Engine Status
Crosslight Engine
Transparent versioning of our analysis capabilities. Every analysis is tagged with the engine version that produced it.
v0.4.0Current
Codename: Global Lens Expansion
Released March 5, 2026
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Lenses
15
Languages
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Fact-Check
Global philosophical expansion from 33 to 48 lenses spanning 8 cultural traditions: East Asian, South Asian, Greco-Roman, Western Modern, Islamic, African, Western Institutional, and Entertainment & Sports.
Version History
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v0.4.0
Global Lens ExpansionCurrentMarch 5, 2026
Global philosophical expansion from 33 to 48 lenses spanning 8 cultural traditions: East Asian, South Asian, Greco-Roman, Western Modern, Islamic, African, Western Institutional, and Entertainment & Sports.
Features
New
Global Philosophical Traditions
15 new lenses from non-Western traditions: Confucian (Five Relationships), Sun Tzu (strategic assessment), Zen (fierce inquiry), Buddhist Theravada (dependent origination), Dharmic Hindu (Vedantic ethics + Arthashastra realism), Stoic (Roman Stoicism), Ibn Khaldun (asabiyyah cycles), Ubuntu (relational personhood), Maat (cosmic order), Gramsci (cultural hegemony), and Bandung (Global South decolonial analysis).
New
8 Cultural Tradition Clusters
Lenses organized into 8 tradition-based clusters: East Asian, South Asian, Greco-Roman, Western Modern, Islamic, African, Western Institutional, and Entertainment & Sports. Each cluster has color coding and chronological ordering.
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Cultural Metadata on Every Lens
Every lens now includes cultural_tradition, era, geographic_origin, anachronism_risk, and source_confidence metadata. Displayed as metadata footers on lens cards throughout the site.
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Entertainment & Sports Expansion
4 new entertainment/sports lenses: K-pop Industrial (cultural technology + parasocial economics), Bollywood (masala formula + izzat calculus), Global Football (relegation stakes + sportswashing audit), and Cricket Analytics (declaration timing + Commonwealth dynamics).
Improved
Redesigned Intake Agent
4-dimension scoring rubric replaces hardcoded category tables. Dual-layer cultural context analysis with selection_layer tagging (local/external/cross-cultural) for transparent lens selection.
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Anachronism Awareness
Historical events assessed for both retroactive condemnation and retroactive rehabilitation. Each lens includes explicit anachronism risk metadata.
Capabilities
Lenses (50)
☯️taoism📜confucian⚔️sun-tzu🌀zen🪷buddhist-theravada🕉️dharmic-hindu🔥machiavelli👁️philosophy🏛️stoic🧠game-theory🎯kiss⚖️decision🌙jung⚡nietzsche🔔pavlov💼corporate🤝lobbyist📖wisdom🪶artistic⚠️conspiracy💬counter-narrative📕gramsci🌍bandung📊ibn-khaldun🤝ubuntu⚖️maat🕵️cia🛰️nsa🔍fbi🏛️brookings🦅heritage🗽cato🌐cfr🚨tmz🎭publicist💅stan-culture🎵industry-insider🎓cultural-critic👀deuxmoi🎤kpop-industrial🎬bollywood📊moneyball💰sports-agent🏛️league-office🎰gambling✊sports-sociology🔥talking-head🏆dynasty-builder⚽global-football🏏cricket-analytics
Research Languages (15)
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Model
claude-opus-4-5-20250514Fact-Check Iterations
Up to 3 correction cycles
Known Limitations
- •Non-Western philosophical lenses rely on translated primary texts — nuance may be lost in translation
- •Some traditions (e.g., Maat, Ubuntu) have limited surviving primary texts; analysis draws on scholarly reconstruction
- •Cross-cultural lens application is inherently interpretive — a Confucian reading of a Western event is an analytical exercise, not a claim of cultural authority
- •Anachronism risk varies by lens — historical frameworks applied to modern events are explicitly flagged
- •Entertainment and sports lenses use satirical personas for accessibility — analysis content is substantive despite playful framing
Breaking Changes
- !LensConfig interface extended with 6 cultural tradition metadata fields (cultural_tradition, sub_tradition, era, geographic_origin, anachronism_risk, source_confidence)
- !LensMetadata interface extended with 4 cultural tradition display fields
- !LENS_CLUSTERS reorganized from 7 functional clusters to 8 tradition-based clusters
- !Intake agent prompt completely redesigned — scoring rubric replaces hardcoded category tables
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v0.3.1
Arena & StageJanuary 21, 2025
Massive expansion with 16 new lenses for entertainment, sports, and psychological/philosophical analysis. Over-the-top personas bring celebrity drama, sports hot takes, Jungian archetypes, Nietzschean power analysis, and Pavlovian conditioning mechanics.
