Changelog
The documentation describes CORPUS as it is. This page records how it got there: policy changes, new mechanisms, and notable revisions of these docs, newest first.
September 2026 — The points ledger gets its spine
Every points entry now carries the version of the scoring policy that produced it and a reason from a fixed list, stamped by the database itself. Entries can no longer be edited or deleted at any level: corrections are new entries that reference what they correct, and a recalibration is recorded as one event with scope, approval, and net effect. All entries from before the change were classified the same way, so the book reads consistently from its first day. The Scoring System in Detail.
August 2026 — The production bonus is retired
The style-relative quality assessment no longer awards points (previously up to 50). The reading itself stays and grows: it describes how a mix sits against the reference practice of its style, openly and without a score. The reason is principled, not technical: the right yardstick depends on the producer's intention, and intention cannot be measured. A system that guesses intention punishes originals. Scores now assemble from two sources: Technical Quality and Novelty.
August 2026 — Novelty measures the whole track
Novelty Estimation compares the full mix as one point on the corpus map and pays the percentile point for point, replacing the earlier per-aspect originality axes. Each score is protected for three years after ingest, then decays toward a permanent floor of 30 percent. Novelty Estimation, Temporal Dynamics.
August 2026 — The docs describe what is measured, never how
Scoring pages state the principles, the dimensions, and the promises a contributor can hold CORPUS to. The measurement mechanics stay unpublished: publishing them would hand out a gaming manual and close options that should stay open.
August 2026 — White paper marked as historical
The white paper predates the scoring system as built. It stays online as a record of the founding argument while a revision is prepared; the docs are the current description. White Paper.
July 2026 — Evaluation docs split into dedicated pages
Novelty Estimation and the style-relative quality assessment each received a page of their own, with the shared three-axis story (quantity, quality, novelty) anchoring them.
June 2026 — Docs restructured along the map
The documentation moved to five chapters following the CORPUS data-and-value-flow map, from The CORPUS Idea to The Ecosystem. The homepage gained "Ask the docs", an assistant answering in 36 languages.
June 2026 — Generative Output Bonus documented
Royalty documentation added the Generative Output Bonus and the per-round example figures. How Royalties Flow.