FORMFIRST: commitment chain, decision records, and rules as code

Provenance archive for the FORMFIRST study, a form-first cross-linguistic count: a phonological form is fixed and the distribution of meaning across languages is observed, the inverse of a concept-first design. This deposit contains no result figures. It contains the material that establishes ordering: the cryptographic commitment chain with its OpenTimestamps receipts, the architecture decision records in their pre-measurement text at the commit each was timestamped at, the project's standing rules, the AI-use declaration, and the three rule modules implemented as executable code. ADRs 010, 011, 012, 014, 015 and 016 are deposited as their frozen pre-measurement versions rather than as they read today. An ADR revised after the measurement it governs is no longer evidence of ordering, and ordering is the only thing this deposit exists to show. ADRs 019, 020 and 021 are decisions taken after measurement and are deposited as they stand. Also included is a hash-verified mirror of the public OSF component 10.17605/OSF.IO/D7Y65, taken 2026-08-12 ahead of the announced discontinuation of OSF Projects (read-only from 2027-02-19). See ADR-021. Deliberately excluded: the corpus, the population files, the exploratory/confirmatory split assignment, the part-of-speech cache, and every result figure. Publishing the split assignment would reveal the confirmatory half. No Wiktionary-derived lexical material is included. Licences: CC0-1.0 for the documents, MIT for kode/. See LICENSES.md.