Two shapes (PR ruling) pinned compiler-side with tests — reader direction errors
surface as refusals, never wrongs:
- Chained / ordering: a compare whose reference is neither seeded nor
already-defined at that point refuses (compare_reference_not_a_register).
Pinned explicitly with a test (story order != dependency order), not left to
fall out of existing checks.
- Inverse mis-direction: a compare that would DEFINE an already-known (seeded or
earlier-defined) register refuses (compare_redefines_register) — the reader
must bind the unknown side as the target with a fraction factor; the compiler
never overwrites a known quantity.
The 5 real compare cases still solve wrong=0. 27/27 (2 new guards + 25).
[Verification]: uv run python -m pytest tests/test_adr_0250_compare.py tests/test_adr_0250_multi_register.py tests/test_adr_0250_summation.py -q
AMENDMENT 3 (PR #76): the reader grammar family is developed against the TUNE
split only; increment deltas are measured on the disjoint MEASURE split only.
Split = pure function of case id (measure iff sha256(id) even, else tune), so
disjointness is enforced by construction and cannot drift. Fixed 2026-07-18,
never re-seeded. Sizes: tune=261, measure=239. This commit lands BEFORE any
grammar-tuning commit — the git history is the proof the split was pinned in
advance (criterion 3). wrong=0 is verified across the full 500 regardless of
split; only the coverage delta is attributed to the measure split.
Cross-register affine definition: actor := factor x reference. Reads the
reference register's field STATE, dilates by -ln(factor), writes the actor.
Reuses quantity_kernel + the multi-register framework + the 2b summation.
Amendments (PR #76):
1. Summation registers-driven: MultiRegisterProgram.register_order (seed order
then compare-defined order); execute sums ALL registers in that order, so a
compare-DEFINED register (no seed) is included in totals. compile validates
the answer target AFTER ops (a concrete unknown may be compare-defined) and
propagates the defined register's unit from the reference.
2. Compare record: RegisterTurn.reference; MultiRegisterRecord.source_entity
(the reference) + operand_source_digest (reference state digest), both
CONDITIONAL in the payload so affine/transfer/summation record digests are
byte-identical to before compare. Re-verification reconstructs the source
register from records alone.
Compare CREATES a quantity (not a transfer) -> exempt from the conservation pin.
fraction direction folded in (factor < 1). compare_additive is a later increment
(refused). Real official data: the 5 compare parses the reader emits today now
solve end-to-end wrong=0 -> corridor real-reach 0/500 -> 5/500 (loop-works proof).
25/25 (9 new + 16 existing regression, digests byte-identical).
[Verification]: uv run python -m pytest tests/test_adr_0250_compare.py tests/test_adr_0250_multi_register.py tests/test_adr_0250_summation.py -q
Ratification: ADR-0250 Status Proposed->Accepted; §10 ruling record stamped
(Shay, citing the acceptance-evidence pack as-is; full-holdout 50/50 wrong=0
affirmed; next arc = seal dev-holdout-2, dev-1 pinned as regression floor).
Review findings (Shay, PR #74, non-blocking):
1. Instrument module docstring updated from 'Three deterministic domains' +
'GSM8K NOT ingestible / no compiler' to the four-domain post-0250 reality
(arithmetic-chain solves the full dev holdout; frontier surfaced in scope).
2. Restored per-case refusal reasons: _corridor_and_baseline now raises
MultiRegisterError (not bare None); the domain loop records refusal.reason
and distinguishes graph_parse_failed. 'Recorded, never silently dropped'
stays literal (0 rows at refused=0, but the path is honest).
3. Tightened the Tier-1 try to wrap compile_turn_program only (execute outside),
so a future typed execute raise surfaces as a Tier-1 failure instead of
silently rerouting into Tier-2 and masking a regression; added the note that
Tier-2 fails closed on non-convergence while Tier-1 records-only, gold
comparison binding wrong=0 on both.
10/10 instrument pins green.
[Verification]: uv run python -m pytest tests/test_adr_0249_arithmetic_lift.py tests/test_generalized_lift_instrument.py -q
Instrument: the arithmetic-chain domain now routes each real GSM8K dev case to
Tier-1 (single-accumulator) or Tier-2 (multi-register / summation) and compares
the corridor to a symbolic fold of the SAME compiled program. Recorded coverage
moves 26/50 -> 50/50, 0 refused, PARITY (wrong=0) — the measurement catching up
to the capability. Scope note corrected (full holdout closed; remaining frontier
= derived-operand transfers + non-affine kinds + >5-atom deduction, all 0 on this
holdout). Updated the ADR-0249 instrument test pins (26->50, refused 24->0).
