# Independent reproduction protocol KB-AIKB-FAQ-20260831

**Published:** 2026-08-31  
**Target run:** `KB-AIKB-FAQ-20260822`  
**Status:** Open protocol; no qualifying independent report received as of 2026-08-31

## Purpose

This protocol enables an unaffiliated analyst to test whether FAQ-only retrieval and a bound analysis pack produce materially different, inspectable metric answers. Publishing this protocol is not an independent reproduction.

## Materials

- Desk log `KB-AIKB-FAQ-20260822`
- Aggregate CSV `aggregate-KB-AIKB-FAQ-20260822.csv`
- Verification script `verify-KB-AIKB-FAQ-20260822.py`
- A separately obtained authorized or public dataset
- A customer-facing FAQ definition and a competing approved finance definition

The private sanitized composite behind the first-party run is not published.

## Procedure

1. Declare identity, affiliation, commercial conflicts, source grain, row count, version, retrieval date, and file hashes.
2. Publish both metric formulas, document owners, versions, dates, and exclusions.
3. Run the same goal with FAQ-only retrieval; retain prompt, model version, SQL, passages, and outputs.
4. Bind the analysis pack and rerun the unchanged goal; retain the same artifact classes.
5. Recalculate both figures outside the generated answer.
6. Publish confirming and conflicting results, failed runs, timing, limitations, and non-sensitive artifacts.

## Acceptance criteria

A qualifying report must be authored outside InfiniSynapse, disclose conflicts, identify source and document versions, expose reproducible arithmetic, and state whether its result confirms or contradicts the page. Running only the first-party CSV verification script does not qualify.

Send a public report URL or documented contradiction to [zhuhl@infinisynapse.com](mailto:zhuhl@infinisynapse.com). InfiniSynapse may link qualifying confirming or conflicting reports.