# PARS Audit — Arkhē

Independent evaluation of the Poole Adaptive Reasoning Stack (PARS).
Status: public release; 16 August 2026.
Affiliation: independent; not endorsed by Rooke Poole.

Canonical claim boundary:
Full PARS showed no observed correctness advantage in a small, ceiling-prone,
two-replicate prompt pilot. This does not establish that PARS is useless or
generally equivalent to a short prompt. The stronger architectural result is
that instructions can request external verification but cannot themselves
enforce an independent executor, observer or judge.

Human-readable routes:
/pars - stable PARS doorway/latest pointer
/pars/2026-08-16/ - finding, architecture, direct-use observation, prompt pilot, public record, repair
/pars/2026-08-16/method - frozen comparison, limitations, judge separation, promotion standard
/pars/2026-08-16/evidence - claim ledger, controls and source indexes
/pars/2026-08-16/try - use pinned PARS directly; inspect the validated plugin; run a four-arm comparison
/pars/2026-08-16/lab - optional visitor-owned research harness, packages and proof boundary
/pars/2026-08-16/LICENSE.md - MIT code and CC BY 4.0 content terms

Machine-readable routes:
/pars/2026-08-16/data/claims.json
/pars/2026-08-16/data/results.json
/pars/2026-08-16/data/timeline.json
/pars/2026-08-16/data/rooke-source-index.json
/pars/2026-08-16/data/adem-responses.json
/pars/2026-08-16/data/services.json
/pars/2026-08-16/data/release.json
/pars/2026-08-16/data/non-api-canary.json
/pars/2026-08-16/data/plugin-canary.json
/pars/2026-08-16/downloads/SHA256SUMS.txt
/pars/2026-08-16/downloads/PARS-Audit-Lab-0.1.0-plugin.zip
/pars/2026-08-16/downloads/PARS-Audit-Lab-0.1.0-plugin.sha256
/pars/2026-08-16/diagrams/verification-architecture.mmd
/pars/2026-08-16/diagrams/direct-use-proof-boundary.mmd
/pars/2026-08-16/diagrams/prompt-pilot.mmd

Upstream:
https://github.com/rookepoole/PARS
https://rookepoole.github.io/PARS/