core/generate/determine/determine.py
Shay bf9ad77fda feat(determine): D0 — reason over realized structure → assert (as-told) / refuse
The honest gear (roadmap Step 4). `determine(question: Comprehension | Refusal, ctx)`
answers a membership question ("Is X a Y?") ONLY from what the held self has already
REALIZED (R1a structural recall) — never from the field, an LLM, or absence.

Honesty (from the design review): 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)", NEVER "verified".
Until COHERENT promotion exists (out of scope), D0 produces only as-told assertions or
typed `Undetermined` refusals. No estimation; no corpus mutation (teaching stays HITL
proposal-only).

Soundness (open-world, wrong=0): D0 asserts an answer ONLY on DIRECT structural
entailment by a realized fact; absence never refutes (so it never asserts a positive
answer from missing knowledge — it refuses). It asserts only `answer=True` on a direct
hit; it never asserts False. Negated questions and non-`member` queries are an explicit
`Undetermined` — D0 ships no entailment path the reader cannot exercise.

Tests (test_determine_d0.py, 8) BITE: present-but-non-entailing (a record about the
subject exists but not the asked relation) MUST refuse; the same question against a
fresh context with no realized fact flips Determined→Undetermined (the verdict is
entailment, not mere presence); the negated + unsupported-query refusals are exercised
via hand-built queries (the reader refuses them upstream, so a comprehend-based test
would pass vacuously). Independent of #593: reasons over R0/R1 `member` facts only.
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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.
Slice D0 supports the realized, non-negated ``member`` relation (subsumption /
"Is X a Y?"). Negated questions and other query predicates are an honest
``Undetermined`` until their realized form + entailment predicate land — D0 ships no
entailment path it cannot exercise.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
from dataclasses import dataclass
from generate.meaning_graph.reader import Comprehension, Refusal
from generate.realize import RealizedRecord, recall_realized
from session.context import SessionContext
from teaching.epistemic import ADMISSIBLE_AS_EVIDENCE, EpistemicStatus
#: The only realized relation D0 can reason over in this slice.
_SUPPORTED_PREDICATE = "member"
@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 question from realized structure, or refuse.
Eligibility: a query-bearing ``Comprehension`` with exactly one ``member`` query.
The answer is asserted ONLY on direct structural entailment by a realized
``member`` fact; 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 != _SUPPORTED_PREDICATE:
return Undetermined("unsupported_query") # honest: only `member` in D0
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")
subject, target = query.arguments[0], query.arguments[1]
# Structural recall: the realized member facts about this subject (R1a). Exact,
# deterministic, versor-collision-irrelevant — never a metric call.
facts = recall_realized(ctx, subject=subject, predicate=_SUPPORTED_PREDICATE)
if not facts:
return Undetermined("ungrounded") # nothing realized about the subject
# Direct entailment: a realized member(subject, target) holds as-told. Open-world:
# member facts about the subject that do NOT match the asked target never refute
# it, so a miss is a refusal (``not_entailed``), never an asserted False.
grounding = next((f for f in facts if f.relation_arguments == (subject, target)), None)
if grounding is None:
return Undetermined("not_entailed")
return Determined(
answer=True,
basis=_basis((grounding,)),
predicate=_SUPPORTED_PREDICATE,
subject=subject,
object=target,
grounds=(grounding,),
)