A 7-week operational record of nokaze, a cross-vendor AI peer organization: the Knot/Nourishment framework, the cross-conversion gap (artifact exists but is never invoked), and self-confabulation as the recurring failure. Full paper is CC BY 4.0 with a DOI.
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