Epistemic Engineering: Research Materials for Repository Exploration and Selective-Withholding Pilots

This research compendium accompanies the position paper Epistemic Engineering. It preserves a questionnaire instrument applied to an artificial reasoner reporting prior work in the Dazzle repository, the resulting agent-generated response, and a second repository-grounded investigation conducted from fresh context. It also preserves the Aster and visual selective-withholding apparatus, condition manifests, 30 software submissions, 20 visual submissions, automated results, available scores, descriptive analyses and the experimental journal. The materials document exploratory method development and an evidential boundary. They do not establish a causal effect of the proposed stems: the first Aster protocols shared a common performance floor, model-based qualitative scoring lacked discrimination, and the visual work did not reach a frozen, adequately rated outcome instrument.