Laboratory / History
Experimental
History
Experimental apparatus changes. Scripts are repaired, prompts are revised, models are replaced, hypotheses are weakened, and failed approaches are abandoned. Those changes are themselves part of the evidence.
The working tree is revisable.
Historical existence is monotonic.
Historical existence is monotonic.
Layers of History
HIST / 01
Repository History
Git records changes to the experimental apparatus itself.
HIST / 02
Artifact History
Intermediate files preserve trajectories within individual experimental runs.
HIST / 03
Experiment States
Programming experiments progress through scaffold, prototype, running, results, and retirement.