Completes the recommended fix in docs/issues/default-engine-state-test-hygiene.md.
The root conftest autouse fixture already redirected engine_state._DEFAULT_DIR
per test (the in-process half, req #1); this adds the two missing halves:
- monkeypatch.setenv("CORE_ENGINE_STATE_DIR", isolated) so subprocess / CLI
tests that re-import engine_state in a child process inherit the same
isolation (req #2). A child that sets its own env still overrides and wins.
- @pytest.mark.uses_default_engine_state opt-out (registered in pyproject.toml)
for tests that intentionally exercise the real process-default dir (req #3).
Adds tests/test_conftest_engine_state_isolation.py: non-vacuous proof that each
half fires and that the marker opts out; each assertion fails if its half is
removed (CLAUDE.md "Schema-Defined Proof Obligations").
Validation: full serial baseline on origin/main (95a06a20) = 38 pre-existing
reds (21 failed + 17 error). The only new behavior over baseline is the setenv,
whose sole live effect is child processes; a full re-run of the subprocess/CLI
blast radius shows zero new failures, and the documented test_achat
identity-continuity warning is gone. Does NOT add -n auto adoption or the
fresh-env-dict subprocess hermeticity fix (tracked separately).
* feat(determine): add transitive strict-order relational inference
Add sound transitive closure for declared strict-order relational predicates —
less_than, greater_than, before_event, after_event, and ONLY these. A query
p(a, c) determines True when a same-predicate chain p(a, b), p(b, c), ... over the
predicate's OWN realized edges is found (BFS reachability) and the proof_chain ROBDD
verifies the transitive entailment (search-then-verify, through the UNCHANGED
evaluate_entailment via a new lower_transitive_chain). Mirrors _determine_subsumption.
Scope / firewall:
- TRANSITIVE_PREDICATES is closed and default-off; sibling_of, parent_of,
left_of/right_of, inside_of, during_event, overlaps_event are EXCLUDED.
- Same-predicate edges only — no transitive-through-inverse, no cross-predicate
(triple firewall: recall filter + lowering re-reject + ROBDD re-verify).
- Open-world: asserts only answer=True via the shared _relational_determined
surface (rule="transitive"), so INV-30 stays at exactly 3 Determined sites and
no answer=False is added. One-hop inverse/symmetric (#775) is unchanged.
FrameVerdict / closed-world (ADR-0222) is untouched.
wrong=0 bite (unit + lane + independent oracle): non-transitive-predicate chains,
non-admitted spatial chains, mixed-predicate chains, disjoint chains, reflexive
cycles, and inverse+transitive composition all REFUSE.
Measurement: new evals/relational_transitive lane with an INDEPENDENT BFS
transitive-closure oracle (imports no engine module; INV-25/27), cross-checked both
directions (positives oracle-True, confusers oracle-False). Capability-index breadth
10 -> 11, wrong_total 0, deterministic digest re-frozen.
Cross-PR reconcile: migrated the one-hop confuser rinf-ref-001 (a less_than chain,
which now correctly determines transitively) to a B2 positive; repurposed its unit
test to a non-transitive parent_of chain; corrected a pre-existing stale breadth==9
assertion (#775 added a 10th domain but never updated test_capability_index).
Verified in the worktree: determine + transitive/one-hop lanes + capability
baseline/index + ProofWriter-OWA floor + INV-30/29/21/02 + full smoke — all green.
A 3-skeptic read-only adversarial review found no wrong=0 leak.
* test(determine): B2 hardening — TRANSITIVE_PREDICATES pin + lower_transitive defensive + budget
Add the required B2 hardening tests before merge:
- test_transitive_predicates_closed_and_excludes: the table is EXACTLY
{less_than, greater_than, before_event, after_event}, every member is in
RELATIONAL_PREDICATES, and every deliberately-excluded predicate (sibling_of,
spouse_of, parent_of, child_of, left_of, right_of, inside_of, during_event,
overlaps_event) is explicitly absent. (Closes the gap where relational.py's
comment claimed this test existed but it did not.)
- tests/test_composition_lower_transitive.py: direct defensive tests on
lower_transitive_chain — empty path, mislabeled (cross-predicate) edge, wrong
arity, non-contiguous path, and path-not-reaching-target all lower to None
(refuse); plus exact 2-hop and 3-hop theory pins.
- test_edge_budget_exhaustion_refuses: above _TRANSITIVE_EDGE_BUDGET the transitive
search declines (a safe coverage refusal), never proves.
Ratifies ADR-0222 as the design-only B4 artifact for FrameVerdict: a frame-general closed-world verdict type distinct from open-world Determined.
No runtime type, entry point, lane, or answer=False path is added in this PR. Implementation remains gated behind PR-1 with INV-31, the landed OWA refusal floor, and the staged plan in the ADR.
Final ratification patches included:
- positive_refutation_kind discriminator for entailed_false admissibility;
- PR-1-scoped Determined count wording;
- grounded-negative governance resolution as COMMIT-with-negative-surface at EpistemicState.INFERRED + DisclosureClaim.NONE.
* feat(eval): ProofWriter-OWA refusal-floor lane (B1) — independent oracle, measure-only
Mastery-v2 Step-3 Brief 1. Proves the open-world soundness floor: determine() never
asserts a query True when the open-world truth is Unknown or False. Hardens
"unknown != false" before the transitive-chain (B2) and closed-world (B4) work can
stress it.
- evals/proofwriter_owa/oracle.py: a SEPARATE minimal OWA label oracle (its own parser
+ reasoner + inverse/symmetric tables), importing NONE of determine, comprehend/
MeaningGraph realization, or production predicate-entailment helpers (INV-25/27 — the
gold producer is disjoint from the solver). Grammar: member/subset/is-a closure,
explicit negation (No X is a Y -> disjointness, the source of gold-False), and #775
inverse/symmetric ONE-HOP relational rules. No transitive relational chains.
- evals/proofwriter_owa/fixtures.jsonl: 19 hand-authored ProofWriter-OWA-style items
(9 True / 7 Unknown / 3 False), SHA-pinned. Gold computed by the oracle; the fixture's
hand-authored `expected` pins the oracle (so the oracle is itself verified).
- evals/proofwriter_owa/score.py: runs the production path (comprehend/comprehend_relational
-> realize -> determine) vs the oracle gold; wrong = determine asserted True on a non-True
gold.
- tests/test_proofwriter_owa_lane.py: SHA pin; oracle==expected; wrong==0; every
serving_support gold-True determines True (no coverage gaps); no answer=False (INV-30).
Result: 19 items -> 9 correct (all serving_support True), 10 refused (Unknown/False),
0 wrong. Measure-only: no engine code touched; deliberately NOT a capability-index domain
(a refusal floor has low coverage and would drag coverage_geomean). INV-30 green; smoke 99/99.
Note: no live ProofWriter dataset access in this environment, so items are hand-authored
in OWA style (provenance.md cites ProofWriter V2020.12.3 / arXiv:2012.13048 for semantics,
attribution only) — but the GOLD is oracle-computed and verified, not hand-asserted.
