* feat(l10): autonomous idle frontier-contemplation — the always-on life learns on its own
Frontier survey move #2, path (c): give the always-on idle life a stream of experience via
SYMBOLIC intake (not the afferent→field seam, which is deferred pending a commensurability
ruling — docs/analysis/afferent-field-ingest-scope-2026-06-15.md). The idle heartbeat
converges (idle_tick drains a finite backlog + saturates is-a closure, then does nothing
forever); this makes it autonomously MINE its frontier with no user turn.
Reuse-heavy (the mechanism largely existed): a gated idle pass wires ADR-0080 contemplation
into the always-on loop.
- core/config.py: contemplate_frontier_during_idle (default off → no behavior change).
- chat/runtime.py: idle_tick pass 2b — when on, runs core.contemplation.run_contemplation()
(mines the checked-in frontier-compare reports) and persists a reviewable ContemplationRun
to <engine_state>/contemplation_runs/idle_<substrate_hash>.json. IDEMPOTENT per frontier
(an already-mined frontier is not re-persisted → the life converges, no churn) and MEMOIZED
per session (the static frontier is mined once, not re-read every beat). SPECULATIVE-only
(ADR-0080: ContemplationFinding.__post_init__ RAISES if not SPECULATIVE → wrong=0 by
construction; never ratified here — the HITL path is untouched). IdleTickResult gains
frontier_findings.
- chat/always_on.py: run_continuous did_work + HeartbeatRecord count frontier work, so the
heartbeat/soak convergence (H3) stays honest.
- core/cli.py: `core always-on --contemplate-frontier` (explicit learning-daemon mode) +
honest per-beat log ("+N findings").
Adversarial 3-lens review (wrong=0/convergence, determinism/trust-boundary, test-vacuity)
found 7; fixed the real ones: the MEDIUM torn-write (write_contemplation_run is now atomic
temp+os.replace — the indefinite-uptime daemon expects SIGKILL mid-write, and the skip-guard
would never repair a torn canonical file), the gitignore breadth (contemplation_runs/ at any
engine-state root), the 64-bit filename truncation (full substrate_hash), and the
re-mine-every-beat cost (session memoization). Deferred + documented: the shared
contemplation miner embeds absolute report paths in finding CONTENT — a portability wrinkle
that does NOT affect wrong=0/convergence/soak determinism (those key on the content-only
substrate_hash) and touches shared code + its test surface; a follow-up.
Tests (non-vacuous): 7 — off-by-default (no behavior change), mines-when-enabled,
findings-SPECULATIVE (wrong=0), converges-idempotent, heartbeat-mines-then-converges,
mines-once-per-session (memoization), atomic-no-orphan. 55 idle/contemplation/always-on +
96 invariants/contemplation + 28 smoke green; `core always-on --contemplate-frontier` mines
end-to-end. engine_state contemplation_runs are per-life runtime state (gitignored).
* fix(l10): isolate idle frontier pass + persist frontier_findings (#758)
Three review blockers on the autonomous idle frontier-contemplation pass:
1. Daemon isolation. idle_tick's pass 2b called run_contemplation /
write_contemplation_run bare inside the always-on loop (run_continuous
wraps idle_tick in nothing but an exit-checkpoint finally), so a malformed
frontier report or a transient FS fault would propagate out and KILL the
continuous life. Wrap the optional pass best-effort (the exit-checkpoint
boundary idiom): degrade to 0 findings + RuntimeWarning, leave did_work
untouched, let a later beat retry.
2. Durable did_work explanation. HeartbeatRecord carried frontier_findings
but serialize_report omitted it and AlwaysOnReport had no run total, so
lived_life.json could show did_work=true with facts=0/proposals=0 and no
persisted cause. Persist frontier_findings per-record + total_frontier_findings.
3. Honest HITL claim. The docstring/CLI/config said findings are "reviewable
via the HITL path", but the existing HITL queue + workbench reader scan
<repo>/contemplation/runs while the pass writes <engine_state>/contemplation_runs/.
Narrow the claim to "persisted reviewable artifact, not yet in the HITL
queue" (wiring that discovery is a follow-up).
Tests: 4 new non-vacuous regressions (mining-failure degrade, write-failure
degrade, always-on loop survives frontier failure, lived_life persists
frontier_findings) — all fail against the unpatched pass. 38 L10/always-on/
workbench tests green.
The wave-* planning docs record their wave, not current state. Add a
consistent "Historical record — superseded" banner to each, pointing to
README (Current Status), UI-UX-GUIDE, and the route registry as the live
sources. wave-1/R/M-worthiness/M-consolidation covered.
Docs only.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bring the four living workbench docs up to date with what actually
shipped, and document the TruncatedCell full-content reveal.
- README: route count 14 -> 16; add Lived Life (Evidence) and CORE-Logos
(Substrate) to the shipped-surfaces table; full Trace tab list; add the
TruncatedCell reveal to cross-cutting; link the visual-evidence handoff;
bump status date.
