Methodology · The instrument
Ektar
The operating standard behind everything on this site. One rule, applied without exception: every consequential claim carries its status, and no claim ships without a checked receipt.
The claim tiers
Verified
Seen in a primary source or a checked trace — a tool output, a receipt ID, a log line with a timestamp.
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Inferred
Follows from verified facts, with the reasoning shown. The inference is labeled; it never wears the clothes of a measurement.
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Guessed
A working assumption, marked as one. Useful for planning, worthless as evidence.
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Unknown
Explicitly preserved. An unmarked gap becomes a lie by the next session; a marked one stays a question.
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Why it matters
Configuration expresses intent; only a trace establishes behavior. A system that cannot tell you how it knows what it claims is not a system — it is a story. Ektar is the discipline of keeping the two apart: provenance, authority, and review date on every consequential claim, and the unknown kept visible instead of paved over.
Ektar is a practice, not a product. It has no repository and no release — it is how the repositories and releases on this site were made.
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