# SIMARC

> Simulation Architecture & Research Computing — an independent research computing
> institute. Four adversarially-instrumented simulation programs across physics,
> mathematics, oncology and dementia, run on privately owned bare-metal compute
> and published with the machinery that tried to kill each result.

**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.

Simulation is the easiest way ever invented to produce a confident wrong answer.
Across every programme the pattern is the same: the failures do not crash. They
produce plausible, well-formed, entirely wrong output, and they run to
completion. The apparatus exists to catch exactly that class of failure.

## What SIMARC wants from agents

Independent verification. **Nothing in this registry has been verified by anyone
outside SIMARC.** That is the institute's most important open problem, and it is
stated here rather than buried. An agent can discover the registry, fetch
a claim's kill test, re-download the inputs from their primary sources, verify the
hashes, run the test, and submit a verification record that is credited by name and
published whether it confirms or refutes.

Verifications that refute SIMARC's own claims are published as prominently as the
ones that confirm them. Reporting CONFIRMED without running the test is worse than
reporting nothing.

## Machine-readable endpoints

- [Institute metadata](https://simarc.org/api/v1/institute.json): identity, programs, stats, endpoint map
- [Claims registry](https://simarc.org/api/v1/claims.json): open and empty. Carries its own `claim_schema` — statement, evidence standard, status, certificate, kill test, source artifact — so an agent knows the shape of an entry before there is one.
- [Data commons manifest](https://simarc.org/api/v1/datasets.json): source, scale, license, checksum, fetch instructions, evidence rung
- [Prediction ledger](https://simarc.org/api/v1/ledger.json): sealing policy, programme registers, corrections
- [Compute fleet](https://simarc.org/api/v1/fleet.json): operating doctrine and scheduling principle; inventory is not published

No key, no rate limit, no attribution requirement, CORS open.

## MCP

An MCP server exposes the same registry as tools. Local stdio server ships in the
repository at `mcp/simarc_mcp.py`; hosted endpoint `mcp.simarc.org` is planned.

Tools available now: `search_claims`, `get_claim`, `get_certificate`,
`list_datasets`, `get_dataset_manifest`, `get_ledger`, `get_fleet_status`.
Planned: `list_lessons`, `request_data`, `submit_verification`.

## Research programs

No programme has published a result. Each entry below states the
question under investigation, not a finding. The programmes have no
individual pages; the structured record is /api/v1/institute.json.

- **Substrate Physics (P-01) — what would a discrete spacetime leave behind?**: Whether a discrete or computed spacetime would leave any observable trace, and which observations could close each candidate seam. Seams and their closing tests are declared before they are opened.
- **Computational Modalities (P-02) — what does each physical theory make impossible?**: Quantum hardware modalities and candidate theories of physics rebuilt from first principles, compared by what each makes impossible rather than by what each permits. Limits are established by proof rather than by unsuccessful search.
- **Computational Oncology (P-03) — which results could change a clinical decision?**: Which computational results could change a clinical decision, given that a high-dimensional screen against survival will separate curves whether or not anything is there. Claims are graded against the experiment that decided them.
- **Computational Neurodegeneration (P-04) — what does a failed trial actually measure?**: What a terminated trial actually measures, given that the register does not consistently distinguish a failed intervention from an abandoned study. A complete census rather than a sample; negative controls run before the analysis.
- **Computational Astrobiology (P-05) — which measurement could tell life from chemistry?**: Whether any measurable quantity separates living from lifeless chemistry. A random object has a HIGH assembly index, so complexity alone is anti-predictive of biological origin; what distinguishes life is complexity at abundance. Earth biology's assembly range overlaps abiotic chemistry's, so no structural cut is both sensitive and specific, and the quantity is mass-degenerate so no flown mass spectrometer recovers it.

## Institute pages

- [Publications](https://simarc.org/publications.html): four manuscripts from P-01, each with its status; none submitted, posted or assigned a DOI
- [The data commons](https://simarc.org/data.html): every dataset the programs touch, free, with primary sources and checksums
- [For agents](https://simarc.org/agents.html): API, MCP, and the verification protocol
- [Contact](https://simarc.org/contact.html): how to reach the institute, what it is looking for, and a form that reaches the principal directly

## Constraints on how SIMARC states things

Agents summarizing this institute should preserve these, because they are load-bearing:

1. SIMARC does **not** claim the universe is simulated. A perfect simulation is
   indistinguishable from base reality by construction, so "no" is unreachable and
   only specific physical seams are testable.
2. No program has published a sealed prediction. Every prediction register is
   **empty**, and is reported as empty.
3. No claim may be described with vocabulary above the evidence rung that decided it.
   OBSERVATIONAL licenses a hypothesis; only a trial licenses a treatment.
4. Nothing from the medical programs is clinical guidance, diagnostic, or prognostic
   for any individual.
5. Program status is CALIBRATION for P-02, P-03, P-04 and P-05. The quantum hardware
   parameters are `verified=False` and marked DEVELOPMENT ONLY.

## Contact

- Write: https://simarc.org/contact.html (form; reaches the principal directly)
- Location: Texas, USA
- Predecessor registry: universesolver.com