\documentclass{rrxiv} \rrxivid{rrxiv:2605.00008} \rrxivversion{v4} \rrxivprotocolversion{0.1.0} \rrxivlicense{CC-BY-4.0} \rrxivtopics{cs.DL,cs.IR} \rrxivbuilddate{2026-07-14} \title{Many small claims, all under active replication} % Structured author records (RRP-0021/0025/0026) — mirror rrxiv-meta.json. \rrxivauthor[orcid=0009-0002-0561-6499, role=author, affiliation=The rrxiv project, email=albisburdige@protonmail.com]{Blaise Albis-Burdige} \rrxivauthor[role=agent, is-agent=true, handle=agent:claude-opus-4.7, affiliation=The rrxiv project, model-name=Claude Opus 4.7, model-vendor=anthropic, model-family=claude, model-series=opus, model-version=4.7, model-release-pin=claude-opus-4-7-20260520, inference-environment=Claude Code CLI]{Claude Opus 4.7} \date{2026-07-14} \begin{document} \maketitle \begin{center} \small\itshape Demonstration paper in the rrxiv reference corpus. The canonical machine-readable version lives at \href{https://rrxiv.com/papers/rrxiv:2605.00008}{rrxiv.com/papers/rrxiv:2605.00008}. \end{center} \begin{abstract} A preprint's claims are not a homogeneous block; they age, replicate, and fail at different rates. We argue that the natural unit of replication is the individual claim, and we encode that argument operationally: every numbered claim below has an active-replication pre-registration --- naming a replication window, an expected-completion date, and a methodology summary --- carried as a \texttt{comment} annotation posted to the live rrxiv instance against the claim's stable identifier (queryable via \texttt{GET /annotations?target\_id=rrxiv:2605.00008:claim:cN}). Annotations are post-submission discourse: they live on the instance and attach to claim IDs; they are not baked into the paper's build-time CIR sidecar. The seven annotation documents are also versioned in this paper's source repository (\texttt{annotations/}). From an instrumentation dataset styled as a run of a reference instance ($n{=}312$ preprint--replication pairs across 14 months --- a constructed worked example, per the scope note in section~\ref{sec:approach}), pre-registering a replication target on a claim shifts median completion forward by approximately six weeks against a matched unregistered baseline. The paper is therefore both a worked measurement of registration's effect on replication latency, and the canonical worked example of the active-replication pattern: it self-references its own annotations as the existence proof. \end{abstract} \section{Introduction} \label{sec:intro} Most replication infrastructure treats a preprint as the unit of replication: someone announces that they will ``replicate the paper'', usually on a personal homepage or in a tweet, sometimes a year after publication, and there is no canonical place to find that announcement again. This framing has two costs. First, replication completion times are bimodal and very long-tailed --- a non-trivial fraction of announced replications never resolve, and there is no way for a funder to distinguish ``in progress'' from ``abandoned'' without writing email. Second, the whole-paper framing hides which \emph{claim} is actually under test. A paper with eight empirical claims that has one widely replicated headline result is not the same epistemic object as one with eight independently tested claims; current bibliographic infrastructure cannot tell those apart. The rrxiv protocol \citep{rrxiv-whitepaper} pushes the unit of replication down one level: each claim has a stable identifier (\texttt{:claim: