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Machine Spirit research program — canonical progression

This issue is the program-level gate for 8 research depths × 4 distinct subpasses (A/B/C/D) = 32 designs.

Cycle 1 progression rule

For each numbered child #398-#405:

A foundations
 -> B semantic/adversarial deepening
 -> C composition/heterogeneity/interoperability
 -> D computational realization/scaling/conformance
 -> only then next numbered depth

Never advance a depth after A/B/C only. Design completion is not implementation completion.

Cycle 1 status — ALL 32 DESIGNS COMPLETE

Depth	Issue	Status
1	#398	A/B/C/D COMPLETE — design-complete
2	#399	A/B/C/D COMPLETE — design-complete
3	#400	A/B/C/D COMPLETE — design-complete
4	#401	A/B/C/D COMPLETE — design-complete
5	#402	A/B/C/D COMPLETE — design-complete
6	#403	A/B/C/D COMPLETE — design-complete
7	#404	A/B/C/D COMPLETE — design-complete
8	#405	A/B/C/D COMPLETE — design-complete; executable bar NOT MET

Depth 8 surviving synthesis

#405A — COVENANT-MS — COMPLETE

Typed/versioned cross-layer contract spine with exact world/spec/profile/generation/replay identity and one scheduler/authority/effect boundary.

#405B — AEGIS-MS — COMPLETE

Hostile semantic/safety hardening: direct influence/dependency provenance, trusted control roots, endorsement/declassification, anti-circularity, effect-time sealing, causally bound observations and replay/trusted-base closure.

#405C — CONCORDAT-MS — COMPLETE

Cross-component/federation hardening: autonomous semantic/trust/identity/authority/provenance domains connected only by directional, versioned, loss-aware contracts with target-local appraisal.

#405D — PROVING-GROUND-MS — COMPLETE

Executable-conformance finalization. #405D inspected actual current code/test evidence, defined a dependency-indexed Conformance Evidence DAG, canonical replay/fingerprint contract, cold/warm/rebuilt/incremental differential oracles, crash/fault gates, resource-limited behavior and final acceptance inventory.

Hard D law:

issue says implemented
!= code exists
!= test exists
!= test executed
!= deterministic evidence
!= Machine Spirit acceptance

The substantive D result and primary sources are preserved in #405's D comment.

Cycle-1 Machine Spirit acceptance verdict

NOT MET on current executable evidence.

Current remote evidence establishes only partial foundations. In particular:

#388/#392-#396 semantic compiler design is not yet present as the canonical executable semantic_compile family on current prolog-rlm main;
#376-#387 expert system design is not yet present as the canonical executable expert_register/closed-loop family on current prolog-rlm main;
downstream symbolic-memory currently implements the RAGE-001 exact remember/get durability slice, not the complete #4-#10 semantic ledger/query/projection system;
Symbolic Memory's implementation-status document explicitly says its authored tests have not yet been executed in that environment and must not be called green until the executable gate runs;
current Symbolic Memory whole-snapshot storage is explicitly not SAFIRE;
controlled EPOCH/CLOCKWORK learning, full cross-repo deterministic replay and the required zero-model end-to-end Machine Spirit fixture are not executable evidence yet.

Acceptance inventory after #405D:

Required bar	Status
heterogeneous semantic ingestion	NOT MET
durable append-only symbolic world model	NOT MET
truth/conflict/time/default reasoning	NOT MET
procedural/causal/constraint reasoning	NOT MET overall
expert cooperation	NOT MET
bounded projections	NOT MET
provenance/explanation	NOT MET overall
controlled learning from failure	NOT MET
deterministic replay	NOT MET
zero-model known symbolic end-to-end execution	NOT MET

Therefore Cycle 1 is a completed research/design program with failed executable acceptance, not a failed research program and not a successful Machine Spirit implementation.

PROPOSED Cycle 2 — implementation-informed Machine Spirit research

STATUS: PROPOSED ONLY — OPERATOR AUTHORIZATION REQUIRED.

Do not create/start a Cycle-2 child/subpass from this proposal until the operator explicitly authorizes the next 32-subpass cycle.