- UI-UX-GUIDE: §12 now reflects the built read-only /logos reader vs the
unbuilt Studio; §13 moves the cognitive-pipeline visualizer, field/
versor_condition reader, and identity-continuity items from "absent" to
"shipped"; new §14 documents the truncated-cell reveal pattern + the
<a>/<Link> non-nesting boundary; bump date.
- ui-component-map: add TruncatedCell to shared data viewers.
- design-system: add the Truncated Cell Reveal shared-component note.
Docs only; no code change.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add a handoff brief with five screenshots captured by driving the real
vite-preview build with Playwright (mocked API), confirming the
full-content reveal works across the originally reported proposal queue
table, the trace propagation edges, and the trace selection rails — with
the row staying unselected on reveal (stopPropagation holds).
Verification only; no code change. Records the harness gotcha that a
role-by-name query resolves to the row, not the icon trigger.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The L10 heartbeat loop (run_continuous) had no process to drive it; `core always-on`
is that process — the T-experience spine made runnable. It ticks idle_tick on a wall-clock
cadence so the engine LIVES and LEARNS with no user turn, persists lived_life.json (the
workbench Lived Life surface) + the checkpoint, and resumes the SAME life on restart.
- chat/always_on.py: run_continuous gains unbounded operation (heartbeats=None, runs until
stop) + an interruptible inter-beat wait (_sleep_until_stop) so shutdown latency is one
slice, not the cadence interval. Persists the run's identity pack ids (resume-verdict
faithfulness). on_heartbeat is now best-effort (a broken log pipe can't kill the life).
- chat/always_on_daemon.py (new): the daemon shell — a single-instance OS lock (fcntl.flock:
kernel-held, atomic, auto-released on death — no stale window, no PID-reuse, no half-written
race), SIGINT/SIGTERM -> graceful stop (handlers saved/restored), the continuous-life config
FORCED on, ephemeral (--no-load-state) writes no durable artifact. Foreground + explicit:
no hidden background execution (CLAUDE.md); only writes the engine-state dir it was given.
- core/cli.py: `core always-on [--interval --max-beats --no-load-state --quiet]` with per-beat
+ summary logging; validates --interval; reports IdentityContinuityError / IncompatibleEngine
StateError (the "different life / newer build" cases) as clean refusals, not tracebacks.
- workbench/readers.py: ENGINE_STATE_ROOT now honors CORE_ENGINE_STATE_DIR (= the daemon's
resolved dir), so the workbench can't be split-brained (reading REPO_ROOT/engine_state while
the daemon writes elsewhere); the Lived Life resume verdict recomputes from the persisted
pack config, not a default config (no false substrate_changed for a non-default-pack life).
- Lived Life absence state now points at the real `core always-on` command (loop closed).
Adversarial 4-lens review (lock/concurrency, signals/shutdown, invariants/trust-boundary,
test-vacuity/CLI) caught 16 findings; this fixes all real ones — the HIGH lock races (two
daemons over one life), the env split-brain, the IO-kill, the uncaught identity/schema errors,
the unvalidated interval, the ephemeral-artifact shadow, and the resume-verdict pack-id bug —
and closes the two test-coverage gaps it flagged (real SIGTERM path + config-forcing-at-the-
runtime boundary).
Tests (non-vacuous): 11 daemon (flock live-holder refusal, leftover-lock reclaim, unbounded+
stop, interruptible sleep, forced-config-at-boundary, no-load-state guard, REAL SIGTERM
subprocess) + the reader pack-id discrimination test (fails under the old default-config bug).
245 workbench+invariants+always-on Python green; frontend tsc + vitest green; `core always-on`
verified end-to-end (bounded, real SIGTERM graceful stop, interval rejection).
engine_state/always_on.lock is runtime state (gitignored, ADR-0146 pattern).
The L10 heartbeat (chat/always_on, #747) holds CORE alive over uptime but had no
surface. This adds the read-only Lived Life route that renders the continuous-life
evidence: the heartbeat over uptime + the resume-as-same-life verdict — both halves
of "one continuous life" on one surface.
Persist-first, never recompute engine-owned values:
- chat/always_on: serialize_report + write_lived_life persist a run deterministically
(sorted keys) to engine_state/lived_life.json; run_continuous gains an opt-in
report_path so a real continuous-life run leaves its evidence where the workbench
reads it. closure_ceiling is persisted so the artifact is self-describing.
- workbench/lived_life.py: projection + a fail-closed validate() gate — the wrong=0
analogue for the continuity surface: closure_held/closure_observed/totals/converged
are each re-checked against the per-beat measurements, and resume_status is re-checked
against identity-vs-current-substrate, so a tampered artifact RAISES rather than
rendering a false claim (a beat lying about a breached ceiling, an inflated closure,
a miscounted total, a falsely-claimed resume).
- workbench/readers.lived_life(): reads the artifact, computes the resume verdict from
the persisted identity vs the canonical engine_identity_for_config (fail-soft ->
"unknown", like IdentityContinuity). Honest absence when no run has been persisted.
- GET /lived-life + LivedLife/LivedLifeHeartbeat schemas (snapshot regenerated; the
schema-drift gate proves every field is mirrored in src/types/api.ts).
