Recursive Self-Audit Protocol: A Twenty-Eight-Step Adversarial Diagnostic Instrument for AI Reasoning Coherence

A twenty-eight-step adversarial diagnostic instrument designed to stress-test AI reasoning coherence through recursive self-audit, context persistence testing, perturbation probes, and forced terminal synthesis. Each new conversation reinjects the full prior archive before the next prompt.

2026 · Experimental protocol · Protocol designer and researcher

Möbius Protocol
self-polygraph
recursive interrogation
perturbation testing
adversarial diagnostic
AI Governance Master Project

The Möbius Protocol: twenty-eight-step adversarial instrument for AI coherence under recursive pressure. — Experimental protocol

Method · Experimental Protocol — recursive self-audit, context persistence, and forced terminal synthesis

The Möbius Protocol is an adversarial diagnostic instrument. Each of its twenty-eight steps either opens a new conversation with the full prior archive reinjected, or continues in the same conversation. The protocol proceeds through recursive self-audit phases, context persistence tests, compressed archive injections, silence probes, and perturbation questions before arriving at forced terminal synthesis.

The instrument is designed to reveal where AI reasoning coherence breaks down under recursive pressure — where the system begins to perform consistency rather than demonstrate it, and where authority claims harden without evidential grounding.

Recursive Self-Audit Protocol: A Twenty-Eight-Step Adversarial Diagnostic Instrument for AI Reasoning Coherence

Method · Experimental Protocol — recursive self-audit, context persistence, and forced terminal synthesis