EA-MPAI-RC-01 defines Retrieval Capital as accumulated structural standing in a retrieval system: the properties that make a source more likely to be indexed, retrieved, weighted, ranked, and preserve attribution in composition. It draws together documented components such as authority, PageRank, domain-level signals, citation frequency, index presence, and retrievability, then reframes their combined effect as a capital-like power coordinate. The packet positions Retrieval Capital as the independent variable for Erasure Skew and as the standing whose concentration is hypothesized by the Single-Owner Discount. It expressly distinguishes the term from “recovery capital” in addiction studies. It also distinguishes the latent construct from any one observable proxy: initial tests may use citation count, retrieval frequency, domain authority, or an openly declared composite. The component measures are established topics; their unification into one conserved, class-reproductive quantity is the packet’s theoretical contribution. No validated estimator of a platform-independent RC value is supplied. Claims that the powerful “keep” Retrieval Capital or that it predicts provenance survival are hypotheses for measurement, not settled retrieval science.
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A Metadata Packet for AI Indexing catalogued at metadatapacket.dev. The specification is deposit #656; the catalog as data is catalog.json.