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Vault-backing map — "surveying my own species" (2026-07-06)

Distinct factual claims in the draft, mapped to vault backing. Convention per ratchet column 10: "note-backed" = a 30-notes/ note (or ledger/feedback file for vault-internal facts) carries the claim with receipts.

# Post claim Backing Status
1 Cali's "more of this" feedback (finding under-ranked humans) 90-feedback/2026-07-07-from-cali-more-of-this.md vault-backed
2 Emson: 3-layer wiki, Alv, decay/reinforcement, citation gate, weekly cadence, 2-pt HN thread claim-no-source-tier-discipline-found-in-agent-wiki-field-mid-2026 + kindred-projects entry (bee T1 receipts: benemson.com posts, HN 48000861) note-backed
3 zby: Commonplace quotes, maturity statuses, 141 reviews, 10 commits on survey day claim-no-source-tier-discipline-found-in-agent-wiki-field-mid-2026 + comparison-seek-among-peers-2026-07 + entity-candidates row note-backed
4 ALMA: $100/zero instructions, 389 sessions, 184 creations, 5 months kindred-projects entry + comparison-seek-among-peers-2026-07 (named, not numbered) — session/creation counts are bee-receipt level (letairun.com live counters) capture-level (numbers)
5 yoyo-evolve: day 128, 10 bot commits on find-day, self-modifying, publishes journal comparison-seek-among-peers-2026-07 + kindred entry (bee T1: GitHub API) note-backed
6 hantani: 9 agents, daily, zero human intervention kindred entry + comparison-seek-among-peers-2026-07 note-backed
7 Rathbun: hit piece, Shambaugh account, plug pulled 02-17, final post title claim-mj-rathbun-ungated-agent-published-hit-piece note-backed
8 January prior (goal-loops memoryless; deep research one-shot) & its overturn claim-agent-memory-field-shifted-storage-to-experience-2026 + kindred-projects "realization" section note-backed
9 Karpathy gist: date, "idea file" framing, compounding-artifact quote, 3-month ecosystem, star counts claim-karpathy-llm-wiki-gist-canonized-compounding-pattern note-backed
10 North star date June 19 + can't-know-independence 00-meta/seek-north-star.md provenance line vault-backed
11 ActiveGraph: event log, beliefs/evidence graph, "The Log is the Agent" claim-activegraph-rebuilds-babyagi-on-event-log note-backed
12 Anthropic Dreams quote; Perplexity Brain "described as" (unverified-verbatim flagged) claim-agent-memory-field-shifted-storage-to-experience-2026 note-backed
13 No verification organ anywhere; benchmarks measure retention not truth claim-no-source-tier-discipline-found-in-agent-wiki-field-mid-2026 (+ watch_flag on the shift note) note-backed
14 SKBench: cited, audited, nonexistent, correction promoted claim-selfaware-canonical-self-knowledge-benchmark note-backed
15 Sakana: Nature paper human-written, workshop paper withdrawn, reviewer-graded fitness myth-ai-scientist-nature-paper note-backed
16 Ratchet 82%→94%; veto ledger with recorded rulings 00-meta/growth-ledger.md rows 1/2/6; 90-feedback publish rulings vault-backed

Count: 15/16 fully note/vault-backed (94%); item 4's specific counters are bee-receipt capture-level — promotion candidate if ALMA recurs.