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).
First live caller of integrate_biography (previously zero production call
sites). New core/physics/biography_wiring.py: report-level PASS gate
(report.wrong == 0 AND >=1 correct transfer; refusals don't block but
all-refused validates nothing), I-01 closure asserts re-checked at the
wiring seam (fail-closed typed BiographyIntegrationError), and a net-new
append-only BiographyProvenanceRecord binding report evidence to the
integrated trajectory hash (AuthorshipProposal-style closure proof in a
TurnEvent-style audit role).
Design ruling (Shay, 2026-07-17, brief open question): direct integration,
structurally pinned — integrate_biography is a pure recompute
(reconstruction-over-storage), so D-5/I-03 proposal gating does not attach;
the ruling is enforced by a test pinning that the wiring imports no vault
store and no evals package (report typed structurally, no core->evals
import). Module registered in the never-serve lazy tier + _BANNED +
third-door banned lists. cognitive_lifecycle.py untouched (Lane C touches
zero Phase-2 code).
Implements ADR-0243 §2 honestly per the plan's deviations ledger, correcting
the §3 sketch's three pinned defects (SD-A/B/C):
- Ingress delegates superposition to sensorium_wave_feed, normalizes once at
the owned construction boundary (D-3).
- Relaxation is the imaginary-time semigroup psi <- normalize(exp(-(H-lam0)*dt)*psi)
(D-1) with a certified, never-assumed convergence certificate (D-2): exact
ground energy, achieved Rayleigh energy, eigen-residual, spectral gap, and a
psi_digest binding the certificate to the exact state it certifies.
- Two checkable problem domains: quadratic_well (convex target-decoding) and
propositional (Cl(4,1) blade lattice = assignment lattice of <=5 atoms;
diagonal penalty Hamiltonian; entailment via UNSAT(premises & !conclusion)
scored against independent truth-table gold).
- Egress composes unit-amplitude-density + certificate-binding + versor
closure (routes, does not admit, per the dual of SD-A) + ADR-0006 energy
classes + E0/E1 crystallization policy. Cold states emit a
CrystallizationProposal (epistemic_status pinned SPECULATIVE by the type;
D-5/I-03) — never a vault write.
- Quarantined off-serving (A-04): lazy barrel export, banned in the
transitive subprocess probe and the cohesion AST suite.
Adversarial verification (finder/verifier workflow; most verify agents lost
to a session limit, every surviving finding reproduced in-tree before acting)
surfaced and this closes two real defects beyond the plan text:
- egress_gate admitted any unit state paired with any converged certificate
from an unrelated run, so CrystallizationProposal could package a foreign
psi_digest next to an unrelated certificate_id as false provenance. Fixed
by binding the certificate to its state (psi_digest) and refusing mismatches
(certificate_state_mismatch).
- A state with a spectral gap below the requested tolerance could certify
with ZERO ground-space overlap (energy window alone can't resolve it).
Certification now also requires the excited weight (E-lam0)/gap <= tol
(refusal spectral_gap_below_tolerance), and the degeneracy cluster is
capped at the acceptance window so certificates report the honest
rate-limiting gap instead of absorbing a hairline split.
38 tests (31 original + 7 hardening: certificate-binding must-reject,
gap-refusal + true-ground pair, dense-branch (eigh) refusals, iterate-collapse,
Hamiltonian/egress shape must-rejects, E2 hold route, hardcoded canonical
entailment verdicts independent of the gold function's code shape).
[Verification]: lifecycle+pins+cohesion+transitive 58 passed; in-worktree
smoke 176 passed (131s); fast lane 11750 passed, 108 skipped (574s, exit 0).
Commits the ADR-0243 (Wave-Field Cognitive Lifecycle) proposal verbatim as
Proposed, and the arc-governing implementation plan derived from it plus
docs/analysis/core_cohesion_master_plan.md and the ADR-0241/0242 post-Accept
close audit findings.
The plan records that most of ADR-0243's organs already exist on main
(sensorium feed, WaveManifold, energy classes, GoldTether, surprise/discovery
plumbing, self-authorship, biography, packs/en readback) and that
tests/test_third_door_cohesion.py already pins I-01..I-05, A-02/A-04, and
core_ha absence from the cohesion master plan — so this arc is the §2.2
relaxation reasoner plus three wiring lanes, not a rebuild.
