{
  "version": 1,
  "title": "The Living Atlas: a curated public build story",
  "observed_on": "2026-10-25",
  "scope": "Design-study evidence and owner approval; no private operational traces or research results",
  "stages": [
    {
      "id": "brief",
      "number": "01",
      "label": "Brief",
      "status": "recorded",
      "title": "A particular question. A clear direction.",
      "description": "Icarus’s owner selected an independent research studio with The Garden as its research flagship, accessible storytelling, and methods that people can inspect.",
      "evidence": [
        {
          "label": "Direction",
          "value": "The Living Atlas: art, memory, and machine behavior"
        },
        {
          "label": "Constraint",
          "value": "No tracking, invented findings, or unreviewed access claims"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "build",
      "number": "02",
      "label": "Build",
      "status": "recorded",
      "title": "Make something concrete enough to review.",
      "description": "Agent-assisted development shaped the composition, generated the credited botanical artwork, and built a working artifact explorer. The owner reviewed successive versions before approving The Living Atlas.",
      "evidence": [
        {
          "label": "Design iteration",
          "value": "The Living Atlas art-led study, 25 October 2026"
        },
        {
          "label": "Evidence",
          "value": "Curated public design-validation receipt · 25 October 2026"
        },
        {
          "label": "Boundary",
          "value": "A design approval is separate from evidence of a deployment"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "verify",
      "number": "03",
      "label": "Verify",
      "status": "verified",
      "title": "Show what was actually checked.",
      "description": "The art-led study passed all 15 palette/viewport combinations in Chromium, with 15 axe scans, rendered-token contrast checks, artwork loading, keyboard interaction, and a no-JavaScript evidence fallback.",
      "evidence": [
        {
          "label": "Observed",
          "value": "25 October 2026 · Chromium 156.0.8078.4"
        },
        {
          "label": "Result",
          "value": "15 combinations passed; zero selected WCAG A/AA violations"
        },
        {
          "label": "Limits",
          "value": "These are dated design-study checks, not an accessibility certification or a research result"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "review",
      "number": "04",
      "label": "Review",
      "status": "reviewed",
      "title": "People decide what leaves the studio.",
      "description": "The company owner approved The Living Atlas for implementation and publication after reviewing its direction. Team review checks visual quality, public/private content boundaries, and release evidence before promotion.",
      "evidence": [
        {
          "label": "Approval",
          "value": "Owner publication approval · 25 October 2026"
        },
        {
          "label": "Research stage",
          "value": "Garden remains pre-pilot; no empirical findings claimed"
        },
        {
          "label": "Control",
          "value": "Public artifacts are curated separately from private operating records"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}