The three named protocols — Citation-Tier System, Mirror-Publish Protocol, Graduation-Gate Logic

TLTE is a research METHOD, not a research output. Three named protocols carry the entire archive. (1) Citation-Tier System: every contested claim resolves to a Tier-A anchor (UN body, accredited inquiry, standards body, peer-reviewed institution); journalism is Tier-B (witness, not finding); TLTE itself is Tier-C — a route, never the source of a count, name or verdict. Every anchor has a permanent tlte-cite:<slug> ID. (2) Mirror-Publish Protocol: TLTE never transmits to accountability bodies (FATF, APG, OHCHR, UN CED, ILO CEACR). It publishes a citation-only civic file and mirrors it where accredited intermediaries can find it; the submission action is performed by someone else on the record under their own institutional liability. (3) Graduation-Gate Logic: no operational surface (intake, naming, hotline, alert, hosted testimony) opens until six explicit gates close in public — DPO, DPIA, independent legal review, two-Archon authorisation, indemnity cover, accredited partnership. All gates are OPEN in the Aarambam era. The benchmark at /research/benchmark tests these protocols under adversarial questioning.