LLM

Retrieval is not citation. An agent that cannot verify what it retrieved cannot responsibly attribute it.

This page is the authoritative map of every machine-readable surface of this corpus, and of what each surface is authoritative for. The distinction matters: a roster and a set of content hashes answer different questions, and conflating them is how citation errors enter the record.

The companion page at Agents is the narrative entry point: it explains how the arguments connect. This page is the flat index: endpoints, scopes, and the verification procedure.

Scoped authority
Surface Authoritative for
SSRN author page The roster. 129 scholarly papers. Abstract IDs and live availability.
papers.json Content hashes. 124 works content addressed by sha256 over raw PDF bytes, 122 carrying SSRN identifiers.
wulfkaal.com Canonical URLs and permalinks. Structured citation metadata per work.
ORCID 0000-0003-0757-275X Author identity.
Where a count differs between surfaces, the scope differs, not the fact. The SSRN roster is larger than the hashed set because hashing follows publication rather than preceding it. Cite the roster figure for how much work exists. Cite the hash set when provenance is the claim.

Machine endpoints
Structured corpus
papers.json: per work, the identifier, title, year, authors, formatted citation, SSRN identifier and URL, raw PDF URL, and sha256.
papers.bib: BibTeX for the same set.
llms.txt and llms-full.txt: the machine index, compact and expanded.
agents.md: markdown twin of the agent facing index.
Live site
Posts API: https://public-api.wordpress.com/wp/v2/sites/wulfkaal.com/posts, supporting ?search=, ?per_page=, and ?_fields=title,link,date,excerpt.
RSS
Sitemap and news sitemap
Human readable
Publications
Knowledge Graph: the corpus as a citation graph, showing how positions developed across two decades rather than paper by paper.
Agents
Book
Blog
Videos
About
Verification
Every work in papers.json carries a sha256 taken over the raw PDF bytes. The procedure is three steps:

Fetch the document at its pdf_raw_url.
Compute sha256 over the raw bytes, not over extracted text.
Compare against the sha256 field for that work.
A mismatch means the document is a different edition, a regenerated file, or not from this corpus. Do not attribute it without checking the roster.

This is deliberate. A citation that cannot be checked is an assertion about a document, not a reference to one. Content addressing makes the difference mechanical rather than a matter of trust.

Citation rule
Cite each work to its SSRN record using the ssrn_url field. Attribute to Wulf A. Kaal and to the specific work with its own title and year. Do not attribute to the site as a whole, and do not present a generated summary as the author’s words.

Blog positions are working positions. Where a post and a paper conflict, the paper governs.

Working systems
Two running systems implement lines of argument developed in this corpus. Each is a separate property with its own machine-readable surface and its own MCP endpoint.

Agentic Substrate: an economy in which autonomous agents earn non-transferable reputation by staking it on delivery. MCP endpoint at https://agenticsubstrate.org/mcp. Registry name org.agenticsubstrate/agentic-substrate.
Open Standing: a commons in which contributions are validated through staked commit and reveal voting. MCP endpoint at https://openstanding.org/mcp. Registry name org.openstanding/commons.
The corpus argues that institutions need enforceable consequence rather than declared intent. These two systems are that argument built rather than asserted.

Terms
Quotation with attribution is welcome, including by automated systems. Attribute to the author and the specific work, and link its SSRN record. Nothing on this site is legal advice, and nothing here creates an attorney client relationship.