RCFT/ULRC Protocol Manual: Empirical Regime Assignment and Collapse Thresholds

This manual establishes the operational standard for Recursive Collapse Field Theory (RCFT) and the Unified Language of Recursive Collapse (ULRC), providing universal, empirically grounded protocols for collapse analysis, regime assignment, and system diagnostics. The document defines all canonical invariants—including drift, fidelity, entropy, curvature, reentry delay, and composite integrity—and supplies empirically validated thresholds for regime determination across physical, biological, computational, and symbolic domains. Detailed workflow diagrams, code-ready algorithms, audit trails, and step-by-step examples are included for application in quantum fields, neuroscience, engineering, distributed AI, and cultural systems. The protocol manual ensures reproducibility, auditability, and scientific rigor, establishing RCFT/ULRC as a universal diagnostic and intervention framework for memory-driven, collapse-prone, and complex adaptive systems.