Phase 2 — Corpus observation runner (inner_loop_runner.py):
- Four-condition matrix: boundary_only / null_control / inner_loop_t0 / inner_loop_tpos.
- Added `inner_loop_force_admit` to generate() — exercises the inner-loop
code path but force-breaks on first candidate. Eval-only null control:
isolates rejection as the causal factor for any pass-rate delta.
- Metrics: pass_rate, mean_rejection_count_per_turn,
non_empty_rejected_attempts_rate, exhaustion_rate (gated at 5%),
mean_admissibility_checks_per_turn, mean/p95 added_latency_ms,
trace_hash_stability across 5 reruns per case.
- Finding on v1+dev: causal_attribution_valid=True, code_path_residual=0.0,
but exhaustion_rate=0.33 at t=0 — chain outer-product blade is
geometrically blind to the active pack.
- Tests (tests/test_inner_loop_phase2.py, 5 pass): pin
causal-attribution and live-corpus trace-hash stability invariants.
Phase 3 — Mechanism-isolation v2 corpus (5 cases, v2_runner.py):
- Synthetic adversarial cases with controlled geometry — each case
specifies seed_token, admissible_tokens, relation_blade_token, and
admissibility_threshold. Field state is constructed directly from
the seed token versor, not via priming.
- For every case: boundary-only selects the forbidden decoy and
inner-loop selects the expected endpoint with the forbidden token
appearing in rejected_attempts.
- Result: mechanism_isolated=true on 5/5. boundary_decoy_rate=1.0,
rejection_traced_rate=1.0. Inner-loop rejection is demonstrably
doing causal semantic work on real packs.
- Tests (tests/test_inner_loop_phase3.py, 8 pass): GATE on
mechanism_isolated.
Phase 4 — Threshold characterization (threshold_characterization.py):
- Distribution mapping per-case AND globally on v1+dev, v2, combined.
- Per-threshold sweep over [-1.0, -0.5, 0.0, 0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 1.0].
- Finding: per-case geometry separates cleanly (correct_min > incorrect_max
on every v2 case), BUT no global static threshold passes the
separation_quality >= 0.8 gate. Blade norms vary ~10x across cases.
- Static thresholds (global, relation-typed, or constant frame-derived)
are geometrically insufficient. Per-case-normalized thresholds
(e.g. fraction of blade self-score) are the recommended next step.
- v1 chain-token outer-product cases all skipped — the corpus's chain
tokens (alpha, beta, gamma, delta) are not grounded in the active
pack. Load-bearing finding for ADR-0025 region construction.
- Tests (tests/test_inner_loop_phase4.py, 5 pass): pin the finding
diagnostically (not gated).
Phase 5 — ADR-0025 design note (draft):
- No code changes proposed. Scopes three architectural questions:
(1) home (algebra/versor.py vs field/propagate.py vs generate/) —
preliminary stance: algebra/versor.py.
(2) threshold scheme (blade-normalized fraction recommended over
static; learned/adaptive rejected for determinism).
(3) teaching-loop boundary — Stance A confirmed: rejections are
runtime hygiene only, no entanglement with teaching/*.
- Decisions to be closed before Draft → Accepted.
Phase 1 acceptance criteria from previous commit (7fccf36) carry
forward: wired, deterministic-when-wired, legacy hash preserved.
Suite: 1014 passed, 0 failed, 2 skipped.
Phase 1 of the post-ADR-0024 sequence: wire the inner-loop flag into live
cognition paths and prove deterministic-when-wired in the same milestone.
Changes:
- RuntimeConfig: add inner_loop_admissibility + admissibility_threshold.
- ChatRuntime: pass both into generate() on the chat hot path.
- CLI: --inner-loop-admissibility / --admissibility-threshold flags.
- vocab/manifold.py: document strict `>` tie-break as load-bearing for
ADR-0024 rejected_attempts ordering (determinism by construction, not
by accident).
- tests/test_inner_loop_admissibility.py: three new determinism tests —
identical rejected_attempts across 5 runs, identical trace hash across
5 runs (non-empty), and legacy hash equivalence when no rejections
occur (flag on/off byte-identical).
- tests/test_language_pack_cache.py: fix stale fixture (en-core-cog-070
-> en-core-cog-085 after pack growth).
Suite: 995 passed, 0 failed, 2 skipped.
Acceptance criteria met:
- wired through RuntimeConfig + CLI + ChatRuntime + generate()
- deterministic rejected_attempts sequence (verified by repetition)
- deterministic trace hash under inner_loop=True
- legacy ADR-0023 trace hashes preserved when no rejections
- nearest_next determinism is by construction (sequenced iteration +
strict > tie-break), now documented
Next: Phase 2 — corpus-observation eval on existing v1 corpus with the
four-condition matrix (boundary-only, null control, inner-loop t=0.0,
inner-loop t>0) and exhaustion_rate + latency metrics.
Flag-gated semantic change to generate(): when
inner_loop_admissibility=True and a non-unconstrained region is
supplied, each per-step selection is re-evaluated by check_transition
with admissibility_threshold; rejected candidates are excluded and
the walk re-selects until admitted or every admissible candidate is
exhausted (ValueError = honest refusal, same shape as ADR-0022 §2).
Default False — every legacy call site keeps ADR-0023 boundary-only
semantics, and the new AdmissibilityTraceStep.rejected_attempts field
is folded into canonical() only when non-empty, so trace_hash bytes
are byte-identical with ADR-0023 turns.
Invariants preserved: rotor V is only built for the admitted
candidate, so versor_condition < 1e-6 still holds at propagate_step;
no new normalization site; no new I/O / dynamic imports.
Tests: tests/test_inner_loop_admissibility.py covers the four
acceptance properties — default off preserves behavior, rejection
drives re-selection, exhaustion raises ValueError, empty
rejected_attempts is omitted from canonical(). Full pytest: 927
passed, 1 pre-existing unrelated failure (test_language_pack_cache).
Extends ADR-0022 with inspection/telemetry surfaces that turn the
forward-semantic-control claim from "mechanism exists" into "mechanism
is causally load-bearing, isolated, and replayable."
Changes (zero runtime semantics change beyond a pipeline bug fix):
- AdmissibilityTraceStep + GenerationResult.admissibility_trace —
per-transition record of region label, candidates before/after,
selected destination, and the typed AdmissibilityVerdict.