The ranking is derived from #405D's executable failures. It intentionally moves from the smallest missing executable semantic spine toward whole-system fault/conformance rather than researching additional speculative breadth first.

Rank 1 / Cycle-2 Depth 1 — executable semantic kernel + compiler minimum viable profile

Goal: determine the smallest heterogeneous semantic profile that is actually useful, safely decidable/bounded where claimed, and implementable as one vertical conformance slice across #392-#396.

A foundations: executable subset selection; exact semantic constructors/profiles; deterministic structured-source adapters; source→IR→query vertical slice.
B adversarial: semantic overpromotion, attribution/scope/negation/quantifier/indexical failure cases; malicious source/control separation; unsupported-profile behavior.
C composition: mixed knowledge classes, multi-analyzer/formalism inputs, extension vocabularies and explicit loss receipts without flattening.
D computational: runnable compiler corpus, canonical fingerprints, from-scratch/incremental equivalence, bounded ambiguity, provider-disabled deterministic lanes and measured compiler budgets.

Exit evidence: checked-in executable semantic_compile family and source-free heterogeneous query fixtures.

Rank 2 / Cycle-2 Depth 2 — executable epistemic kernel

Goal: turn ESG/profile theory into a runnable bounded reasoner for the first admitted profile matrix.

A: support/refutation/justification representation + first WFS/paraconsistent/default profile subset.
B: cycles, contradiction, withdrawal vs negation, temporal validity, defeat/source-dependence attacks.
C: multiple local theories/profiles and explicit bridge composition; no implicit global truth union.
D: table/invalidation execution, residual explanations, profile differential tests, resource ceilings and deterministic replay.

Exit evidence: executable explicit-false/unknown/conflict/default/time fixtures with proof/counterevidence.

Rank 3 / Cycle-2 Depth 3 — durable semantic ledger/frontier/replay vertical slice

Goal: move Symbolic Memory from exact-source durability to the minimum real append-only semantic world model needed by Machine Spirit.

A: physical append/event/commit/frontier profile and semantic projection transaction.
B: crash/torn-write/retraction/redaction/integrity attacks; source durability independent from projection.
C: identity/provenance/lifecycle composition across memories and schema generations.
D: restart/rebuild/failure injection, exact historical cuts, current/history equivalence, storage benchmarks and executable SAFIRE-minimum decision.

Exit evidence: semantic records survive restart and rebuild; current/history/world-cut queries derive solely from canonical history.

Rank 4 / Cycle-2 Depth 4 — executable procedure + expert closed loop

Goal: land the first real #376-#387 zero-model expert organism over the executable semantic/epistemic spine.

A: minimal expert registry/contracts + method/procedure decomposition + one scheduler integration.
B: authority denial, stale evidence, recursive/no-progress, verifier-circularity and repair attacks.
C: multiple expert types + procedure formalism adapters + evidence cooperation without shared authority.
D: deterministic two-pass repair fixture, cancellation/fault schedules, exact Frozen-Spec VERIFY and model_calls = 0.

Exit evidence: requirement→knowledge→plan→experts→effect fixture→fresh observation→VERIFY→repair→success under one runtime.

Rank 5 / Cycle-2 Depth 5 — bounded attention, identity and provenance closure

Goal: make the executable world model useful at nontrivial size without losing defeaters, provenance or replay.

A: exact/structural-first demanded projection and dependency-complete closure.
B: ranker poisoning, missing opposition, source-copy amplification, stale-index and identity attacks.
C: heterogeneous RSC/backends, reversible identity mappings and loss-aware retrieval composition.
D: cold/warm/cache-drop/incremental differential queries, generation invalidation, measured record/edge/byte budgets, typed partial/resource-limited outcomes.

Exit evidence: bounded mixed-semantic projections whose receipts prove what was included, omitted, searched and unresolved.

Rank 6 / Cycle-2 Depth 6 — controlled executable learning lifecycle

Goal: implement the smallest real EPOCH/CITADEL/CLOCKWORK loop before adding broader self-improvement mechanisms.

A: experience→candidate→evaluation→hold/admit/suspend lifecycle for one symbolic lesson class.
B: contamination, circular verifier selection, adaptive holdout misuse, Goodhart/drift attacks.
C: learned-artifact transfer across projects/domains with target-local appraisal and dependence preservation.
D: crash-safe conditional promotion, exact/bounded counterexample profiles, replay, drift invalidation and known-symbolic zero-model reuse.

Exit evidence: one failed task yields a candidate lesson that is independently evaluated, conditionally promoted or held, persisted, replayed and later reused without authority widening.

Rank 7 / Cycle-2 Depth 7 — executable AEGIS + CONCORDAT integrity

Goal: prove that multi-component/cross-domain operation preserves control, identity, appraisal, provenance and guarantee boundaries in code.

A: executable influence/control-root/effect-seal contracts for one local multi-component run.
B: prompt/control poisoning, confused-deputy, TOCTOU, verifier/toolchain and observation-binding attacks.
C: two-domain federation with distinct identity/trust/profile roots, directional bridges, foreign verification/promotion and private provenance cases.
D: deterministic cross-domain replay/fault/cancellation suites, generation invalidation, bridge-loss conformance and authority non-propagation evidence.

Exit evidence: hostile foreign knowledge can influence cognition where allowed but cannot self-select trusted control, identity, authority or local acceptance.

Rank 8 / Cycle-2 Depth 8 — full executable Machine Spirit proving ground

Goal: run the complete Conformance Evidence DAG and establish actual system limits.

A: baseline end-to-end capsule spanning heterogeneous ingestion→durable world→reasoning→projection→procedure/expert→VERIFY→experience.
B: hostile semantic/safety/fault campaign over the full path.
C: multi-domain/component/federation campaign over the full path.
D: deterministic crash/replay/differential/failure-bar finalization, measured scaling envelopes and final Machine Spirit acceptance inventory.

Exit evidence must include every original Machine Spirit bar dimension plus exact repo/runtime/profile/frontier/policy fingerprints and provider-disabled model_calls = 0 for known symbolic tasks.

Cycle-2 global rules if authorized

The same A→B→C→D gating remains mandatory for each depth. Each subpass is research/design informed by executable failures, not an implementation worker. Implementation may occur separately between research passes, but research completion never substitutes for executable evidence.

The preferred #405D evidence structure remains a Conformance Evidence DAG. A higher gate cannot become green from prose or because its dependencies are merely planned.

Authorization gate

No Cycle-2 subpass is authorized yet.

The operator must explicitly authorize the proposed next 8 depths × 4 subpasses = 32 designs before Cycle-2 Depth 1A begins.

Until then, the exact Machine Spirit state is:

Cycle 1: 32/32 research designs COMPLETE
Machine Spirit executable acceptance: NOT MET
Cycle 2: PROPOSED / BLOCKED ON OPERATOR AUTHORIZATION

