core/docs/adr/ADR-0240-Analogical-Transfer-Validation-Harness-Biography-Holonomy.md

ADR-0240: Analogical Transfer Harness + Biography Holonomy + Temporal Gate + Self-Authorship Miner

Status: Proposed
Date: 2026-07-11
Branch: r&d/generalized-agent
Parent: #10 · Issue #13
Canonical path: docs/adr/

Related: ADR-0010 Identity · ADR-0055/0080 Contemplation · ADR-0150/0151 Proposal corridor · ADR-0199 Arena · ADR-0238/0239 Third Door operators

Acceptance path: green tests/test_adr_0240_*.py + harness wrong=0 on fixture pair + Josh review.

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1. Context

Operators alone do not prove generalized agency. This ADR lands the genius layer that binds them to lifelong identity and safe proposal discipline:

1. Analogical Transfer Validation Harness — solved domain → novel domain under residual measurement + wrong=0
2. Biography Holonomy Blade — forever-lived individuality as reconstructible holonomy
3. Temporal Admissibility Gate — wisdom as geometry (ADMIT / NOT_YET / REFUSE)
4. Self-Authorship Miner — geometry-guided proposal-only extensions

Mastery refinements

• Biography is recompute-from-trajectory, not raw experience storage (reconstruction-over-storage).
• Temporal gate never confabulates early — typed NOT_YET disclosures.
• Miner emits epistemic_status=SPECULATIVE only; zero vault writes; stable proposal_id ordering.
• Harness is pytest-first; Tier-2 CLAIMS pin deferred until green history exists (do not hand-edit CLAIMS.md).

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2. Decision

2.1 Analogical transfer harness

Path: evals/analogical_transfer/harness.py

learn V = conformal_procrustes(source → target)
mapped = V * novel_query * reverse(V)
residual = ||mapped − expected||
wrong++ if residual > threshold and not refused

Fixture pair: rotation structural transfer across domains (make_fixture_pair).

2.2 Biography Holonomy Blade

Path: core/physics/biography.py

• integrate_biography(trajectory) → BiographyHolonomyBlade via holonomy_encode
• Order is load-bearing; empty trajectory refused
• Telemetry schema biography_holonomy_v1 (hash, steps, closure, scalar/pseudoscalar projections)

2.3 Temporal Admissibility Gate

Path: core/physics/temporal_gate.py

Pure predicate over TemporalContext (step, min_step, evidence counts, residual ceiling, prerequisites). Returns typed disclosure payloads suitable for epistemic surfaces.

2.4 Self-Authorship Miner

Path: core/physics/self_authorship.py

• Inputs: current/reference versors, optional basis + analogs
• Outputs: ordered AuthorshipProposal tuples with drift_residual + closure_proof
• Never calls VaultStore.store; promotion remains ADR-0151 / review corridor

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3. Consequences

Positive

• Lifelong identity strengthened via reconstructible holonomy.
• Transfer claims become falsifiable (wrong=0 harness).
• Self-extension stays proposal-only (INV-21/22/23 spirit).

Risks

Risk	Mitigation
Biography used as memory dump	hash + holonomy only; no raw transcript storage
Miner auto-serve	SPECULATIVE only; no serving path import
Premature claim emission	Temporal gate NOT_YET

Non-goals

• Physical motor decode
• Auto-accept proposals
• CLAIMS Tier-2 pin in this PR

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4. Proof obligations

• H-1 Fixture transfer wrong=0 under threshold.
• H-2 Biography reconstructible and order-sensitive.
• H-3 Temporal NOT_YET before min_step / insufficient evidence.
• H-4 Miner proposals all SPECULATIVE; deterministic id order.
• H-5 No module imports vault store for mutation.