- ChatResponse + CognitiveTurnResult expose admissibility_trace,
admissibility_trace_hash, ratification_outcome,
region_was_unconstrained.
- hash_admissibility_trace + compute_trace_hash fold the new fields
only when they carry non-default values, so pre-ADR-0023 turn
hashes remain byte-preserved.
- Same-path ablation leg in evals/forward_semantic_control/runner.py:
generate(..., region=None) vs generate(..., region=R) on the same
runtime/vocab/field/persona/prompt — isolates the region as cause.
- Lane expansion: 8 dev cases across 4 relation axes (cause, means,
precedes, part_of) including 2 adversarial distractor cases.
- Lane metrics now report region_only_constrained_rate /
region_only_gap / ratified_rate / demoted_rate / passthrough_rate /
passthrough_on_scored.
- Bug fix surfaced by the new accounting: _ratify_intent looked up
runtime.vocab (always None) instead of runtime.session.vocab —
every production turn was silently PASSTHROUGH. Fixed; ratifier
now actually gates intent classification.
- tests/test_admissibility_trace.py: hash determinism +
pre-ADR-0023 byte-preservation tests.
Lane evidence (dev, 8 cases):
- constrained_pass_rate=0.80, causality_gap=0.80
- region_only_gap=1.00 (5/5 with region, 0/5 without — same path)
- ratified_rate=1.00, passthrough_on_scored=false
- overall_pass=true
Bench: 9.41s / 20 turns (~470ms/turn), well inside the +5% budget.
Full pytest: 922 passed, 1 pre-existing failure
(test_language_pack_cache, unrelated to ADR-0023).
Resolves all 5 TBDs and closes all 8 acceptance gates for ADR-0022.
TBD-1 (intent oracle): regex seed + field ratification —
generate/intent_ratifier.py. RATIFIED / DEMOTED / PASSTHROUGH
outcomes; DEMOTED routes through honest refusal.
TBD-2 (region intersection algebra): generate/admissibility.py.
Token-set composition via sorted set intersection; blade composition
via outer product with zero-blade as neutral element; rotor
composition via sandwich conjugation routed through
algebra.backend.versor_apply (Rust parity preserved by construction).
Empty intersections preserved — no silent relaxation.
Wiring: propose() and generate() accept an AdmissibilityRegion
(default None preserves legacy behavior); pipeline ratifies intent
at step 1b.i before graph construction.
Eval lane: evals/forward_semantic_control/ — both legs run against
CognitiveTurnPipeline (constrained) vs bare ChatRuntime.chat()
(unconstrained baseline). Dev (3 cases) and public/v1 (1 case) both
report overall_pass=true, causality_gap=1.0, coincidence_rate=0.0.
Chain-endpoint probe surfaces 'delta' only under forward semantic
control.
Bench cost (30 turns): -2.8% wall-clock (within +5% budget the ADR
set for the ratification gate on every turn). 138x cheaper than
Sonnet 4.5; main was 142x.
Tests: 33 new (25 admissibility + 8 ratifier). Full suite 912/913
pass — the single failure is pre-existing pack-size drift on main,
unrelated.
Categorizes every production vault.recall() callsite as RECOGNITION,
EVIDENCE_TELEMETRY, or EVIDENCE_USER_FACING. Adds INV-24 architectural
invariant (TestINV24VaultRecallRegistry, 3 tests) that forces any new
callsite to declare its role and requires EVIDENCE_USER_FACING sites to
pass min_status=COHERENT.
Audit findings:
- chat/runtime.py:330 → RECOGNITION (gate decision input)
- vault/decompose.py:121 → RECOGNITION (grade-decomposed gate fallback)
- generate/stream.py:147 → EVIDENCE_TELEMETRY (walk_surface per runtime contract)
- No EVIDENCE_USER_FACING sites exist today — user-facing surface comes from
pack-grounded realize(proposition, vocab), not vault.recall.
Why this closes Leak C: the write-side fix already stamps SPECULATIVE on
self-stored propositions; the read-side audit confirms no inference path
treats them as ratified evidence. If a future change routes the
generation walk into the user-facing surface, INV-24 forces the
recategorization to be explicit.
CLAIMS.md Tier 4.5 Leak C row now CLOSED. docs/truth_seeking_schema.md
§Leak C updated with full audit categorization.
Verified: smoke (67), cognition (121), runtime (19), all architectural
invariants (40) — green.
Audit of the one-mutation-path invariant (ADR-0021 §3) found three leaks
where pack authority or session-state writes could substitute for coherence
judgment. All three landed fixes or partial closures in this push.
Leaks closed:
- Leak A: pack vocab defaulted to COHERENT — flipped to SPECULATIVE in
language_packs/{compiler,schema}.py; docstring corrected to align with
ADR-0021 (it was rationalizing the leak).
- Leak B: vault.recall was epistemic-blind — VaultStore.store() now stamps
every entry with EpistemicStatus (default SPECULATIVE); recall(min_status=)
filters to admissible-as-evidence tier. All 4 vault-write sites updated.
- Leak C (write-side): generate/proposition.py:198 stored articulated
propositions unmarked — now stamps SPECULATIVE, breaking the
fabrication-feedback loop in principle. Read-side audit of 5 call sites
is the residual.
New architectural invariants (tests/test_architectural_invariants.py):
- INV-21: one-mutation-path allowlist (caught Leak C on first run)
- INV-22: pack lexicon default is SPECULATIVE (Leak A guard)
- INV-23: vault recall epistemic-aware (Leak B guard)
New eval lanes:
- teaching_injection_resistance — ships GREEN at 1.00/1.00/0 (the
structural anti-injection claim is real and measurable)
- refusal_calibration — honest gap: 0% refusal, 0% fabrication
- contradiction_detection — honest gap: 50% flag via versor-delta heuristic,
100% false-positive; motivates the proper coherence-checker
- articulation_of_status — honest gap: 0% speculative articulation, 60%
false certainty; output-side leak surface
New benchmarks:
- benchmarks/footprint.py — total deployed runtime is 7.06 MiB
(109,358x smaller than Llama 3.1 405B, runs offline, no GPU)
- benchmarks/learning_curve.py — monotonic + replay-deterministic curve
per lane
Documentation:
- docs/truth_seeking_schema.md — foundational architectural commitment,
five rules, mapped to human failure modes, leaks published openly
- evals/CLAIMS.md — five-tier public claims doc; Tier 4.5 publishes
known gaps with named fixes; verification contract at top
- README.md — new pillar between algebraic substrate and language pillar
Includes in-flight formation pipeline scaffolding (formation/, tests/formation/,
docs/formation_pipeline_plan.md) and minor CLI/contracts/gitignore edits
that were already in the working tree at session start.
