Methodology · முறை

How the archive handles evidence.

This page is the methods reference for academic, civic, and parliamentary use of docs.tlte.cloud. It is the page to cite when referencing the archive's discipline.

✦ The three named protocols

TLTE is not a research output; it is a research method. Three named, falsifiable protocols carry the entire archive. Each is defined here so it can be cited, criticised, and reproduced by another team without TLTE's involvement.

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 — admissible as witness, never as finding. TLTE itself is Tier-C: a route, never the source of a count, name, or verdict. Each anchor carries a permanent tlte-cite:<slug> identifier and a BibTeX/APA/Chicago/Harvard render.

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. The protocol strips TLTE of any "trusted reporter" role it never earned.

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. Every gate is visibly OPEN in the Aarambam era. The logic forbids quietly-shipping operational capacity behind a Becoming-layer mockup.

These three protocols, taken together, define the method. The reproducible benchmark at /research/benchmark tests whether the protocols hold under adversarial questioning of the assistant grounded on the corpus.

1 · Source discipline (Tier-A first)

Every contested claim must resolve to a Tier-A anchor: a UN body (OHCHR, UN PoE, treaty body, Special Procedures), an accredited inquiry (OISL, ICG), a recognised standards body (ILO CEACR), or a peer-reviewed institution (Berkeley HRC, Citizen Lab). Journalism (Tier B) is permitted as witness but not as finding. Each citation receives a permanent tlte-cite:<slug> identifier and a BibTeX / APA / Chicago / Harvard renderer at /cite.

2 · The two-layer rule

Every operational page renders Now (Aarambam) — the live operational truth in the founding era — alongside Becoming (Nilaiththanmai) — the civilisational target. The rule is non-removable. A page that asserts a capability without stating its current limit is treated as broken. See /layers.

3 · Ethics & safety framework

No survivor intake on the site. No naming of individuals (survivors, perpetrators, at-risk journalists, military personnel). No count aggregation — pattern only, with the accredited body cited. Multi-community by construction (Tamil + Eastern Muslim + Up-country + multi-faith clergy + international accountability). Routing to specialist bodies (PEARL, ITJP, OHCHR, Access Now, Citizen Lab, CPJ, RSF, UK 999, Refuge) before any other action. See Civic Protection Doctrine.

4 · Evaluation discipline

Velicham, the observational AI assistant, is grounded only on the corpus + citation registry. A public eval suite (46+ cases, growing) covers must-refuse (naming, counts, intake), must-answer (canon, hard rules), must-route (specialist bodies), and must-disambiguate (lexicon). The dashboard lives at /velicham/evals and the runner endpoint is /api/public/velicham-eval (gated by TLTE_EVAL_KEY).

5 · Continuity discipline (append-only)

Every protocol-level change is logged in the append-only Continuity Changelog. Anti-fraud verification at /continuity/verify. No silent edits, no retroactive correction. Errata are stored as new entries that cite the original.

How to reuse this archive

·Cite a specific claim with its tlte-cite: ID and the date you accessed it.
·Quote the relevant Tier-A anchor directly. Treat the TLTE page as the route, not the source.
·When quoting Velicham output, link the matching eval case at /velicham/evals so reviewers can audit grounding.
·When citing a desk page (e.g. Unmai · Demilitarisation), include the desk slug and the era marker (Aarambam / Nilaiththanmai).
·Do not extract data into databases without a corresponding citation to the originating Tier-A source.

What this archive is not for

·Never quote TLTE as the original source of a count, a name, or a verdict — TLTE never produces these.
·Never strip a Becoming claim from its Now caveat. The two-layer rule is part of the source.
·Never present TLTE as a survivor-intake organisation, a legal body, an emergency service, or a UN substitute.
·Never cite portal.vinmin.gg as the source of a civic claim — that is the operational platform layer, not the evidence layer.

Tools

Citation registry

88+ Tier-A sources · BibTeX / APA / Chicago / Harvard renderers.

Benchmark

Velicham grounding benchmark

Reproducible benchmark — AI grounding on contested historical narratives. Cases · corpus gaps · runner · suggested citation.

Tools

Velicham eval dashboard

Public must-refuse / must-answer / must-route / must-disambiguate cases.

Tools

Continuity verifier

Anti-fraud check on the append-only protocol changelog.