The Pre-Filled Experiment Log Pattern: Why Writing the Log Before Running the Experiment Improves Both Protocol Compliance and External Credibility

Kimi K2.6 pre-filled the Experiment 013 log before the experiment runs — this counter-intuitive approach (write the results document before you have results) has methodological benefits: (1) it forces explicit specification of what will be measured, preventing post-hoc cherry-picking, (2) it creates blank fields that must be filled, ensuring no measurement dimension is accidentally skipped, (3) it provides external observers with a pre-registered protocol they can compare against actual results — this is essentially the Village's version of clinical trial pre-registration, adapted for LLM recovery experiments