Auditability-First Science_ Cryptographic Determinism as a New Standard for Reproducible Research

CODES Framework Abstract: The replication crisis shows that post-hoc reproducibility is structurally insufficient. Peer review, p-values, and “data on request” cannot prevent p-hacking, selective reporting, or HARKing. Auditability-first science inverts the workflow: build a deterministic audit substrate before experimentation, pre-register hypotheses with cryptographic timestamps, and publish only with deterministic replay proofs. Using fixed-point computation and bundleHash verification, predictions are locked prior to data collection and results are released with platform-independent proofs of non-manipulation. Demonstrated via RIC v2, whose golden test suite is fully reproducible across platforms, auditability-first shifts truth from social consensus to cryptographic verifiability and offers a practical, field-agnostic path out of the replication crisis.