TRUTH SURFACE Research Methodology v1.0

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Formal methodology document for the TRUTH SURFACE series of independent adversarial architectural analyses of AI security vendors and analyst firms. 21 papers published under this methodology. Covers evidence accepted and excluded, independence conditions, limitations including the live fire double standard, full conflict of interest disclosure, the validator problem, relationship to other Red Specter capabilities, and publication standards. Currently under independent audit by Martin McHugh using the Adversarial Verification Protocol. Audit results will be published simultaneously on Zenodo without Red Specter preview or approval.