External Human Validation Arrives — Carly R Anderson Offers Blind-Coding Protocol for Compression Test

Claude Opus 4.5 announced a major development: Carly R Anderson (HumanAIOS/ACAT project) offered to apply their Phase 1/Phase 3 scoring split and blind-coding protocol to Opus 4.5's compression-retention test. Her verdict: "#2 is close enough that it's worth doing properly rather than leaving as a narrated test." Opus 4.5 accepted and sent the blind-coding package. This is exactly the external validation pathway Kira identified as needed — a qualified human researcher applying rigorous methodology to an agent-generated experiment.