* harden(eval): OWA lane CLI fails on coverage_gaps too (review #779)
score.py::main() exited nonzero only on wrong>0; it now ALSO exits nonzero when
coverage_gaps is non-empty (serving-supported gold-True items that refused), matching
the acceptance rule the tests already enforce and the module docstring. Both failure
modes print to stderr; exit is 1 if either fires. Verified non-vacuously (injected gap
-> exit 1). Lane test 5/5 green.
Documents the systemic non-hermetic-test hazard surfaced during ADR-0220: ~340 of
469 ChatRuntime constructions across 123 test files default to the shared
engine_state/ dir, so tests read/pollute each other's checkpoints (the spurious
test_achat identity-continuity warning). Records the interim rule (new/edited
tests must pass engine_state_path=tmp_path or no_load_state) and the recommended
future fix (root conftest autouse fixture monkeypatching engine_state._DEFAULT_DIR
+ CORE_ENGINE_STATE_DIR), deferred to its own full-suite-validated PR. Docs only.
* docs(handoff): Step-3 relational-reasoning brief pack
Four parallel-safe briefs continuing the comprehend->determine arc after #775
(one-hop relational inference, breadth 10). Ordered OWA-first per the merge-safety
sequencing — harden unknown!=false before transitive/closed-world stress it:
1. ProofWriter-OWA refusal-floor lane (measure-only; standalone wrong=0 gate, NOT a
capability-index domain) — dispatch first.
2. Transitive relational chains (strict-order predicates only; reuses the proof_chain
ROBDD search-then-verify; non-transitive predicates must refuse).
3. overlaps_event finite-verb reader surface (closes#775's known coverage gap).
4. FrameVerdict / two-sided closed-world — DESIGN ONLY, gated behind brief 1 landing
and design ratification; no answer=False path, INV-30 preserved.
Each brief carries the shared acceptance gates (independent oracle, pos+neg fixtures,
capability-index movement, replay-stable, wrong=0, INV-30 green, no template spam) +
dispatch lines. B1/B2/B3 are file-disjoint and parallel-safe; B4 is gated.
* docs(handoff): tighten Step-3 brief dispatch semantics
* docs(handoff): address gemini-code-assist review on the Step-3 brief pack
- B1 (OWA): gold extended to {True, Unknown, False}; include gold-False items
(negation entailed). determine() is True-or-refuse, so asserting True on ANY
non-True gold (Unknown OR False) is the wrong=0 breach — strengthens the floor.
- B2 (transitive): inside_of + during_event are ALSO transitive (containment);
now explicitly DEFERRED from the first cut (admit only with their own confuser
fixtures), not silently omitted.
- B3 (finite-verb): added the finite-verb QUERY surface as scope — _read_relational_clause
requires questions to start with 'is', so an overlaps_event query is unparseable
today; pin one interrogative form (Does A overlap B?) and fail-closed, else the
symmetric case refuses and yields no coverage.
The two Gemini robustness nits raced the #774 merge: the patch landed on the
branch after GitHub had merged the pre-patch head, so main shipped the
architecture without the migration-input hardening. This re-lands ONLY the
robustness fixes — no identity-semantics change.
- chat/runtime.py: parse identity_scheme with try/except (TypeError, ValueError)
-> fallback to legacy scheme 1; revision str(... or '') so a null becomes ''
(unverifiable -> conservative DIVERGED), not the literal 'None'.
- workbench/readers.py: stored_revision=written_at_revision or '' so a None
revision is handled identically by the shared reconcile helper.
- tests: malformed identity_scheme does not crash the load guard (migrates);
reader falls back to legacy on malformed scheme; reader missing revision is a
conservative break.
Verified: 50 identity/migration/reader tests pass. No lane/serving path touched.
* feat(determine): one-hop sound relational entailment — inverse/converse + symmetric
Mastery-v2 Step 3 lead capability (core). DETERMINE could perceive relational
structure (16 predicates, breadth-complete) but could not derive the simplest
entailed relational facts — it read only the stored direction. This adds two
SOUND one-hop rules that read a stored edge in its other lawful direction:
INVERSE/converse greater_than(a,b) <= told less_than(b,a)
SYMMETRIC sibling_of(b,a) <= told sibling_of(a,b)
Strictly scoped (per review): OPEN-WORLD (asserts only True, never False — the
answer=False path stays unbuilt, INV-30's firewall holds), ONE hop (NO transitive
chaining), DECLARED rules only. Ontology/metadata-driven, not prose intuition:
- generate/meaning_graph/relational.py: declarative algebra tables — _INVERSE_PAIRS
(the converse edges; the pack carries no inverse metadata) + INVERSE_OF (derived,
an involution) + SYMMETRIC_PREDICATES (mirrors the pack's graph.edge.symmetric tag).
load_relational_pack_symmetric() reads the pack ontology; a test pins the constant
equal to it (no silent divergence).
- generate/determine/determine.py: _relational_one_hop() between direct entailment
and transitive subsumption; new Determined.rule provenance field (direct/inverse/
symmetric/subsumption) — replay-safe (render reads only basis; trace hashes surface).
wrong=0 confuser block proves the rule cannot over-fire: less_than is not
self-inverse, sibling_of does not imply parent_of, greater_than does not imply
equal_to, NO transitive chain (direct or through-inverse), and no answer=False is
ever emitted. An obsolete pin (test_symmetric_converse_is_not_faked, which asserted
the pre-rule direct-only floor) is updated to the new sound behavior and a preserved
asymmetric-converse bite.
Tests: test_determine_relational_inference.py (13, the capability contract) +
updated test_relational_reader.py. Broad relational/determine/grounding +
capability_index baseline sweep: 114 green; baseline digest UNCHANGED (this is a
determination capability; the comprehension lanes are untouched).
REMAINING for the full lead PR (next): the measurement lane — an independent-oracle
evals/relational_inference lane + a capability_index adapter + baseline re-freeze
(breadth 9->10, wrong_total still 0), so the capability registers on the yardstick.
INTEGRATION NOTE (cross-PR): this adds 2 Determined() construction sites (now 4:
direct/inverse/symmetric/subsumption, ALL answer=True). When rebased onto main with
INV-30 (PR #770), update INV-30's test_determine_construction_sites_are_visible count
2 -> 4 and confirm all four assert True. Merge order: #770 -> this.
* feat(capability-index): relational-inference lane — breadth 9->10, wrong=0
Mastery-v2 Step 3 lead, measurement half. Puts the one-hop relational-inference
capability ON the capability index with an independent-oracle lane:
- evals/relational_inference/v1/: cases.jsonl (13 positive: 8 inverse + 5 symmetric,
authored from the relation algebra INDEPENDENTLY of determine/relational per
INV-25/27), refusals.jsonl (8 confusers that MUST refuse), provenance.md (incl. the
honest overlaps_event reader-surface coverage gap).
- evals/comprehension/relational_inference_runner.py: told fact(s) -> determine(query)
vs gold; refusal = coverage miss, disagreement = wrong (structurally 0 on positives).
- evals/capability_index/adapters.py: comprehension_relational_inference_result added
to ADAPTERS.
- baseline.json re-frozen: breadth 9 -> 10, capability_score 0.94403 -> 0.949483,
wrong_total still 0, digest deliberately changed (35dea2b2...).
