TheoB should score discoveries before they shape evolution.
A scoring gate for source credibility, recency, mission fit, evidence strength, risk, experiment readiness, cultural sensitivity, and evolution value.
Every TheoB pathway can move through Past, Present, and Future without losing context.
Read current signals, conditions, and live context.
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Not every new signal deserves a place in the system.
R&D Signal Scoring Gate protects TheoB from hype, weak evidence, unsafe claims, cultural flattening, and expensive distractions while still allowing strong discoveries to move toward experiments and evolution.
Who produced it, what evidence supports it, and whether the source has domain authority.
How fresh the signal is and whether it replaces older assumptions.
How directly the signal supports TheoB, About Cacao, human flourishing, Earth care, or system resilience.
Whether the signal is peer-reviewed, replicated, field-tested, documented, or still speculative.
Whether adoption could create safety, ethics, cost, legal, cultural, or operational risk.
Whether the signal can become a bounded test with rollback and review.
Whether the signal involves lineage, sacred knowledge, ceremony, identity, or producer communities.
Whether the signal should feed Adaptive Evolution, be watched, be rejected, or be archived.
A good research system knows the difference between signal, noise, and future potential.
Signals should be scored before becoming discoveries.
High hype with weak evidence should be watched, not adopted.
Health, ceremony, and cultural claims require stricter scoring.
A low score does not mean useless; it may mean archive, monitor, or retest later.
Every score should explain the reason, not hide behind a number.
Scoring should protect TheoB from both stagnation and reckless novelty.