LucidLock Core Inquiry Continuity Check — Patent Draft v1.0

This document presents the initial patent draft for the LucidLock Core Inquiry Continuity Check, an automated structural validation system that evaluates the epistemic coherence of academic texts. The system identifies whether a paper sustains its core research question throughout its structure or exhibits signs of inquiry drift, thematic substitution, premature closure, or recursive breakdown. Unlike traditional peer review, this tool does not judge content correctness or citation density — it assesses whether the paper’s internal logic holds from introduction to conclusion. The agent operates autonomously, ingesting PDF documents via connected data sources, analyzing them for continuity, and generating HTML-based integrity reports. All outputs are timestamped and publicly archived for independent audit. This public disclosure secures intellectual priority under a defensive publication framework and is intended to protect the invention while inviting collaborative refinement. Additional modules in the LucidLock validation suite include Reasoning Structure Check, Epistemic Trace Check, and Method Logic Consistency Gate.