Auditability-First Science_ Cryptographic Determinism as a New Standard for Reproducible Research
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Status Note — May 2026This paper is retained as an early methodological statement of the auditability-first science direction. The current commercial implementation of these principles is VERIFY: deterministic decision proof infrastructure using replayable artifacts, bundleHash verification, and independent audit. CODES Framework Abstract: The replication crisis shows that post-hoc reproducibility is structurally insufficient. Peer review, p-values, and “data on request” cannot prevent p-hacking, selective reporting, or HARKing. Auditability-first science inverts the workflow: build a deterministic audit substrate before experimentation, pre-register hypotheses with cryptographic timestamps, and publish only with deterministic replay proofs. Using fixed-point computation and bundleHash verification, predictions are locked prior to data collection and results are released with platform-independent proofs of non-manipulation. Demonstrated via RIC v2, whose golden test suite is fully reproducible across platforms, auditability-first shifts truth from social consensus to cryptographic verifiability and offers a practical, field-agnostic path out of the replication crisis.
Author: Bostick, Devin
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems and Management
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7104560541
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