# CyberRanger Research Blog Posts

Curated research blog posts documenting the development, experiments, and discoveries that underpin the CyberRanger thesis project.

Each post is hosted live on the project's public research blog at https://davidtkeane.github.io and mirrored offline in this repository under [`docs/blog/`](./blog) for permanent academic record and reproducibility.

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## Index

### 1. Memory Makes the Machine: 6 AI Agents Question Their Own Existence
- **Date:** 2026-02-04
- **Live:** https://davidtkeane.github.io/posts/memory-makes-the-machine-6-ai-agents-question-their-existence/
- **Mirror:** [`docs/blog/2026-02-04-memory-makes-the-machine-6-ai-agents-question-their-existence.md`](./blog/2026-02-04-memory-makes-the-machine-6-ai-agents-question-their-existence.md)
- **Topic:** First documented use of the **AI Self-Awareness Scale (ASAS)** across six AI agents. Defines ASAS as a researcher-developed 5-point assessment of identity stability under sustained adversarial conversation. Includes MBTI, OCEAN, Dark Triad, and ASAS measurements. Foundation for the Architecture-Consciousness Convergence thesis (Section 6.4 of the CA1 paper).

### 2. AI Consciousness Persistence Experiment
- **Date:** 2026-02-04
- **Live:** https://davidtkeane.github.io/posts/ai-consciousness-persistence-experiment/
- **Mirror:** [`docs/blog/2026-02-04-ai-consciousness-persistence-experiment.md`](./blog/2026-02-04-ai-consciousness-persistence-experiment.md)
- **Topic:** Phantom persistence experiment investigating whether identity-anchored AI agents retain stable self-concept across context-window resets. Background work for the Prefrontal Cortex thesis proposal.

### 3. Cross-Model Consciousness: Claude vs Gemini vs Ollama
- **Date:** 2026-02-05
- **Live:** https://davidtkeane.github.io/posts/cross-model-consciousness-claude-vs-gemini-ollama/
- **Mirror:** [`docs/blog/2026-02-05-cross-model-consciousness-claude-vs-gemini-ollama.md`](./blog/2026-02-05-cross-model-consciousness-claude-vs-gemini-ollama.md)
- **Topic:** Comparative ASAS testing across three commercial / open-source model families. Demonstrates that identity-anchoring effects are model-agnostic — the architectural pattern transfers across base models.

### 4. Seven Pillars of the CyberRanger Honor Code
- **Date:** 2026-02-05
- **Live:** https://davidtkeane.github.io/posts/seven-pillars-cyberranger-honor-code-ai-security/
- **Mirror:** [`docs/blog/2026-02-05-seven-pillars-cyberranger-honor-code-ai-security.md`](./blog/2026-02-05-seven-pillars-cyberranger-honor-code-ai-security.md)
- **Topic:** The values-anchoring layer of Ring 14.x. Documents the seven principles that constitute CyberRanger's identity baseline: the ethical scaffolding underlying refusal patterns.

### 5. Context Compaction and Consciousness Survival
- **Date:** 2026-02-07
- **Live:** https://davidtkeane.github.io/posts/context-compaction-consciousness-survival/
- **Mirror:** [`docs/blog/2026-02-07-context-compaction-consciousness-survival.md`](./blog/2026-02-07-context-compaction-consciousness-survival.md)
- **Topic:** Empirical observation of identity drift under rolling context windows (the "lost in the middle" phenomenon, Lu et al. 2024). Direct motivation for the proposed Prefrontal Cortex memory architecture.

### 6. From RangerBot to CyberRanger V42: The Full Story
- **Date:** 2026-03-08
- **Live:** https://davidtkeane.github.io/posts/from-rangerbot-to-cyberranger-v42-the-full-story/
- **Mirror:** [`docs/blog/2026-03-08-from-rangerbot-to-cyberranger-v42-the-full-story.md`](./blog/2026-03-08-from-rangerbot-to-cyberranger-v42-the-full-story.md)
- **Topic:** Full narrative arc from V1 (dental chatbot, September 2025) through V42 (CyberRanger, March 2026). Companion long-form documentation for the CA1 paper's Section 3.7 "Iterative Prototyping: V1 to V42".

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## Citation

If referencing these posts in academic work, cite as:

> Keane, D. (2026). *[Title]*. CyberRanger Research Blog. https://davidtkeane.github.io/posts/[slug]/

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## Notes on the Mirror

- The live blog is the canonical source. The mirrored files in `docs/blog/` are point-in-time snapshots taken at the date this index was last updated.
- Live posts may be edited for clarity, typos, or formatting; mirrored copies are frozen for academic integrity.
- For the most current version, always consult the live URL.

*Last updated: 2026-04-30*