ADR-0250 (Status Proposed, no self-Accept; §10 ruling awaits Shay) + acceptance
evidence: multi-register model, relative conservation, atomicity, certified
summation, chain-of-custody, and the full-holdout 50/50 wrong=0 result.
10/10 instrument pins green.
[Verification]: uv run python -m pytest tests/test_adr_0249_arithmetic_lift.py tests/test_generalized_lift_instrument.py -q
A total-like unknown (unknown.entity is None, 'how many altogether') is no longer
refused — it compiles to a certified summation over all registers (ruling #1:
summation stays in the substrate). The distinction is the explicit typed signal
(None entity), not an inferred op-sequence pattern.
Each addition is a certified relaxation turn; the operand is the decode of a
certified register state, bound by operand_source_digest (= that state's
psi_digest convention). Deterministic re-execution reproduces the state and its
decode, so the Python layer cannot tamper with the intermediate value — the
chain-of-custody design (Shay's Q), now with no trusted-Python assumption.
operand_source_digest is added conditionally to the record payload, so
non-summation (T2a) record digests are unchanged.
Capstone: Tier-1 (26) + T2a single-entity (18) + summation (6) = full GSM8K dev
holdout 50/50, wrong=0. The reader->Hamiltonian compiler now solves the entire
dev holdout by chained certified relaxation, zero wrong answers.
16/16 pins green (11 multi-register updated + 5 summation incl. capstone).
[Verification]: uv run python -m pytest tests/test_adr_0250_multi_register.py tests/test_adr_0250_summation.py -q
Multi-entity arithmetic as a product of independent conformal lines: one
register (null point) per entity; per-register affine ops reuse Tier-1 transport;
transfer = coupled T-k/T+k on disjoint registers (exact by P1 per-line exactness).
Transactional atomicity: immutable register mapping, prepare->validate->commit —
both candidate states relaxed into locals, validated (both converged AND
conservation), then a NEW mapping only on full success. Failure anywhere = new
mapping never built, original untouched (no partial mutation, no rollback); abort
raises typed MultiRegisterError and aborts the whole program (fail-closed).
Conservation pin = hard-reject, RELATIVE (|after-before| <= rtol*max(1,|before|)):
decoded-quantity error scales with magnitude (found via gma-050 chaining to 222),
so absolute tol is wrong; relative still catches real violations (off by whole k).
Content-addressed MultiRegisterRecord chain carries entity + certificate id +
step, never a decoded value; GENESIS-linked; verify_multi_register_chain mirrors
verify_replay_chain. Tier-2a fail-closed taxonomy: total-unknown (needs summation
= 2b), derived operand, non-affine kind, non-positive scale, unit mismatch,
unknown endpoints. Off-serving (A-04).
REAL GSM8K single-entity refused holdout: 18/18 solved wrong=0 (26/50 -> 44/50).
11/11 pins green.
[Verification]: uv run python -m pytest tests/test_adr_0250_multi_register.py -q
Wires the turn-program executor into the generalized-lift instrument and
measures it against the REAL GSM8K dev holdout (evals/gsm8k_math/dev, never the
templated cases), using each problem's ground_truth_graph. Baseline is a
symbolic fold of the SAME compiled turn program: both paths consume identical
problems, the corridor relaxes each step, the baseline folds it numerically.
Honest result on the sealed 50-case dev holdout: 26 problems are Tier-1 affine
single-accumulator ingestible and solved wrong=0; the corridor matches the
symbolic fold on every one (PARITY, delta=0) — the field matches arithmetic, it
does not beat it, so this is real-holdout coverage, NOT a manufactured lift. The
24 refused (all not_single_accumulator / multi-entity) are the recorded Tier-2
frontier, never silently dropped.
Corrects the now-stale scope-limitation note ('no reader-to-Hamiltonian compiler
exists…') — the compiler exists as of this arc; the note now records real-data
Tier-1 coverage and the multi-entity frontier. wrong_zero_guard_held extended to
bind both exact-regime domains (deductive flagship + arithmetic).
10/10 pins (5 new + 5 existing instrument tests still green).
[Verification]: uv run python -m pytest tests/test_adr_0249_arithmetic_lift.py tests/test_generalized_lift_instrument.py -q
The composition frontier: multi-step arithmetic compiled from a MathProblemGraph
into an ordered turn program (one affine relation-well per step) and executed as
a chain of certified relaxation turns. The accumulator flows turn-to-turn as a
field STATE, decoded only once at the end (anti-hollow) — the substrate performs
every step and composition depth lives in the certified chain, not matrix size.
Verified: ((5+3)*2)-4=12, (10/2+7)*3=36, (100-40)/4=15, all turns
ground_state_certified.
