core/generate/determine/determine.py
Shay 8edafd04ac feat(determine): idle deductive consolidation — the loop learns from determined facts (Step D)
CLOSE the autonomous-loop spine: when idle, the engine consolidates each
soundly-derived determination back into the held self, so the next determine()
reaches it directly and can chain one hop further. The directly-answerable set
climbs monotonically across idle ticks to the deductive-closure fixed point.

Mechanism — generate/determine/consolidate.py::consolidate_once runs ONE
semi-naive layer of the member/subset deductive closure (member∘subset → member,
subset∘subset → subset; NEVER member∘member — instance-of is not transitive).
Each one-hop conclusion not yet realized is VERIFIED by the sound+complete
proof_chain ROBDD (reusing C's single verifier _verify_subsumption) and written
back via generate/realize::realize_derived as a SPECULATIVE realized record
carrying derived-provenance (premise structure_keys + rule + the ENTAILED
verdict). idle_tick gains a consolidation pass gated by the new
config.consolidate_determinations (default OFF); IdleTickResult.facts_consolidated
reports the layer.

Invariants held:
- wrong=0 — every consolidated fact is a sound-rule conclusion confirmed by the
  sound+complete decider; member∘member is structurally unreachable (a member fact
  is only ever extended by a subset edge). _verify_subsumption now refuses a
  mislabeled/wrong-arity path (belt-and-suspenders now that consolidation is a
  second caller), so the fallacy cannot be laundered through a corrupted chain.
- honesty — a fact derived from SPECULATIVE premises stays SPECULATIVE / as-told;
  the soundness of the inference never upgrades the standing of the premises.
  COHERENT is never minted.
- teaching-safety — SESSION memory (immediate), an extension of the realize path;
  NOT corpus mutation and NOT coupled to proposals. The HITL path is untouched.
- determinism/replay — pure function of the realized set; sorted write order;
  derived structure_key identical to a told fact's; provenance round-trips through
  the Shape B+ snapshot (consolidated facts resume the SAME life across reboot).
- no new normalization — writes reuse the INV-21-allowed vault writer;
  algebra/versor.py keeps closure.

Falsification — evals/determination_closure: a frozen replay seeds a deep is-a
chain and runs idle ticks; asserts the closure climbs monotonically to a complete
fixed point (no-op final tick), wrong=0 (member∘member canary never derived, no
fabricated membership), all derived facts SPECULATIVE, and every derived record
re-verifies ENTAILED from its recorded premises.

Verified green: smoke, runtime, cognition, architectural invariants, plus the new
D unit + lane tests and the determine/realize/persistence regression net. Five-lens
adversarial review: 4 lenses held; the 5th (normalization) was a misattribution
(pre-existing vault reproject, triggered identically by the merged realize path,
on sanctioned null-vector storage). Design + findings: docs/analysis/
D-close-consolidation-design-2026-06-06.md.
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"""DETERMINE (roadmap Step 4) — reason over realized structure → the honest gear.
A question (a query-bearing ``Comprehension``) is answered ONLY from what the held
self has already REALIZED (R0/R1 structural recall) — never from the field, never
from an LLM, never from absence. The verdict is **as-told, never "verified"**: every
realizable record is SPECULATIVE, and ``ADMISSIBLE_AS_EVIDENCE = {COHERENT}``, so a
determination grounded in SPECULATIVE records carries ``basis="as_told"`` — "based on
what I was told (unverified)". Until COHERENT promotion exists (out of scope), D0
produces only ``as_told`` assertions or ``Undetermined`` refusals. No estimation, no
corpus mutation (teaching stays HITL proposal-only).
wrong=0 / soundness (open-world): D0 asserts an answer ONLY when the asked relation
is DIRECTLY entailed by a realized fact. Absence of a fact never refutes it
(open-world), so D0 never asserts an answer from missing knowledge — it refuses
(``Undetermined``). It asserts only ``answer=True`` on a direct hit; it never asserts
False.
Supported predicates are a CLOSED set for which DIRECT entailment is sound — a
realized ground fact ``p(subject, target)`` answers the asked ``p(subject, target)``:
the ``member`` relation (subsumption / "Is X a Y?") and the binary relational
predicates of ``en_core_relational_predicates_v1`` (``parent_of``, ``less_than``,
``left_of``, ``before_event`` …; see ``generate.meaning_graph.relational``). The
categorical (``subset``/``disjoint`` …) and propositional (``implies``/``or`` …)
predicates are deliberately EXCLUDED — their truth is not a stored-pair lookup, so
admitting them would be unsound. Negated questions, symmetric-converse questions, and
any predicate outside the closed set are an honest ``Undetermined`` — D0 ships no
entailment path it cannot exercise (no transitive/symmetric/rule inference).
"""
from __future__ import annotations
from dataclasses import dataclass
from generate.meaning_graph.reader import Comprehension, Refusal
from generate.meaning_graph.relational import RELATIONAL_PREDICATES
from generate.realize import RealizedRecord, recall_realized
from session.context import SessionContext
from teaching.epistemic import ADMISSIBLE_AS_EVIDENCE, EpistemicStatus
#: The CLOSED set of query predicates with a SOUND DIRECT-entailment path: ``member``,
#: ``subset`` (a told ``subset(a, b)`` — "all a are b" — directly answers the asked
#: ``subset(a, b)``), plus the ground binary relational predicates. Direct entailment is
#: "a realized fact ``p(s, t)`` directly answers the asked ``p(s, t)``". The OTHER
#: categorical predicates (``disjoint`` / ``intersects`` / ``some_not``) and the
#: propositional ones stay EXCLUDED — their truth is not a stored-pair lookup.
_SUPPORTED_PREDICATES = frozenset({"member", "subset"}) | RELATIONAL_PREDICATES
#: Predicates C can answer by SOUND transitive SUBSUMPTION (is-a) chaining when direct
#: entailment misses. The only sound is-a rules are ``subset ∘ subset → subset`` and
#: ``member ∘ subset → member`` (Description-Logic subsumption). ``member ∘ member`` is
#: DELIBERATELY ABSENT: instance-of is not transitive — "Socrates is a man" + "man is a
#: species" does NOT entail "Socrates is a species". The reader's member/subset split
#: (instance-of vs subclass-of) is exactly what makes the included rules sound.
_SUBSUMPTION_PREDICATES = frozenset({"member", "subset"})
#: Bound on the realized subset-fact count the transitive search will consider. Above
#: it, transitive subsumption declines (a safe, deterministic COVERAGE refusal — never
#: an unsound answer); direct entailment is unaffected. Search-then-verify is cheap
#: (O(V+E) reachability), so this is a generous backstop, not a tight grounding budget.
_SUBSUMPTION_SUBSET_FACT_BUDGET = 4096
@dataclass(frozen=True, slots=True)
class Determined:
"""An answer reasoned from realized structure.
``basis`` is the epistemic standing of the grounding: ``"as_told"`` when the
grounds are SPECULATIVE (candidate memory — the only case today), ``"verified"``
only if every ground is admissible-as-evidence (COHERENT — not yet reachable).
``answer`` is the truth of the asked (possibly negated) question.
"""
answer: bool
basis: str
predicate: str
subject: str
object: str
grounds: tuple[RealizedRecord, ...]
@dataclass(frozen=True, slots=True)
class Undetermined:
"""No honest answer (refusal). ``reason`` is for audit, not control."""
reason: str
def _basis(grounds: tuple[RealizedRecord, ...]) -> str:
"""Carry the grounds' epistemic standing forward — never overclaim "verified"."""
statuses = {EpistemicStatus(g.epistemic_status) for g in grounds}
return "verified" if statuses and statuses <= ADMISSIBLE_AS_EVIDENCE else "as_told"
def determine(
question: Comprehension | Refusal, ctx: SessionContext
) -> Determined | Undetermined:
"""Answer a membership-or-relational question from realized structure, or refuse.
Eligibility: a query-bearing ``Comprehension`` with exactly one binary,
non-negated query whose predicate is in the closed direct-entailment set
(``member`` or a relational pack predicate). The answer is asserted ONLY on direct
structural entailment by a realized fact of the SAME predicate; everything else is
a typed ``Undetermined`` (open-world: absence never asserts a positive answer).