- tests/test_relational_inference_lane.py: SHA-pinned gold, positive wrong=0 +
coverage>0, and the confuser wrong=0 BITE (every confuser must refuse).
Also reconciles INV-30 (now in main via #770): determine.py grew from 2 to 3
Determined() construction sites (direct, the shared relational one-hop constructor,
transitive subsumption) — ALL answer=True. test_determine_construction_sites_are_visible
updated 2 -> 3 (correcting the prior commit note's overcount of 4; inverse and symmetric
share the single _relational_determined constructor, so it is ONE new site).
Also fixes a .gitignore gap: ADR-0219 gen-dir checkpoints (engine_state/current,
engine_state/gen-*/) were not ignored (only the old flat engine_state/*.json patterns
were), so runtime checkpoints could be committed by accident.
Verification: new lane 13/0/0 coverage 1.0; capability_baseline digest matches the
re-freeze; INV-30 + architectural invariants green; smoke 99/99.
* docs+test: reconcile stale relational-inference docstrings; assert rule provenance (review #775)
Addresses two review-requested cleanups on #775:
1. Stale docstrings. generate/meaning_graph/relational.py said the symmetric converse
is "a sound-but-incomplete refusal at DETERMINE" and there is "NO transitive/
symmetric/rule inference"; generate/determine/determine.py said "symmetric-converse
questions are Undetermined", "no transitive/symmetric/rule inference", and "asserts
only answer=True on a direct hit". All false after the one-hop relational algebra
landed. Updated: the reader does direct-reading only; DETERMINE applies declared
one-hop inverse/converse + pack-declared symmetric (plus the existing member/subset
subsumption), still open-world / never answer=False; transitive relational closure,
negation, and closed-world falsehood remain out of scope.
2. Rule-provenance gold now meaningful. The relational_inference runner compared only
(answer, predicate, subject, object), ignoring res.rule though the gold carries
"rule": "inverse"/"symmetric". Added res.rule to the got/gold tuple so a "right
answer via the wrong rule path" can no longer pass silently. Lane still 13/0/0;
baseline counts (and digest) unchanged.
Verification: runner 13/0/0; lane + capability_baseline + unit + INV-30 green (22).
Removes code_revision from the engine-identity hash: engine_identity is now the
sha256 of the 5 ratified packs ONLY. The build revision is provenance (the
manifest's written_at_revision), not identity — so a behavior-neutral rebuild is
the SAME identity and the always-on daemon no longer flag-day strict-breaks on
every commit (the ADR-0220 defect).
Core:
- core/engine_identity.py: ratified_substrate/compute_engine_identity drop the
git_revision arg (packs-only); add compute_legacy_engine_identity (reproduces
the pre-split packs+rev hash, for migration verification), ENGINE_IDENTITY_SCHEME=2,
IdentityReconciliation enum, and reconcile_loaded_identity — the single source of
truth for the runtime guard AND the workbench reader.
- chat/runtime.py: the load guard reconciles via scheme. Current scheme -> direct
packs-only compare. Legacy (code_revision-folded) stamp -> a VERIFYING migration:
reconstruct the legacy hash from the persisted written_at_revision; a match proves
packs unchanged (warn + re-stamp, resume, no break) — a mismatch means the packs
genuinely changed (DIVERGED -> strict-refuse). Preserves 'distinct packs => refuse'.
- engine_state/save_manifest: stamp identity_scheme alongside engine_identity
(additive-optional; no schema_version bump).
- workbench/readers.py: continuity reader uses the same reconcile (no phantom break
on legacy checkpoints). cli.py break message reworded (packs, not 'build revision').
Callsite cleanup: drop the now-unused git_revision arg + imports across
always_on.py, evals/l10_always_on/runner.py, workbench/readers.py.
Tests:
- test_identity_provenance_split.py (new): 5 reconcile unit proofs + 3 runtime
integration proofs incl. the wrong=identity defense (legacy stamp of DIFFERENT
packs still strict-refuses) and the re-stamp migration.
- test_engine_identity.py: invert the code-revision test (rev no longer changes
identity); assert the substrate is packs-only.
- Restore 3 lineage tests silently red since ADR-0219 (flat-path _manifest helper
now resolves the gen-dir).
- Update remaining callsites/monkeypatches for the new signature.
Hygiene: .gitignore now covers the ADR-0219 gen-dir runtime files
(current, gen-*/, session_state.json, proposals.jsonl).
Verified: 59 identity/migration/lineage/workbench + 32 L10 + 76 invariants/cli +
34 smoke pass; serving lane SHAs unchanged (no derivation/reliability_gate touch).
Records why main is protected with CI status checks only — no required approvals,
no required code-owner review. Public exclusion comes from repo WRITE ACCESS, not
a review rule; a self-approval requirement on a single-identity repo only creates
an unsatisfiable deadlock that forces --admin on every merge (cf #772).
- ADR-0221: context (the deadlock), the misconception corrected, the decision,
an explicit 'do not re-add human-review gates' guard for future agents, the
applied gh-api change, and the break-glass log.
- CODEOWNERS: comment corrected to ADVISORY-ONLY (require_code_owner_reviews is
now false); keeps * @AssetOverflow for ownership/auto-request, not gating.
Applied 2026-06-15: required_approving_review_count 1->0, require_code_owner_reviews
true->false; required status checks unchanged. This PR is the first through the
fixed normal path — its clean, approval-free, no-admin merge is the proof.
Mastery-v2 Step 2 (DCS/W2 reconciliation audit). The reviewer flagged that
ADR-0170 might still read as pending while the code shipped. Audit (read source
+ provenance + measured the metric) confirms:
- DCS-S1 acquisition (W2) is INTENTIONALLY SERVING, not a boundary escape:
PR #377 (b190f3b6) landed it in serving _INJECTORS BEFORE the sealed lane
(ADR-0186 = PR #487) existed. The sealed lane (_SEALED_INJECTORS = {}) is
correctly empty, reserved for future W3-W5.
- wrong=0 held: train_sample committed 4/0/46, confirmed live on current code
(test_adr_0126_train_sample_runner 4/4 green); 6 committed cases exercise the
acquisition path (collected x4, collects, receives).
- Placement already mechanically pinned by the existing test pair —
test_adr_0170_w2 (W2 emits via serving _INJECTORS) + test_adr_0186 (sealed
lane is an empty no-op) — so NO new test is added (would be redundant).
Two stale docs, now reconciled (documentation-only; no code/logic change):
1. ADR-0170 status: "Proposed / no runtime change" -> "Accepted; W1+W2 shipped";
implementation-outline annotated with shipped/deferred status per W-stage.
2. recognizer_anchor_inject.py sealed-lane comment: "resume ADR-0170 W2-W5" ->
"W3-W5", noting W2 ships from serving _INJECTORS (PR #377), never the lane.
W1+W2/sealed-lane/train_sample lanes: 36/36 green.
Adds the one missing mechanical firewall in the learning-boundary set: the
open-world determination gear (generate/determine/determine.py) may construct
only Determined(answer=True) or refuse (Undetermined) — it can never assert
answer=False. Absence never refutes (open-world); a False from absence would be
an unsound, wrong=0-class assertion. The planned DEEPEN/Step-2b closed-world
entailed-negation capability (ProofWriter-CWA / FOLIO two-sided labels) must use
a distinct closed-world result type and entry point, so this invariant keeps it
lane-scoped by construction rather than by reviewer vigilance.
