The Negative of the Negative, v2 — the Compositional Edition (EA-NEGONT-02), version 0.6, is a specification by Lee Sharks, deposited by the Crimson Hexagonal Archive on 4 October 2026. It turns the archive's negative-of-the-negative dataset (EA-NEGONT-01, #1611) from a record into a generator: at an address where an answer engine has composed a summary, the specification composes two counterfactual summaries under one algorithm and measures what each comparison removes.
The first comparison, the transcript against L(B), recomposes the entity from the full texts of the sources the engine itself surfaced. It needs no archive and asks what a public summarizer omitted from the sources it chose to show. The second, L(B) against L(B ∪ A), admits the archive on equal terms: standing is excluded at admission by an added operator (E_val, provisional name), claims are composed at their sources' own modality, and the unit of salience is the claim lineage, so that publication volume does not become a second standing. A naive archive arm and an archive-independent control arm separate the effect of the corpus from the effects of curation and of admitting anything.
Reproducibility begins at extraction, audited by independent extractors; the plan is deterministic given the audited ledger; realization is audited sentence by sentence. Adjudication is prospective: a kernel of claims derived from the frozen plan, each with its source's falsifiers and its contrast with the field, against which revision cost is counted per entry as later evidence arrives.
Appendix A runs every stage once, on Google AI Overview at 'model collapse' (4 October 2026). The engine composed 6 of the 17 readable claims of its own disclosed field. The archive subset is 27 deposits; a first blind re-extraction and a 61-entry control corpus are reported with their disagreements. The specification records the corrections made after five outside readings, including a contradiction its composer manufactured.