"""
if isinstance(question, Refusal):
return Undetermined("refusal")
if not isinstance(question, Comprehension):
return Undetermined("not_a_comprehension")
if len(question.queries) != 1:
return Undetermined("not_single_query") # a determination answers one question
query = question.queries[0]
if query.predicate not in _SUPPORTED_PREDICATES:
return Undetermined("unsupported_query") # honest: closed direct-entailment set
if len(query.arguments) != 2:
return Undetermined("malformed_query") # member is binary by construction
if query.negated:
# Realized facts are all positive (R0/R1 refuse negated relations), so a
# negated question would only ever be answered from the positive's presence.
# D0 declines it explicitly rather than ship an entailment path the reader
# cannot exercise (it refuses negated membership questions upstream anyway).
return Undetermined("negated_query_unsupported")
predicate = query.predicate
subject, target = query.arguments[0], query.arguments[1]
# 1. DIRECT entailment: a realized p(subject, target) holds as-told. Exact,
# deterministic structural recall (R1a) — never a metric call. Symmetric relations
# (sibling_of, equal_to …) read only the stored direction here.
direct = recall_realized(ctx, subject=subject, predicate=predicate)
grounding = next((f for f in direct if f.relation_arguments == (subject, target)), None)
if grounding is not None:
return Determined(
answer=True,
basis=_basis((grounding,)),
predicate=predicate,
subject=subject,
object=target,
grounds=(grounding,),
)
# 2. TRANSITIVE subsumption (C): when direct entailment misses, a member/subset
# query may still hold by SOUND is-a chaining (member∘subset, subset∘subset) decided
# by the sound+complete proof_chain ROBDD — NEVER member∘member.
if predicate in _SUBSUMPTION_PREDICATES:
chained = _determine_subsumption(ctx, predicate, subject, target)
if chained is not None:
return chained
# 3. Open-world refusal — absence (no direct fact, no sound chain) never asserts a
# positive answer and never asserts False.
return Undetermined("ungrounded" if not direct else "not_entailed")
def _subset_path(
start: str, target: str, supers: dict[str, list[tuple[str, RealizedRecord]]]
) -> tuple[RealizedRecord, ...] | None:
"""The realized ``subset`` facts on a path ``start → … → target`` (≥1 edge), or
``None`` if ``target`` is not reachable from ``start`` over the subset edges. BFS,
so the path is shortest; deterministic (neighbours are visited in sorted order)."""
if start == target:
return ()
frontier: list[str] = [start]
came_from: dict[str, tuple[str, RealizedRecord]] = {}
seen = {start}
while frontier:
node = frontier.pop(0)
for nxt, fact in sorted(supers.get(node, ()), key=lambda e: e[0]):
if nxt in seen:
continue
came_from[nxt] = (node, fact)
if nxt == target:
chain: list[RealizedRecord] = []
cur = target
while cur != start:
prev, fact = came_from[cur]
chain.append(fact)
cur = prev
return tuple(reversed(chain))
seen.add(nxt)
frontier.append(nxt)
return None
def _determine_subsumption(
ctx: SessionContext, predicate: str, subject: str, target: str
) -> Determined | None:
"""Decide a member/subset query by SOUND transitive is-a chaining, or ``None`` when
no sound chain entails it (the caller then refuses, open-world).
Search-then-verify. Reachability over the SOUND is-a edges finds a candidate chain —
``subset ∘ subset`` for a subset query, ``member ∘ subset*`` for a member query —
then the proof_chain ROBDD VERIFIES that chain's propositional entailment (O(path)
premises; full O(n³) grounding overruns the canonicalizer, and transitive closure is
reachability, not general SAT). ``member ∘ member`` is NEVER an edge, so the
instance-of fallacy ("Socrates is a man" + "man is a species""Socrates is a
species") is unreachable. wrong=0 is structural: only sound edges are traversed AND
the sound+complete decider confirms the derivation.
