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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.
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calibration lane — architectural findings
This document records architectural gaps surfaced by the v1 calibration lane. These are real findings worth follow-up work; they are not blockers for the v1 lane (which measures around them honestly), and they are not weakened thresholds masquerading as passes.
Finding 1: The ingest gate is geometric, not semantic
vault/decompose.py:UnknownDomainGate fires when CGA inner-product
recall against the vault returns no entry with score ≥ UNKNOWN_FLOOR
(0.15). This is a geometric test in 32-dimensional Cl(4,1) versor
space, not a semantic test against pack vocabulary.
Empirical behavior observed during lane construction (fresh
ChatRuntime warmed with 7 in-pack queries):
- 6/42 hand-chosen OOD prompts (e.g. "qubit", "transistor", "nucleotide", "polynomial", "mutex") fired the gate.
- 36/42 OOD prompts did not fire because morphological grounding produced versors that scored above 0.15 against the warmed vault.
Additional drift effect: with the same priming, in-pack queries sometimes fail to recall after several intermediate turns — vault entries committed in earlier turns drift the recall geometry and the fresh probe no longer reaches its anchor.
Impact on this lane
The v1 lane intentionally avoids relying on the gate's semantic OOD behavior. Instead, it tests three deterministic signals that CORE does produce reliably:
vault_hits > 0for queries with primed recall.vault_hits == 0for queries on an empty vault.pack_mutation_proposal is not Nonefor correction intents with a primed prior turn.
These are sufficient to demonstrate the structural claim ("CORE emits typed cognitive signals") without overclaiming semantic OOD detection.
Suggested follow-up work
A semantic OOD layer could be added either:
- At the gate: extend
UnknownDomainGate.check()to also consult the vocabulary, e.g. fire when no content tokens of the prompt match a packsurface/lemma/stem. This adds a vocabulary-aware cross-check that doesn't replace the geometric check. - At the pipeline: produce a separate
confidencesignal inCognitiveTurnResultthat combines geometric and vocabulary signals. Surfaces stay unchanged; downstream callers gain a richer typed evidence channel.
Either path should preserve replay determinism and avoid post-hoc classifiers. A v2 calibration lane could re-enable semantic OOD tests once that signal exists.
Finding 2: Pipeline overrides the gate's safety surface — RESOLVED 2026-05-17
CognitiveTurnPipeline.run() now gates the realizer override on
(response.surface == _UNKNOWN_DOMAIN_SURFACE and response.vault_hits == 0).
When the gate fires, the safety stub is preserved as the user-facing
surface; the realizer's articulation still survives in walk_surface
as evidence. Contract update in docs/runtime_contracts.md; new
contract test tests/test_semantic_realizer_integration.py:: test_pipeline_honours_safety_stub_when_gate_fires.
The original finding is preserved below for traceability.
Original finding (now resolved)
core/cognition/pipeline.py overrides response.surface with
realized_plan.surface unconditionally when the realizer produced a
result. The realizer always produces a result (it works from intent +
graph alone), so when the runtime gate fires and returns the
"I don't have field coordinates for that yet." stub, the pipeline
overrides it with realizer output.
The OOD marker survives in result.walk_surface (which is not
overridden), but the user-facing result.surface does not signal
no_grounding.
Impact on this lane
The lane classifies on vault_hits (which is preserved by the
pipeline), not on surface (which is overridden). This is the right
choice for v1 measurement; it avoids touching pipeline contract until
a deliberate decision is made about whether the realizer should
respect the gate's safety surface.
Suggested follow-up work
A small, contained fix: in CognitiveTurnPipeline.run(), only
override surface/articulation_surface when the underlying response
is not an OOD stub. This makes the user-facing surface honest about
no_grounding without affecting any other contract. The
docs/runtime_contracts.md document should be updated in the same
change.