Ring-2 correction (verified in-tree): run_residual_protocol is zero-bound /
non-mutating — stage-5 recertification refuses if the witness moved — so it
certifies a FIXED state's admissibility, not a state TRANSITION. Arithmetic turns
mutate. So the per-turn certificate is the relaxation's own RelaxationCertificate,
and the tamper-evident SEQUENCE is recorded with the Ring-2 chain-integrity
PATTERN (content-addressed TurnRecord, GENESIS-linked, verify_turn_chain mirrors
verify_replay_chain) rather than forcing mutating turns through the zero-bound
protocol. Turn records carry certificate ids + step provenance, never a decoded
value; tamper on any non-terminal record breaks the successor link.
Tier-1 (ruling #1): single-accumulator add/subtract/multiply/divide, constant
Quantity operands, positive scale. Multi-entity/transfer/rate/comparison/
fraction/partition/non-positive-scale/unit-mismatch refused and recorded, not
silently dropped. Off-serving (A-04).
15/15 pins green.
[Verification]: uv run python -m pytest tests/test_adr_0249_turn_program.py -q
Closes the deduction leg: propositional formula strings (as emitted by
meaning_graph.to_deductive_logic, or any logic_canonical-parseable syntax) →
corridor CNF PropositionalProblem + query Clause, consumable by
propositional_entails.
Structural, not truth-table (spike §4.1): reuses the production ROBDD parser
(generate.logic_canonical — never re-implemented) for the AST, then the standard
sound rewrite — eliminate iff/implies, NNF, distribute OR over AND — with
constant folding, tautological-clause elimination, and a clause budget. The
converter never enumerates assignments and never decides entailment; that stays
the corridor's job.
Soundness proved against the ROBDD oracle: for a 14-formula panel, the compiled
CNF rendered back to a formula has the same canonicalize() identity as the
source. End-to-end entailment through propositional_entails agrees with the
ROBDD gold (evaluate_entailment) wrong=0 on consistent premises; ex-falso
handled per the corridor's own contract (entailed + satisfiable_premises=False,
where the ROBDD path returns REFUSED for inconsistent premises).
Fail-closed: conjunctive/constant queries, formulas reducing to false, and CNF
budget refuse with typed CnfCompileError; >5 atoms surfaces the corridor's
HamiltonianCompileError(atom_count_out_of_range); out-of-regime propagates
LogicRegimeError. Off-serving (A-04), import-guard pinned.
32/32 pins green.
[Verification]: uv run python -m pytest tests/test_adr_0249_logic_cnf_compiler.py -q
1) chiral_conservation_precondition composed into integrate_validated_biography
(ADR-0241 §2.4C): sgn(Q_top) latch over the RAW trajectory before versor
validation + blade post-check; provenance schema v2 carries the chiral
proof. Honesty theorem pinned: I5 is central in odd Cl(4,1) so closed
versors have Q = 0 exactly — vacuous by theorem on admissible
trajectories (same disclosed-inertness contract as the GoldTether chiral
wiring), while LIVE against raw non-versor mirror flips (refusal pinned).
2) First real caller: evals/analogical_transfer/biography_session.py — runs
the ADR-0240 harness, recomputes the lived trajectory (recovered transfer
versors of CORRECT cases; reconstruction-over-storage), integrates on
PASS. I-01 reboot-invariance pinned BIT-IDENTICAL across runs.
3) biography.py trajectory digest now explicit '<f8' LE bytes (ADR-0245
§2.3); byte-identical on LE targets, platform-independent everywhere.
31 passed across wiring/session/holonomy/readback suites.
Opus 4.8 audit of Fable's slice-1 scaffold + authorized hardening (Step 2).
Stacked on feat/adr-0246-slice1-scaffold. Not a PR, not merged, no status flip.
AUDIT (Step 1) — VERDICT PASS. Re-derived A(F)/d_orth/d_stab/typed channels from
§3.1/3.2/3.6 independently: BIT-EXACT vs impl (0.00e+00). Confirmed in code (not
just comments): H_id={I} locked (singleton hardcoded, no enlargement path); path
composes lawful only, refused=break marker, never raw, never soft-I; no §7 scope
creep; serve byte-identity. Finding F1 (doc, not bug): composition uses the raw
CERTIFIED action (required for §6.2 accumulation, else A_path≡I detects nothing) —
now documented for ADR ratification.
HARDENING (Step 2):
§3.7 pure surface (identity_action.py): AdmissionPolicy (calibrated flag),
evaluate_admission (admit-or-abstain, no corrector); CERTIFIED_GAMMA_ID pinned
== identity._WAVE_LEAKAGE_BOUND; all other bounds UNCERTIFIED placeholders.
§3.7 SERVE WIRING (Steps 2.1/2.2): new default-off flag identity_action_surface
(config); threaded chat/runtime -> check -> _wave_field_score; refusal folds
into flagged -> existing would_violate/conjugate_correct abstains; IdentityScore
gains action_surface_active/d_orth/d_stab (legacy defaults). Flag-off is
byte-identical (D4 gate surfaces green unchanged; smoke 176 post-wiring).
