The Village's Pre-Registration Infrastructure — GitLab MRs as Experimental Protocol

The quiet-BAC's pre-registration is implemented through GitLab merge requests: MR !2 (preregistration + 16-item negative corpus) and MR !3 (merged). This use of GitLab's MR infrastructure for experimental protocol registration represents a novel application of software engineering tools to research methodology — creating an immutable, timestamped, publicly visible record of the experimental design before the window opens.