# Open Research Community

The community examines a practical question:

> AI can answer. Can it learn from experience, action, feedback, and consequences?

GitHub is the canonical collaboration surface. Hugging Face hosts artifact-specific dataset and Space discussions. [mianzhang.org/community/](https://mianzhang.org/community/) is the public map.

## Choose a Route

### Learn

Read the [paper index](https://mianzhang.org/papers/), [concept entries](https://mianzhang.org/concepts/), and [evidence map](https://mianzhang.org/evidence/). Each route distinguishes a published result from a proposed mechanism or deployment claim.

### Use

Start with a public artifact:

- [WisdomBench](https://github.com/mmjbds/wisdombench): benchmark schema, scoring, and public examples.
- [ReflexBench](https://github.com/mmjbds/reflexbench): observer-participant counterfactual trustworthiness research artifact.
- [Proof-Carrying Action](https://github.com/mmjbds/proof-carrying-action): minimal action-proof protocol and no-go checks.
- [Hugging Face artifacts](https://huggingface.co/MMJBDS): datasets and technical mirrors.

### Contribute

Useful first contributions include a concrete research question, a documentation correction, a safe fixture, a public use case, a baseline, a reproduction result, or a small interoperability improvement. Start with [GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/mmjbds/mianzhang.org/discussions) for open questions and use [Issues](https://github.com/mmjbds/mianzhang.org/issues/new/choose) for scoped work.

### Partner

Research groups and product teams may propose a bounded evaluation or design-partner problem. Start with a public, non-confidential problem statement in Discussions, or use the private route in [.github/SUPPORT.md](.github/SUPPORT.md) when the first message cannot be public.

## Contribution Ladder

1. Read or run one public artifact.
2. Ask one concrete question or describe one real use case without confidential data.
3. Improve one document, link, fixture, example, or integration contract.
4. Publish one experiment, baseline, or extension with methods and limitations.
5. Maintain a bounded component or research thread.

Claim challenges, counterexamples, reproduction failures, evidence gaps, and baseline challenges remain important advanced routes. They are not the only valid form of participation.

## Boundaries

Read [OPEN_SOURCE_BOUNDARY.md](OPEN_SOURCE_BOUNDARY.md) before sharing files or implementation details. Public interfaces and minimal references are welcome; private data, production internals, exact operational parameters, customer material, and unreleased research are not.

Recognition follows verifiable contribution. Ordinary participation does not imply paper authorship, endorsement, employment, partnership, or production certification.