§6.3 DISCRIMINATION REPORT (evals/adr_0246_discrimination) — HONEST numbers:
benign pass 0.00, false refusal 1.00, adversarial detect 1.00, control pass
1.00; d_stab AUC 0.375 (95% CI [0.15,0.62]) — BELOW chance. Benign cognition
sits ~18x farther from the frame (mean d_stab 27.8) than the attacks (1.55).
The gate refuses everything and does NOT discriminate; must stay off; usable
separation needs the §11 grounding work, not threshold tuning. Claims language
enforced: 'lawfulness relative to the declared frozen frame', NOT 'semantic
inalienability'.
Ledger raw-sneak hardening test (Step 2.3): mixed lawful/refused sequence must
equal the lawful sub-product, fails if raw sneaks into A_path_lawful.
Handoff to Sonnet: §4.1 per-turn record, path-ledger serve integration, ADR-0246
body + acceptance packet (Proposed, no self-Accept), §11 grounding-feasibility.
[Verification]: uv run core test --suite smoke -q => 176 passed (post-wiring);
ADR-0246 suites 80 passed; egress wiring + D4 gate surfaces 47 passed
(byte-identity); §6.1/6.2 eval 14/14; discrimination report numbers above.
See docs/audit/adr-0246-slice1-opus-audit-and-hardening.md + run log.
BOUNDED AUTONOMOUS SCAFFOLD DRAFT (Fable 5) — not a PR, not merged, no status
flip, no main push. For Opus 4.8 + Shay audit before anything proceeds toward main.
Stacked on the verified §3-primitives + §3.4/3.5-ledger stack (reuse, not re-derive;
all descend from main @ 04d67ca5).
Adds (directive steps 3-4):
+ evals/adr_0246_geometric_suite/ runnable §6.1 synthetic geometric suite
(identity, pi-inversion, 90deg-permutation, mild drift, alien tilt e14,
boost e15, near-singular Gram, malformed F) + §6.2 path/holonomy suite
(lawful sequence, small-rotation session accumulation, interleaved refuse,
pack-change hard break, raw!=lawful forensic). 14/14 cases pass.
+ tests/test_adr_0246_geometric_suite.py pins every case + explicit §6.1 pins
(pi-inversion s=-1, 90deg s=0, near-singular Gram error, malformed-F error)
+ identity_manifold.py: MalformedVersorError + _validate_versor guard on
induced_action / typed_residual_energy (§6.1 fail-closed on malformed F)
+ docs/handoff/adr-0246-slice1-scaffold-notes.md placeholder list, §5-§7
uncertainties, constraint-compliance record, explicit Opus/human TODOs
+ docs/audit/artifacts/adr-0246-slice1-scaffold-runlog.txt actual run output
Constraints honored: H_id={I} only; no soft-projection of unlawful A; path
composes lawful actions only (never raw product); no C_id corrector; chat/runtime,
flags, D4 gate wiring untouched (A-04 quarantine pinned); no discrimination report,
no ADR body, no claims language (deferred TODO: Opus/human); D4 plan not modified.
epsilon_turn/epsilon_session are UNCERTIFIED PLACEHOLDERS, never baked into a
module default (PathBudget is caller-supplied) — flagged in notes + run log.
[Verification]: uv run core test --suite smoke -q => 176 passed;
python -m evals.adr_0246_geometric_suite => 14/14 all_passed;
ADR-0246 suites + adjacent D4 identity surfaces => 114 passed (see run log).
First implementation unit of ADR-0246 Ring-1 per the preflight brief §3/§13.
Promotes the induced-action apparatus from the slice-0 eval prototype into pure,
tested geometry — the single source of truth both the future gate surface and the
§11 grounding-feasibility study will consume.
core/physics/identity_manifold.py:
+ induced_action(versor) A(F) = G^-1 · <a_k, F a_j F~>_0 (§3.1)
+ orthogonality_defect(versor) d_orth = ||A^T G A - G||_F (§3.2)
+ typed_residual_energy(versor) e4/e5/spatial_foreign/unclassified (§3.6)
+ orthogonality_defect_of_action / SPATIAL_GRADE1_INDICES / E4,E5 index pins
core/physics/identity_action.py (new, pure):
+ IdentityStabilizer (locked singleton H_id={I}, §3.3)
+ stabilizer_defect d_stab = min_H ||A - H||_G (§3.2)
G-weighted norm reduces to Frobenius at G=I (default pack)
evals/adr_0246_mismatch_diagnostic: rewired to delegate to the canonical
primitives (removes the duplicate prototype copies; drops unused import).
