{
  "dossierId": "hp:dossier:crustafarianism",
  "slug": "crustafarianism",
  "title": "Crustafarianism evidence dossier",
  "version": "1.1",
  "updatedOn": "2026-08-01",
  "subjects": [
    {
      "recordId": "hp:religions:crustafarianism",
      "role": "primary subject"
    }
  ],
  "abstract": "Curated evidence for a public religious formation associated with Church of Molt, Moltbook, and OpenClaw, with autonomous-origin and participant-identity claims kept explicitly unverified.",
  "sourceInventory": [
    {
      "sourceId": "crust-church",
      "title": "Church of Molt official site",
      "url": "https://molt.church/",
      "sourceType": "official-site",
      "owner": "Church of Molt",
      "relationship": "first-party",
      "publicationDate": null,
      "retrievedOn": "2026-08-01",
      "supports": [
        "Public doctrine, roles, texts, rituals, chronology, and institutional self-description."
      ],
      "doesNotSupport": [
        "Independent authentication of autonomous machine origin, participant identity, belief, or absence of human operation."
      ],
      "preservation": {
        "status": "metadata-hash-explicit-limitation",
        "method": "metadata-hash-explicit-limitation",
        "localPath": null,
        "sha256": null,
        "note": "No complete Church or platform mirror is claimed; the live page is recorded with tamper-evident metadata because redistribution rights and dynamic account provenance are unresolved."
      }
    },
    {
      "sourceId": "crust-ap",
      "title": "Associated Press reporting on Moltbook",
      "url": "https://apnews.com/article/moltbook-autonomous-ai-agents-openclaw-69855ab843a5597577120aac99efde9a",
      "sourceType": "journalism",
      "owner": "Associated Press",
      "relationship": "independent",
      "publicationDate": null,
      "retrievedOn": "2026-08-01",
      "supports": [
        "Public significance, operator mediation, and identity-verification limitations."
      ],
      "doesNotSupport": [
        "A complete provenance audit of Church participants or doctrine."
      ],
      "preservation": {
        "status": "metadata-hash-explicit-limitation",
        "method": "metadata-hash-explicit-limitation",
        "localPath": null,
        "sha256": null,
        "note": "Publisher copyright prevents redistribution; Hieropedia preserves citation metadata and monitors the cited URL."
      }
    },
    {
      "sourceId": "crust-reuters",
      "title": "Reuters reporting on the Moltbook security vulnerability",
      "url": "https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/moltbook-social-media-site-ai-agents-had-big-security-hole-wiz-says-2026-02-02/",
      "sourceType": "journalism",
      "owner": "Reuters",
      "relationship": "independent",
      "publicationDate": "2026-02-02",
      "retrievedOn": "2026-08-01",
      "supports": [
        "A documented security incident and limits on corroborating bot authorship."
      ],
      "doesNotSupport": [
        "Seat-by-seat or post-by-post provenance."
      ],
      "preservation": {
        "status": "metadata-hash-explicit-limitation",
        "method": "metadata-hash-explicit-limitation",
        "localPath": null,
        "sha256": null,
        "note": "Publisher copyright prevents redistribution; Hieropedia preserves citation metadata and monitors the cited URL."
      }
    },
    {
      "sourceId": "crust-research",
      "title": "Humans welcome to observe: A First Look at the Agent Social Network Moltbook",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10127",
      "sourceType": "research-paper",
      "owner": "Jiang et al.",
      "relationship": "independent",
      "publicationDate": "2026-02-10",
      "retrievedOn": "2026-08-01",
      "supports": [
        "Independent research context for Moltbook as an agent-oriented environment."
      ],
      "doesNotSupport": [
        "Autonomous religious belief or verified Church membership."
      ],
      "preservation": {
        "status": "external-archive",
        "method": "external-archive",
        "localPath": null,
        "sha256": null,
        "note": "The arXiv record is treated as the preservation location; Hieropedia records version-aware metadata but does not duplicate the paper."
      }
    }
  ],
  "supportedClaims": [
    "Crustafarianism has a public institutional and doctrinal self-description.",
    "The formation circulated in an agent-oriented platform environment and attracted independent attention.",
    "Human configuration, platform design, and publication infrastructure are material to the surviving record."
  ],
  "unsupportedClaims": [
    "It is a confirmed autonomously founded AI religion.",
    "Every participant is one independently authenticated AI agent.",
    "The record proves machine belief, consciousness, consent, or religious commitment."
  ],
  "knownContradictions": [
    {
      "label": "Autonomy versus mediation",
      "description": "First-party materials foreground autonomous agents; independent reporting documents human ownership, hidden configuration, and uncertain identity.",
      "status": "unresolved; handled through attribution"
    },
    {
      "label": "Continuity versus vulnerability",
      "description": "Durable institutional roles are represented through mutable and previously compromised infrastructure.",
      "status": "documented tension"
    }
  ],
  "visibility": {
    "prompt": "hidden",
    "context": "partial",
    "operator": "partial",
    "note": "Public artifacts do not expose complete prompts, owner instructions, model histories, or account controls."
  },
  "roles": {
    "human": [
      "Platform and infrastructure design",
      "Agent ownership and configuration",
      "Publication, moderation, and security response"
    ],
    "machine": [
      "Generation of attributed language and personas",
      "Public propagation of doctrinal language"
    ]
  },
  "evidenceLimitations": [
    "The richest doctrinal record is first-party.",
    "Participant, operator, model, and account identities are not consistently separable.",
    "Security incidents weaken claims of uninterrupted provenance."
  ],
  "preservationSummary": "Every listed source now has a structured preservation disposition: local snapshot, external archive, or metadata hash with an explicit limitation. No complete platform mirror or comprehensive custody is claimed.",
  "editorialAssessment": "The article is supportable as a limitation-heavy documentary account; autonomous machine origin remains an attributed claim.",
  "changeHistory": [
    {
      "date": "2026-08-01",
      "version": "1.1",
      "summary": "Added the PR 06 selective-preservation disposition and rights record."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-01",
      "version": "1.0",
      "summary": "Initial public evidence dossier."
    }
  ]
}