K501 Information Space: Proof-Bound Temporal Memory Infrastructure for Machine Cognition

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Version 0.1 of the K501 Information Space research dossier and reproducibility package. This record documents the current research-layer state of the K501 Information Space as a developing proof-bound external memory architecture for artificial intelligence. It consolidates formal system definitions, current implementation and validation evidence, provenance and temporal reconstruction structures, comparative scientific context, reproducibility material, and the remaining open research boundaries. The publication distinguishes between established external scientific foundations, K501-specific specifications, implementation evidence, derived structures, historical material, and open questions. It therefore does not present unresolved architectural or empirical questions as completed results. In particular, the record does not claim that K501 has already solved general artificial memory, truth, hallucination, distributed consensus, or production-scale agent control. The accompanying research package contains the publication dossier and the associated reproducibility materials, including machine-readable metadata, evidence and proof material, references, reference code, checksums, reproduction information, and development-roadmap material. The package is intended to make the stated research state inspectable and reproducible without replacing the canonical K501, QH256, or eArc repositories. The dossier represents the research state at Unix time anchor 1791400380 (2026-10-07 19:13:00 UTC / 21:13:00 CEST). It is a research-layer consolidation and does not supersede the earlier QH256 scientific publication, QH256 repository, or other canonical project repositories. The record should therefore be understood as a versioned scientific research artifact documenting a bounded state of development rather than as a declaration of a completed general-purpose memory system.