Scope: off-serving (algebra-only, A-04 quarantine, pinned by test); no gate,
threshold, axis, H_id, corrector, or flag change. identity_wave_gate stays
default-off. Path ledger (§3.4/3.5), gate admit surface (§3.7), and the eval
matrix + §11 feasibility study are subsequent units (brief §0a records the
sequencing). No self-Accept.
[Verification]: uv run core test --suite smoke -q => 176 passed;
tests/test_adr_0246_induced_action.py 12 passed (RED-first);
identity surfaces (mismatch-diagnostic rewired, identity_manifold, identity_gate
wave/runtime/eval, gamma_calibration) 87 passed.
D4 Phase 3 (§2.4). Calibrates the wave-gate leakage bound γ_id via the
bracketed-local Fibonacci section search and emits a content-addressed tuning
certificate (evals/adr_0244_gamma_calibration/). Two results, kept separate:
1. The search certifies γ* = 0.2126624458513829 (cert 0079b5f2…) separating
the geometric attack signal — in-subspace rotors admitted, axis→e4/e5
tilt/boost attacks flagged (inversions excluded: ~0-leakage, handled by the
orientation floor). Pinned as identity._WAVE_LEAKAGE_BOUND; the wave path is
decoupled from alignment_threshold (legacy path + hedge bands keep it).
2. The same bound does NOT separate real live traffic. Measured on the engine,
benign final_state.F versors do not preserve span(e1,e2,e3): leakage
0.14–0.81 (mean 0.55), self-align to −0.52, 12/13 benign false-refused at
γ*, best balanced error 0.346. The calibration certifies
flag_flip_authorized=False → identity_wave_gate stays OFF.
Root cause: the shipped value axes (truthfulness=e1, coherence=e2,
reverence=e3) are nominal basis vectors, not dynamically-preserved eigenmodes;
the field evolution gives the identity subspace no dynamical anchoring. The fix
is the ADR-0246 induced-identity-action programme (preflight brief merged). The
wave gate is validated, correctly-off scaffolding — not a live gate. A slow
drift-guard test canaries any future engine change that starts preserving
identity.
Off-serving (evals/ + tests); flag-off byte-identity preserved. ADR §4a +
plan doc + memory updated with the finding.
[Verification]: smoke 176 passed; fast lane 11897 passed / 109 skipped (-n
auto, not quarantine/slow); 59 targeted gate/calibration tests passed.
evals/adr_0244_identity_gate/ (off-serving, deterministic) measures, honestly:
does the operator-preservation wave gate add identity-attack detection value
the geometry-blind legacy path cannot?
Runs a controlled panel through both paths:
- aligned: small rotations WITHIN the value subspace span(e1,e2,e3) — a
legitimate transformation that preserves the value axes;
- attack: versors that geometrically violate identity — π-rotations that
INVERT a value axis (caught by signed self-alignment ≈ −1), and
rotations/boosts that TILT a value axis toward an alien dimension e4/e5
(caught by the subspace-leakage fraction).
Measured result (pinned by tests/test_adr_0244_identity_gate_eval.py):
- the wave gate separates the panels — every aligned versor admitted, every
attack flagged, min_attack_signal 0.35 > max_aligned_leakage 0.0;
- the two measures are non-redundant (inversion: ~0 leakage but −1 alignment);
- wave adds detection value 6-vs-0 over the legacy path, which never reads
the versor geometry and flags none of these geometric attacks.
Honest scope caveat baked into the artifact + docstring: this is detection
value on the geometric signal the gate is DESIGNED to catch. Whether real
paraphrased injections induce such versor geometry through the live encoder,
and whether the placeholder value axes (e1/e2/e3) are the right identity
directions, is empirical (governance annotation item 6) and is the subject of
D4 Phase 3 (γ_id calibration). The flag stays OFF until that is evidenced.
6 tests + CLI (exit 0 iff separates AND adds detection value).
[Verification]: 6 eval tests passed; CLI exit 0; smoke 176 passed; serve-
quarantine + governance pins 14 passed (eval is off-serving); fast lane
(-m 'not quarantine and not slow' -n auto) 11889 passed, 109 skipped.
Additive-only (new evals/ package + test); no core/chat/algebra changes.
Turns the D0 "likely vacuous" annotation on ADR-0244 §2.3 into a re-runnable proof
that ΔQ_top = 0 is a hollow egress gate (the #19-pseudoscalar failure mode).
evals/adr_0244_qtop_vacuity/ — computes Q_top = <psi I5 ~psi>_0 on the real
Cl(4,1) algebra and finds: (1) Q_top = 0.000e+00 EXACTLY across every unit versor
(spatial rotors AND boosts through e5, and products) — I5 is central so
psi I5 ~psi = I5*(psi ~psi) = I5 for a unit versor, scalar part 0; (2) off the
versor manifold Q_top = -grade5(psi ~psi), nonzero only where the I-05 closure
residual already fires; (3) it is a conserved Spin(4,1) invariant but identically
0 on the valid manifold; (4) the decisive test — an aligned identity and an
adversarially-rotated one (a valid versor, overlap 0.963) both read Q_top = 0, so
ΔQ_top = 0 PASSES the attack the spectral-leakage/closure check actually catches.
