped the intervening v1.25 N+E-wiring update tracked in the markdown source of truth."
    },
    {
      "version": "v1.24",
      "date": "2026-05-28",
      "summary": "External methodology audit Round 2 closure. Tier 1 shipped: headline arithmetic + items-operationalized split (36 operationalized at item level + 3 architectural-influence), dimension loadings map, glossary, MFT Binding residue cleanup, Container Lock 2-revision cap removed, P-Analytic-Disposition rename, F-39 SVS-6 reclassified to domain-spanning sidecar, per-dimension reliability floors + KT-16/KT-17 pre-registered, 5 new canonical docs (item manifest / SJT protocol / BFI-44 fallback / OSF prereg draft / OCEAN-PAREN field evidence). Framework count UNCHANGED at 39 synthesized + 6 methodology citations; no tier reshuffle. Decision F (native N+E) OPEN at this version."
    },
    {
      "version": "v1.23",
      "date": "2026-05-22",
      "summary": "Pre-pilot items realignment Gates 1-5 cascade cleanup. Framework count UNCHANGED at 39 synthesized + 6 methodology citations. Items-level realignments + 2 subscale-level deepening of existing frameworks (no new framework entries; no retirements)."
    },
    {
      "version": "v1.22",
      "date": "2026-05-19",
      "summary": "Aaron-judgment cascade Round 7 — full-audit pilot-permissive correction pass. Item 155 un-retired; items 157+166 pool-consistency closure (I.likertItems → Pro.likertItems). Framework count unchanged."
    },
    {
      "version": "v1.21",
      "date": "2026-05-19",
      "summary": "MLQ subscale full operationalization. 9 new items (355-363) + item 112 dual-role wired as Steger MLQ Presence + Search subscales. Item 9 canonical OMITTED per 2023 17-country MI recommendation."
    },
    {
      "version": "v1.20",
      "date": "2026-05-19",
      "summary": "Aaron-judgment cascade Round 5 Group A structural policies. FC-reaxing (cross-axis FC encoding gated by per-item canonical D-Corr ≥ 0.70) + Sidecar-becomes-primary (explicit-exclusion gate)."
    },
    {
      "version": "v1.19",
      "date": "2026-05-19",
      "summary": "Aaron-judgment cascade Round 4. Added F-46 Steger MLQ + F-47 Stanovich AOT as Tier 1 per NLM v3 deep-research backing (69 sources). F-46 closes meaning/purpose register gap; F-47 corrects existing sidecar mis-attribution at items 231-234 (reassigned DIT-N2 → AOT). +1 framework, +0 new items. Active synthesized count revised 37 → 39 + 6 methodology citations."
    },
    {
      "version": "v1.18++",
      "date": "2026-05-19",
      "summary": "Aaron decision packet D-1 + D-3 cascade closure. F-26 MFT MFQ-30 retired as R-03; F-28 Kegan + F-29 Loevinger WUSCT demoted to M-05 + M-06; F-04 BFAS + F-22 Faith in Intuition retained as ARCHITECTURAL-INFLUENCE per NLM v2 review. Active synthesized count revised 40 → 37 + 6 methodology citations."
    },
    {
      "version": "v1.18+",
      "date": "2026-05-19",
      "summary": "Items × framework fidelity audit cascade (NLM-v2-validated). F-02 IPIP-50 + F-19 ASQ + F-21 ROCI-II + F-27 Snyder SMS demoted to Methodology Citations (M-01 through M-04) per Colquitt 2019 D-Corr + D-Dist rubric. Active synthesized count revised 44 → 40 + 4 methodology citations."
    },
    {
      "version": "v1.17",
      "date": "2026-05-18",
      "summary": "Post-items-realignment. Added F-44 Wood Authenticity Scale + F-45 REI Faith in Intuition subscale. Active count 42 → 44."
    },
    {
      "version": "v1.16",
      "date": "2026-05-18",
      "summary": "v5.4 Path A sidecar expansion. Added F-39 SVS + F-40 SCS + F-41 NEO O3 + F-42 FFMQ-15 + F-43 Aesthetic Fluency. Active count 37 → 42."
    },
    {
      "version": "v1.15",
      "date": "2026-05-18",
      "summary": "F-13 Abele Big Two retirement cascade (R-02). Closed the loop on the v1.14 audit-cycle-1 A-A item retirement. Active count 38 → 37."
    },
    {
      "version": "v1.14",
      "date": "2026-05-15",
      "summary": "v5.4 audit cycle 1. Added 9 new framework entries (F-30 through F-38). Active count 29 → 38."
    },
    {
      "version": "v1.0",
      "date": "2026-05-07",
      "summary": "Ledger created. R-01 Polyvagal removed following Grossman et al. 39-expert consensus paper. Active count 30 → 29."
    }
  ]
}