Also pins three defects in the ADR's §3 reference prototype so it can never
be ported verbatim: the egress gate's antisymmetric quadratic form is
identically zero (rejects every state, valid or not); the unitary
relaxation loop cannot dissipate toward a ground state (the honest
relaxer is the imaginary-time semigroup); and the prototype's block-matrix
"pseudoscalar proxy" is a different operator from the real Cl(4,1)
pseudoscalar action despite sharing I^2 = -Id.
[Verification]: uv run core test --suite smoke -q -> 176 passed (133.41s);
uv run python -m pytest tests/test_adr_0243_sketch_defect_pins.py tests/test_third_door_cohesion.py -q -> 19 passed (0.93s)
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).
Closes the two staged items recorded in the acceptance packet §7 (ruled
non-blocking at ratification, tracked work):
P1 — kappa_search_event(): JSONL-ready execution-telemetry envelope for
the Fibonacci κ search (kind=fibonacci_kappa_search; certificate payload
with content-addressed cert_id, or failure payload with baseline κ=1.0).
propose_kappa_line_search gains an optional sink (any emit(line) object,
e.g. chat.telemetry sinks) that writes one deterministic JSONL line.
Pure serialization — no state, no COHERENT standing (§6 sovereignty).
P2 — cross_band_discovery_gate(): persistence verdict over a surprise-
event history across the F5/F6/F7 Fibonacci bands (τ = {5,8,13}·τ0).
Eligible ⇔ history spans ≥ F5·τ0 (a single fresh spike has zero temporal
persistence) AND every band's decay-weighted accumulation ≥ γ. Typed
CrossBandVerdict; pure; PROPOSAL-side only. Lives in multi_scale_energy
(Tier-2, serve-quarantined) so the gate can never touch serving —
re-pinned by the module-level sys.modules probe in the new test file.
TDD RED→GREEN. [Verification]: carry-seam suite 10 passed; regression
(goldtether consumers + multi_scale + fibonacci + chiral + quarantine +
cohesion) 85 passed; smoke suite passed locally (133s, 175 passed).
Slow-lane sweep (2026-07-15, 37m06s): 1 failed / 909 passed / 1 skipped /
1 xfailed. The single red was a stale constant pin (assert
MAX_RUNTIME_SECONDS == 30) missed when 640dbe8f deliberately re-budgeted
the public showcase to 60s — the slow lane hadn't been run since (nightly
lives on the billing-locked GitHub side). Pin updated to the deliberate,
comment-documented value; ledger Slow row completed. The historical '~31
full-suite reds' figure is fully retired: fast lane cleared by #45, slow
lane clean after this pin.
[Verification]: tests/test_public_showcase.py green; push held until the
CI locked-install fix lands (branch inherits it via main-merge).
The guard pinned 'ADRs stay Proposed — not self-Accepted', which was
correct until its own precondition was fulfilled: Joshua Shay ruled
'Ratify' on the D10 packet (2026-07-15, ruling record packet §8) and #43
flipped both ADRs to Accepted — turning this pin red on main (first
flagged by the W3 lane as a 'brand-new governance-doc red').
The guard's spirit survives, strengthened: the test now asserts Accepted
WITH inline ratification provenance on both ADR status lines AND the §8
ruling record in the packet — so a silent status flip in EITHER direction
(an Accept without provenance, or a quiet demotion) still fails.
[Verification]: tests/test_adr_0241_governance_p12.py 6 passed; smoke
gate queued behind the running slow-lane sweep, push held until green.
tests/test_teaching_queue.py::test_read_only_invariant hardcoded
`project_root / "engine_state"` (the real shared dir) in its read-only-
invariant snapshot, instead of reading `engine_state._DEFAULT_DIR` (the
root-conftest autouse fixture's per-test isolated dir). Same bug pattern
as test_workbench_replay.py::test_replay_leaves_no_trace, and this one
was caught red-handed: a full `-n auto` fast-lane run failed with
"Directory .../engine_state was mutated!" and passed cleanly in serial
isolation, the exact order-dependent-flake signature this wave hunts.
The other three snapshotted dirs (teaching/proposals, packs,
contemplation/runs) have no equivalent per-test isolation idiom in the
repo yet and are left as-is — this test's own hitl-queue commands don't
write to them, so they were not implicated in the observed failure.
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.
Five fast-lane failures on main made the full suite dishonest.