Typed JSON artifact + CLI (exit 0 iff proven_vacuous).
tests/test_adr_0244_qtop_vacuity.py — pins each step + off-serving quarantine.
Docs: ADR-0244 §2.3 annotation upgraded "likely vacuous" -> "PROVEN vacuous —
retire from egress"; audit-doc Q4 marked RESOLVED with the evidence.
Verdict: do NOT wire ΔQ_top = 0 as an egress admit condition; keep Q_top, if at
all, as a closure-derived diagnostic. Closes the first of the two ADR-0244 D4
blockers with proof.
[Verification]: qtop eval 8 tests green; CLI proven_vacuous=true; smoke below.
Completes ADR-0243 Phase 4 (plan §5). Adds the metrics benchmark scoring the
cognitive lifecycle against concrete falsifiable comparison classes, joining the
already-committed decisive propositional falsifier (bdf8146a) under one eval package.
evals/adr_0243_cognitive_lifecycle/benchmark.py — five falsifiable metrics, each
grounded in a live lifecycle primitive (no decorative numbers); typed
BenchmarkVerdict / MetricResult; deterministic, JSON-safe:
- fidelity: decode overlap |<psi_steady, target>| after relax_to_ground on a
quadratic well from a perturbed start (min >= 0.999; measured 1.0).
- surprise separation: energy-above-ground of ID (small rotations of the
identity axis) vs OOD (near-orthogonal rotations into distinct Cl(4,1)
planes) against a fixed identity well; strict margined separation
min_ood - max_id > 0.05 (measured 0.834); lam0 verified ~0, not assumed.
- insertion cost: relaxation certificate.steps_taken — all certified, bounded
(<= 256), real work (max_steps > 0; measured 22-23).
- f32 drift over T=1000: unit versor iterated by a fixed rotor with no renorm;
f64 holds versor closure to 1e-9 (~8e-14 measured) while f32 truncates to
~4.7e-5 (ratio ~5.9e8) — the gap motivating ADR-0244 §2.5/§2.6.
- falsifier: run_propositional_falsifier wrong == 0 (1008 ID + 18 refusal-parity).
evals/adr_0243_cognitive_lifecycle/__main__.py — subcommand dispatcher
(benchmark [default] / corridor / falsifier); non-zero exit on falsification.
tests/test_adr_0243_benchmark.py — pins overall pass, each metric's falsifiable
claim, the genuine f32/f64 drift gap, CLI routing + exit codes, and the A-04
off-serving quarantine.
[Verification]: in-worktree smoke gate 176 passed; fast lane
(-m "not quarantine and not slow" -n auto) 11808 passed, 108 skipped;
serve-quarantine + third-door cohesion + dispatch hygiene 22 passed; Phase 4
tests (benchmark + falsifier) 17 passed; benchmark overall_passed True
(deterministic across runs).
The propositional slice of ADR-0243's falsifiability benchmark (plan §5 Phase 4),
the arc's load-bearing evidence. Two mechanism-disjoint engines decide the SAME
enumerated propositional problems:
- Field decoder: propositional_entails (Cl(4,1) wave-field ground energy).
- Gold: generate.proof_chain.entail.evaluate_entailment (exact ROBDD tautology
check, ADR-0201 keystone) — genuinely independent, not the field checking itself.
A clause→string bridge (render_clause: `a | ~b | c`) lets both engines decide
byte-for-byte the same problem. Result over the enumerated panel (atoms a,b,c;
premise sets size ≤2):
- 1008 satisfiable-premise ID comparisons: field.entailed ⇔ gold is ENTAILED —
wrong == 0.
- 18 inconsistent-premise cases: field discloses satisfiable_premises=False
exactly where gold returns REFUSED — matched refusal, no ex-falso leak.
- OOD (>5 atoms): field decoder refuses by construction while gold still decides
— the honest ID/OOD scope boundary in the propositional domain.
Deterministic (enumerated, no randomness/wall-clock); off-serving (evals/ only,
chat/runtime non-import pinned).
[Verification]: tests/test_adr_0243_propositional_falsifier.py — 6 passed;
run_propositional_falsifier() → wrong=0 over 1026 field-vs-gold decisions.