The resume verdict made felt: would_resume / substrate_changed / unknown IS the L11
reboot guarantee (a reboot recomputes identity and refuses if it differs) — so the
surface shows this life wakes up as ITSELF, not a copy. The per-reboot lineage chain
stays owned by Runs > Identity (honest cross-link).
Frontend: /lived-life route (Evidence section, route count 15 -> 16). Renders the
headline (heartbeats, closure-held-by-construction, learned-while-idle, at-rest, resume
pill), the summary, the heartbeat timeline (closure flat below the ceiling — read, never
repaired), and the resume verdict. Honest absence + ADR-0162 route conformance
(loading/error/empty), fail-closed like Vault/Calibration.
Tests (non-vacuous): 12 backend (every tamper case raises; resume tracks identity vs
substrate; run_continuous(report_path) round-trips a readable+valid artifact) + 4
frontend render tests (recorded life renders; a breached beat shows the warning, never a
false "held"; a changed substrate shows would-refuse, never a false resume; absent shows
honest absence). All workbench Python (167) + affected vitest (167) + tsc + vite build
green; architectural invariants green.
engine_state/lived_life.json is runtime state (gitignored, ADR-0146 pattern).
Evidence-based map of the comprehension coverage wall (the C decision). GSM8K
diagnostic: 4/0/46, no single barrier >10%, ~24 fragmented primary barriers with
heavy multi-barrier co-occurrence (compound+comparative+fraction+coreference stack
on the same cases). Capability lanes are narrow curated-gold conformance
(combined-rate: 6 solvable shapes, 19/19 oracle). Single-shape recognizers are
proven metric-inert (4th confirmation). Diagnosis: shape-recognizers don't COMPOSE
within compound statements / across coreference. Leverage: Tier 1 recognizer
additions ~+5 cases then cap; Tier 2 compositional reading is the only real lever
(architectural, must stay wrong=0). Recommendation: don't add isolated recognizers;
design a compositional reader.
The only genuine epistemic lever (per the finding). Scopes the ADR-0218 path: it
is the inductive step (coherent premises + verified proof -> coherent conclusion),
fail-closed and sound, but needs a curator-certified COHERENT base that nothing
mints today (bootstrapping). Wiring buys an honesty/disclosure upgrade (verified
for proven propositional conclusions), NOT a learning fix. wrong=0 risk shifts
entirely to the curator-certified base. Three options framed (wire narrowly /
record curator-mediated-by-design / defer) with recommendation.
7-agent architecture audit + adversarial verification refutes the intuition that
all-speculative packs cap the model's learning. The reasoning/learning loop is
blind to epistemic_status (recall_realized ignores it; speculative facts chain to
deductive-closure fixed point). Lexicon-status promotion is compile-and-display-only
(runtime epistemic state comes from grounding_source, not the lexical row). The
verified/as_told distinction is honesty-disclosure-only and intentional. All three
coherence-promoters are dormant (proof-carrying demo-only, energy-policy default-off,
review never sets coherent). Conclusion: do NOT promote-to-coherent for learning
(cosmetic at best, false-verified wrong=0 hazard for facts); the only genuine lever
is wiring the sound, fail-closed proof-carrying path — a separate deliberate decision.
Measuring the holonomy tri-language resonance (intended for a Studio proof-card)
showed it is NOT a robust proof: the engine's own holonomy_similarity (CGA inner
product) anti-correlates, and the Euclidean 'aligned closer than misaligned'
claim passes only via averaging in the close Hebrew distance + one cherry-picked
negative (1.3% margin) — the aligned Greek clause is itself farther than the
negative, and the verdict flips ±20-55% under other negatives. Decoration, not
proof (CLAUDE.md, Schema-Defined Proof Obligations).
- docs/analysis/holonomy-resonance-proof-not-robust-2026-06-14.md: the rigorous
finding (numbers), why a Holonomy proof tab cannot be built honestly yet
(stays missing_evidence), and bounded research questions.
- Downgrade the two clause-resonance decoration tests to honest tripwires that
assert the true state and fail (pointing to the doc) if the resonance becomes
real. Token-pair cga_inner tests left intact + flagged as a separate, un-audited
claim.
70 holonomy-adjacent tests pass.
- New docs/workbench/EVALUATOR.md: a falsifiable 10-minute guided path for an
external technical evaluator (tour -> replay hash -> wrong=0 ledger ->
calibration arena -> logos geometry), an honest-scope section (verified
flagship = propositional entailment; GSM8K diagnostic; field = coherence-gate
not reasoner; holonomy = roadmap), and a 'verify, don't trust' section. Every
reference points at a real file/surface (checked).
- README: 'fourteen' -> 'fifteen' routes + add CORE-Logos (LG-2/3/4 drift fix);
point new evaluators at EVALUATOR.md.