- Refresh INV-21 allowlist pins in demo tests for holographic_vault (ADR-0241)
- Skip non-powerable (mixed-parity) rotor_power calls in generate recall and
session anchor pull instead of crashing the cognitive path
- Align session_anchor_pull fixture to grade-1 field parity
- Ledger: docs/analysis/full-suite-reds-ledger-2026-07.md
[Verification]: targeted 10 passed; lane SHAs 9/9; smoke 175 passed
Builds the one missing safeguard from the 4-blueprint integration audit:
the mirror-inversion protection (core_ha §5.2: sgn(∫⟨ψ I₅ ψ̃⟩₀) = const).
The chiral charge was a verified non-vacuous READOUT, but goldtether took
abs(), discarding the sign — orientation was measured, never enforced.
- core/physics/chiral_gate.py: ChiralOrientationGate latches sgn(Q) on the
first non-vacuous reading (|Q| >= 0.1 floor); a materially re-emerging
flip raises ChiralOrientationError (fail-closed; a sign flip is
unreachable under rotor transport, so it evidences corruption).
Even field-states stay vacuous — no orientation fabricated, no #19
revival; the gate is behaviorally inert on today's serve path.
- goldtether_residual now feeds the SIGNED charge to the gate; the
residual term keeps magnitude-only semantics byte-identical (pinned).
- Docs: integration-plan missing-piece row -> BUILT; fidelity ledger §12
gains the failable pin row.
TDD RED->GREEN. [Verification]: smoke suite passed locally (141s, 175
passed); gate suite 7 passed; goldtether-consumer regression 99 passed.
The CLI 'smoke' suite omitted tests/test_audio_*.py (6 files) that the
.github/workflows/smoke.yml PR gate runs — so the new AGENTS.md local-first
pre-push gate ('core test --suite smoke') was silently narrower than CI
(108 vs 175 tests). Adds the audio lane explicitly and pins parity:
test_cli_smoke_suite_covers_ci_smoke_gate parses the workflow's tests/
paths (globs expanded) and fails if the CLI tuple ever lags the CI gate.
[Verification]: CI-identical smoke file set passed locally (134s, 175
passed); tests/test_cli_test_suites.py 10 passed incl. the new pin.
Importing chat.runtime transitively loaded 5 off-serving modules
(wave_manifold, holographic_vault, fibonacci_search, multi_scale_energy,
wave_energy_boundary) through the core/physics package barrel — falsifying
the 'serve path not wired' acceptance row while the direct-AST A-04 pin
stayed green.
Reconciliation (ruled 2026-07-15): one substrate, two tiers.
- T1 sanctioned serve substrate: wave_manifold (goldtether/surprise/
biography delegate to it) — stays eager, removed from the A-04 ban list.
- T2 off-serving (holographic_vault, fibonacci_search, wave_energy_boundary,
multi_scale_energy): converted to PEP 562 lazy __getattr__ exports so the
serve process never loads them; 'from core.physics import X' still works
for off-serving callers. TYPE_CHECKING block keeps static analysis intact.
- New tests/test_serve_quarantine_transitive.py enforces the process-level
invariant via a clean-interpreter sys.modules probe (RED against the old
barrel, GREEN now).
Evidence: docs/research/adr-0241-0242-adversarial-and-fidelity-findings.md
(Finding #2). 179 affected tests green.
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.
- Implemented design (A) for P8: odd-capable mixed-parity spinor packets
produce a strictly non-vacuous and informative chiral charge
Q = <ψ I_5 ~ψ>_0 that measures correlation between the even and odd-dual parts.
- Proved via TDD that Q is non-vacuous on mixed-parity spinors and strictly
conserved under left unitary rotor multiplication.
- Updated wave_manifold.py docstrings to clarify that while Q is structurally
vacuous for even field-states (retiring #19), it is fully functional for
general spinors.
- Flipped W4 in the fidelity scorecard to GREEN and updated ADR-0241.
- Proved that analytical Clifford polar C_AB = B~A is mathematically ill-posed
for multi-grade 32-vector fields, as ~C C is not a scalar.
- Cemented _field_conjugacy_versor (SVD + Spin Gauss-Newton) as the mathematically
optimal and honest way to extract sandwich conjugators.
- Updated ADR-0241 to demote the polar claim and favor the thin wrap.
