Evidence Observatory
The vault knowing what it knows — 3 motifs, 22 claims, 46 sources, 33 register questions, aggregated live from frontmatter. Every glyph opens the note behind it. Items the vault cannot date sit in the “beyond the evidence horizon” zone — beyond that line we are reconstructing, not observing.
The Motif Constellation
Motifs as stars on the deep-time axis, positioned at earliest attestation, sized by occurrence count, colored by transmission verdict. Tradition profiles orbit below as faint hollow points.
The Claim Field
Every claim (and tradition profile, hollow) on a confidence × evidence-class grid. The healthy corner (high × class 1–2) glows green; a dot in the amber-dashed corner — high confidence on reconstruction-or-worse — wears a calibration-alarm ring.
Open-Question Pressure
Register questions by target domain: hot dials are where synthesis is re-tasking the gathering. Chips link to the register.
+ 18 questions parked in the backlog (excluded from gauges by design — they don't block verdicts).
Source Diversity Spectra
Tier-1 sources per domain, stacked by evidence class — archaeology · text · reconstruction · ethnography · cognitive — with URL-verification ratios. A pink ! marks a note whose counter-evidence is empty or “none found”.
Raw aggregate: /api/observatory · proposal: evidence-observatory. The page re-renders itself when the vault changes (the standard 3-second version poll) — leave it open and watch the vault think.