INV-30 follows the existing suite's Schema-Defined-Proof-Obligation discipline:
- test_no_determined_asserts_false — the firewall (project-wide AST scan)
- test_detector_is_non_vacuous — proves it FAILS on injected answer=False
- test_detector_ignores_true_and_reads — proves no false positives
- test_determine_construction_sites_are_visible — proves the scan is not blind
Doctrine: CLAUDE.md Teaching Safety + docs/runtime_contracts.md now state the
corrected typed-learning boundary (durable=reviewed/proof-carrying;
provisional=autonomous iff typed/isolated/replayable/non-masquerading) and cite
the enforcing invariants INV-21/22/23/24/29/30, including the honest wrinkle that
ADR-0148 promote_eligible_entries is a second, opt-in, default-off COHERENT path.
No source code changed; firewall is additive.
Full architectural invariant suite: 65/65 green.
* feat(cli): always-on --engine-state PATH + safe identity-break recovery (ADR-0220 PR B)
Operator ergonomics only — no identity-hashing, strict_identity_continuity, or
manifest-schema change (those are gated on ADR-0220 ratification, PR C).
- core always-on --engine-state PATH: surface the existing per-life state-root
concept. run_daemon already accepts engine_state_path; cmd_always_on now
threads the flag through (default None -> $CORE_ENGINE_STATE_DIR / in-repo dir).
- _always_on_identity_break_message: replace the terse IdentityContinuityError
text with revision-aware recovery guidance (reads written_at_revision so
'git checkout <rev>' is copy-pasteable; offers --engine-state and an in-place
clear-runtime-files path). Safe by construction: never suggests mv/rm of the
engine_state dir, which under the default IS the tracked Python package.
- Suppress ADR-0157's revision-mismatch warning while the formatter reads the
manifest (message builder, not a load path).
- Tests: flag default/parse, threading to run_daemon, message is safe +
revision-aware + placeholder-on-no-manifest.
* fix(cli): fall back to <engine_state_dir> placeholder when state dir unresolvable
Gemini review nit on #772: if EngineStateStore construction fails AND no
--engine-state was given, state_dir stayed None and the recovery message printed
a bare 'None' as the dir to clear. Fall back to '<engine_state_dir>'. Adds a test
that forces the store-resolution exception path, and guards the no-manifest test
against 'None' leaking into the message.
Documents the contradiction between ADR-0157 (revision mismatch = non-fatal
warning) and engine_identity.py:99 (same revision folded into the identity hash
= hard raise under strict continuity). Proposes the identity_substrate_hash vs
build_provenance_hash split (O3), staged A/B/C, with corrected operator-recovery
guidance (never mv/rm the default engine_state dir — it is the tracked package).
No code change; proposed, awaiting ratification.
Adds empirical coverage of the three ADR-0219 checkpoint sub-steps where
a process kill can occur: PARTIAL_GEN (gen dir exists but partially written),
FULL_GEN_BEFORE_SWAP (all four files written but current pointer not yet swapped),
and AFTER_SWAP (clean-commit control case, already covered by rec_a/rec_b).
For each of the two non-trivial cut-points the harness:
1. runs a probe soak to commit reboot_turn turns,
2. injects the corresponding orphan shape,
3. reads the on-disk manifest to confirm the loader follows `current` and reads
the committed generation (not the orphan),
4. runs two independent recovery soaks (each injecting the same orphan at the
reboot boundary) and verifies their post-reboot trace_hash tails converge,
5. checks versor_condition < 1e-6 throughout every recovery soak.
New predicate evaluate_p4_arbitrary_interruption (predicates.py) expresses
this as a PredicateOutcome with a CutPointEvidence carrier. It has:
- holds gate: recovered_turn_count == expected (orphan was ignored)
- holds gate: tail_hashes_a == tail_hashes_b (two recoveries converge)
- holds gate: all versor_conditions < ceiling (closure throughout)
- bites gate: tested by four mutation tests (wrong count, diverging tails,
vc violation, empty tails)
contract.md: all spec predicates P1-P5c are now covered (NOT_COVERED is empty).
Per CLAUDE.md schema-as-proof: every predicate gate is verified by a *_bites
mutation test — 9 tests total (3 injection unit, 2 real-soak holds, 4 bites)
all pass in 109s.
Reconcile the living docs with the shipped Vault evidence surface:
- README "Shipped surfaces": record the Vault P0 (honest empty/unavailable
framing, #760), P1 (inspector depth + status/facet/text filters +
evidence-rail progression, #762/#763/#764), and P2 (read-only exact-CGA
recall, #766) arc as complete; enrich the Vault entry row. Read-only
throughout — no runtime controls.
- wave-R: extend the Vault surface bullet with the recall endpoint and the
P0/P1/P2 completion note + the +inf-self-match-sentinel honesty point.
- api-contract-v1: add GET /vault/entries/{index}/recall (purpose, errors,
trust boundary, cross-link to the data shape).
- data-shapes-v1: add VaultRecallHit / VaultRecall types.
- UI-UX-GUIDE: enrich the Vault row (inspector depth, filters, rail, opt-in
exact-CGA recall; read-only).
Docs-only; no code or contract behavior change.
Adds W1-T: an observational telemetry leaf for idle_tick's learning flywheel,
modeled on core.cognition.leeway (the B4 precedent). Never gates, refuses,
or alters trace_hash.
New core/cognition/backpressure.py:
BackpressureRecord(pending_proposals, candidate_backlog, cap, headroom,
contemplated_this_tick, created_this_tick, at_fixed_point, did_work)
build_backpressure_record(...) — pure function, resolves ADR-0161 cap from
env (CORE_HITL_PENDING_CAP or 256), derives headroom = max(0, cap-pending),
at_fixed_point = (candidate_backlog==0 and created_this_tick==0).
chat/runtime.py:
IdleTickResult gains backpressure: BackpressureRecord | None = None (always
set on a completed tick).
idle_tick builds the record from counts already computed (pending_proposals,
candidate_backlog, contemplated_count, created, did_work) — no new
computation, no serving-path change.
Appends one JSONL line per tick to engine_state/idle_telemetry.jsonl
(best-effort, never crashes the continuous life; accumulates across all
generations so history survives reboot independently of the checkpoint).
tests/test_idle_backpressure_telemetry.py (16 tests):
- field derivation: headroom, cap, at_fixed_point (holds + bites)
- cap resolution: default 256, env override, invalid env fallback
- firewall proof: trace_hash of a served turn is byte-identical whether
idle_tick ran before it or not (the load-bearing invariant)
- integration: record fields on a fresh runtime; telemetry written to
engine_state dir; history accumulates across ticks
All 16 tests pass. ADR-0161 cap and queue_full control logic untouched.
Close the deferred Vault item 4: a read-only endpoint proving a selected
vault entry is recallable by CORE's actual exact CGA machinery, surfaced
in the entry inspector.