Features
New
Entertainment & Pop Culture Lenses
6 new lenses for celebrity drama, music industry conflicts, and social media controversies: TMZ (ruthless paparazzi), Publicist (crisis PR), Stan Culture (fandom analyst), Industry Insider (label/studio exec), Cultural Critic (academic analysis), and DeuxMoi (blind items).
New
Sports Analysis Lenses
7 new lenses for athletic events and sports business: Moneyball (data analyst), Sports Agent (contract negotiator), League Office (commissioner perspective), Gambling (sharp bettor), Sports Sociology (critical analyst), Talking Head (hot take artist), and Dynasty Builder (championship architect).
New
Carl Jung Lens
Depth psychology analysis through archetypes, collective unconscious, shadow projection, and individuation. Asks 'What wants to become conscious?'
New
Friedrich Nietzsche Lens
Will to power analysis examining master/slave morality, ressentiment, life-affirmation vs. life-denial, and the revaluation of values.
New
Pavlov / Behavioral Conditioning Lens
Classical conditioning analysis mapping stimulus-response patterns, media conditioning, propaganda mechanics, and trained public responses. Asks 'What's the bell here?'
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Brain Hemisphere Balance
Core lenses now explicitly balanced: Game Theory, Machiavelli & Pavlov (left brain analytical), Taoism & Jung (right brain intuitive), Nietzsche (both hemispheres).
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New Event Categories
Added 8 new event categories for proper lens auto-selection: entertainment, celebrity, music_industry, film_tv, social_media_drama, sports, sports_business, sports_controversy.
Improved
Category-Based Lens Triggers
Intake agent now auto-selects entertainment and sports lenses based on event category classification with documented trigger conditions.
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Over-the-Top Personas
New lens agents feature exaggerated personas matching their domain culture - from TMZ's 'RECEIPTS MOMENT' energy to Skip Bayless hot takes to crisis PR spin expertise.
Capabilities
Lenses (33)
🎯kiss🧠game-theory🔥machiavelli💼corporate⚖️decision☯️taoism📖wisdom👁️philosophy🪶artistic🏛️brookings🦅heritage🗽cato🌐cfr🕵️cia⚠️conspiracy💬counter-narrative🤝lobbyist🚨tmz🎭publicist💅stan-culture🎵industry-insider🎓cultural-critic👀deuxmoi📊moneyball💰sports-agent🏛️league-office🎰gambling✊sports-sociology🔥talking-head🏆dynasty-builder🌙jung⚡nietzsche🔔pavlov
Research Languages (15)
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Model
claude-opus-4-5-20250514Fact-Check Iterations
Up to 3 correction cycles
Known Limitations
- •Entertainment/sports lenses reflect domain stereotypes for analytical color, not endorsement
- •Celebrity and sports events have limited 'ground truth' - analysis is inherently interpretive
- •Hot take and tabloid personas are satirical framing devices for accessible analysis
- •Fan culture analysis may not capture all fandom dynamics
- •Sports gambling lens is analytical only - not betting advice
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v0.3.0
CausalityJanuary 20, 2025
Revolutionary causal graph analysis with deep actor discovery, root cause tracing, and interactive knowledge visualization.
Features
New
Interactive Causal Graph
Every analysis now generates an interactive knowledge graph showing how events, decisions, policies, and actors causally connect. Click nodes to explore, filter by type, and trace paths from root cause to outcome.
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Actor Discovery Loop
Agentic research loop that recursively discovers all significant actors: decision-makers, beneficiaries, victims, lobbyists, regulators. Maps relationships, motivations, and influence networks up to 3 levels deep.
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Root Cause Tracing
5-Whys methodology applied systematically to trace events back to their root causes. Identifies policies, decisions, and conditions that enabled outcomes.
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Lens Causal Attribution
Each lens now provides explicit causal attribution: who/what it blames, which causal chains it emphasizes, and actor responsibility scores from -1 (victim) to +1 (perpetrator).
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Locality Immersion
Deep local context for any geographic region. Adapts research languages, sources, and framing to provide insider perspective rather than Western-centric analysis.
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Enhanced Actor Profiles
Comprehensive actor profiles with stated vs inferred motivations, lobbying data, political donations, revolving door connections, and outcome analysis (who won, who lost).
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Lobbyist Lens
New lens analyzing legislative influence, stakeholder mapping, and the role of organized interests in shaping events.