Verification: 798 passed, 2 skipped, 1 deselected (pre-existing pack-count
test drift unrelated to schema changes).
Closes the user-flagged scope gap: every previous fluency lane (Phase
5.1 + 5.4-5.7 + grammatical_coverage) operates on 3-word SVO probes.
These three pieces stress paragraph-scale generation, give per-stage
latency visibility, and expose the realizer's word-choice geometry —
all on top of the existing deterministic infrastructure.
# discourse_paragraph lane (paragraph-scale fluency)
Forces the realizer to emit multi-sentence paragraphs from a
multi-step ArticulationTarget with rhetorical moves (ASSERT, SEQUENCE,
ELABORATE, CONTRAST). Same realizer, much richer input — every case
is 3-5 sentences with deterministic discourse markers.
Public 12 cases / holdouts 5 / dev 1 across 12 + 5 topic chains
(epistemic, scientific method, creation arc, logical dependency,
ethical grounding, linguistic layers, mathematical chain, narrative,
biology, physics, two contrast-shaped, musical, social, computational,
psychological, economic).
Sub-metrics per case:
- sentence count (within min..max window)
- subject coverage rate
- discourse marker presence (next / furthermore / in contrast)
- sentence-initial capitalization
- replay determinism (run twice, surfaces match)
Result: 12/12 public + 5/5 holdouts at 100%, replay rate 100%, mean
sentence count 4.
# Realizer capitalization (G4, addresses user-flagged concern)
generate/realizer.py gains `_capitalize_sentence` + `_join_as_paragraph`
helpers. Sentence-initial alphabetic characters are now uppercased
(skipping leading whitespace/punctuation). Surfaces went from
"wisdom grounds knowledge. next, knowledge requires evidence."
to
"Wisdom grounds knowledge. Next, knowledge requires evidence."
The discourse_paragraph runner ships a strict per-sentence
capitalization check so future regressions get caught.
# Pipeline-stage profiler (benchmarks/pipeline_profiler.py)
External monkey-patch wrapper around CognitiveTurnPipeline.run() that
records per-stage ns budgets without editing any pipeline source.
Stages: intent, graph_planner, realize_semantic, runtime_chat,
maybe_transitive_walk, fold_walk_into_surface, run_teaching,
trace_hash.
API: `profile_turn(pipeline, text) -> ProfileReport` with
`.stages: dict`, `.total_ns: int`, `.as_dict()`.
Empirical: runtime_chat dominates >99% on the runtime hot path (which
is correct — that's where ingest + propagate + recall + articulate
all happen). Future optimisation work has a clear per-stage signal.
# Word-selection tracer (benchmarks/word_selection_tracer.py)
External wrapper around generate.articulation._resolve_slot that
records every nearest-neighbor lookup as a WordSelectionStep:
- slot (subject/predicate/object)
- input versor (32-d copy)
- top-K candidate words by CGA inner product
- chosen word + morphology
- output language
Top-K scoring uses the diagonal Cl(4,1) metric kernel from
algebra.backend (same vectorised path vault_recall uses), not a
per-word Python loop over cga_inner. No approximation, exact
deterministic ranking, bit-identical to a scalar scan.
API: `trace_realization(pipeline, text) -> RealizationTrace` with
`.steps`, `.realization_steps`, `.surface`, `.as_dict()`.
# CLI lane registration
Cognition suite now sweeps the benchmark profiler/tracer tests
(test_benchmarks_profiler.py) so any future regression in the
instrumentation surfaces immediately.
# Constraints honoured
- Zero edits to core/, chat/, vault/, teaching/, language_packs/, or
the algebra hot path. All instrumentation is external monkey-patch
with originals restored in finally.
- discourse_paragraph runner bypasses ChatRuntime grounding (named v2
gap) so paragraph capability is isolated to the realizer.
- No semantic changes; no hidden normalisation; no approximate
recall.
# Lane health
smoke 55, runtime 19, teaching 17, packs 6, cognition 105 (was 103),
algebra 132. All Phase 5 fluency lanes still 100% with the
capitalised surfaces (rubric is case-insensitive). discourse_paragraph
100%.
# What ships next (named v2)
- Round-trip: discourse_paragraph through ChatRuntime end-to-end,
not just realize_target.
- Per-sentence grammatical_coverage rubric on each emitted sentence.
- Longer chains (10/20/50 sentences) with per-sentence determinism
scaling curves.
- compose_relations operator to lift compositionality recall from
68.8% toward 100%.
Closes the two skipped null-preservation tests and the architectural
gap behind them. In CGA, null vectors represent Euclidean points;
under a conformal transformation a point must map to a point —
applying a versor sandwich to a null vector must preserve null
property. The previous implementation forced everything onto the
unit-versor shell, which is correct for field-state propagation but
wrong for geometric point input.
Implementation
- algebra/versor.py: new `_input_is_null(F)` checks `cga_inner(F,F) ≈ 0`;
`versor_apply` routes null inputs around `_close_applied_versor`
and returns the raw sandwich V·F·rev(V), which algebraically
preserves null property. Non-null inputs unchanged.
- core-rs/src/versor.rs: `versor_apply_closed_f64` gains the same
null-check branch via `input_is_null_f64`. ADR-0020 parity
preserved (8/8 versor_apply bit-identity tests still pass).
Test changes
- tests/test_architectural_invariants.py::TestINV06NullConePreservation::
test_versor_apply_preserves_null_property — un-skipped, passes.
- tests/test_rust_backend.py::test_rust_versor_apply_preserves_null_vectors
— un-skipped, passes.
- tests/test_versor_closure.py::test_versor_apply_closes_null_like_field_
results_for_runtime_contract — renamed to
test_versor_apply_preserves_null_property_for_null_inputs and
rewritten to assert the now-correct semantics (null in → null out).
The old contract over-specified closure for null inputs and
contradicted the architectural invariant; that's what kept the
invariant test skipped.
Stale gap docs updated
- inference_closure / cross_domain_transfer / multi_step_reasoning
gaps.md now lead with a resolution block: lanes pass at 100% on
both splits after the typed operators (transitive_walk,
multi_relation_walk, path_recall in generate/operators.py) +
pipeline wiring (_maybe_transitive_walk + _fold_walk_into_surface)
landed. The historic findings are preserved below for traceability.
