Research TODO Backfill Validation

Date: 2026-08-17

Inventory result

• Proposed ROS backlog missions: 11.
• Frontier coverage: RFR-001 through RFR-010, one mission each.
• Additional experiment coverage: NX-005 audit/no-audit counterfactual.
• Mission status: 11 proposed, 0 active, 0 completed.
• Generated registry: registries/missions.json.

Duplicate roadmap checkboxes and NX aliases were consolidated according to docs/repository/2026-08-17-research-todo-backfill.md. Engineering/product items and illustrative/template TODOs were excluded from the research backlog.

Commands and results

./ros registry build
./ros registry check
./ros validate --json
jq '{count:length, ids:map(.id), statuses:(group_by(.status)|map({key:.[0].status,value:length})|from_entries)}' registries/missions.json
npm test
npm run research:validate
git diff --check

Results:

• ROS generated one updated registry, registries/missions.json.
• Registry check passed.
• ROS validation returned valid: true with no findings.
• Registry count was 11 with IDs MS-AIRES-2026-0001 through MS-AIRES-2026-0011, all proposed.
• Six historical-attribution tests and seven repository-integrity tests passed.
• Research Publisher validation passed.
• Diff whitespace validation passed.

Manual checks

• Every mission uses the ROS mission ID and filename convention.
• Every mission records objective, scope, hypotheses, required evidence, constraints, deliverables, success criteria, stop conditions, and handoff.
• Dependencies match the frontier critical path and containment prerequisite.
• No mission was marked active merely because its source RFR is open.
• RFR-009's remaining work is represented without erasing its completed validation progress.