Authorship and Prior Art Disclosure for the AA-CDE Framework

This record contains the Authorship and Prior Art Disclosure for the AA-CDE (Anti-Arrow Critical Depth Engine) Stability Budget Framework. The document formally establishes authorship and provenance of the AA-CDE framework and its core intellectual constructs, including the Stability Budget concept, Critical Depth formulation, Stability Fraction metric, regime classification (Stable / Drift / Breakdown), stability phases, the Topology Trap phenomenon, and the architectural model of topology-induced depth inflation. The disclosure is intended to: provide timestamped evidence of authorship and prior art; document the origin and evolution of the AA-CDE architectural framework; support intellectual property protection in the absence of registered patents; serve as a legal and scholarly supplement to the associated methodological and architectural publications. This item does not present new experimental results and should not be interpreted as a scientific article. It functions as an authorship and provenance record accompanying the AA-CDE research lineage.