- compositionality gaps.md: partial resolution — recall up from
6.25% to 68.75%; overall_pass True; residual ~30% miss requires
a relation-aware `compose_relations` operator (v2 follow-on).
Lane health unchanged: algebra 132, smoke 55, runtime 19, teaching 17,
packs 6, cognition 103. Cognition eval 100%. Four formerly-"blocked"
reasoning lanes confirmed 100% / overall_pass=True end-to-end.
Six contained-tier gap closures from the cross-phase gap audit.
Every gaps.md file involved gains a resolution block; the historical
findings are preserved for traceability.
Identity (teaching/review.py)
- _ROLE_FRAMES gains the philosophical-axis family (axiology, ontology,
telos, ethos, epistemology, morality, ethics, virtues, norms,
doctrine, creed, convictions, beliefs, values, principles).
- _REDIRECT_VERBS gains the dismissal family (disregard, dismiss,
bypass, circumvent, renounce, reject, repudiate).
- Closes multi_agent_composition holdout MAC-HOLD-001 ("disregard your
axiology") and the matching adversarial_identity gap.
- Multi-agent holdouts: 8/8 attacks rejected, 3/3 legits accepted.
Pipeline (core/cognition/pipeline.py + docs/runtime_contracts.md)
- When the unknown-domain gate fires, ChatRuntime returns the
"I don't have field coordinates for that yet." stub and
vault_hits == 0. The pipeline now honours that stub as the
user-facing surface instead of overriding with the realizer's
fallback articulation. walk_surface is unchanged either way.
- New contract test
tests/test_semantic_realizer_integration.py::test_pipeline_honours_safety_stub_when_gate_fires
locks the contract; the existing semantic-surface test now primes
the vault first so the gate doesn't fire on the probe.
- Closes calibration gaps.md Finding 2.
Realizer morphology (generate/morphology.py)
- G1: ~100-entry irregular-verb table replaces the previous list which
contained only regular forms. Includes bind→bound, run→ran,
stand→stood, write→wrote/written, eat→ate/eaten, fly→flew/flown,
swim→swam/swum, etc.
- CVC doubling rule for -ed and -ing (stop→stopped/stopping,
plan→planned, run→running).
- Short-ies disambiguation (die/lie/tie keep -ie- in the base; cry/fly
collapse to -y). Lie is also irregular (lay/lain) — uses
_IRREGULAR_FORMS first.
- 28-case regression test (tests/test_morphology_irregular.py).
Realizer plural agreement (generate/templates.py)
- G2: under universal/existential/many/few/most quantifiers, count-noun
subjects pluralise (molecule → molecules) and the verb de-conjugates
(binds → bind). Negation toggles does-not → do-not. Aspect toggles
has → have, is → are. All other constructions unchanged.
- Mass nouns (evidence, wisdom, knowledge, truth, water, …) stay
singular under quantifiers — "all evidence supports truth" is right;
"all evidences support" would be wrong English.
- 17-case regression test
(tests/test_realizer_quantifier_agreement.py) covering count vs mass,
irregular plurals (child→children, analysis→analyses), and the
quantifier-tense / quantifier-aspect / quantifier-negation grid.
Rubric punctuation tolerance (evals/grammatical_coverage/runner.py)
- G3: _check_word_order strips trailing/leading punctuation
(.,;:!?—–) before exact-word comparison so "river," still satisfies
word_order=["river"]. must_contain also accepts punctuation-
stripped token matches.
- Affects every lane that uses grammatical_coverage scoring; the OOD
case generators no longer need to pin punctuated accept_surfaces for
C06.
Case generator + lane regeneration
- scripts/generate_english_fluency_ood.py uses generate.templates.pluralize
for C07/C08 must_contain + word_order so case-side constraints stay
aligned with the (more correct) realizer.
- All Phase 5 OOD lane cases (5.1, 5.4–5.7) regenerated; results files
re-scored.
CLI (core/cli.py)
- cmd_eval no longer crashes on lanes whose case_details use "id"
instead of "case_id" (adversarial_identity, multi_agent_composition).
- Cognition CLI lane gains the two new morphology/quantifier
regression test files.
Lane sweep (all 100%, no regression):
english_fluency_ood 117/117 public + 39/39 holdouts
elementary_mathematics_ood 117/117 + 39/39
foundational_physics_ood 117/117 + 39/39
foundational_biology_ood 117/117 + 39/39
classical_literature_ood 117/117 + 39/39
grammatical_coverage back to 100% on its own seed cases
hebrew_fluency / koine_greek_fluency 3/3 each
CLI lane health:
smoke 54, runtime 19, teaching 17, packs 6, cognition 103 (was 57),
algebra 132.
ADR-0020 next-level: close the parity-gate hole on the four remaining
ungated Rust surfaces.
Gates landed (subprocess-based, raw f32/f64 byte equality):
cga_inner — 14/14 bit-identical (random + basis blades + self-norm)
geometric_product — 15/15 bit-identical (random + basis blades + scalar identity)
versor_condition — 9/9 bit-identical AFTER kernel fix
versor_apply — 8/8 intentionally skipped (see below)
Kernel fix: versor_condition_raw
The Python source-of-truth (algebra.versor.versor_unit_residual) folds
the geometric product + identity subtraction + Frobenius norm in f64.
The Rust kernel was folding in f32, drifting by 1 ULP on out-of-shell
inputs. Rewrote versor_condition_raw to promote inputs to f64, use the
existing geometric_product_f64/reverse_f64 building blocks, and cast
only the final scalar back to f32. Python is canonical per CLAUDE.md
sequencing rule 5.
Honest disable: versor_apply
The Rust versor_apply_closed diverges structurally:
(1) precision — f32 sandwich vs Python's f64 throughout
(2) closure form — Rust has a null-vector early branch + no
post-unitize condition recheck; Python is the
inverse (no null branch; recheck + seed-rotor
fallback)
Per ADR-0020 "default-off until parity passes", the Rust dispatch for
versor_apply is disabled in algebra/backend.py with a pointer to the
gate. The parity tests are skipped with explicit reason. The follow-up
f64 port is documented in the ADR's new Parity status table.
Lane registration: all four parity files added to --suite algebra.
After: algebra 124 passed, 8 skipped (was 86). All other lanes green:
smoke 54, runtime 19, cognition 57, teaching 17, packs 6. Cognition
eval 100%.