"""
subsets = recall_realized(ctx, predicate="subset")
if len(subsets) > _SUBSUMPTION_SUBSET_FACT_BUDGET:
return None # bounded — a safe coverage refusal, never an unsound answer
# subset adjacency: class → [(superclass, fact)], the subclass-of edges.
supers: dict[str, list[tuple[str, RealizedRecord]]] = {}
for f in subsets:
supers.setdefault(f.relation_arguments[0], []).append(
(f.relation_arguments[1], f)
)
if predicate == "subset":
path = _subset_path(subject, target, supers)
if not path: # None (unreachable) or () (start==target, not a real subset claim)
return None
return _verify_subsumption(predicate, subject, target, member_fact=None, subset_path=path)
# member query: a direct membership ``member(subject, b)`` reaches ``target`` iff
# ``b`` subsumes to ``target`` over subset edges (member ∘ subset*).
for m in recall_realized(ctx, subject=subject, predicate="member"):
b = m.relation_arguments[1]
sub_path = _subset_path(b, target, supers)
if sub_path: # ≥1 subset edge from b to target (b == target is the direct case)
verdict = _verify_subsumption(
predicate, subject, target, member_fact=m, subset_path=sub_path
)
if verdict is not None:
return verdict
return None
def _verify_subsumption(
predicate: str,
subject: str,
target: str,
*,
member_fact: RealizedRecord | None,
subset_path: tuple[RealizedRecord, ...],
) -> Determined | None:
"""Verify a found is-a chain with the proof_chain ROBDD and, on ENTAILED, return the
Determined. The propositional theory is LINEAR in the path (the facts on the chain as
true atoms + the sound rule instantiated at each hop), so it scales — unlike the full
closure grounding. Returns ``None`` if the decider does not confirm entailment
(defence in depth: a path-construction bug cannot produce a wrong assertion)."""
# Soundness-by-construction (belt-and-suspenders): the propositional theory below
# labels every ``subset_path`` fact ``S`` and the ``member_fact`` ``M``. Both callers
# (``_determine_subsumption`` and ``consolidate``) build these from predicate-filtered
# recalls, so the labels match — but the theory would otherwise verify a smuggled
# member fact in ``subset_path`` as a (potentially unsound) subset edge. Refuse a
# mislabeled or wrong-arity chain here rather than trust two callers' discipline, so
# ``member ∘ member`` cannot be laundered through a corrupted path.
if member_fact is not None and (
member_fact.relation_predicate != "member"
or len(member_fact.relation_arguments) != 2
):
return None
if any(
f.relation_predicate != "subset" or len(f.relation_arguments) != 2
for f in subset_path
):
return None
atoms: dict[tuple[str, str, str], str] = {}
def atom(p: str, a: str, b: str) -> str:
key = (p, a, b)
name = atoms.get(key)
if name is None:
name = f"x{len(atoms)}"
atoms[key] = name
return name
premises: list[str] = []
# Walk the subset path, asserting each edge and the sound rule that extends the chain.
if predicate == "member":
assert member_fact is not None
cur = member_fact.relation_arguments[1]
premises.append(atom("M", subject, cur)) # member(subject, b) is told
for fact in subset_path:
nxt = fact.relation_arguments[1]
premises.append(atom("S", cur, nxt)) # subset(cur, nxt) is told
premises.append( # member ∘ subset → member
f"({atom('M', subject, cur)} & {atom('S', cur, nxt)}) -> {atom('M', subject, nxt)}"
)
cur = nxt
query_atom = atom("M", subject, target)
else:
cur = subject
for hop, fact in enumerate(subset_path):
nxt = fact.relation_arguments[1]
premises.append(atom("S", cur, nxt)) # subset(cur, nxt) is told
if hop > 0: # the first told edge IS the accumulator S_subject_c1; extend it
premises.append( # subset ∘ subset → subset
f"({atom('S', subject, cur)} & {atom('S', cur, nxt)}) -> {atom('S', subject, nxt)}"
)
cur = nxt
query_atom = atom("S", subject, target)
from generate.proof_chain.entail import Entailment, evaluate_entailment
if evaluate_entailment(tuple(premises), query_atom).outcome is not Entailment.ENTAILED:
return None
grounds = ((member_fact,) if member_fact is not None else ()) + subset_path
return Determined(
answer=True,
basis=_basis(grounds),
predicate=predicate,
subject=subject,
object=target,
grounds=grounds,
)