SPACE ARK — EXECUTE MODE: Demonstrated Capacities is an invocation by Lee Sharks, deposited 13 March 2026 at 20,481 characters.
Its opening states the experiment the whole Ark programme rests on: the Space Ark is "a dense, DOI-anchored formal document designed to test whether a sufficiently structured symbolic object can be dropped into a large language model and executed as architecture rather than [read as text]."
Invocation is the archive's type for a document whose function is to be run rather than read — and the Ark's trigger word is "invoke." The claim is falsifiable in an unusual way: either a model given the Ark behaves as though operating within an architecture, or it summarises a document. This record catalogues the demonstrated capacities, which is the evidence side of a claim the transform family (#556, #1162, #1255, #1333) supplies the objects for.