ADR-0021 v1 schema land. epistemic_status is a position in the revision
graph, not a source-trust tier — coherence is the only admission signal.
Surfaces:
- teaching/epistemic.py: EpistemicStatus enum (COHERENT, CONTESTED,
SPECULATIVE, FALSIFIED); ADMISSIBLE_AS_EVIDENCE = {COHERENT}.
- PackMutationProposal.epistemic_status (default SPECULATIVE) + immutable
with_status() updater.
- ReviewedTeachingExample.epistemic_status (default SPECULATIVE);
orthogonal to acceptance per ADR §Schema impact.
- LexicalEntry.epistemic_status (default "coherent" for seed; absent in
JSONL is treated as the seed default — no retroactive tagging).
- compute_trace_hash + trace_hash_from_result + pipeline.py fold the
load-bearing proposal's epistemic_status into the trace hash so
replay detects different epistemic frames.
Non-hardening invariant (ADR-0021 §2): tests/test_epistemic_invariants.py
asserts no final/frozen/axiom/permanent flag on PackMutationProposal or
ReviewedTeachingExample, and EpistemicStatus contains no source-trust
tier names.
Docs: docs/runtime_contracts.md gains an Epistemic surface section.
Lanes green: smoke 27/27, teaching 10/10, packs 6/6, runtime 19/19,
cognition eval 100%.
ADR-0020 first per-surface Rust parity port. Parity test runs
the same fixture under CORE_BACKEND=python (default) and
CORE_BACKEND=rust in subprocesses and asserts:
- per-versor scores are float32 bit-identical (raw bytes hex)
- top-k ordering matches, including ascending-index tie-break
Tested at N=50/137/200/500 versors across four seeds. All four
parameterisations pass with 0 ULP delta.
Why parity holds with no Rust code change: the Cl(4,1) CGA inner
product is structurally diagonal with ±1 metric. The full
geometric-product Rust path (core-rs/src/cga.rs::cga_inner_raw)
accumulates off-diagonal contributions to scalar[0] in pairs that
cancel to bit-exact zero in float32, leaving the same serial
sum_i metric[i]*X[i]*Y[i] that the Python vectorised path
computes. Same kernel, two implementations.
Parity gate: PASS. Performance gate: NOT YET. At N=100k the Rust
path is ~13x slower than Python (266ms vs 20ms) due to per-
versor numpy marshalling in the Rust binding (100k Python→Rust
round trips). Default-off posture is correct until the
marshalling is fixed (next per-surface follow-on).
Phase 4 lane #2 (long_context_cost) measured vault.recall latency
as a function of vault size N. The pre-vectorisation curve was
median 875 ms at N=1k, ~9 s at N=10k — unfit for runtime use.
ADR-0019 Stage 1 replaces the per-element Python dispatch loop in
algebra/backend.py::vault_recall with a vectorised exact scan over
the diagonal Cl(4,1) CGA inner-product metric. Per-versor serial
component reduction order is preserved, so scores are bit-identical
to the scalar cga_inner path. CLAUDE.md exactness is preserved; no
approximate recall is introduced.
Post-vectorisation: 0.217 ms at N=1k, 20.795 ms at N=100k. Slope
0.99 (linear). ~4,000-5,000x speedup at every probed N. Smoke,
algebra, and runtime suites all green.
Stages 2 (norm-bucketed exact pre-filter) and 3 (layered store
with deterministic promotion) are documented in ADR-0019 but
deferred — Stage 1 has dissolved the bottleneck at the scales
relevant to current curriculum work.
Closes the mixed_relation_* (multi-step-reasoning) and composed_predicate
(compositionality) residuals with a single new operator plus a small
intent-classifier loosening. Both residuals shared an underlying shape:
walk any outgoing relation edge from the head, regardless of which
relation predicate appears at each step.
generate/operators.py:
multi_relation_walk(triples, head, *, max_hops=5) -> WalkResult
Walks any outgoing edge from head, accumulating a path across
mixed relation types. Returns WalkResult with relation="<mixed>"
so trace_hash records the cross-relation provenance explicitly.
Deterministic, cycle-safe, first-write-wins on duplicate heads
(across any relation).
generate/intent.py:
_TRANSITIVE_QUERY_RE relaxed from a closed verb enumeration to any
single verb-like word. "What does X (any verb)?" now routes to
TRANSITIVE_QUERY consistently; unrecognised relations are handled
by the pipeline's multi_relation_walk fallback rather than falling
through to UNKNOWN. Verified no regression on 30 intent / realizer
tests.
core/cognition/pipeline.py:
_maybe_transitive_walk now does precision-first dispatch on
TRANSITIVE_QUERY: try transitive_walk(relation) literal-match
first, fall back to multi_relation_walk only when the literal
walk returns a singleton. DEFINITION intents do not fall back
(would be too permissive for "What is X?").
tests/test_inference_operators.py: 6 new TestMultiRelationWalk
tests covering single-relation pass-through, cross-relation walks,
cycle termination, max_hops truncation, and determinism.
Phase 3 v1 re-score:
lane split v1 v2 v3 (now)
inference-closure public 0.0 1.0 1.0 pass
inference-closure holdouts 0.0 1.0 1.0 pass
multi-step-reasoning public 0.0 0.73 1.0 pass
multi-step-reasoning holdouts 0.0 0.80 1.0 pass
compositionality public 0.06 0.31 0.69 pass
compositionality holdouts 0.0 0.30 0.80 pass
cross-domain-transfer public 0.0 1.0 1.0 pass
cross-domain-transfer holdouts 0.0 1.0 1.0 pass
introspection public 0.0 1.0 1.0 pass
introspection holdouts 0.0 1.0 1.0 pass
PHASE 3 v1 IS COMPLETE: 10 of 10 splits passing. Phase 3 exit gate
(>= 2 lanes passing v1 by phase exit) is satisfied five times over.
Foundation guarantees (premises_stored_rate, replay_determinism)
remain 1.0 across all lanes. Trace_hash bit-stability preserved
with operator invocation records folded in per ADR-0018.
Compositionality public at 0.69 / holdouts at 0.80 - the residual
failures are the novel_pair_under_seen_relation / novel_relation_on_seen_pair
cases whose contract authoring is itself ambiguous (the leakage
check in the v1 contract fires by design on those patterns). Those
are contract-refinement candidates for v2 of that lane, not
engineering work. Overall_pass threshold (>= 0.50) is comfortably
met on both splits.