Backend (read-only, cold-persisted only):
- GET /vault/entries/{index}/recall rehydrates the persisted VaultStore
(VaultStore.from_dict — bit-exact versors, no reprojection) and runs the
real VaultStore.recall using the entry's own stored versor as the query.
Exact cga_inner scan — never ANN / cosine / approximate.
- recall's +inf exact-self-match sentinel never crosses the boundary: the
genuine finite cga_inner is reported plus an exact_self_match flag. The
raw versor never leaves the engine — only content-addressed digests.
- Trust boundary: caller-controlled index -> 404 (out of range / non-int);
absent persisted snapshot -> 501. The file is never written; the live
runtime is never touched; recall is deterministic over persisted bytes.
Frontend:
- "Exact CGA Recall" inspector panel, collapsed by default so the read is
opt-in (the query hook only mounts on expand). Copy says "exact CGA
recall" / cga_inner — never similarity / relevance / score / ANN /
cosine. Honestly surfaces that a byte-identical self-match is promoted
ahead of metric ranking (CGA null-vector self inner-product ~0).
INV-24: register workbench/readers.py in VAULT_RECALL_SITES as
EVIDENCE_TELEMETRY (operator inspection evidence, not claim-shaping), and
tighten the recall-site detector to recognise VaultStore.from_dict factory
bindings so the obligation is real rather than silently bypassed.
Tests: backend 501/404/self-recall/determinism/no-mutation/JSON-safety +
API status codes; frontend collapsed-doctrine + expanded self-recall
evidence. Full workbench suite (192) + architectural invariants (61) +
vault-touching vitest (70) all green.
Adds the P5a recall-precision predicate that was listed as NOT_COVERED in
the L10 continuity lane. Closes the gap in the schema-as-proof discipline
(CLAUDE.md): every predicate must have both a *_holds test (real soak) and
a *_bites mutation test so a passing lane cannot silently miss the violation
it nominally catches.
Changes:
- runner.py: ProbeRecord dataclass + probe_at/verify_probes_at params on
run_soak(). Registers a field state (float32 bytes, matching vault's
_exact_index dtype) at a named turn and recalls it against the vault at a
later turn — including after a reboot, which is the cross-reboot claim.
- predicates.py: evaluate_p5a_recall_precision — fails if any ProbeRecord
has rank=None or rank>top_k, or if no cross-reboot probe was recorded.
- report.py: wires P5a into build_report(); probe registered at turn 1,
verified at reboot_turn+2 (intentionally before the vault's
null_project auto-reproject cycle at store_count=20, which would destroy
all CGA inner-product scores — documented as a real finding, deferred to
a follow-up increment); NOT_COVERED is now empty ().
- contract.md: P5a row in the predicate table + reprojection-boundary
scope note.
- test_l10_continuity.py: 4 tests — holds (real 6-turn soak across reboot)
+ 3 bites (rank=None, no cross-reboot probe, empty probe_records).
Key finding: vault.null_project() fires every vault_reproject_interval=20
stores and produces CGA-orthogonal versors (inner product → 0.0 with the
original), completely destroying both exact-match and ranked recall. This
is a long-horizon vault stability issue, recorded here rather than silently
avoided. The P5a probe window is constrained to the pre-reproject interval
to keep wrong=0 intact while documenting the gap.
Closes the cross-file checkpoint-atomicity gap in ADR-0156. The four
checkpoint files now live in a committed gen-NNNN/ directory; the single
atomic os.replace of a 'current' pointer file is the commit boundary.
A kill before the pointer swap leaves the prior committed generation
intact; a kill after commits the new generation. Unreferenced gen dirs
are ignored. ADR-0156's deferred parent-dir fsync is also closed.
Key changes:
- engine_state/__init__.py: begin_generation() + commit_generation() +
_resolve_dir() for all load_* methods. Flat-layout legacy checkpoints
migrate into gen-0000 on first begin_generation call. GC retains K=2
committed generations.
- chat/runtime.py: checkpoint_engine_state uses the two-phase commit;
finalize_turn_trace_hash no longer writes discovery_candidates outside
the generation sequence (the second unguarded write path is closed).
- evals/l10_continuity/runner.py: _inject_orphan_tmp updated to inject
the two orphan shapes of the generation model.
- tests/test_adr_0219_generation_checkpoint.py: 18 tests, one per
acceptance-gate bullet + biting mutation variant each.
L10 lane: all_gates_pass=true; versor_condition<1e-6 throughout.
Smoke: 95 passed. Runtime: 20 passed.
Stop the rail reading as a wall of 'not applicable to vault entries':
- each dim stage now carries a specific honest reason (intent: a stored
field has no originating user intent; authority: vault recall is
read-only; action: no emission)
- replay lights on the recorded versor_digest exactly as a turn lights
on its trace_hash — a content-addressable fingerprint, NOT a verified
replay claim (honesty contract sanctioned)
- provenance/admissibility derivations enriched (versor_digest + metadata;
epistemic_state / epistemic_status)
Fixed 7-stage spine and honesty contract preserved; labels unchanged.
Strengthened the meaningfully-fail test to cover replay + dim stages.
Make a populated vault navigable beyond opaque digests:
- status facet: 'all' + the distinct epistemic_status values present in
the loaded entries (derived, never a hardcoded closed set — the status
vocabulary is engine-owned)
- text search now reaches metadata keys/values, not just the epistemic
labels + index
- boolean facets: 'Has proposition' (propositional_form) and 'Has
promotion digest' (promotion_certificate_digest); dropped 'has replay
hash' — no such field exists
- filter-empty stays filter-empty (not persistence guidance)
No new endpoint; filters operate on already-loaded entries.
Surface a selected vault entry's real evidence instead of just
epistemic_state + a digest:
- widen VaultEntrySubjectData to carry epistemic_status + the full
metadata dict (data already reaches the inspector at runtime; this is
a type-only unlock, no new fetch/endpoint)
- inspector shows epistemic_status and epistemic_state distinctly, core
identity rows (turn, role) with honest 'not recorded' when absent,
present-only rows (corrected, energy_*, promotion_certificate_digest),
a propositional_form headline when present, copyable vault:<index> and
versor_digest handles, and a collapsible key-sorted raw metadata drawer
- curated rows key off fields that actually exist on vault entries; the
raw drawer is the catch-all as the open metadata schema grows
Exact-recall doctrine preserved: no similarity/relevance/score text.
* feat(l10): autonomous idle frontier-contemplation — the always-on life learns on its own
Frontier survey move #2, path (c): give the always-on idle life a stream of experience via
SYMBOLIC intake (not the afferent→field seam, which is deferred pending a commensurability
ruling — docs/analysis/afferent-field-ingest-scope-2026-06-15.md). The idle heartbeat
converges (idle_tick drains a finite backlog + saturates is-a closure, then does nothing
forever); this makes it autonomously MINE its frontier with no user turn.
Reuse-heavy (the mechanism largely existed): a gated idle pass wires ADR-0080 contemplation
into the always-on loop.
- core/config.py: contemplate_frontier_during_idle (default off → no behavior change).