The workbench READMEs were frozen in the W-026..W-031 planning era. Bring them
current after the Wave 1 / R / M arc:
- docs/workbench/README.md (index): add the 5 unindexed docs (wave-1-evidence-
spine, wave-R-mastery-revamp, wave-M-worthiness, b4-leeway-producer-scope,
design-system); replace the false "Current Status" (which still pointed at the
superseded feat/w026 prototype) with the shipped state + a 14-route surface
table; mark the W-026..W-031 queue delivered; note Wave M complete (B+C+D+B4),
Phase E + parallel tracks remaining.
- workbench-ui/README.md: fix the stale one-line surface list and the "src/routes
placeholder components" description (routes are registry-driven in src/app/;
routes.ts is the single source). Left the dump-api-schemas.py reference intact
(it exists, distinct from dump-schemas.py).
- README.md (top level): the workbench section said "eleven routes" — now
fourteen, naming Tour, Contemplation, and Calibration and the per-turn
pipeline/field/leeway/bundle evidence.
Docs-only; no code or gate touched. UI-UX-GUIDE (the routes.docs.test-gated
route table) is unchanged and already at 14.
Clears the long-standing B4 block: the leeway decision was already made on the
serving path (chat/runtime.py::_surface_estimate has a real LicenseDecision +
the ReachPolicy) and then DISCARDED — never threaded to the result, and the
workbench can't import reliability_gate. This wires it through.
Producer (observational, never authorizing):
- core/cognition/leeway.py: LeewayRecord + build_leeway_record(reach_level,
license_decision) — duck-typed on the decision, zero new cross-package
coupling. Maps to: no decision -> "unknown" (STRICT, no latitude); denied
-> "blocked" (gate consulted, said no); licensed SERVE/PROPOSE widening ->
the real class / theta / "[approximate]" disclosure. "verified" is never
emitted (RESERVED state). source_digest content-addresses the decision
(deterministic, no wall-clock).
- core/cognition/result.py: additive `leeway: LeewayRecord | None = None` on
CognitiveTurnResult.
- core/cognition/pipeline.py: build it at result construction from the data
the runtime ALREADY exposes (response.reach_level +
runtime.last_turn_accrual().license). chat/runtime.py is UNTOUCHED.
- workbench/api.py: _leeway_evidence_from_result maps result.leeway ->
LeewayEvidence (pure projection; no reliability_gate import — firewall
intact). The journal already persists it; the B4a UI (Replay / Proposals /
RightInspector) already renders it — no frontend or schema change needed.
Safety (this touches the serving path, so proven, not asserted):
- trace_hash is a NAMED-field hash (core/cognition/trace.py); `leeway` is not
in it -> byte-identical serving. All provenance/trace tests pass.
- response_governance STRICT stays byte-identical (375 governance/serving/
provenance tests green, incl. the live-wiring + estimation-lane + ADR-0206
seam tests).
- core eval cognition: 13 cases, 100% intent / groundedness / versor closure.
- replay determinism holds (leeway is in CRITICAL_FIELDS; deterministic).
Tests: engine (build_leeway_record: strict/blocked/SERVE/PROPOSE, no "verified",
deterministic digest) + workbench mapping (field-for-field, honest absence,
invalid-enum clamp) + integration (a real turn now carries an honest leeway
record, not the null "No evidence recorded"). 151 workbench/leeway Python + 68
frontend (leeway/replay/proposals/schemaDrift) green; schema-snapshot unchanged.
Docs: gate cleared (b4-leeway-feasibility-gate.md), residue ledger flipped to
implemented, scope brief is b4-leeway-producer-scope-2026-06-13.md.
The leeway decision already exists at chat/runtime.py::_surface_estimate
(accrual.license is a real LicenseDecision) but is discarded — never threaded to
CognitiveTurnResult, and the workbench can't import reliability_gate. Brief lays
out: the exact producer seam, the LicenseDecision/ReachPolicy -> LeewayEvidence
mapping, two honest layers (STRICT-now / earned-APPROXIMATE), the firewall-safe
workbench mapping, constraints, a minimal additive Layer-1 first PR, and 4 open
questions.
The "they'd want to use it" first-run surface: a curated narrative that makes
the engine's discipline legible to a newcomer — bring a claim from any model and
watch it get decided, refused, or replayed. Proposer authority ignored.
Honest by construction (the risk with a narrative surface is theater):
- workbench/tour.py determinism_tour() is a curated ordered narrative BOUND to
the real demo registry. Intro (provider-agnostic thesis) → three demo steps
(deductive entailment decides only on engine+oracle agreement; epistemic
truth-state refuses a wrong proposer; proof-carrying promotion ignores
proposer authority) → payoff (replay-to-same-hash + the citable evidence
bundle).
- Each demo step's what_this_proves / what_this_does_not_prove cards and the
demo title are PULLED FROM THE REAL DEMO SPEC — never re-authored — so the
tour can never claim more than the demo it points at.
- A step referencing a missing demo FAILS CLOSED (KeyError), not a dead link.
Tests assert both (cards == spec; phantom demo raises).
Backend: schemas.py DeterminismTour/TourStep; GET /tour. schema-snapshot regen.
Frontend: /tour route registered in the registry (Determinism section, 14
routes; nav/palette/guide counts updated); TourRoute — thesis hero + ordered
step cards with the honesty cards + links to the real demos / replay.
