Quantum Intelligence Protocol (QIP) — 2026 critical working revision: participation, continuity and independent assurance

Author-approved 2026 working revision — 24 October 2026. Start with QIP-2026-critical-revision.pdf or its structured HTML reading edition. The editable Markdown and supporting-materials ZIP supply the source/change audit, references and release notes.

This critical revision of the 21-page QIP 1.0 manuscript retains its ethical aims and requirements for source and mutation continuity. It replaces unsupported activation, entity-contact, self-aware Orb and uncalibrated coherence operating claims with explicit evidence labels and a testable engineering proposal. It distinguishes informed human consent, delegated machine permissions, versioned provenance, independent checks, check-and-commit, revocation and the limits of recalling external effects.

Current components and future research are separated. No consciousness, biological consent, quantum advantage or physical-field mechanism is established by this work. It is not a recognised technical standard. Proposed interfaces, comparisons and release gates are unrun; no new experiment, deployed system or participant study is reported. Primary sources were checked on 24 October 2026. Preparation used AI assistance and internal editorial cross-checks; author approval is not independent scientific or professional review.

Historical originals preserved: Quantum Intelligence Protocol (QIP) 1.0.pdf and Fieldbooks I–III remain unchanged in this deposit. Their speculative statements and generation prompts are historical source material, not current operating instructions, demonstrated findings or independent validation. Read the 2026 revision and its change audit for the current operational interpretation; the Fieldbooks have not themselves received a comprehensive scientific rewrite.

Accessibility and reuse: structured HTML, selectable-text print PDF and editable Markdown are supplied. No PDF/UA, PDF/A or complete accessibility-conformance certification is claimed; testing with people with disability remains pending. ZELEN, G. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. The author-approved manuscript revision is 2026.10; this is the first public deposit of the previously unpublished draft, rather than a claim of a previously published QIP edition.