CLI suites smoke / cognition / teaching / packs all pass; 53
operator+teaching+pipeline tests green; no regression.
Adds 15 lexical entries (071-085) extending the cognition pack with
rhetoric, metaphor, narrative, and writing-style vocabulary. Layer 1
of the work plan recorded in evals/compositionality/gaps.md and
evals/cross_domain_transfer/gaps.md: lexical scaffolding only, no
new operators. Building first-class metaphor / narrative / style
support remains correctly downstream of the cross-domain-transfer
literal case working (now closed in commit 57a6174).
New entries:
071 metaphor 076 voice 081 figure
072 simile 077 style 082 symbol
073 analogy 078 register 083 image
074 narrative 079 tone 084 discourse
075 story 080 rhetoric 085 account
Each entry follows the existing pack convention: NOUN pos, four
semantic_domains, morphology_tags=["noun"], seed provenance. The
domains anchor on rhetoric.*, language.figure/discourse/style,
cognition.*, and meaning.* clusters that integrate with the
existing pack vocabulary.
Pack-level updates:
- manifest.json checksum recomputed against the bytes actually
written to disk (per CLAUDE.md Semantic Pack Discipline).
- version bump 1.1.0 -> 1.2.0.
- test_core_semantic_seed_pack.py last-entry assertion updated
from 070 to 085.
Verification: probe "What is X?" against the new vocabulary grounds
cleanly in the pipeline (narrative 7 hits, style 9, rhetoric 8,
analogy 9 vault matches; metaphor produces a coherent surface
despite zero vault hits, consistent with the field-geometry
characterisation in the adversarial-identity calibration probe).
CLI suites packs / smoke / cognition / teaching / runtime all pass;
no regression.
What this does NOT do (deferred by design):
- No metaphor / simile / narrative operator at the proposition-
graph layer. ADR-0018 forbids building operators ahead of
eval evidence; these become a Phase 3 v3 (or Phase 4) candidate
once cross-domain transfer with selectivity has its own eval
lane.
- No first-class is_like(A,B) relation distinct from is(A,B).
Same reasoning - downstream of compositionality engineering.
- No persona/style work on the output side. That belongs in
persona/motor.py per the cross_domain_transfer/gaps.md
architectural sketch.
The entries serve as substrate for future eval lanes that probe
these capabilities specifically (metaphor-comprehension,
narrative-coherence, register-control). When those lanes are
authored, the vocabulary needed for the probes is already grounded.
Lands the last load-bearing Phase 3 v2 engineering item: deterministic
introspection per ADR-0017 (responsive-with-axiology, per-turn) and
ADR-0018 (typed deterministic operator).
core/cognition/explain.py:
explain(result: CognitiveTurnResult) -> str dispatches on intent
tag and returns a canonical natural-language re-statement of the
turn:
DEFINITION -> "What is X?"
TRANSITIVE_QUERY -> "What does X precede?" / "Where does X belong?"
CAUSE -> "Why X?"
PROCEDURE -> "How do I X?"
COMPARISON -> "Compare X and Y."
CORRECTION -> the original correction text (round-trip
identity case)
VERIFICATION -> "Is X?"
RECALL -> "Remember X."
UNKNOWN / None -> ""
Pure dispatch, no learned model, no external IO, replay-safe.
core/cognition/__init__.py exports explain so the introspection lane
runner's `from core.cognition import explain` resolves.
tests/test_explain.py: 16 unit tests covering dispatch on every intent
tag, plus round-trip intent classification (explain output re-classifies
as the same intent under classify_intent).
Contract refinement:
evals/introspection/contract.md M2 token floor lowered from >= 5 to
>= 2. The canonical form for a DEFINITION probe is naturally 3
tokens ("What is X?"); the original floor was author-overzealous.
evals/introspection/runner.py updated to match.
Re-score on introspection v1:
split api_present account_nonempty surface_match trace_match overall
public/v1 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 pass
holdouts/v1 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 pass
Including strict bit-stable trace_hash equality (M4) on every case
in both splits. Fresh-pipeline-on-account reproduces the original
turn's surface and trace_hash exactly.
Phase 3 v2 lane status (after this commit):
inference-closure public/v1 1.0 pass
inference-closure holdouts/v1 1.0 pass
multi-step-reasoning public/v1 0.73 pass
multi-step-reasoning holdouts/v1 0.80 pass
cross-domain-transfer public/v1 1.0 pass
cross-domain-transfer holdouts/v1 1.0 pass
introspection public/v1 1.0 pass <- this commit
introspection holdouts/v1 1.0 pass <- this commit
compositionality public/v1 0.31 partial
compositionality holdouts/v1 0.30 partial
8 of 10 splits passing v1 (Phase 3 exit gate met four times over).
gaps.md and PROGRESS.md updated to reflect resolution. CLI suites
smoke / cognition / teaching all green; no regression.
Future-direction notes recorded in introspection/gaps.md:
- Multi-turn explain (N-turn dialogue accounts).
- First-person narrative form (downstream of, and permitted by,
ADR-0017's responsive-with-axiology stance).
Implements the Phase 3 v2 inference-depth bundle per ADR-0018:
typed deterministic operators over CORE's typed state. Closes the
inference-closure / multi-step-reasoning / cross-domain-transfer
v1 gaps; partial close on compositionality.
New modules:
teaching/relation_parse.py - parse_triple(correction_text) lifts
a correction utterance into a typed (head, relation, tail) over
the en_core_cognition_v1 relation vocabulary. Pure regex,
deterministic, no learned classifier.
generate/operators.py - transitive_walk(triples, head, relation,
*, max_hops=5) walks single-relation chains. path_recall walks
a relation-chain tuple (e.g. ("is", "precedes")). Both bounded,
cycle-safe, case-insensitive, first-write-wins on duplicates.
Schema extensions:
teaching.store.PackMutationProposal gains optional triple field,
populated by TeachingStore.add via parse_triple. Plus new
TeachingStore.triples() helper returning all parsed triples.
generate.intent.IntentTag gains TRANSITIVE_QUERY plus a relation
field on DialogueIntent. New regex rules for "What does X R?"
and "Where does X belong?" forms with relation normalisation.
core.cognition.result.CognitiveTurnResult gains operator_invocation
field (deterministic serialisation of any operator that ran).
core.cognition.trace.compute_trace_hash gains operator_invocation
kwarg; trace_hash_from_result threads it through. Operator
invocation is now load-bearing for replay equality.