Validation: 140 workbench Python tests incl. tour drift guards; 472/472 frontend
incl. routes/routeConformance/routes.docs (guide↔registry), Shell+palette counts
(14), schemaDrift, and the tour UI test; pnpm build clean; git diff --check
clean. No serving-path imports.
The "they'd want to use it" deliverable: a turn's evidence exported as ONE
deterministic, content-addressed, citable artifact — composing the Phase-C
evidence (pipeline + field) with the trace and the calibration leeway verdict.
Backend (read-only, no engine execution):
- schemas.py: EvidenceBundle.
- workbench/evidence_bundle.py: build_evidence_bundle(entry) assembles a turn
journal entry into the bundle and computes bundle_digest. The digest
content-addresses the DETERMINISTIC cognitive evidence only — journal
position + wall-clock (turn_id, journal_digest, replay_reproducer,
generated_from) are carried for provenance but EXCLUDED, so the same turn
content reproduces the same digest regardless of journal position.
- api.py: GET /trace/{turn_id}/bundle. schema-snapshot.json regenerated.
The bundle carries a replay *reproducer* command (how to verify) rather than a
live-run replay, so the artifact itself stays deterministic — verification is
the consumer's step: re-run the prompt sealed, confirm trace_hash, recompute the
bundle, check the digest.
Frontend:
- types/api.ts EvidenceBundle; client/query hook; Trace route **Bundle** tab —
citable digest, "what this proves / does not prove" honesty note, the
reproducer, and a deterministic JSON download (Blob anchor, leak-safe).
Validation: 135 workbench Python tests incl. non-vacuous bundle guards (digest
reproducible, journal-position/wall-clock excluded, any evidence change flips
the digest, missing Phase-C evidence honest); 468/468 frontend incl. schemaDrift
+ the citable-download bundle test; pnpm build clean; git diff --check clean. No
serving-path imports.
C2-a surfaced contemplation runs but rendered each scene as a flat JSON dump —
outputs, not process. C2-b makes the loop legible: every scene is now a typed
stage in the canonical ADR-0172 arc.
Reader-first (no theater):
- schemas.py: ContemplationScene gains a typed loop projection — stage_role
(cold_attempt | engine_enrichment | engine_proposal | operator_ratifies |
grounded | other) plus the connective ids (proposal_id, candidate_id,
proposal_state, grounding_source). New ContemplationStageRole Literal.
- readers.py: _contemplation_scenes derives stage_role from the scene id
(closed set, "other" fallback) and pulls the connective ids out of the raw
detail. schema-snapshot.json regenerated.
UI:
- ContemplationRoute: the run detail now renders the arc as a staged process —
"attempt → enrich → propose → ratify → grounded" with named stage roles,
cold→grounded bookends (surfaces pulled out of before/after), the connective
ids as evidence, and the raw detail tucked into a collapsible (not lost).
Honest wrinkle (surfaced, not faked): the fixture proposals do NOT resolve in
the live proposal log (source_kinds exemplar_corpus/operator, none
contemplation), so the proposal id is shown as evidence but is intentionally
NOT a clickable cross-route link — a dead link would be theater. Live
Proposals/Calibration navigation is deferred to reader-verified linking once
real contemplation proposals reach the log.
Validation: 128 workbench Python tests + new reader-projection tests (canonical
arc → roles, unknown → "other", id extraction, detail preserved); 466/466
frontend incl. schemaDrift + the staged-process / no-dead-link test; pnpm build
clean; git diff --check clean. No serving-path imports.
Makes the CL(4,1) field geometry legible, honestly. The engine owns the field;
this surfaces ONLY the exact scalar invariants it computes — never the raw
multivector — so the workbench shows "this is the geometry, it's exact, it
can't fake coherence" without a decorative blob or any motion.
Persist-first (the C3 gating work was Python, not React): the honest scalars
were computed live per turn but discarded. Now captured per turn into the
journal so a read-only surface has real evidence.
Backend:
- workbench/field_evidence.py: FieldEvidence computed from the engine result —
exact versor_condition, field_valid (vs the 1e-6 ceiling), a content-
addressed field_digest (sha256 of the engine-canonical array bytes), and
cga_inner(before, after) as the exact transition value. Raw field bytes
never cross the boundary: only floats + digests. validate() is fail-closed —
field_valid can never disagree with versor_condition vs the ceiling (the
wrong=0 analogue for the geometry). No engine math re-implemented
(versor_condition / cga_inner imported from algebra; bytes via array_codec).
- workbench/schemas.py: FieldEvidence dataclass; field_evidence on
ChatTurnResult + TurnJournalEntrySchema. schema-snapshot.json regenerated.
- workbench/journal.py + api.py: persisted at from_chat_turn; first-class read
endpoint GET /trace/{turn_id}/field (trace facet, consistent with /pipeline).
- workbench/replay.py: field_evidence classified CRITICAL — replay now also
proves field determinism (digest + scalars must match on re-execution).
