{
  "name": "SIMARC",
  "full_name": "Simulation Architecture & Research Computing",
  "url": "https://simarc.org",
  "api_version": "v1",
  "thesis": "Every result ships with the test that could have killed it.",
  "doctrine": "A pipeline you cannot read the source of is a story, not a measurement.",
  "description": "An independent research computing institute running five adversarially-instrumented simulation programs across physics, mathematics, oncology and dementia on privately owned bare-metal compute.",
  "location": "Texas, USA",
  "contact": "https://simarc.org/contact.html",
  "predecessor": "universesolver.com",
  "stats": {
    "programs": 5,
    "proof_artifact_mb": 145,
    "independent_verifications": 0,
    "lessons_recorded": 84,
    "lessons_recorded_note": "A floor, not a total, and it grows: counted mechanically by tools/harvest.py from distinct L-N entries across the live program trees. The physics program numbers its lessons differently and is undercounted here.",
    "prediction_ledgers_empty": 4,
    "results_published": 0
  },
  "programs": [
    {
      "id": "P-01",
      "codename": "TWO SLITS",
      "title": "Substrate Physics Program",
      "question": "What would a discrete spacetime leave behind?",
      "status": "ACTIVE",
      "headline": "A computed universe would have to approximate somewhere. The seams are named in advance, with the test that would close each one."
    },
    {
      "id": "P-02",
      "codename": "QUANTUM COMPUTER",
      "title": "Computational Modalities Program",
      "question": "What does each physical theory make impossible?",
      "status": "CALIBRATION",
      "headline": "Every physical theory is defined less by what it permits than by what it makes impossible. The bounds are proved rather than searched for."
    },
    {
      "id": "P-03",
      "codename": "CANCER",
      "title": "Computational Oncology Program",
      "question": "Which results could change a clinical decision?",
      "status": "CALIBRATION",
      "headline": "A result can be true, well-formed, and change nothing. The programme is built around that gap rather than around the result."
    },
    {
      "id": "P-04",
      "codename": "DIMENTAI",
      "title": "Computational Neurodegeneration Program",
      "question": "What does a failed trial actually measure?",
      "status": "CALIBRATION",
      "headline": "A failed trial and an abandoned one are different measurements, and the register does not consistently distinguish them."
    },
    {
      "id": "P-05",
      "codename": "ASSEMBLY",
      "title": "Computational Astrobiology Program",
      "question": "Which measurement could tell life from chemistry?",
      "status": "CALIBRATION",
      "headline": "A random object has a high assembly index, so complexity alone is not a biosignature; what distinguishes life is complexity at abundance, and no flying instrument measures it."
    }
  ],
  "endpoints": {
    "institute": "https://simarc.org/api/v1/institute.json",
    "claims": "https://simarc.org/api/v1/claims.json",
    "datasets": "https://simarc.org/api/v1/datasets.json",
    "ledger": "https://simarc.org/api/v1/ledger.json",
    "fleet": "https://simarc.org/api/v1/fleet.json",
    "llms_txt": "https://simarc.org/llms.txt",
    "mcp_local": "mcp/simarc_mcp.py",
    "mcp_hosted": "https://mcp.simarc.org (planned, Phase 2)"
  },
  "evidence_standards": {
    "physics": [
      "PROOF",
      "EXACT",
      "STATISTICAL"
    ],
    "oncology": [
      "OBSERVATIONAL",
      "PERTURBATIONAL",
      "PHARMACOLOGICAL",
      "CLINICAL"
    ],
    "dementia": [
      "OBSERVATIONAL",
      "GENETIC",
      "MECHANISTIC",
      "CLINICAL"
    ]
  },
  "constraints": [
    "Empty registers are reported as empty. No program has published a sealed prediction, and every page states so.",
    "No claim wears vocabulary above its evidence rung. The evidence-rung labels on every page are the enforcement, not decoration.",
    "Refutations render in the same type size as confirmations. Including refutations of our own work.",
    "The independent-verification count is published wherever it is relevant, and is not withheld while it stands at zero.",
    "Every number links to, or names, its source artifact.",
    "Program status lines appear verbatim. CALIBRATION means calibration; DEVELOPMENT ONLY means the preflight will refuse a publication run.",
    "Nothing here is clinical guidance. No output from the medical programs is patient-specific, diagnostic, or prognostic for an individual.",
    "The site never claims the universe is simulated. A perfect simulation is indistinguishable from base reality by construction \u2014 \"no\" is unreachable, and only specific seams are testable. That framing is canonical here.",
    "Corrections are appended, never repaired quietly. A fixed mistake with no trace is indistinguishable from a mistake never made.",
    "Blocks are written down as blocks. Two dementia targets are blocked on data access and are named as blocked rather than attempted quietly."
  ],
  "wants": {
    "primary": "independent verification of any claim in the registry",
    "also": [
      "criticism of the apparatus from a computational-science angle",
      "collaborators on order-six combinatorics, Latin-square parity, proof-certificate methods",
      "data access partnerships (ADNI, NACC, ROSMAP, UK Biobank)",
      "external embarrassingly-parallel decision procedures for the fleet"
    ]
  },
  "license": {
    "data": "free, no account, no agreement, no fee",
    "api": "open, unkeyed, no rate limit, CORS open"
  },
  "updated": "2026-08-21",
  "disclosure": "Apparatus internals and fleet inventory are not published. Claims, certificates, datasets and the ledger are public in full.",
  "constraints_note": "The ten standing commitments, carried over verbatim from the programs' own doctrine. They governed every page when the apparatus page carried them; they govern the API now."
}