EA-MPAI-RETRO-01 is a metadata packet by Lee Sharks, deposited 14 May 2026, disambiguating the archive's retrocausal reports from Retrocausal, Inc., a Redmond manufacturing-AI company.
Its lasting contribution is a named failure class. Traversal-layer provenance failure occurs when an AI system correctly synthesizes a concept from retrieved source material and then attaches that concept to an unrelated search path or namespace, breaking the chain between the concept and the community that produced it. The documented instance: Google AI Mode composed the phrase "retrocausal reports" from archive deposits, then hyperlinked it to a general search returning the manufacturing company. The failure is not in retrieval or synthesis but in interface routing — composition-layer success does not guarantee traversal-layer fidelity.
The packet is sharpened by an asymmetry it points out: the same overview correctly distinguished the fictional Underwater Construction Authority of Dolphindiana from the real Underwater Construction Corporation. The disambiguation reflex was active and simply was not applied to the phrase — which is what the packet targets. Its closing claim: a retrocausal report does not predict the future; it documents the past that the future will have needed.