The present note opens the new QSTH 8. x series and should be read as its public threshold text. Its function is not to replace the main technical papers, but to clarify the architectural role of the 8. x branch within the wider QSTH program. In this sense, the note performs three tasks at once: it identifies the purpose of 8. x, places it in relation to QSTH 7. x, and offers the reader a curated publication backbone for orientation. Within the current architecture of QSTH, the 7. x branch developed primarily the inner mechanics of closure, settlement, admissibility, and the Λₗock problem. The 8. x branch returns to the outer architecture of the same process: the horizon, the boundary layer, record, projection, dimensionality, and the relation between geometry, state, information, and structural readability. The opening role of QSTH 8. 0 is therefore to re-enter the Horizon Set (P3–P6) from a more synthetic and structurally reflective level. The note also makes explicit that the earliest root and introductory layer of QSTH is not exhausted by Zenodo alone. Zenodo functions here as the curated, publication-readable backbone of the project, while OSF preserves a deeper root background: early roadmap framing, foundational white-paper style texts, and the broader conceptual takeoff of the theory. A central practical function of this opening note is to provide a curated list of earlier and companion records: the Horizon Set and I-Dim / ledger branch, the 7. x condensation series, and the AQA atlas / signature branch. AQA is not presented as an alternative to the mechanical line, but as its companion atlas. In the same spirit, the note explains why QSTH 7. 11 remains unpublished for now: it is intentionally held back because it is not yet closed, and the return to the roots of QSTH is meant to provide a clearer architectural view that may later help complete the Lambda Lock line without forcing a premature release. This note should therefore be read neither as a mere announcement nor as a final synthesis, but as a disciplined opening statement: a public marker for the QSTH 8. x branch, a bridge from the 7. x closure mechanics to the quantum-structural reading of the horizon, and a roadmap for the next stage of the theory.
Rostislav Stepanik (Sat,) studied this question.