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Shay dd3cfa3257 feat(phase3): core/cognition/explain.py — close Gap 3 introspection
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).
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architecture feat(physics): add mind-physics layer — ADR-0008/0009/0010, blueprint, and operator stubs 2026-05-12 23:20:58 -07:00
decisions docs(adr): resolve Agency + Tool-use scope decisions (ADR-0017, ADR-0018) 2026-05-16 14:51:42 -07:00
sessions feat(evals): Phase 0 — benchmark methodology lock-in and eval framework 2026-05-15 22:36:53 -07:00
capability_roadmap.md feat(evals): Phase 0 — benchmark methodology lock-in and eval framework 2026-05-15 22:36:53 -07:00
eval_methodology.md feat(evals): Phase 0 — benchmark methodology lock-in and eval framework 2026-05-15 22:36:53 -07:00
frontier_baselines.md feat(evals): frontier structural-zero baselines for Phase 2 v1 lanes 2026-05-16 12:45:28 -07:00
PROGRESS.md feat(phase3): core/cognition/explain.py — close Gap 3 introspection 2026-05-16 15:09:48 -07:00
runtime_contracts.md Clean up runtime contracts before cognitive pipeline 2026-05-14 18:47:59 -07:00
RUST.md Activate and verify Rust backend 2026-05-13 22:23:48 -07:00
Whitepaper.md docs: update Whitepaper and Yellowpaper with ingest governance, sensorium layer, and pipeline diagram 2026-05-13 11:20:38 -07:00
Yellowpaper.md docs: update Whitepaper and Yellowpaper with ingest governance, sensorium layer, and pipeline diagram 2026-05-13 11:20:38 -07:00