The Capture Registry: Reception, Erasure, and Supply in the Machine Composition Layer is the founding article of Machine-Mediated Reception Studies, deposited 29 July 2026 in its sovereign version of record.
It specifies an instrument and a research programme. The capture is the unit: a dated, preservable record of a machine-composition reception event — what an AI system said about a work, when, with what attribution, and citing what. The article gives the record schema in full, then builds the measurement programme on it: PER (provenance erasure rate), Erasure Skew, and atomic-token preservation, together with a family-level rule and a six-operation taxonomy.
Its methodological commitment is that reception by machines is an empirical object rather than a metaphor — that what a summarizer does to a text can be measured across time with the same discipline applied to any reception history, provided the events are captured before they are overwritten. The article's citation protocol enacts the archive's own erasure argument by printing each terminated identifier beside its sovereign resolver.