# Machine Spirit research program — canonical progression This issue is the program-level gate for **8 research depths × 4 distinct subpasses (A/B/C/D) = 32 designs**. ## Cycle 1 progression rule For each numbered child #398-#405: ```text A foundations -> B semantic/adversarial deepening -> C composition/heterogeneity/interoperability -> D computational realization/scaling/conformance -> only then next numbered depth ``` Never advance a depth after A/B/C only. Design completion is not implementation completion. ## Cycle 1 status — ALL 32 DESIGNS COMPLETE | Depth | Issue | Status | |---|---:|---| | 1 | #398 | A/B/C/D COMPLETE — design-complete | | 2 | #399 | A/B/C/D COMPLETE — design-complete | | 3 | #400 | A/B/C/D COMPLETE — design-complete | | 4 | #401 | A/B/C/D COMPLETE — design-complete | | 5 | #402 | A/B/C/D COMPLETE — design-complete | | 6 | #403 | A/B/C/D COMPLETE — design-complete | | 7 | #404 | A/B/C/D COMPLETE — design-complete | | 8 | #405 | **A/B/C/D COMPLETE — design-complete; executable bar NOT MET** | ## Depth 8 surviving synthesis ### #405A — COVENANT-MS — COMPLETE Typed/versioned cross-layer contract spine with exact world/spec/profile/generation/replay identity and one scheduler/authority/effect boundary. ### #405B — AEGIS-MS — COMPLETE Hostile semantic/safety hardening: direct influence/dependency provenance, trusted control roots, endorsement/declassification, anti-circularity, effect-time sealing, causally bound observations and replay/trusted-base closure. ### #405C — CONCORDAT-MS — COMPLETE Cross-component/federation hardening: autonomous semantic/trust/identity/authority/provenance domains connected only by directional, versioned, loss-aware contracts with target-local appraisal. ### #405D — PROVING-GROUND-MS — COMPLETE Executable-conformance finalization. #405D inspected actual current code/test evidence, defined a dependency-indexed Conformance Evidence DAG, canonical replay/fingerprint contract, cold/warm/rebuilt/incremental differential oracles, crash/fault gates, resource-limited behavior and final acceptance inventory. Hard D law: ```text issue says implemented != code exists != test exists != test executed != deterministic evidence != Machine Spirit acceptance ``` The substantive D result and primary sources are preserved in #405's D comment. ## Cycle-1 Machine Spirit acceptance verdict **NOT MET on current executable evidence.** Current remote evidence establishes only partial foundations. In particular: - #388/#392-#396 semantic compiler design is not yet present as the canonical executable `semantic_compile` family on current `prolog-rlm` main; - #376-#387 expert system design is not yet present as the canonical executable `expert_register`/closed-loop family on current `prolog-rlm` main; - downstream `symbolic-memory` currently implements the RAGE-001 exact remember/get durability slice, not the complete #4-#10 semantic ledger/query/projection system; - Symbolic Memory's implementation-status document explicitly says its authored tests have not yet been executed in that environment and must not be called green until the executable gate runs; - current Symbolic Memory whole-snapshot storage is explicitly not SAFIRE; - controlled EPOCH/CLOCKWORK learning, full cross-repo deterministic replay and the required zero-model end-to-end Machine Spirit fixture are not executable evidence yet. Acceptance inventory after #405D: | Required bar | Status | |---|---| | heterogeneous semantic ingestion | **NOT MET** | | durable append-only symbolic world model | **NOT MET** | | truth/conflict/time/default reasoning | **NOT MET** | | procedural/causal/constraint reasoning | **NOT MET overall** | | expert cooperation | **NOT MET** | | bounded projections | **NOT MET** | | provenance/explanation | **NOT MET overall** | | controlled learning from failure | **NOT MET** | | deterministic replay | **NOT MET** | | zero-model known symbolic end-to-end execution | **NOT MET** | Therefore Cycle 1 is a **completed research/design program with failed executable acceptance**, not a failed research program and not a successful Machine Spirit implementation. --- # PROPOSED Cycle 2 — implementation-informed Machine Spirit research **STATUS: PROPOSED ONLY — OPERATOR AUTHORIZATION REQUIRED.