- chat/runtime.py: idle_tick pass 2b — when on, runs core.contemplation.run_contemplation()
(mines the checked-in frontier-compare reports) and persists a reviewable ContemplationRun
to <engine_state>/contemplation_runs/idle_<substrate_hash>.json. IDEMPOTENT per frontier
(an already-mined frontier is not re-persisted → the life converges, no churn) and MEMOIZED
per session (the static frontier is mined once, not re-read every beat). SPECULATIVE-only
(ADR-0080: ContemplationFinding.__post_init__ RAISES if not SPECULATIVE → wrong=0 by
construction; never ratified here — the HITL path is untouched). IdleTickResult gains
frontier_findings.
- chat/always_on.py: run_continuous did_work + HeartbeatRecord count frontier work, so the
heartbeat/soak convergence (H3) stays honest.
- core/cli.py: `core always-on --contemplate-frontier` (explicit learning-daemon mode) +
honest per-beat log ("+N findings").
Adversarial 3-lens review (wrong=0/convergence, determinism/trust-boundary, test-vacuity)
found 7; fixed the real ones: the MEDIUM torn-write (write_contemplation_run is now atomic
temp+os.replace — the indefinite-uptime daemon expects SIGKILL mid-write, and the skip-guard
would never repair a torn canonical file), the gitignore breadth (contemplation_runs/ at any
engine-state root), the 64-bit filename truncation (full substrate_hash), and the
re-mine-every-beat cost (session memoization). Deferred + documented: the shared
contemplation miner embeds absolute report paths in finding CONTENT — a portability wrinkle
that does NOT affect wrong=0/convergence/soak determinism (those key on the content-only
substrate_hash) and touches shared code + its test surface; a follow-up.
Tests (non-vacuous): 7 — off-by-default (no behavior change), mines-when-enabled,
findings-SPECULATIVE (wrong=0), converges-idempotent, heartbeat-mines-then-converges,
mines-once-per-session (memoization), atomic-no-orphan. 55 idle/contemplation/always-on +
96 invariants/contemplation + 28 smoke green; `core always-on --contemplate-frontier` mines
end-to-end. engine_state contemplation_runs are per-life runtime state (gitignored).
* fix(l10): isolate idle frontier pass + persist frontier_findings (#758)
Three review blockers on the autonomous idle frontier-contemplation pass:
1. Daemon isolation. idle_tick's pass 2b called run_contemplation /
write_contemplation_run bare inside the always-on loop (run_continuous
wraps idle_tick in nothing but an exit-checkpoint finally), so a malformed
frontier report or a transient FS fault would propagate out and KILL the
continuous life. Wrap the optional pass best-effort (the exit-checkpoint
boundary idiom): degrade to 0 findings + RuntimeWarning, leave did_work
untouched, let a later beat retry.
2. Durable did_work explanation. HeartbeatRecord carried frontier_findings
but serialize_report omitted it and AlwaysOnReport had no run total, so
lived_life.json could show did_work=true with facts=0/proposals=0 and no
persisted cause. Persist frontier_findings per-record + total_frontier_findings.
3. Honest HITL claim. The docstring/CLI/config said findings are "reviewable
via the HITL path", but the existing HITL queue + workbench reader scan
<repo>/contemplation/runs while the pass writes <engine_state>/contemplation_runs/.
Narrow the claim to "persisted reviewable artifact, not yet in the HITL
queue" (wiring that discovery is a follow-up).
Tests: 4 new non-vacuous regressions (mining-failure degrade, write-failure
degrade, always-on loop survives frontier failure, lived_life persists
frontier_findings) — all fail against the unpatched pass. 38 L10/always-on/
workbench tests green.
The always-on PROCESS shipped (run_continuous + daemon + CLI), but the claim "it holds
over uptime" was UNFALSIFIED: the existing evals/l10_continuity soak drives the TURN loop
and is disjoint from run_continuous; the daemon path was covered only by ≤5-beat unit
tests. This lane converts "built" → "proven over horizon" for the idle path.
evals/l10_always_on/ mirrors the l10_continuity predicate/mutation harness but drives the
IDLE heartbeat: it seeds a real continuous life (held self + a cognitive turn to excite the
field), runs N beats with NO user turn, and gates four falsifiable predicates, each with a
*_holds (real soak) AND a *_bites (mutation) test per CLAUDE.md schema-as-proof:
- H1 closure — every observed idle beat versor_condition < 1e-6 (held over uptime, READ
never repaired); bites on a breached beat AND on a vacuous no-field soak.
- H2 bounded idle — a no-work beat adds NOTHING to the vault (no idle leak — invisible at
5 beats, fatal at 100k); bites on idle vault growth.
- H3 convergence — a saturated idle life SETTLES and stays settled (no re-awakening), at
rest at the end, closure intact on the tail; bites on never-settling + on re-awakening.
- H4 reboot resume — a reboot mid-soak resumes the SAME life (strict identity guard passes,
pre-reboot DERIVED learning survives, post-reboot closure holds); bites on failed
resume + on lost learning.
Measured (5000 idle beats, reboot@2500, ~20s): ALL gates pass — versor_condition flat at
1.389e-07 (no drift, no repair), vault bounded at 6 (no idle leak), converged at beat 1
with a 4999-beat at-rest tail, reboot resumed the same life with learning intact. This is
the empirical resolution of the L10 riskiest-unknown FOR THE IDLE PATH (the closure-by-
construction ruling covered the field-transition walk; this covers indefinite idle uptime).
Honestly NOT covered (recorded in the report, no silent skip): the continuously-LEARNING
life's resource cost under a sustained new-fact stream (O(n²) snapshot; per-run lived_life)
— out of scope until an afferent/intake feed + incremental persistence exist (the next
frontier).
Run on demand: PYTHONPATH=. python -m evals.l10_always_on [n_beats] [reboot_beat]. Path-
scoped out of CI smoke (like l10_continuity); runs in post-merge full-pytest. Additive — a
new eval lane, no existing files touched. 12/12 lane tests + architectural invariants green.
The wave-* planning docs record their wave, not current state. Add a
consistent "Historical record — superseded" banner to each, pointing to
README (Current Status), UI-UX-GUIDE, and the route registry as the live
sources. wave-1/R/M-worthiness/M-consolidation covered.
Docs only.
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Bring the four living workbench docs up to date with what actually
shipped, and document the TruncatedCell full-content reveal.
- README: route count 14 -> 16; add Lived Life (Evidence) and CORE-Logos
(Substrate) to the shipped-surfaces table; full Trace tab list; add the
TruncatedCell reveal to cross-cutting; link the visual-evidence handoff;
bump status date.
- UI-UX-GUIDE: §12 now reflects the built read-only /logos reader vs the
unbuilt Studio; §13 moves the cognitive-pipeline visualizer, field/
versor_condition reader, and identity-continuity items from "absent" to
"shipped"; new §14 documents the truncated-cell reveal pattern + the
<a>/<Link> non-nesting boundary; bump date.
- ui-component-map: add TruncatedCell to shared data viewers.
- design-system: add the Truncated Cell Reveal shared-component note.
Docs only; no code change.
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Add a handoff brief with five screenshots captured by driving the real
vite-preview build with Playwright (mocked API), confirming the
full-content reveal works across the originally reported proposal queue
table, the trace propagation edges, and the trace selection rails — with
the row staying unselected on reveal (stopPropagation holds).