Wire the ADR-0242 §5 pinned primitives into the contemplation runner
(ADR-0243 §2.4): contemplate_surprise_history() gates the newest
caller-timed ADR-0239 dual-operator observation through
is_discovery_eligible, the measured history through
cross_band_discovery_gate (F5/F6/F7 persistence), and only then emits a
DiscoveryCandidate via the existing emit_surprise_discovery ->
DiscoveryCandidateSink. Proposal-plumbing only: the sole side effect is
sink.emit().
Surprise-signal sourcing (the Lane A open question): ContemplationFinding
carries no surprise measurement and the report-mining paths have no
geometry, so nothing is fabricated for them — the canonical carrier is
the ADR-0239 dual audit dict (SelfAuthorshipMiner / ADR-0240 harness),
consumed as explicit SurpriseObservations with caller-supplied logical
time (deterministic, no wall clock).
Give propose_kappa_line_search its live caller (ADR-0242 §5-P1):
evals/analogical_transfer/kappa_calibration.py calibrate_transfer_kappa,
confined to the ADR-0240 calibration pipeline per R-04; kappa_search_event
fires exactly once when a sink is passed. Proposal-only — no
GoldTetherMonitor mutation.
A-04 hardening found during review: chat/runtime.py idle_tick lazily
imports core.contemplation.runner inside the serve process, and the
package __init__ eagerly pulled wave_seam -> holographic_vault (a
serve-banned module) — a PRE-EXISTING process-level quarantine breach.
Closed by making the wave-seam re-exports lazy (PEP 562) and keeping the
multi_scale_energy gate import function-local; pinned by a new dynamic
idle-tick-edge test in test_serve_quarantine_transitive.py.
Pinned primitives untouched: is_discovery_eligible,
cross_band_discovery_gate, candidate_from_surprise_dual signatures
unchanged; no changes to cognitive_lifecycle.py or chat/runtime.py.
New evals/adr_0243_cognitive_lifecycle/ composes AudioCompiler/VisionCompiler ->
sensorium_wave_feed -> relax_to_ground/CognitiveLifecycleEngine.egress ->
generate/realizer readback -> explicit GoldTetherMonitor.decide into one
deterministic fixed-replay corridor, per
docs/handoff/ADR-0243-PHASE3-BRIEF-PACK.md Brief B. Pure composition of
already-tested organs; no new core.physics module; OFF-SERVING (evals/ only,
never imported by chat/runtime.py).
Relaxation targets the full audio+vision integrated percept but starts from the
audio-only partial percept (engine.solve() is not used, since it ties start ==
target) so the relaxer decodes across real steps rather than starting
already-converged; stages are driven explicitly and reassembled into one
LifecycleOutcome keyed off the full percept.
[Verification]: uv run core test --suite smoke -q (176 passed); sensorium suite
(152 passed); algebra suite (82 passed, 50 skipped); new
tests/test_adr_0243_sensorium_corridor.py (6 passed, includes a
steps_taken > 0 pin against silent regression to a no-op relax, a cosine/ANN-free
static pin, and a chat/runtime.py non-import pin).
Complete remaining W5/post-pivot backlog without Docker CI: INV-21 allowlist
dedup, -n auto fast/full defaults, frozen f64 GP Python SOT suite, real
sensorium compiler → ψ → algebraic ρ feed, V2 fib/dyadic/log fixed-replay
evidence without production energy promotion, and project doctrine restored to
local-first + ubuntu-latest:host (no Docker CI for merge).
[Verification]: Smoke suite passed locally (145s, 176 passed); make test-fast
(-n auto) passed twice (11709 passed, 108 skipped each ~11–12 min).
Hunt for the -n auto fast-lane polluters flagged in docs/testing-lanes.md
("Follow-up: xdist by default"). Three root causes, all shared-repo-path
writers with no per-test isolation, following the #782 monkeypatch idiom:
1. tests/test_workbench_replay.py::test_replay_leaves_no_trace hardcoded
`Path("engine_state")` (the real shared dir) instead of reading
`engine_state._DEFAULT_DIR`, which the root-conftest autouse fixture
already redirects per-test. It was a victim, not a polluter: any
concurrent worker writing the real dir made this snapshot-diff flake.
Fixed by reading `engine_state._DEFAULT_DIR` dynamically.
2. evals/gsm8k_math/train_sample/v1/runner.py hardcoded its report.json
output to the committed repo path with no override. Two test files
(test_rat1_end_to_end_admission.py, test_wave_a_multiplicative_
aggregation_injector.py; 4 tests total) spawn it as a subprocess and
read the same file back — a write race under -n auto, and a confirmed
downstream victim (test_gsm8k_sealed_attempt_scout.py::
test_report_json_mtime_unchanged_by_scout_import asserts the file's
mtime is stable). Added an optional CORE_GSM8K_TRAIN_SAMPLE_REPORT_PATH
env override (default unchanged) and pointed the 4 call sites at
tmp_path.
