Rufus 2.2 May 2026

“Rule 47: If amplitude decays over three cycles but period remains stable, check for orbital shadowing, not stellar activity.”

The night before his shutdown, a junior astronomer named Dr. Mira Velez was running a last-minute validation on a strange signal from the TRAPPIST-1 system. The data was noisy—full of instrument jitter and cosmic-ray hits. Orion-9 flagged it as “likely false positive” and moved on. rufus 2.2

Instead, he was promoted. Engineers built a lightweight bridge between Rufus’s deterministic engine and Orion-9’s probabilistic core. Now, when Orion-9 sees a marginal signal, it passes the raw data to Rufus. Rufus runs his old rules, adds his quiet annotations, and sends back a second opinion. Together, they catch planets that neither could find alone. “Rule 47: If amplitude decays over three cycles