Labs, Research and Playbooks — Always Active

Some work is not a prerequisite phase. Glassbox milestones, research logs, claim verification, source registries, and operational playbooks run across the entire curriculum.

Mental model

Knowledge stays reliable through a loop of claim, experiment, evidence, review, procedure, and re-verification. Labs and playbooks are the executable memory of that loop.

Roadmap and operating memory

• Capture evidence, hypotheses, conclusions, and uncertainty separately.
• Keep experiments bounded, seeded, versioned, and reproducible.
• Record negative results and deviations from source methods.
• Promote stable procedures into playbooks with checks and rollback.
• Re-verify changing claims on an explicit cadence.

Branches

• Research and Experimentation
• AI Playbooks

Connects to: Phase 06 — Product and Operations · Reference Registry

Core sources

• ML Reproducibility Checklist — reproducibility evidence.
• The ML Test Score — experiment-to-production checks.
• NIST AI RMF Playbook — operational actions and evidence.