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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- restore articulation surface as ChatResponse.surface while retaining walk_surface telemetry
- calibrate moderate E2 energy boundary
- reclose generated field states after propagation and recall
- restore pytest-safe REPL parsing and field_walk helper
- anchor proposition predicate selection to prompt field
- make vault exact self-recall deterministic
- align chat telemetry regression with restored surface contract
- calibrate identity threshold and per-axis telemetry
- keep walk surfaces visible when identity flags are telemetry
- report real vault recall hits through generation/runtime logs
- record selected surface in TurnEvent
- fix async chat persona reference
- add regression coverage for chat telemetry
Key issues fixed:
- `CORE_BACKEND=numpy` was ignored, so tests mixed Python CGA embedding with Rust metric behavior.
- Dense construction seeds were being rejected by strict `unitize_versor()`, while sparse dirty inputs still needed to fail closed.
- Holonomy needed a construction-boundary path for raw/dense vocab fixtures and rare null final accumulators.
- Proposition storage polluted vault recall by storing the live field instead of the proposition’s subject versor.
- Dialogue qualitative frames rendered the same surface as assertive copular frames.
- Repeated session prompts could collapse into the same deterministic response path.
- Two proof fixtures were stale: one hand-built a non-null “null” vector, and one alignment proof omitted the English “with” anchor used by the resonance proof.
Verification:
`CORE_BACKEND=numpy CORE_STRICT_MLX_ON_APPLE=0 uv run core test -- -q`
Result: `277 passed in 59.52s`
Make versor construction fail closed instead of synthesizing hash-derived fallback rotors.
- remove pseudo-random construction fallback from unitize_versor
- add signed residual helper for +1 field states vs ±1 manifold entries
- validate vocab manifold entries with full residuals
- document antipodal transition rotor failure contract
- add focused invariant tests for versor closure and manifold validation
Add geometry-backed ArticulationPlan and realize(), wire articulation into ChatRuntime and trace output, expose proposition relation_norm, and add articulation/runtime/CLI tests.
Add RuntimeConfig with English default output policy, wire output language through runtime/frame selection/generation/CLI, preserve language metadata in mounted manifolds, and add runtime/CLI policy tests.
* Make core CLI help robust and intuitive
* Package runtime support modules for core CLI
* Add CLI help and doctor tests
* Fix CLI trace help and pack listing
* Export language pack listing helper
* Bootstrap repo root for console runtime imports
* Align trace formatter with Proposition schema
* Cover real trace payload formatting