- Updated third-door-blueprint-fidelity.md to flip W3 to GREEN (honest demotion).
- Added behavioral RED test to demonstrate the multi-grade breakdown of ~C C.
Land entity-cohesion foundation for ADR-0241 mastery: public VaultStore
get_versor/get_entry ABI (drop private _versors in holographic vault),
resonant_reconstruct + phase_correlation on WaveManifold, cohesion master
plan + Phase 0/serve quarantine suite, fidelity honesty pass, and Gemini
handoff brief for ADR-0242 atlas packing + Fibonacci search.
Add GoldPromotionProof, expand promote/prune signatures, promotion_eligible
stub, and behavioral suite for residual/closure gates, require_proof,
principal_axes prune, and SERVE containment. Intentionally incomplete:
principal_axes and eligibility raise NotImplementedError; dirty promote
still admitted — RED until GREEN.
Smoke reds came from (1) denormal stream weights powering non-simple splits
and (2) invariant-split factors with B² higher residual in 1e-6..1e-3 dust
band raising fail-closed. Early R^0→I / R^1→R; raise simple B² higher tol
to 1e-3 with named constant. Pins multiplane transition + near-zero alpha.
Shared CGA substrate for the #17 conformal-Procrustes/Kabsch and #16
Cartan-Iwasawa decompositions. Adds algebra/null_point.py and hoists the two
conformal null directions to frozen module constants.
algebra/cga.py
- Add frozen read-only f64 N_O / N_INF constants: the same vectors
embed_point builds inline (origin embeds to N_O; N_INF is fixed by every
Euclidean isometry), so the null-point primitives share one exact sign
definition instead of re-deriving it per call site.
- Fix header-docstring sign typo: n_o = 0.5*(e5 - e4), not 0.5*(e4 - e5).
embed_point was already correct; only the module header disagreed.
algebra/null_point.py (new)
- dilator(scale), translator(a): CGA similarity constructors; both
round-trip through the recoverers.
- recover_dilation(V) -> (scale, D): reads V n_inf rev(V), weight-normalised
so recovery is invariant to a non-unit versor weight (verified vs V -> kV).
- recover_translation(V) -> (a, T): reads V n_o rev(V), projective
dehomogenisation.
- NullPointRecoveryError carries machine-readable reason codes.
- Fail-closed symmetric similarity gate (_require_similarity): BOTH recoverers
now reject non-versors (not_a_versor) and non-similarities (not_similarity,
e.g. transversions). Closes an asymmetry where recover_translation silently
accepted a transversion / non-versor and returned a plausible translation,
violating the module's own wrong=0 contract.
- Orientation-reversing (reflection / det=-1) versors are refused by
recover_dilation with a distinct reason improper_versor, kept separate from
degenerate_scale; recover_translation still accepts them (the origin image is
well defined). conformal_procrustes strips reflections upstream, so this is a
documented boundary, not a silent one.
- Default tol=1e-9 documented: matches f64-exact recovery of a cleanly
assembled versor (~1e-14 round-trip); noisy/SVD callers must pass a wider tol.
tests/test_null_point_primitives.py (new): 33 tests - null-cone/pairing
invariants, constant immutability, constructor round-trips, composed T.D.R peel,
versor-weight invariance, and the full fail-closed matrix (transversion,
non-versor, inversion, reflection asymmetry, non-positive scale, bad vector).
Invariant protected: wrong=0 - no recovery returns a silently wrong value on a
degenerate / non-versor / non-similarity input. Validation: 33/33 new pass;
88 passed / 1 xfailed across the CGA substrate + physics Procrustes consumers
(dynamic_manifold, surprise, versor closure, rotor, holonomy).
Hardened via a 3-lens adversarial verification (soundness / sign-convention /
consumer-contract, each executing counterexample versors, every finding
skeptic-verified): 2 CONFIRMED findings fixed (asymmetric validation gap;
reflection reason conflation); tol-tightness resolved by documentation rather
than a guard-weakening default change.
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.
The Super-Blueprint §3.3 "grade-5 pseudoscalar alignment anchor" is
mathematically vacuous in odd-dimensional Cl(4,1) and cannot be built as
specified (3-agent R&D convergence — Opus/Grok/Terra — ratified):
- I₅ is central in odd dim → V·I₅·Ṽ = ±I₅ for every versor; orientation is
invariant by construction (nothing to block).
