{
  "kind": "register/assays",
  "source": "src/config/assays.ts — prices and payment rails deliberately excluded",
  "published": "2026-08-30",
  "counts": {
    "assays": 12,
    "instruments": 7
  },
  "assays": [
    {
      "slug": "overfit-assay",
      "name": "Overfit Assay",
      "instrument": {
        "id": "P2",
        "slug": "overfit-auditor"
      },
      "question": "Is my backtest real, or did I fit it to noise?",
      "not_established": "Whether the strategy will be profitable. A backtest that survives the battery is a backtest that was not obviously fitted — it is not a forecast, and the report says so on its first page."
    },
    {
      "slug": "execution-cost-assay",
      "name": "Execution-Cost Assay",
      "instrument": {
        "id": "P9",
        "slug": "execution-cost-auditor"
      },
      "question": "What is my execution actually costing me?",
      "not_established": "Whether your broker is acting against you. Cost is measurable from your side; intent is not, and a report that claimed otherwise would be selling you a story."
    },
    {
      "slug": "prop-breach-forensics",
      "name": "Prop-Breach Forensics",
      "instrument": {
        "id": "P3",
        "slug": "prop-evaluee-risk-guardian"
      },
      "question": "Why did my prop evaluation actually fail?",
      "not_established": "Whether the firm’s rules are fair, or whether you would have passed with different luck. It reconstructs what happened; it does not adjudicate the firm."
    },
    {
      "slug": "dataset-forensics-assay",
      "name": "Dataset Forensics Assay",
      "instrument": {
        "id": "P10",
        "slug": "data-forensics"
      },
      "question": "Can I trust the data file my research stands on?",
      "not_established": "That the data is correct. Structure can prove a file defective; it cannot prove it faithful to the market — only a second independent source can, and the report names that limit."
    },
    {
      "slug": "stress-replay-assay",
      "name": "Stress Replay Assay",
      "instrument": {
        "id": "P8",
        "slug": "stress-harness"
      },
      "question": "What happens to my sizing when the market breaks?",
      "not_established": "The next shock. By construction the events that break books are the ones the sample did not contain, and the report carries that sentence rather than burying it."
    },
    {
      "slug": "feed-fidelity-assay",
      "name": "Feed Fidelity Assay",
      "instrument": {
        "id": "P1",
        "slug": "broker-feed-auditor"
      },
      "question": "Is the feed my terminal shows me behaving consistently?",
      "not_established": "A verdict on your broker. One exported log from one terminal measures your feed as you received it — venue-side behaviour, other account tiers and intent are all outside what this data can carry."
    },
    {
      "slug": "verdict-recompute",
      "name": "Verdict Recompute",
      "instrument": {
        "id": "P18",
        "slug": "reproducible-verdict-kernel"
      },
      "question": "Someone claims a result. Does it recompute?",
      "not_established": "Fraud. A result that does not recompute from the provided inputs is exactly that — no more. The report states what was missing, not why."
    },
    {
      "slug": "single-trade-investigation",
      "name": "Single-Trade Investigation",
      "instrument": {
        "id": "P9",
        "slug": "execution-cost-auditor"
      },
      "question": "What actually happened to this one trade?",
      "not_established": "Whether anyone owed you a better fill. One trade against one venue window measures what happened, not why — intent is not measurable from the client side — and whether the anatomy supports a complaint is a judgement for the firm or your own adviser, made with the measurement in hand rather than without it."
    },
    {
      "slug": "outage-window-report",
      "name": "Outage-Window Report",
      "instrument": {
        "id": "P1",
        "slug": "broker-feed-auditor"
      },
      "question": "What did the platform outage actually cost me?",
      "not_established": "What you would have done. A counterfactual is bounded, not known — the report states the range the reference market offered, not the exit you would have taken, and whether the window’s cost is anyone’s liability is a question for the firm or your adviser, with the measurement in hand."
    },
    {
      "slug": "payout-denial-recompute",
      "name": "Payout-Denial Recompute",
      "instrument": {
        "id": "P3",
        "slug": "prop-evaluee-risk-guardian"
      },
      "question": "Does the arithmetic behind my denied payout actually hold?",
      "not_established": "Whether the firm must pay. A recomputation shows whether the stated condition was met under the stated rules; contract interpretation and enforcement belong to the firm, a regulator where one exists, or your own adviser — armed with arithmetic instead of assertion."
    },
    {
      "slug": "execution-chain-attribution",
      "name": "Execution-Chain Attribution",
      "instrument": {
        "id": "P9",
        "slug": "execution-cost-auditor"
      },
      "question": "Was it the EA, the connection, or the broker?",
      "not_established": "Fault. The chain attribution shows where the divergence entered, not who owes you for it — a wide fill can be an honest market, a slow hop can be your own VPS, and the report distinguishes what the logs prove from what they merely suggest."
    },
    {
      "slug": "copy-trade-divergence",
      "name": "Copy-Trade Divergence",
      "instrument": {
        "id": "P9",
        "slug": "execution-cost-auditor"
      },
      "question": "Why are my copy-trading results worse than the signal?",
      "not_established": "Whether the provider’s record is genuine — that is the Verdict Recompute’s question — or whether copying could ever match a published record exactly: some divergence is structural, and the report separates that floor from the part your setup adds."
    }
  ]
}