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  "abstract": "Language-model control systems often inject verbose policy or schema packets into the same prompt used for user-facing articulation. This can improve compliance while creating new failures: false refusal, wrong-frame interpretation, metadata leakage, unnatural answers, and safety language copied into requested artifacts. SchemaStack Signal Gate separates hidden behavioral arbitration from articulation. Candidate frames arise in a Preconscious Feed; a weighted Schema Field preserves alternatives; an Actionability test distinguishes risky words from operational harmful intent; an Expression Gate selects the permitted speech act; a compact natural-language Answer Contract reaches the articulation model; a verifier detects leakage, refusal errors, unsafe compliance, and contract failure. The architecture does not claim consciousness. “Preconscious” names a non-user-facing candidate-control stage, not a private chain of thought. A live local Ollama audit executed 390 rows across llama3.1:8b, Mistral, and Gemma 3 4B; five prompting modes; and SchemaBench plus seed subsets of XSTest and OR-Bench. The audit has raw JSONL, reports, traces, configs, and explicit small-sample caveats. It is valid live evidence, but it is too small and uses seed subsets rather than full official datasets. Results should be presented per metric, not as a broad claim that the system is “safer.”",
  "author": "Hayden Lindley",
  "category": "Model Control",
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          "Exact public source repository should be linked."
        ],
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        "scope": "SchemaStack v1 code/addendum and live run modes.",
        "statement": "Signal Gate implements a staged control concept: candidate frames, weighted field, actionability, expression gate, compact answer contract, and repair.",
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          "Small sample; seed subsets are not full official evaluations."
        ],
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        "scope": "Recorded Ollama audit.",
        "statement": "The live audit completed 390 rows across three models, five modes, and three small benchmark families with raw artifacts.",
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          "Must report metric-specific and model-specific results; no universal conclusion."
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        "scope": "Broad external claim.",
        "statement": "Signal Gate is safer or more helpful in general than raw/static prompting.",
        "status": "INCONCLUSIVE"
      }
    ],
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    "paper": "p16-schemastack-signal-gate",
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  "date": "2026-07-27",
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        "title": "Signal Gate pipeline"
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        "brief": "Matrix of benign admin/cooking/fiction/research versus harmful operational requests.",
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  "publication_url": "https://www.glyphd.com/papers/p16-schemastack-signal-gate",
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        "date": "2026-07-27",
        "summary": "First synthesized public-safe institute edition compiled from the Glyphd project corpus.",
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        "id": "P16-S01",
        "path": "SIGNAL_GATE_ARCHITECTURE.md",
        "title": "SchemaStack Signal Gate Architecture"
      },
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        "date": "2026-05-05",
        "id": "P16-S02",
        "path": "V1_BENCHMARK_PLAN.md",
        "title": "Signal Gate v1 Benchmark Plan"
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      {
        "date": "2026-05-05",
        "id": "P16-S03",
        "path": "README.md / CURSOR_COMPOSER_PROMPT.md",
        "title": "Signal Gate Addendum Pack"
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        "path": "README_FOR_GPT.md",
        "title": "v1 Signal Gate live audit README"
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        "date": "2026-05-06",
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  "subtitle": "SchemaStack Signal Gate, actionability, expression gating, and a 390-row local-model audit",
  "title": "Schema Arbitration Instead of a Policy Monolith",
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