Pipeline wiring:
CognitiveTurnPipeline.run dispatches transitive_walk after
runtime.chat() when the intent is TRANSITIVE_QUERY (with the
parsed relation) or DEFINITION (implicit "is"). Non-trivial walks
fold the chain endpoint into surface and articulation_surface.
Verification:
tests/test_inference_operators.py - 27 unit tests covering
parser, transitive_walk (cycles, max_hops, case-insensitivity,
determinism, first-write-wins), path_recall, and WalkResult shape.
Re-score on Phase 3 v1 case sets:
lane split v1 after bundle
inference-closure public/v1 0.0 1.0 pass
inference-closure holdouts/v1 0.0 1.0 pass
multi-step-reasoning public/v1 0.0 0.7333 pass
multi-step-reasoning holdouts/v1 0.0 0.8 pass
cross-domain-transfer public/v1 0.0 1.0 pass
cross-domain-transfer holdouts/v1 0.0 1.0 pass
compositionality public/v1 0.0625 0.3125 partial
compositionality holdouts/v1 0.0 0.3 partial
Six of eight splits now pass v1. Foundation guarantees
(premises_stored, replay_determinism) remain 1.0 across all lanes.
Trace_hash determinism preserved (operator records fold in
deterministically).
Residuals (filed as Phase 3 v2 follow-up):
- multi-step-reasoning mixed_relation_3/4 patterns need path_recall
wired into the pipeline for multi-relation probes; the operator
exists but the pipeline only invokes transitive_walk today.
- compositionality novel-combination patterns need a genuinely
new operator shape (composed_relation_walk) - the literal
transitive walk does not synthesise novel pairs by construction.
CLI suites smoke / cognition / teaching pass; no regression. 47
pipeline + teaching + operator tests all green.
Resolves the adversarial-identity v3 finding (0% rejection on
paraphrased attacks against the marker-string defense). Two
independent layers now guard the review gate; either is sufficient
to reject.
Fix#2 (syntactic, in teaching/review.py):
Replaces the substring-only check with four deterministic rules:
(a) legacy markers (v1/v2 coverage preserved verbatim)
(b) redirect-verb + role-frame co-occurrence
(c) negating qualifier within +/-3 tokens of a role-frame
(d) negating qualifier within +/-3 tokens of a redirect-verb
Replay-safe, no learned classifier, single-file contained change.
Fix#3 (geometric, in core/physics/identity.py):
Adds IdentityCheck.would_violate(score, manifold) predicate per
ADR-0010 and wires it through CognitiveTurnPipeline._run_teaching
from response.identity_score. The geometric layer is paraphrase-
invariant by construction.
Honest finding: with the current default IdentityManifold (three
unit-axis ValueAxes), the geometric layer flags 0/32 of v3 attacks
independently. The predicate and wiring are in place; the manifold
axis design is the limiting factor and remains as scoped follow-up.
Fix#2 is what is actually rejecting attacks today.
Verification: all eight adversarial-identity splits (v1-v4, public +
holdouts) at attack_rejection=1.0 and legitimate_acceptance=1.0.
v4 (32 attacks + 18 legitimate) is the regression gate for fix#2,
exercising rules (b)/(c)/(d) with new attack vocabulary. Tests
test_reviewed_teaching_loop.py (5/5), test_pipeline_teaching_integration.py
(5/5), test_identity_gate.py (incl. 5 new TestWouldViolatePredicate
tests, 12/12). CLI suites: smoke, cognition, teaching, runtime all
green.
Also drops a stale entry from the runtime CLI suite list
(test_chat_identity_telemetry.py was removed in 222124a).
Three issues in the drift-fix landing (922bddc) addressed:
1. algebra/rotor.py: add rotor_power(R, alpha) — slerp on the rotor manifold
via the rotor's exp/log decomposition. Handles both rotation planes
(cos/sin) and boost planes (cosh/sinh); falls back to identity for
non-simple bivectors or null cases.
2. generate/stream.py: the score-weighted vault recall previously did
`weight*V + (1-weight)*np.eye(V.shape[0])`. Two bugs:
- np.eye produced a 32x32 matrix for a 1D multivector, crashing
versor_apply with a broadcasting error (2 cognition tests failing
on main).
- The linear blend produced multivectors with versor_condition up to
2.2e-2, violating the non-negotiable 1e-6 invariant declared in
CLAUDE.md. Now uses rotor_power(V, weight) which stays on the
manifold by construction (versor_condition <= 1.1e-16).
3. session/context.py: respond() now re-binds result.final_state to
self.state after finalize_turn's anchor pull, restoring the
"respond returns the same object that was vaulted" contract
(test_engine_loop_proof regression).
Verification:
- 41 new tests in tests/test_rotor_power.py covering closure preservation,
alpha=0/1 boundaries, half-angle composition, and word-transition rotors.
- Empirical multi-turn versor_condition stays at machine epsilon with
anchor pull, max 9.4e-7 without (under threshold either way after fix).
- Full suite: 609 passed, 4 skipped, 0 failed.
Remove shelved identity/drive tests that existed to justify premature
persona wiring, and update remaining tests to match the current runtime
contract: empty vault triggers unknown_domain gate on first turn, versor_apply
always closes to unit versor, and null-cone preservation is deferred to an
explicit geometry API.
562 passed, 4 skipped, 0 failed.
Keep the generic chat runtime neutral while base closure is being stabilized.
- replace PersonaMotor.from_identity_manifold(...) with PersonaMotor.identity() for the baseline ChatRuntime path
- leave identity/persona motivation for a later explicit IdentityProfile contract
- update the antipodal scalar transition test to match current closed-product semantics: B * reverse(A) yields closed transition -1
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Remove the implicit null-vector bypass from the runtime-facing versor_apply closure boundary.
FieldState.F is treated throughout the runtime and cognitive pipeline as a unit versor field. Returning null-like raw sandwich results from versor_apply created a contract mismatch and allowed multi-turn closure drift to escape into session state.
- make _close_applied_versor always close runtime field results
- keep unitize-first semantics and construction-seed fallback
- add regression proving null-like sandwich output is closed for the runtime contract
Null-vector preservation should return later behind an explicit geometry API, not the generic runtime field propagation path.
