@misc{shirbint2026boundedrecursiveselfimprovement,
  title = {Bounded Recursive Self-Improvement Under Human Governance: Evidence from a Seven-Cycle Reinforcement Learning Contour Experiment},
  author = {Emanuel Shirbint},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.20944/preprints202608.0975.v2},
  url = {https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202608.0975},
  note = {Version 2 preprint; not peer-reviewed}
}