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Non-Partisan Insight Generation
Synthesis now explicitly surfaces how complex issues transcend simple political divides, showing why events are not 'party X vs party Y' problems.
Improved
15 Research Languages
Expanded from 10 to 15 languages including Swahili, Indonesian, Turkish, Korean, and Vietnamese for better global coverage.
Capabilities
Lenses (17)
Research Languages (15)
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Model
claude-opus-4-5-20250514Fact-Check Iterations
Up to 3 correction cycles
Known Limitations
- •Causal attribution is inherently interpretive — graphs represent analysis, not ground truth
- •Actor discovery limited by available public information and source accessibility
- •Lobbying data availability varies significantly by jurisdiction
- •Benefit analysis may miss non-obvious winners and losers
- •Deep locality research depends on source availability in local languages
- •Historical causality is easier to trace than ongoing events
- •AI analysis can miss nuance, misinterpret context, or reflect training biases
Breaking Changes
- !FullAnalysis type now includes optional causal_graph, enhanced_actors, and locality_context fields
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v0.2.0
Deep DiveJanuary 15, 2025
Added deep analysis capabilities with expandable lens insights, full research transparency, and rich data visualization.
Features
New
Expandable Deep Dive Analysis
Each lens now provides a collapsible deep dive with game structures, power analysis, yin-yang dynamics, and more depending on the lens type.
New
Full Research Transparency
See all sources consulted, credibility scores, language coverage, and disputed claims in an expandable citations panel.
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Interactive Timeline
Visualize event chronology with expandable timeline nodes showing significance and source links.
New
Possible Futures Section
Scenarios derived from lens analyses with probability assessments, key drivers, and early indicators to watch.
New
Key Questions Browser
Organized questions (factual, interpretive, predictive, normative) that remain open after analysis.
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Self-Identification Guide
Help readers find their natural perspective and bridge to unfamiliar frameworks.
New
Reasoning Transparency
Every lens shows its key assumptions, confidence level, caveats, and alternative interpretations.
New
Historical Parallels
Each lens can now cite historical parallels with explanations of why the pattern applies.
New
3 New Lenses
Added KISS (Occam's Razor baseline), Conspiracy (structured skepticism), and Counter-Narrative (marginalized perspectives).
New
Lens Clustering
Lenses organized into 5 clusters: Foundational, Analytical, Intuitive, Institutional, Skeptical.
New
Brain Hemisphere Metadata
Each lens tagged with left-brain (analytical), right-brain (intuitive), or both orientation.
New
Political Tendency Metadata
Transparent tagging of each lens's political/establishment tendency.
Capabilities
Lenses (16)
Research Languages (10)
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Model
claude-opus-4-5-20250101Fact-Check Iterations
Up to 3 correction cycles
Known Limitations
- •AI analysis can miss nuance, misinterpret context, or reflect training biases
- •Multi-lingual research depends on available sources — some perspectives may be underrepresented
- •Think tank lenses reflect general institutional positions, not official statements
- •The synthesis is itself a perspective — reasonable people can disagree
- •Historical parallels are suggestive, not predictive
- •Probability assessments for futures are qualitative, not quantitative
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v0.1.0
FoundationJanuary 15, 2025
Initial release with core multi-lens analysis pipeline, basic synthesis, and fact-checking.
Features
New
Multi-Lens Analysis Pipeline
Analyze events through 5 distinct intellectual lenses in parallel.
New
Convergence Detection
Automatically identify where multiple lenses reach similar conclusions.
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Tension Surfacing
Surface productive disagreements between lenses.
New
Fact-Check Loop
Iterative fact-checking with correction cycle (max 2 iterations).
New
Executive Summary
Synthesized overview integrating all lens perspectives.
Capabilities
Research Languages (1)
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Model
claude-opus-4-5-20250101Fact-Check Iterations
Up to 2 correction cycles
Known Limitations
- •English-only research sources
- •Limited to 5 lenses
- •No deep dive analysis available
- •No source transparency beyond fact-check status
- •No historical parallels or future scenarios
Our Transparency Principles
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Every analysis is tagged with the engine version that produced it. You can always see what capabilities were available when your analysis was generated.
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Capability Disclosure
We list exactly which lenses, languages, and models each version supports. No hidden capabilities or undocumented features.
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Limitation Honesty
Every version lists its known limitations. We don't hide our weaknesses — we document them so you can evaluate analyses appropriately.
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Re-Analysis Option
When significant improvements ship, you can request re-analysis of older events with the new engine version to get deeper insights.