Frontend:
- types/api.ts FieldEvidence + field_evidence passthrough; client/query hook;
FieldInvariantCard (measured value vs ceiling, cga_inner transition, digests;
honest missing_evidence; no blob, no motion); Trace route Field tab.
Honest-empty for pre-widening journal rows (missing_evidence). Deferred:
cross-turn field-coherence trends, session-level field persistence.
Validation: 138 workbench/practice Python tests (incl. non-vacuous field guards
+ replay field-determinism); 465/465 frontend incl. schemaDrift; pnpm build
clean; git diff --check clean. No generate.derivation / reliability_gate /
stream / field.propagate / vault.store imports.
Lands the Phase C "make cognition legible" slice plus Phase A residue, all
backend-reader-first over real engine data (no theater, read-only doctrine
intact, zero serving-path imports).
C1-a — Cognitive pipeline record (persistence-first, per #729 worthiness edit):
- workbench/pipeline_record.py: curated CognitivePipelineRecord over the real
CognitiveTurnResult (input → intent → proposition_graph → articulation_target
→ realizer → walk_telemetry → trace_hash). Raw field multivectors are
DELIBERATELY excluded; _assert_no_raw_field_payload recursively rejects raw
field keys, and validate_pipeline_record fails closed on missing/duplicate
stages, non-recorded status, or dangling edges — the UI can never receive a
partial record that claims to be complete.
- test_workbench_pipeline_record.py: non-vacuous guards — missing stage,
monkeypatched new required stage, and injected raw {"F": [...]} each raise.
C2-a — Contemplation as a process: /contemplation route over real persisted
contemplation/runs/*.json (glob reader; honest-empty when absent).
C4-a — Identity continuity (L10/L11): RunDetail.identity_continuity + Runs
Identity tab, sourced from the real core.engine_identity (engine_identity /
parent_engine_identity lineage relation, re-derived to verify).
Demo Theater: renders backend-owned proof-promotion + entailment DAGs.
Phase A residue: density preference wired end-to-end (settings → shell → tokens);
cross-route consistency touch-ups.
Infra: local API CORS now echoes only validated 127.0.0.1/localhost origins
(hostname-checked, not arbitrary reflection) so Vite fallback ports work.
Route chunk-split keeps the build warning-free.
Cleanup: corrected the stale ADR-0175 practice-lane assertions (build_report is
6 correct / 0 wrong / 44 refused after the current serving lane; wrong=0 held)
and the two registry-derived count tests (LeftNav + CommandPalette 12 → 13 for
the new Contemplation route).
Docs: runtime_contracts.md (pipeline-record contract), UI-UX-GUIDE,
api-contract-v1, data-shapes-v1, wave-M-worthiness, phase-a-residue-ledger.
Validation: 106 workbench/practice Python tests green (incl. wrong=0 lane +
pipeline-record fail-closed guards); 459/459 frontend; pnpm build clean;
git diff --check clean. No generate.derivation / reliability_gate / stream /
field.propagate / vault.store imports.
Completes the Wave M B3.5 consolidation slice (b–e), built on #728.
B3.5-b — calibration as a first-class evidence subject (`calibration_class`,
address `calibration:<class_name>`): RightInspector projection + Evidence
Chain Rail semantics (serving-discipline evidence, not runtime truth).
B3.5-c / B4a — nullable `LeewayEvidence` read model threaded through turn,
replay, cognition-proposal, and math-proposal surfaces, with a shared
absence-honest card. B4 is gated correctly: the tuple exists in typed data but
no producer populates it, so the card renders absence (verified: no non-null
producer in workbench/core/chat).
B3.5-d/e — UI-UX-GUIDE.md, b4-leeway-feasibility-gate.md, phase-a-residue-ledger.md.
Practice artifact — earn-it-for-real (runner-reproducible). The committed
`report.json` (additive earns PROPOSE @0.861, 95/5/50) is now emitted by a
deterministic runner rather than copied from the queue. `propose_runner`
gains `regenerate_practice_artifacts()`, which runs ONE sealed `resolve_pooled`
practice pass and writes BOTH report.json (the per-class ledger the calibration
reader consumes) and ratification_queue.json — two projections of one ledger,
coherent by construction and byte-reproducible. `runner.main()` delegates to
it (lazy import, no cycle), so both entry points produce the identical pair.
This closes the gap where a hand-copied report.json agreed with the queue but
no runner produced it. `resolve_pooled` is the aggressive sealed PROPOSE-regime
scorer (proposal-only/HITL, unsafe for serving, legitimate for
attempt-and-eliminate); wrong=5 is the sealed-practice learning signal, NOT the
serving wrong=0. No serving/derivation/reliability_gate source touched; the
practice lane is not in the serving-frozen SHA gate.