- Field-state versors are even → F[31] ≡ 0; the gated ⟨F·F̃⟩₅ = 0 for the
source and target of every transition. The gate compares 0 == 0.
- The "even-versor parity gate" repair is equally vacuous (even subalgebra is
closed under the sandwich; odd-grade mass ≡ 0 on the sanctioned path).
Removes the namesake rather than leaving it masking an absence:
- Delete _PSEUDOSCALAR_IDX + all F[31] reads (dead `ps` history element and
CoherenceResidual.pseudoscalar — both structural zeros).
- Rename telemetry channel pseudoscalar_floor → autonomy_floor (it was always
self.floor, the earned-autonomy ceiling).
- Bump telemetry schema goldtether_coherence_v1 → v2 (shape changed).
The integrity-anchor role is subsumed by versor closure + GoldTether harmonized
residual (#24) + biography/identity holonomy. Ledger §5 rewritten with the
vacuity proof, subsumption, and the reusable "would this gate ever fire on the
sanctioned construction path?" meta-criterion.
No serving/runtime path touched (core.physics.* is off-serving). Tests: 33 pass
/ 1 xfail (Cartan #2) across goldtether + fidelity + miner + transfer suites;
ruff clean.
Implements the ADR-0238 §2.3 / R&D-Revised §2.3 machinery the skeleton omitted
(fidelity finding #4, issue #18):
- Gold-invariant set 𝓘_gold seeded with the primal {identity, n_o, n_inf}
(R&D §5 bootstrapping seeds), so the geometric term never degenerates at
cold start.
- goldtether_residual: scale-harmonized R = w·(drift/ε) + (1−w)·(min‖F−I‖/‖F‖),
both terms scaled to [0, O(1)] so neither masks the other — the exact defect
§2.3 exists to fix. The raw coherence_residual stays the fail-closed closure
gate; this is the alignment signal that drives α.
- alpha_constraint = Φ(R_gt; r_floor, r_critical): the smooth-step constraint
weight, composed with the earned-autonomy ceiling (α_floor = 1 − autonomy)
and serve-pinned-to-1. supervised_transition rides the exact geodesic (#23).
- promote/prune gold-set hooks (caller-gated; the ADR-0092 replay-verified
promotion pipeline + principal-axis decay are deferred, per issue #18).
Reconciliation (design): the earned-autonomy ramp (lifetime trust ceiling) and
α=Φ(R) (per-transition blend) compose at two timescales rather than compete —
earned autonomy floors α, Φ(R) modulates within it, serve is never autonomous.
All existing GoldTether behavior/tests preserved; fail-closed + serve-never-
autonomous intact.
rotor_power previously returned the IDENTITY for any non-simple rotor — an
approximation where exactness was available (Pillar II, Semantic Rigor) that
silently collapsed geodesic interpolation (slerp / supervised blend) to a
no-op while closure stayed green. Replace the identity-fallback with the
invariant (bivector) decomposition: a general Cl(4,1) rotor factors into two
commuting simple rotors R = R1 R2, so R^a = R1^a R2^a exactly, each via the
existing simple closed form, with a dedicated closed form for the isoclinic
(coincident-plane) case. Built from the geometric product alone — no scipy,
no GA library (Pillar III, Third Door); exact f64 on the existing product
table (Pillar I, Mechanical Sympathy).
- Simple path is byte-identical (0.0 delta); 66 existing algebra tests pass.
- tests/test_rotor_power_general.py pins R^1=R, (R^.5)^2=R, R^a R^b=R^(a+b),
R^0=1, closure, isoclinic, and replay determinism across every plane type
incl e5 boosts (441 pass), to machine precision (<= 6.5e-10).
This is the substrate cause of the Third-Door blend degeneration (fidelity
finding #1, issues #16/#18): with a real rotor_power, supervised_blend and
dual_correction_slerp now interpolate monotonically and land on target. Once
merged, the ADR-0239 blend xfail on #15 flips green.
Composed-versor tests the ADR-0239 suite never exercises. Two spec-property
tests xfail (strict) citing Super-Blueprint §2.2 / R&D-Revised §2.3; two
characterization tests lock the current degenerate behaviour so a future fix
is forced to update them.
- supervised_blend: no-op for interior alpha on composed (non-simple) versors
- cartan_iwasawa_factorize: raises 'factor R not closed' on composed versors
