A framework note addressing the question every serious reader asks before engaging with unconventional research: what kind of project is this, and what is it actually claiming? The document provides an honest accounting of the Resonance research program across four contribution tiers — from the operationally validated RFS-X heliospheric field state monitoring system (Tier 1) through interpretive findings and the Event Shape Library (Tier 2), to foundational theoretical framings including vacuum substrate priority, coherent field structure, and dark information (Tier 3), and the exploratory g(x,t) nested system-in-field formulation and Hierarchical Field Theory (Tier 4). Section 3.1 identifies what the author believes to be genuinely original contributions: the Δφ/ΔF two-dimensional state architecture, the "state must change" shared first-principle constraint, the compression/oscillation/expansion cross-domain trajectory taxonomy, the g(x,t) nested system-in-field formulation, coherent field structure as persistent system identity, the dark information general principle and three-type taxonomy (positional, self-referential, temporal), and the departure asymmetry empirical finding. The document names pressure points directly, defines success and failure conditions in advance, and identifies the external expertise required for the program to mature. It is offered as a transparency instrument, not a validation claim.