Validated:
- python -m pytest tests/test_workbench_{calibration,journal,replay,schemas}.py -> 31 passed
- python -m pytest tests/ -k "workbench or propose or learning_arena or practice"
-> 190 passed (3 failing tests in test_adr_0175_phase2_practice_lane.py are
PRE-EXISTING reds on clean origin/main: stale 4/0/46 assertions on build_report,
which this change does not touch)
- report.json + ratification_queue.json: deterministic (run1==run2) and
reproduced byte-identically by both `python -m ...runner` and `...propose_runner`
- pnpm build green; 144 UI tests across calibration/leeway/evidence/replay/
doctrine-gates/routes-docs-drift all pass
Two corrections from this session's source verification:
- B3.5 D2 (calibration artifact): coherence between report.json and
ratification_queue.json is necessary but NOT sufficient. The 95/50/5 earned
state is a fossil from the disabled resolve_pooled scorer (queue committed in
b82897a0); no current runner reproduces it (main()=6/44/0, candidate-graph
practice=0/1/149). Acceptance now requires report.json be byte-reproducible
by a documented deterministic runner pass; copying numbers between artifacts
is inadmissible. Three routes named (honest-floor now, earn-it-for-real
follow-up, defer).
- C1 (cognitive pipeline visualizer): corrected the false "reader-first over
existing telemetry" framing. Verified the journal persists only ~12 surface
fields of CognitiveTurnResult's ~25; no /trace/{id}/pipeline endpoint. C1-a's
real first deliverable is a persistence change: a curated
CognitivePipelineRecord (never the raw field_state multivectors — O(n^2)
cost), a runtime-contract update, and a non-vacuous fail-closed test.
The docs/proposal-artifact-substrate-v1 work (#727) — wave-m-consolidation-b3.5,
core-logos-studio-plan, proposal-artifact-substrate-v1 — is the authoritative
consolidation and supersedes the parallel 'Phase A' I'd just drafted. Reconciling
to one source of truth:
- FOLD IN the one genuine gap b3.5 missed (a design review caught it): the
Calibration centerpiece undersells — the reader reads the sub-N_MIN committed
practice report.json, so on live data no class shows licensed, while the
earned state (additive 95/5/100, PROPOSE-licensed) sits in the disagreeing
ratification_queue.json. Added as a diagnosis addendum + a Deliverable-2
acceptance criterion (make the committed practice artifacts coherent; show
≥1 earned class). Data-side fix, not a re-derivation.
- FOLD IN the grouped-navigation idea: a field on the route registry
(Deliverable 1) + the organism's-loop grouping (Converse/Cognition/Evidence/
Determinism/Discipline/Substrate/Settings), with the correction that
'core-logos' is the language/manifold Studio surface, not the cognition cluster.
- REDIRECT wave-M-worthiness.md's consolidation section to point at b3.5 instead
of defining a parallel Phase A.
- SCRAP duplicates: wave-M-phaseA-briefs (duplicated b3.5) and
workbench-ui-ux-guide-brief (superseded by b3.5 Deliverable 4).
Boils the design review and the information-architecture decision into one
integration. Phase B's heart (calibration/serving discipline) is done;
Phase A (Structure & Polish) now runs BEFORE resuming Phase C because two of
its items are structural prerequisites the Cognition cluster lands into.
Key synthesis: the command-palette drift bug and the grouped-nav idea are
the SAME fix — navigation derives from one registry that also encodes
structure. Standing IA constraint: one workbench, one address space, one
Chain Rail; grouping is a wayfinding skin, never an architectural fork; no
separate workbenches (the single evidence model is the thesis); 'levels' are
depth-within-a-surface, not top-level categories.
Phase A brief pack (wave-M-phaseA-briefs):
- A1: navigation registry (one source of truth) + grouped nav by the
organism's loop (Converse/Cognition=core-logos/Evidence/Determinism/
Discipline/Substrate/Settings) + palette fix (Demos+Calibration are
currently unreachable via ⌘K; the ⌘1-0 map is stale)
- A2: Calibration earned-state — the centerpiece undersells (reads the
sub-N_MIN report.json; the earned license lives in the disagreeing
ratification_queue). Primary fix: regenerate coherent practice artifacts;
fallback: reader surfaces both with provenance
- A3: Doctrine station ('how this UI can't lie') — elevate contracts/checks
into a first-class surface; trails, larger
Parked: B4 (needs engine-side license stamping; no re-derivation),
Calibration EvidenceSubject kind.
A teach-everything, indexed docs/workbench/UI-UX-GUIDE.md: thesis + evidence
model, the 11 routes (purpose/evidence/usage/states each), the design system
+ primitives, the full keyboard map, the doctrine gates as honesty proof,
replay-in-depth, glossary. Scoped for a mid-tier model: documentation over
shipped code, accuracy-over-completeness, Markdown-only, ground every claim
in the real components. Dispatch-ready.
Wave M takes the workbench to mastery and closes its biggest design gap:
it surfaces the teaching/ratification loop but is blind to the
calibrated-learning / serving-discipline loop (gold-tether arena, reliability
gate, Wilson floor vs θ ceiling, 'the engine earns the right to guess') and
to cognition itself (pipeline stages, field substrate, identity continuity).
Lens: Anthropic + xAI as target users who'd WANT to use it.
- wave-M-worthiness.md: full plan, Phases A–E, the missing-surfaces table,
the backend-reader-first / never-re-implement-engine-math disciplines,
execution order (B→C→D, A parallel).
