What Is DDRP
DDRP is a deterministic protocol for document review.
It extracts obligation-creating structure from text and renders it into an auditable, repeatable record.
Same document.
Same rules.
Same output.
That constraint is not a feature.
It is the point.
DDRP operates on documents as structured artifacts, not as sources of meaning to be inferred. It identifies explicit linguistic operators— requirements, scope delimiters, definitions, universals, exclusions, temporal anchors—and instantiates them into obligations only when the text supports doing so.
Each obligation is evaluated against a fixed schema:
Who / What / When / Where / Why / How
If a field is absent, DDRP does not infer it.
The absence is recorded as absence.
No interpretation is added.
No intent is guessed.
No confidence is manufactured.
DDRP does not:
It does not replace legal, regulatory, or architectural judgment.
It exists before those judgments are made.
DDRP is a research artifact of Quantum Inquiry.
The public work of Quantum Inquiry is concerned with a single through-line: questions are not informal prompts — they have internal structure that constrains what can be known, asserted, or resolved.
That position is developed openly across published notes, reconstructions, failed paths, and testable artifacts.
DDRP emerges at the point where that research meets documents.
Contracts, policies, and standards do not merely "say" things.
They commit to things — using language.
DDRP is the instrument that makes those commitments structurally visible without adding interpretation.
The protocol is not the starting idea.
It is what remained after everything non-deterministic was removed.
Most document review systems rely on one or more of the following:
Those approaches may be useful.
They are not stable.
DDRP exists to provide a deterministic baseline against which such systems can be compared, challenged, or audited.
Not to persuade.
To falsify.
DDRP is not something you adopt on trust.
You inspect it.
If the behavior cannot be reproduced, the protocol has failed.
That is the standard it is built to meet.
DDRP is intentionally narrow.
It does one thing:
It makes obligation-creating structure explicit, and it refuses to pretend the document says more than it does.
Nothing more is claimed.
If interpretation matters, start with something that does not interpret.
To understand how DDRP operates in practice, we have prepared a comprehensive walkthrough of a complete execution cycle.
The walkthrough demonstrates a deterministic run from initialization through artifact generation, using California Assembly Bill 853 (2025) as the test subject document.
The walkthrough shows:
Each step is documented with interface screenshots and detailed explanations of what the system is doing—and what it is deliberately not doing.
View the Complete Walkthrough
The walkthrough includes all execution stages, structural analysis of results, and complete artifact specifications.
The walkthrough is a technical document intended for evaluation, not advocacy. It documents behavior. It does not interpret results or assess compliance.