Next steps

Stable 0.5.2 and preview 0.5.3rc4 provide a domain-neutral evidence harness, recorded autonomous campaigns, and a capability framework that can take a new instrument. Operational improvements do not by themselves qualify new science.

What comes next is scientific use of that harness, not a second set of release conditions.

Extend the same tooling

The claim ledger, sandbox, commissioning protocol, and capability framework are ready for other simulation-gated fields that have a sharp question and a checkable instrument. Adding a field means installing or authoring an instrument, writing a problem contract, and running the same evidence rules.

Hunt independently confirmed new results

Plasma remains the origin domain. A later campaign should produce an independently inspectable discovery package: a compact law, a matched counterexample, or a scoped impossibility that survives fresh confirmation and adversarial attack. A numerical failure or under-resolved run is an instrument result, not a scientific finding.

Scientific requirements that remain

Any later result still needs prospective contracts, commissioned instruments, immutable provenance, and guarded claim closure. Those rules do not change when the field changes.