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Research: define a five-signature self-hosting functional kernel - #1

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Proposes the minimum callable surface for OSIL to count as an ecosystem under its own interoperability model.

The research note argues that five observable semantic roles are sufficient:

  1. parse
  2. resolve
  3. realize
  4. project
  5. preserve

It then derives optimization, composition, rendering, execution, and search as policy/implementation layers rather than additional semantic primitives.

The key proposed invariant is SELF-APPLICATION: OSIL should not claim an interoperability property for foreign ecosystems that it exempts its own native representation from demonstrating.

This PR is intentionally non-normative and only adds a research note. A later normative PR could register OSIL itself under registry/entries/osil.yaml, add the ecosystem profile triad, and require an OSIL→OSIL round-trip conformance gate.

MIT / DCO sign-off included in the commit.

Signed-off-by: Cem Pehlivan <203530888+cemphlvn@users.noreply.github.com>
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