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Current snapshot: beliefsystems.xyz/data Archive: beliefsystems.xyz/data/archive The snapshots are the full record: every published level since inception, composition membership with target weights, reconstitution events, and the Belief Volatility legs and attribution. They are captured at a moment, checksummed, and never rewritten. Where the Data API serves a trailing window at chart granularity, this is the whole history at full depth.

What a snapshot contains

Getting the files

Snapshot files sit behind the same free account as everything else. A signed-in browser downloads them by clicking; a program sends the same belief_live_ key it uses for the API, as an Authorization header on the file URL.
manifest.json carries a SHA-256 for every file, so a download can be verified before it is trusted. Verifying it is the difference between a reproducible dataset and a file you happen to have. A request with no session and no key returns 401 with a coded JSON body naming the account requirement, not an HTML page – a pandas.read_csv against a gated URL fails as an authentication error rather than a parse error. Browser navigation is redirected to the data page instead, with the file you asked for named on arrival. /data/latest/ always holds the most recent snapshot. /data/archive/{date}/ holds each earlier one at its own permanent path.

Citing a snapshot

Cite the dated snapshot, not the live page: it is the version that will still say what you said it said.
  • Attribution line: Source: Belief Systems (beliefsystems.xyz)
  • Cite the snapshot date from manifest.json, and link its archive page rather than the file
  • CITATION.cff in each bundle carries the same record in machine-readable form
  • Terms are in LICENSE.md: CC BY-NC 4.0 with an editorial-use grant
Archive index pages are public and permanent. A citation that resolves to /data/archive/{date} will keep resolving, without an account, for anyone checking a footnote – the page describes the snapshot, lists its files, and carries the checksums. The files themselves need the free account; the record of what they contained does not.

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Data API

Latest levels and the trailing window, on the same key.

Data boundaries

What each lane carries, and what a license adds.

Index methodology

How the levels in these files are computed.