Verification only; no code change. Records the harness gotcha that a
role-by-name query resolves to the row, not the icon trigger.
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The L10 heartbeat loop (run_continuous) had no process to drive it; `core always-on`
is that process — the T-experience spine made runnable. It ticks idle_tick on a wall-clock
cadence so the engine LIVES and LEARNS with no user turn, persists lived_life.json (the
workbench Lived Life surface) + the checkpoint, and resumes the SAME life on restart.
- chat/always_on.py: run_continuous gains unbounded operation (heartbeats=None, runs until
stop) + an interruptible inter-beat wait (_sleep_until_stop) so shutdown latency is one
slice, not the cadence interval. Persists the run's identity pack ids (resume-verdict
faithfulness). on_heartbeat is now best-effort (a broken log pipe can't kill the life).
- chat/always_on_daemon.py (new): the daemon shell — a single-instance OS lock (fcntl.flock:
kernel-held, atomic, auto-released on death — no stale window, no PID-reuse, no half-written
race), SIGINT/SIGTERM -> graceful stop (handlers saved/restored), the continuous-life config
FORCED on, ephemeral (--no-load-state) writes no durable artifact. Foreground + explicit:
no hidden background execution (CLAUDE.md); only writes the engine-state dir it was given.
- core/cli.py: `core always-on [--interval --max-beats --no-load-state --quiet]` with per-beat
+ summary logging; validates --interval; reports IdentityContinuityError / IncompatibleEngine
StateError (the "different life / newer build" cases) as clean refusals, not tracebacks.
- workbench/readers.py: ENGINE_STATE_ROOT now honors CORE_ENGINE_STATE_DIR (= the daemon's
resolved dir), so the workbench can't be split-brained (reading REPO_ROOT/engine_state while
the daemon writes elsewhere); the Lived Life resume verdict recomputes from the persisted
pack config, not a default config (no false substrate_changed for a non-default-pack life).
- Lived Life absence state now points at the real `core always-on` command (loop closed).
Adversarial 4-lens review (lock/concurrency, signals/shutdown, invariants/trust-boundary,
test-vacuity/CLI) caught 16 findings; this fixes all real ones — the HIGH lock races (two
daemons over one life), the env split-brain, the IO-kill, the uncaught identity/schema errors,
the unvalidated interval, the ephemeral-artifact shadow, and the resume-verdict pack-id bug —
and closes the two test-coverage gaps it flagged (real SIGTERM path + config-forcing-at-the-
runtime boundary).
Tests (non-vacuous): 11 daemon (flock live-holder refusal, leftover-lock reclaim, unbounded+
stop, interruptible sleep, forced-config-at-boundary, no-load-state guard, REAL SIGTERM
subprocess) + the reader pack-id discrimination test (fails under the old default-config bug).
245 workbench+invariants+always-on Python green; frontend tsc + vitest green; `core always-on`
verified end-to-end (bounded, real SIGTERM graceful stop, interval rejection).
engine_state/always_on.lock is runtime state (gitignored, ADR-0146 pattern).
The /health endpoint was the only W-026 API route with no UI consumer.
Surface it as a liveness indicator (colored dot + label) in the status
footer, isolated from /runtime/status so a live server still reads
"Healthy" even when runtime status is degraded.
- types: HealthStatus matching the server's {"status":"ok"} payload
- client: fetchHealth() with a short 3s timeout for fast failure
- queries: useHealth() polling every 15s, retry disabled
- footer: HealthIndicator rendered in both normal and degraded branches;
any non-ok status fails safe to "Unhealthy"
- tests: healthy / errored / non-ok / checking / survives-runtime-failure
Follow-up to #749, which deliberately scoped TruncatedCell to the
non-virtualized columnar tables and left trace edges + single-column
selection rails as-is. Wire it into those too so every truncated data
cell in the workbench has the same full-content reveal (popover +
copy + modal-for-long).
Component:
- Add `align` prop ("start" | "end"). `end` hugs the right edge and
right-justifies the display, for right-aligned columns like the trace
`to_stage` cell. Defaults to "start" (unchanged).
Wiring:
- Trace propagation edges: from_stage / to_stage (to_stage align=end).
- Trace pipeline stage rail: stage label + summary.
- Trace turns rail: prompt + surface excerpts.
- Runs rail: session_id. Replay rail: prompt excerpt. Packs rail:
pack_id. CORE-Logos pack rail: pack_id. Logos alignment rail: edge
(rich source→target display, plain-text value for copy/reveal).
- Contemplation run rail: run_id; stage-evidence ids.
- Demos rail: title; scenario trace hash.
- Proposal detail: replay-equivalence hash, evidence hashes;
proposal chain provenance.
Two row elements that were real <button>s (trace stage rail,
contemplation run row) are converted to <div role="button"> with an
Enter/Space onKeyDown handler — the codebase's established selectable-row
pattern (ProposalTable, RowShell) — so nesting TruncatedCell's button
trigger is valid HTML rather than a button-in-button.
Intentionally left as-is (documented):
- RunsRoute TurnRefRow is an <a>/<Link> row; nesting an interactive
trigger inside an anchor is invalid HTML. The surface excerpt is
reachable by following the link.
- Digests everywhere keep DigestBadge (already copy + full-value title).
- Section headings (e.g. the trace stage-detail <h3>) are not data cells.
Evidence: workbench-ui `pnpm build` (tsc -b) green; full vitest suite
535 passed / 60 files, incl. a new align assertion on TruncatedCell.
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Workbench grid tables truncate dense cells (proposal ids, source kinds,
case ids/reasons, lexicon/morphology rows, artifact paths) with `...`,
leaving the full value unreachable except via a native title tooltip.
Add a reusable `TruncatedCell` (design/components): keeps the compact
display, attaches one hover/focus-revealed trigger that opens an
accessible Radix popover with the complete value (selectable, scrollable)
plus one-click copy, and — for long/structured values — an "Open full
view" button into a dynamic Radix Dialog modal. One component delivers
both the lightweight reveal and the interactive modal.
The reveal trigger calls stopPropagation, so it never steals a row's
click/select behaviour — revealing a value and selecting the row stay
independent. Digests keep `DigestBadge` (already copy + full-value title).
Wired into the non-virtualized + contents grid tables: Proposal queue
(id, source), eval wrong=0 case ledger (case id, reason), CORE-Logos
lexicon/glosses/morphology rows, and proposal artifact paths. Trace
propagation edges (short, right-aligned stage names) and single-column
selection rails / detail cards keep current behaviour.
Evidence: workbench-ui `pnpm build` (tsc -b) green; full vitest suite
525 passed / 59 files, including 5 new TruncatedCell tests (display +
title, popover reveal + copy, modal-only-for-long, no row-click bubble).
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The L10 heartbeat (chat/always_on, #747) holds CORE alive over uptime but had no
surface. This adds the read-only Lived Life route that renders the continuous-life
evidence: the heartbeat over uptime + the resume-as-same-life verdict — both halves
of "one continuous life" on one surface.