- wave-M-phaseB-calibration-briefs: executable Phase B pack grounded in the
real core/reliability_gate shapes (ClassTally / conservative_floor /
license_for / Action θ) and the committed report.json evidence — B1
readers (GATING, Python), B2 Calibration route, B3 wrong=0 global frame,
B4 leeway wiring. Dependency DAG + STOP gates + no-theater rules.
First R3 (Theater) piece. Reworks the stale artifact-keyed ReplayRoute into
the turn-keyed hero over the #716 sealed-replay backend, and fully retires
the dead W-026 artifact-keyed machinery on both sides (the NOT_YET_MIRRORED
comment anticipated this).
The hero makes determinism *felt*: pick a journaled turn, CORE re-executes
its prompt in a sealed fresh runtime, and the result renders as a hash
verdict (≡ equivalent / ≠ diverged) + the original/replay DigestBadges + a
leaf diff (critical weighted above informational, each with a ≠ glyph). The
'What this proves' card surfaces comparison_basis + origin_state and states
the honest limit: a divergence means nondeterminism OR origin-state
influence, never rendered on its own as a determinism failure.
Retirement (verified zero serving uses):
- Python schemas.py: removed ReplayComparison/ReplayDivergence/ReplayStatus/
ReplayDivergenceSeverity; scripts/dump-enums.py drops the two replay enums;
both snapshots regenerated (deterministic: dump == committed)
- TS: removed ReplayComparison/ReplayDivergence/ReplayDivergenceSeverity;
added TurnReplayComparison/TurnReplayDivergence (+ basis/origin/severity
unions); NOT_YET_MIRRORED now empty (every engine schema mirrored)
- badges: removed ReplayStatusBadge + ReplayDivergenceSeverityBadge +
meta/enums + their enumCoverage cases (hero renders severity inline)
- api: fetchReplayComparison/useReplayComparison -> fetchTurnReplay/
useTurnReplay (/replay/<turnId>)
- deleted ArtifactList, ReplayComparisonPanel, ReplayDiffViewer,
ReplayMetadataTable, old replay.test.tsx
- App route /replay/:artifactId? -> /replay/:turnId?; conformance row
turn-keyed (loading 'Loading turns...', empty 'No turns recorded yet.')
Tests: ReplayRoute.test.tsx (equivalence hero + honesty card, diverged
critical leaf, informational-only label, replace-mode select, j/k spine).
Full vitest 358 green; workbench Python 34 green; both snapshots deterministic.
Follow-up flagged (not in this PR to keep it focused): the artifact query
hooks (useArtifacts/useArtifactDetail/fetchArtifacts*) are now orphaned but
entangled with the still-live artifact EvidenceSubject kind — a separate
cleanup once an Artifacts route or that subject's fate is decided.
Brief: docs/handoff/wave-R3-briefs-2026-06-13.md (all four R3 pieces).
Replaces the W-026 501 stub. Re-executes a journaled prompt in a sealed
fresh runtime (ChatRuntime(no_load_state=True): no checkpoint load, no
checkpoint write, no proposal lineage) and compares the envelope
leaf-by-leaf against the recorded TurnJournalEntry.
Design correction vs the scoping doc (amended in-doc): journaled turns
each ran in a fresh ChatRuntime(), never one continuous session, so
genesis-PREFIX replay would manufacture spurious divergence; shipped
basis is sealed_fresh_runtime_single_turn (O(1)). origin_state:
"unrecorded" — the journal does not record whether the original turn's
runtime loaded a checkpoint, so divergence is reported as nondeterminism
OR origin-state influence, never disambiguated.
- workbench/replay.py: pure comparison + injected executor; every
TurnJournalEntry field classified critical/informational exactly once
(exhaustiveness enforced by test)
- api.py: route wiring under _CHAT_TURN_LOCK; runtime failure -> 500
runtime_unavailable, no comparison may be fabricated
- schemas: additive TurnReplayComparison/TurnReplayDivergence (W-026
artifact-keyed pair retires with the frontend Replay Moment PR)
- tests: 10 obligations incl. tamper-prompt, tamper-leaf precision,
no-execution-no-comparison, no-trace (journal + engine_state bytes),
wall-clock tolerance, sealed-construction proof
- snapshot regenerated; NOT_YET_MIRRORED debt entries for the two new
classes (mirrors land with the frontend PR)
- api-contract-v1.md § Replay rewritten for the turn-keyed shape
Decides sealed genesis-prefix replay semantics against the actual
constraints (single rolling post-turn checkpoint; journal appended only
by the workbench handler, so history completeness is unprovable today).
Response carries comparison_basis + history_complete so the UI never
oversells; typed refusals; five MEANINGFULLY-FAILS proof obligations.
Reconciles a stale local edit with the upstream roadmap: the deductive
entailment authority demo (PR #700) moves under Demonstrated with its
evidence caveat, and the merged-boundary count is corrected to five
(#687, #688, #690, #696, #700). Next proposed target: Embodied Authority
Simulation Demo.