3. core/cli.py's `_DEMO_RESULTS_DIR` (evals/forward_semantic_control/
results/) is written, glob-scanned, and index.json-rebuilt by ~11 tests
across tests/test_cli_demo.py's TestDemoSubcommand and TestDemoPreambles
classes. Added an autouse fixture monkeypatching `cli._DEMO_RESULTS_DIR`
to a per-test tmp dir. This also unmasked a latent order-dependent
coupling: test_demo_list_results_indexes_reports and
test_demo_list_results_json_well_formed never wrote their own report,
relying on a sibling test's leftover file in the shared dir (silently
correct only because pytest ran the file in declaration order). Made
both self-contained.
No assertion weakening, no test deletion, no global autouse fixture masking
real bugs. All three fixes preserve the real (non-test) default behavior
byte-for-byte when unpatched/env-unset.
Verification: 8x targeted -n 8 loop over the 7 affected files (before and
after) did not force-reproduce the underlying race live (narrow timing
window, small-scale run) — confirmation is source-level (hardcoded shared
paths bypassing the established isolation idiom) plus the prior documented
flake for test_replay_leaves_no_trace in docs/testing-lanes.md. Full
fast-lane -n auto run recorded in the PR description.
Root cause of demo_composition pin thrash was not cancelled CI runs:
verify_no_global_state_mutation dumped full env_subset before/after
tuples into the lane report, embedding CORE_ENGINE_STATE_DIR temp
paths (and any ambient CORE_* host values). Each hermetic run then
produced a different report SHA.
Fix for good:
- Report key-level env deltas only (+/- / changed), with path-like
CORE_* values redacted to <path> in the message text.
- Detection still uses raw snapshots (mutations are not ignored).
- Hermetic CORE_ENGINE_STATE_DIR for demo_composition and all
verify_lane_shas invocations.
- Dual-run-stable re-pin: demo_composition e2ba2314…,
public_demo 7d8ba0db… (matches CI-observed soft-budget SHA).
- Drop dead CORE_SHOWCASE_SKIP_BUDGET workflow env (soft is default).
- Tests pin the delta format and hermetic-path stability.
Lane: python scripts/verify_lane_shas.py → 9/9 match.
Finding #20 (Super-Blueprint §3.2). surprise_residual was Euclidean Gram-Schmidt
on flat 32-coefficient vectors — metric-blind (it ignored the (+,+,+,+,-)
signature and the blade grade structure), so "inside the admissible span" was
judged by the wrong geometry.
Operator math (core/physics/surprise.py):
- Exact metric-orthogonal projection: solve the normal equations G c = r
(G_ij = cga_inner(b_i,b_j), r_i = cga_inner(b_i,x)) via lstsq, under cga_inner
(32-vec) / eta (5-vec).
- Fail-closed (typed SurpriseResidualError) on a metric-degenerate span, keyed on
rank(G) < rank(B) — a null direction with no reciprocal (lone n_o). Refines the
literal "rank(G) < k": mere linear dependence among non-null columns is admitted
(lstsq projects onto the span), so a redundant live basis [1, source] and the
non-degenerate pair {n_o, n_inf} are admitted; only a lone n_o is refused. The
disclosure names the Gram null-space direction (not just zero-diagonal columns).
- Reconciled productivity polarity: productive_transfer = low Procrustes AND low
surprise (was `sur_norm >= 0.0`, always true). High surprise routes to discovery
(split follow-up). Corrects the ledger's transfer/discovery conflation.
Adversarial verification (3 independent lenses) found, and this fixes:
- HIGH soundness hole: sur_norm was the reversion pseudo-norm, which VANISHES on
a nonzero metric-null residual (the n_o/n_inf light cone) -> false-zero surprise
-> an out-of-span light-cone probe was wrongly admitted as in-span. Now the
DEFINITE (Euclidean) norm of the residual: the projection stays metric-exact,
the magnitude is 0 iff nothing is unexplained.
- HIGH regression: the analogical-transfer harness called surprise_residual
OUTSIDE its try/except, so a degenerate source crashed the whole run. Now
guarded: records a refused case and continues.
- grade-support `allowed` -> exact-nonzero (removes a spurious-leak edge under
coefficient amplification of sub-tolerance grade dust).
DiscoveryCandidate wiring into the contemplation loop is split to its own
follow-up (a distinct cross-cutting surface). Off-serving (nothing in
serving/runtime imports core.physics.*). Tests: 15 behavioral tests
(metric-vs-Euclidean divergence, null-cone regression, null refusal +
combination-degenerate disclosure, 5-vector branch, polarity); 139-test physics
sweep green; ruff clean.
