Mnemos Cognitive Science Research

Workflow

1. Identify which science lane the feature or claim belongs to.
2. Read the relevant section in the cognitive-inspiration-map.
3. Verify the proposed language is in the "borrows from" column, not the "refuses to claim" column.
4. If no lane applies, consider whether this is a genuinely novel claim that requires a new hypothesis.
5. Write or update a research note using docs/templates/research-note.md.
6. If the claim is falsifiable and has a concrete metric path, propose it as a new hypothesis in docs/research/hypotheses.md.
7. If the claim falls in the psychiatric safety lane, escalate to docs/process/07-companion-scope-and-safety.md review before any implementation.

Quality bar

• Every feature grounded in science must be traceable to a specific lane and construct
• "Inspired by" does not imply "equivalent to" — document the delta explicitly
• Psychiatry lane features require a safety review before prototyping
• Never add a hypothesis without a concrete metric and an evaluation scenario