# Research notes: Maps of Nothing by Steve Pikelny

Status: draft-for-human-review. Submission state: **complete-draft**.

## Per-essay checks report

| Check | Report |
| --- | --- |
| Identity and package | Project 316; slug, title and credit as assigned. Seven files. |
| Structure and citations | 1,895 words; seven sections; 8 sources, all cited; four unresolved questions. |
| Source research | Collection page with display notes and charitable giving, four index retrievals, renderer, CC BY-NC deed, artist interview of 11 June 2022. Gap: interview quotations came from an automated extraction (exception). |
| Code | Two parts, 16,636 bytes, SHA-256 matches record, evidence and renderer. Full read. |
| Visual evidence | V01, V02 sustained (reload and resize, misprint globals); V03, V04 focused. Save key not pressed (download). Silent. |
| Header | Three wallets vs 625 owners; one match, 316000588. |
| History and rights | Early invocation 0, start, first public, completion distinct; price unknown. CC BY-NC 4.0 linked and restated in the description. |
| Provenance and usage | Anthropic / claude-opus-5. |
| Validator | Below. |
| Submission state | **complete-draft**, three pending exceptions. |

## Validator

Command actually executed, from the extracted pack root:

```sh
python3 scripts/validate_series_essays.py submission/maps-of-nothing-by-steve-pikelny
```

Supplied validator identity: `scripts/validate_series_essays.py` as distributed in `claude-remaining-10.zip`, SHA-256 `f7b561578fa3ece1680ef69a2b8b484c660ca3d0b17275df10c6ff2026f09fdc`. No substitute validator was used and no check was altered. A structural pass is not by itself completion; the checks report above is the substantive report.

Executed at: `2026-09-20T06:23:50+00:00`

Exit status: `0`

Unedited output:

```
{
  "status": "PASS",
  "scope": "Structural package validation only. Does not grant editorial acceptance or confirm publication.",
  "essays": [
    {
      "title": "Maps of Nothing",
      "slug": "maps-of-nothing-by-steve-pikelny",
      "words": 1895,
      "sources": 8,
      "examples": 4,
      "pendingEditorialExceptions": 3
    }
  ],
  "totalWords": 1895,
  "errors": []
}
```