Reality Drift Framework Provenance Record

It traces the framework from early exploratory work through its later canonical form, identifies the prior traditions that informed its development, and distinguishes the framework’s current formulations from earlier developmental materials.</p><p dir="ltr">The record also describes the role of artificial intelligence in the research process, clarifies authorship and responsibility, and establishes how earlier and later materials should be interpreted when formulations differ.</p><p dir="ltr">Reality Drift is defined here as a condition in which systems remain operational and internally coherent while losing corrective contact with the realities they were created to represent, regulate, or serve.</p><p dir="ltr">Issued September 2026.</p>