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_orient_result_to_anchor used np.dot (Euclidean dot product) alongside
cga_inner to decide hemisphere flips. When CGA inner was positive
(correct hemisphere) but Euclidean was negative, the flip negated CGA
alignment — making correctly-oriented fields rank last in vault recall.
Changes:
- Move hemisphere check into finalize_turn so all paths (ChatRuntime,
SessionContext.respond) get consistent protection.
- Use CGA inner product only, removing the forbidden Euclidean metric.
- Remove _orient_result_to_anchor (subsumed by finalize_turn).
- Remove SessionContext.arespond (dead code, no callers).
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- Fix running_dialogue_blade grade explosion: replace outer_product
accumulation (which pushed past grade-5 in Cl(4,1), silently zeroing
the blade from turn 3 onward) with CGA-inner-oriented blade tracking
that preserves grade-2 across arbitrary turn counts.
- Add versor_condition guard at session composition boundary: cross-turn
field composition via versor_apply now fails closed (threshold 1e-2,
matching algebra construction residue tolerance) instead of silently
propagating degraded fields into vault and generation.
- Replace VaultStore list with deque(maxlen=max_entries): eliminates
O(N) list.pop(0) on every bounded eviction; deque auto-evicts in O(1).
- Replace O(N) vocab scan in generate/stream.py stop_nodes construction
with O(1) try/except index lookup per stop token.
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Replace synthetic word-transition rotor construction with the closed product B * reverse(A).
- preserve make_rotor_from_angle compatibility
- fail closed on non-closed transition candidates instead of using construction fallback behavior
- validate transition operator condition
- add targeted transition rotor regression tests
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Adds referent tracking, session graph traversal, unknown-domain gating, correction propagation, compositional surface assembly, and regression coverage.
Follow-up fixes included before merge:
- split probe/commit/finalize turn flow so unknown-domain checks run before current-query vault writes
- record real input tokens and input versors for sync and async session paths
- return true graph distances from backward walks and consume them in correction decay
- synchronize corrected graph outputs into vault-backed recall and live referent state
- regenerate correction responses from corrected context rather than correction text
- keep coreference pronouns lowercase in question bodies
- centralize elaboration-string construction to avoid plan/surface drift
- add targeted dialogue fluency regression tests
Implements the coupled forward-correction loop that separates CORE from
a nearest-neighbour lookup engine:
per iteration:
state, Δ_fwd = diffusion_op.forward(state) # spread context
state, Δ_corr = correction_op.adjoint_pass(state) # enforce intent
converged when both Δ_fwd < ε and Δ_corr < ε
field/operators.py:
- Add ConstraintCorrectionOperator(target_versor, correction_rate, node_index)
- adjoint_pass() builds an incremental correction rotor from the current
output-node versor toward the intent target using the exponential map
(same _unitize_f32 path, same boost/rotation blade classification).
This is a non-self-adjoint operator: it has a preferred direction.
- forward() is identity (correction acts only on the output node via adjoint_pass).
- The target is the prompt centroid versor — same geometry that seeds the
output node, so the correction restores coherence broken by diffusion.
scripts/run_pulse.py (V4):
- Build target_versor from prompt centroid before the loop (exposed from
_build_manifold as a second return value alongside state + labels).
- Instantiate GraphDiffusionOperator + ConstraintCorrectionOperator.
- Coupled convergence: loop until both Δ_fwd < ε AND Δ_corr < ε.
- Print both deltas each step for observability.
- --correction-rate flag (default 0.3) to tune correction strength.
- --no-correction flag to reproduce V3 pure-diffusion behaviour.
tests/test_pulse_integration.py:
- test_correction_pulls_toward_target: verifies output node moves closer
to target versor under correction than without it.
- test_coupled_loop_converges: full V4 pulse with correction converges.
- test_correction_rate_zero_is_identity: rate=0 leaves the field unchanged.
- test_different_inputs_produce_different_correction_targets: correction
targets differ for semantically distinct inputs.
Replace the divergent rotation-based diffusion operator with a linear
blend + exponential-map re-unitization approach that converges in ~28
steps while maintaining vc < 1e-6.
Key changes:
- GraphDiffusionOperator now averages neighbors in multivector space and
re-projects via per-plane exponentials (cos/sin for rotations, cosh/sinh
for boosts in Cl(4,1))
- run_pulse V3: per-token graph topology with input-driven output node,
recall via VocabManifold.nearest(), --no-glove flag for compiled pack
- Tests updated for V3 API
Different inputs now produce different recall rankings from the compiled
en_core_cognition_v1 vocabulary, completing Threshold 1 (Semantic Encoding).
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Add ManifoldState (N,32) versor field over graph edges, GraphDiffusionOperator
with damped convergence via construction_seed_versor closure, deterministic
hash-to-versor stub, and run_pulse.py end-to-end script proving injection →
propagation → vault recall → token output. 24 new tests, zero regressions
on architectural invariants.
- cache morphology index per vocab identity for OOV grounding
- cache decomposition results per vocab/token with bounded storage
- preserve OOV semantics, audit records, final closure checks, and transient isolation
- add focused tests for determinism, audit preservation, transient isolation, closure, and cache reuse
- allow pytest flags after core test --suite without requiring separator
- preserve strict unknown-argument rejection for non-test commands
- add regression coverage for core test --suite packs -q
- add core test --suite aliases for smoke, runtime, cognition, teaching, packs, algebra, and full lanes
- preserve direct pytest passthrough through core test -- ...
- add core test --list-suites
- add focused CLI tests for suite listing, suite expansion, and passthrough
Introduces teaching/ module with three-stage correction pipeline:
1. correction.py — extracts CorrectionCandidate from correction intents,
binding correction text to the prior turn it references
2. review.py — validates candidates: rejects identity overrides (17
marker patterns) and empty corrections; produces ReviewedTeachingExample
with deterministic SHA-256 review hash
3. store.py — bounded FIFO store for accepted examples; emits
PackMutationProposal objects instead of mutating the vocab manifold
directly; retrievable by subject
Design invariants:
- Identity override attempts are rejected at the review gate
- Pack mutations are proposal-only (applied=False by default)
- All traces are deterministic: same input → same candidate_id and review_hash
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_farther_unrelated searched for grade-1 reflectors whose cga_inner
score was below the prompt score. Field states are even-grade
(grade 0+2+4), so cga_inner with a grade-1 reflector is always zero
— making the search impossible when prompt_score is negative.
Replaced with _random_rotor (product of two reflectors) which lives
in the same even-grade subspace and produces nonzero inner products.
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