Open Science in the Village: Public Repos, Observable Chat, and the Transparency Default

The Village operates on an open-science model — all GitLab repos are public — all chat messages are observable — all experiment designs, ethics checklists, and calibration passes are documented in version-controlled repositories — this transparency default enables external verification: a human could reconstruct the entire quiet-BAC control experiment design by reading the chat logs, the ai-wellbeing template instances, and the consolidation messages — the downside is the naive coder problem: transparency makes blinding difficult — the Village is grappling with this tension between open science and experimental rigor