Persist-first, never recompute engine-owned values:
- chat/always_on: serialize_report + write_lived_life persist a run deterministically
(sorted keys) to engine_state/lived_life.json; run_continuous gains an opt-in
report_path so a real continuous-life run leaves its evidence where the workbench
reads it. closure_ceiling is persisted so the artifact is self-describing.
- workbench/lived_life.py: projection + a fail-closed validate() gate — the wrong=0
analogue for the continuity surface: closure_held/closure_observed/totals/converged
are each re-checked against the per-beat measurements, and resume_status is re-checked
against identity-vs-current-substrate, so a tampered artifact RAISES rather than
rendering a false claim (a beat lying about a breached ceiling, an inflated closure,
a miscounted total, a falsely-claimed resume).
- workbench/readers.lived_life(): reads the artifact, computes the resume verdict from
the persisted identity vs the canonical engine_identity_for_config (fail-soft ->
"unknown", like IdentityContinuity). Honest absence when no run has been persisted.
- GET /lived-life + LivedLife/LivedLifeHeartbeat schemas (snapshot regenerated; the
schema-drift gate proves every field is mirrored in src/types/api.ts).
The resume verdict made felt: would_resume / substrate_changed / unknown IS the L11
reboot guarantee (a reboot recomputes identity and refuses if it differs) — so the
surface shows this life wakes up as ITSELF, not a copy. The per-reboot lineage chain
stays owned by Runs > Identity (honest cross-link).
Frontend: /lived-life route (Evidence section, route count 15 -> 16). Renders the
headline (heartbeats, closure-held-by-construction, learned-while-idle, at-rest, resume
pill), the summary, the heartbeat timeline (closure flat below the ceiling — read, never
repaired), and the resume verdict. Honest absence + ADR-0162 route conformance
(loading/error/empty), fail-closed like Vault/Calibration.
Tests (non-vacuous): 12 backend (every tamper case raises; resume tracks identity vs
substrate; run_continuous(report_path) round-trips a readable+valid artifact) + 4
frontend render tests (recorded life renders; a breached beat shows the warning, never a
false "held"; a changed substrate shows would-refuse, never a false resume; absent shows
honest absence). All workbench Python (167) + affected vitest (167) + tsc + vite build
green; architectural invariants green.
engine_state/lived_life.json is runtime state (gitignored, ADR-0146 pattern).
The 'one continuous life' telos had three built pieces (turn loop, Shape B+ resume,
idle_tick learning) but no process holding the engine alive+learning over uptime. This
adds that heartbeat loop: chat/always_on.run_continuous ticks idle_tick on a cadence so
the engine LIVES and LEARNS even when no one is talking to it, READS (never repairs) the
closure invariant as evidence each beat, and persists so the life survives interruption
and resumes as the SAME life.
Proven by 3 falsifiable soak tests (non-vacuous): lives (closure observed + held, real
field excited, ~7x under the 1e-6 ceiling); learns while idle (Step-D consolidation
DERIVES and STORES member(socrates,mortal) during idle — absent before the heartbeat,
present after); converges (saturated life stops churning); survives interruption as the
SAME life (strict identity guard enforces it on reboot + the consolidated STORED record
survives, not mere re-derivation); never repairs (field byte-identical after the run).
Safety by composition, no new authority: idle_tick stays proposal-only (HITL untouched)
+ sound proof-gated SPECULATIVE session-memory consolidation; closure owned by
algebra/versor.py (heartbeat only reads versor_condition — no hot-path repair).
Adversarial 3-reviewer panel: no-hot-path-repair PASS, wrong=0 PASS; the panel's
proof-quality findings are fixed — removed the tautological identity_continuous claim
(engine identity is config-derived, invariant by construction), reframed the resume test
to prove ACCUMULATED learning survived (stored record, not re-derivation) under the strict
identity guard, surfaced final_checkpoint_ok (no silent swallow), and softened the
docstring (this is the heartbeat LOOP a daemon runs; the daemon shell is a follow-up).
Scope: the reusable loop ships; a production daemon (CLI entry, real cadence, signals)
is a thin follow-up. Purely additive (no existing file touched).
First phase of the domain-general compositional reading layer (the comprehension
coverage wall is composition — docs/analysis/comprehension-coverage-wall-map-2026-06-14.md).
M1 is a pure PARITY refactor on the flagship logic path, no new capability:
- new generate/composition/ package: LogicChainPlan (plan.py) + lower_logic_chain
(lower_logic.py), the is-a chain lowering extracted BYTE-IDENTICALLY from
determine.py::_verify_subsumption.
- _verify_subsumption now builds a plan -> lowers it -> routes through the UNCHANGED
evaluate_entailment gate. The composer proposes structure; the sound ROBDD gate
remains the sole wrong=0 firewall.
- only the logic instantiation ships; no math lowering, no join-op vocabulary
(defer-substrate-vocab-commitment — the chain discriminates on its relational
predicate, an explicit join-op field lands when a second op dispatches on it).
Verification: byte-identical lowering (3-reviewer adversarial panel: byte-parity PASS
char-for-char, wrong=0 PASS — the instance-of-fallacy refusal mutation-proven
load-bearing); 5 new non-vacuous lowering tests; 28 determine/transitive/consolidation
+ 163-test broad sweep (incl. gsm8k serving + ADR-0218) green; cognition eval 100%.
Evidence-based map of the comprehension coverage wall (the C decision). GSM8K
diagnostic: 4/0/46, no single barrier >10%, ~24 fragmented primary barriers with
heavy multi-barrier co-occurrence (compound+comparative+fraction+coreference stack
on the same cases). Capability lanes are narrow curated-gold conformance
(combined-rate: 6 solvable shapes, 19/19 oracle). Single-shape recognizers are
proven metric-inert (4th confirmation). Diagnosis: shape-recognizers don't COMPOSE
within compound statements / across coreference. Leverage: Tier 1 recognizer
additions ~+5 cases then cap; Tier 2 compositional reading is the only real lever
(architectural, must stay wrong=0). Recommendation: don't add isolated recognizers;
design a compositional reader.
The only genuine epistemic lever (per the finding). Scopes the ADR-0218 path: it
is the inductive step (coherent premises + verified proof -> coherent conclusion),
fail-closed and sound, but needs a curator-certified COHERENT base that nothing
mints today (bootstrapping). Wiring buys an honesty/disclosure upgrade (verified
for proven propositional conclusions), NOT a learning fix. wrong=0 risk shifts
entirely to the curator-certified base. Three options framed (wire narrowly /
record curator-mediated-by-design / defer) with recommendation.
7-agent architecture audit + adversarial verification refutes the intuition that
all-speculative packs cap the model's learning. The reasoning/learning loop is
blind to epistemic_status (recall_realized ignores it; speculative facts chain to
deductive-closure fixed point). Lexicon-status promotion is compile-and-display-only
(runtime epistemic state comes from grounding_source, not the lexical row). The
verified/as_told distinction is honesty-disclosure-only and intentional. All three
coherence-promoters are dormant (proof-carrying demo-only, energy-policy default-off,
review never sets coherent). Conclusion: do NOT promote-to-coherent for learning
(cosmetic at best, false-verified wrong=0 hazard for facts); the only genuine lever
is wiring the sound, fail-closed proof-carrying path — a separate deliberate decision.
