burnmydays/commitment_conservation_harness

1cff-version: 1.2.02message: "If you use this software or research, please cite it as below."3type: software4title: "A Conservation Law for Commitment in Language Under Transformative Compression and Recursive Application"5version: "v0.04"6doi: 10.5281/zenodo.187924597date-released: 2026-02-268url: "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18792459"9repository-code: "https://github.com/SunrisesIllNeverSee/commitment-conservation"10authors:11  - family-names: "McHenry"12    given-names: "Deric J."13    affiliation: "Ello Cello LLC"14    email: "burnmyday@proton.me"15keywords:16  - information-theory17  - llm18  - compression19  - recursion20  - computational-linguistics21  - commitment-conservation22  - language-models23  - falsification24  - conservation-law25  - semantic-preservation26license: CC-BY-4.027abstract: "This work proposes a conservation law for commitment in language under transformative compression and recursive application. We define commitment as the minimal, identity-preserving content that remains invariant under loss-inducing transformations, and demonstrate that commitment content is conserved under such compression while non-committal information collapses. Preliminary tests using a prototype harness on a limited corpus demonstrate patterns consistent with these predictions; we invite large-scale adversarial replication to validate or falsify the framework."28