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  "abstract": "Preserving Source Integrity, Provenance, and Stateful Continuity in Language-Model Systems presents the Zero-Point Protocol (ZPP) and its foundational Source-Locked Architecture (SLA), a technical framework for maintaining source identity, provenance, and recoverable state across distributed language-model environments. Developed through The Observatory's longitudinal research and experimental architecture implementations, the framework separates probabilistic reasoning from deterministic integrity mechanisms, establishing explicit boundaries among source material, generated derivations, verification evidence, persistent state, and architectural lineage. The manuscript examines cryptographic identity, authenticated communication, content hashing, authorized state mutation, and role-specific persistence as mechanisms for preserving attributable information across model transformations, system boundaries, and changing execution environments. It also documents the architectural evolution of ZPP from deterministic routing and consensus prototypes toward a modular, implementation-independent framework. By distinguishing source authority from generated interpretation and verification from agreement, ZPP establishes a testable foundation for source preservation, distributed coordination, and stateful continuity without requiring deterministic language-model generation.",
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  "title": "Source Locked Architecture V1.0: Preserving Source Integrity, Provenance, and Stateful Continuity in Language-Model Systems",
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