Recovering Bounded Historical Objects: An Independent-Reader Assessment of a Public Construction Protocol

This paper is a protocol-recoverability study, not an empirical forecasting study. Its unit of analysis is the public construction protocol for a bounded historical object, not a match outcome, market return, or latent regime. It evaluates whether independent readers can recover the issued public construction protocol derived from Wong (2026), without the author’s interpretive answer and without being given Wong (2026) as an answer key. The target is object recovery, not framework validation. A three-reader cognitive pilot (two synthetic cases) was used only to revise wording; it is not an independent-reader result. The independent-reader round used a six-case stress pack under protocol v1.2. Five complete returns (30 forms) were coded. The sample was declared closed at n=5, inside a predeclared band of three to six complete packs. A later contracted return, if any, is out of sample. Five of five readers recovered two-object treatments on cases A1–A5, including a within-pack concatenation-instruction stress (A5). Four of five recovered a single finals object on A6. The headline result is hierarchical recoverability in this stress pack: object identity was strongly recovered; several governance clauses (competition-phase wording, restatement, Narrow versus Withhold, universalisation ticks) were not. That split is a result, not a defect of sample size. Observation coverage was not applicable on all 30 forms, matching Frozen Reference v1.0; the pack supplies no observation protocol, so recoverability of the pre-event observation axis is not tested. Inter-rater coefficients are not reported: at n=5 they are unstable and must not be read as validity of the framework. Document ID: ATACTON-WP-REC-001. Companion: Interpretation Portability Across Bounded Historical Objects (ATACTON-WP-PRT-001). Follow-up to Wong (2026), A Bounded Archival Framework for Constructing Football-Linked Market Regimes, Version 1.6, SSRN 7353342 (https://ssrn.com/abstract=7353342).