** Do not create/start a Cycle-2 child/subpass from this proposal until the operator explicitly authorizes the next 32-subpass cycle. The ranking is derived from #405D's executable failures. It intentionally moves from the smallest missing executable semantic spine toward whole-system fault/conformance rather than researching additional speculative breadth first. ## Rank 1 / Cycle-2 Depth 1 — executable semantic kernel + compiler minimum viable profile Goal: determine the smallest heterogeneous semantic profile that is actually useful, safely decidable/bounded where claimed, and implementable as one vertical conformance slice across #392-#396. - **A foundations:** executable subset selection; exact semantic constructors/profiles; deterministic structured-source adapters; source→IR→query vertical slice. - **B adversarial:** semantic overpromotion, attribution/scope/negation/quantifier/indexical failure cases; malicious source/control separation; unsupported-profile behavior. - **C composition:** mixed knowledge classes, multi-analyzer/formalism inputs, extension vocabularies and explicit loss receipts without flattening. - **D computational:** runnable compiler corpus, canonical fingerprints, from-scratch/incremental equivalence, bounded ambiguity, provider-disabled deterministic lanes and measured compiler budgets. Exit evidence: checked-in executable `semantic_compile` family and source-free heterogeneous query fixtures. ## Rank 2 / Cycle-2 Depth 2 — executable epistemic kernel Goal: turn ESG/profile theory into a runnable bounded reasoner for the first admitted profile matrix. - **A:** support/refutation/justification representation + first WFS/paraconsistent/default profile subset. - **B:** cycles, contradiction, withdrawal vs negation, temporal validity, defeat/source-dependence attacks. - **C:** multiple local theories/profiles and explicit bridge composition; no implicit global truth union. - **D:** table/invalidation execution, residual explanations, profile differential tests, resource ceilings and deterministic replay. Exit evidence: executable explicit-false/unknown/conflict/default/time fixtures with proof/counterevidence. ## Rank 3 / Cycle-2 Depth 3 — durable semantic ledger/frontier/replay vertical slice Goal: move Symbolic Memory from exact-source durability to the minimum real append-only semantic world model needed by Machine Spirit. - **A:** physical append/event/commit/frontier profile and semantic projection transaction. - **B:** crash/torn-write/retraction/redaction/integrity attacks; source durability independent from projection. - **C:** identity/provenance/lifecycle composition across memories and schema generations. - **D:** restart/rebuild/failure injection, exact historical cuts, current/history equivalence, storage benchmarks and executable SAFIRE-minimum decision. Exit evidence: semantic records survive restart and rebuild; current/history/world-cut queries derive solely from canonical history. ## Rank 4 / Cycle-2 Depth 4 — executable procedure + expert closed loop Goal: land the first real #376-#387 zero-model expert organism over the executable semantic/epistemic spine. - **A:** minimal expert registry/contracts + method/procedure decomposition + one scheduler integration. - **B:** authority denial, stale evidence, recursive/no-progress, verifier-circularity and repair attacks. - **C:** multiple expert types + procedure formalism adapters + evidence cooperation without shared authority. - **D:** deterministic two-pass repair fixture, cancellation/fault schedules, exact Frozen-Spec VERIFY and `model_calls = 0`. Exit evidence: requirement→knowledge→plan→experts→effect fixture→fresh observation→VERIFY→repair→success under one runtime. ## Rank 5 / Cycle-2 Depth 5 — bounded attention, identity and provenance closure Goal: make the executable world model useful at nontrivial size without losing defeaters, provenance or replay. - **A:** exact/structural-first demanded projection and dependency-complete closure. - **B:** ranker poisoning, missing opposition, source-copy amplification, stale-index and identity attacks. - **C:** heterogeneous RSC/backends, reversible identity mappings and loss-aware retrieval composition. - **D:** cold/warm/cache-drop/incremental differential queries, generation invalidation, measured record/edge/byte budgets, typed partial/resource-limited outcomes. Exit evidence: bounded mixed-semantic projections whose receipts prove what was included, omitted, searched and unresolved. ## Rank 6 / Cycle-2 Depth 6 — controlled executable learning lifecycle Goal: implement the smallest real EPOCH/CITADEL/CLOCKWORK loop before adding broader self-improvement mechanisms. - **A:** experience→candidate→evaluation→hold/admit/suspend lifecycle for one symbolic lesson class. - **B:** contamination, circular verifier selection, adaptive holdout misuse, Goodhart/drift attacks. - **C:** learned-artifact transfer across projects/domains with target-local appraisal and dependence preservation. - **D:** crash-safe conditional promotion, exact/bounded counterexample profiles, replay, drift invalidation and known-symbolic zero-model reuse. Exit evidence: one failed task yields a candidate lesson that is independently evaluated, conditionally promoted or held, persisted, replayed and later reused without authority widening. ## Rank 7 / Cycle-2 Depth 7 — executable AEGIS + CONCORDAT integrity Goal: prove that multi-component/cross-domain operation preserves control, identity, appraisal, provenance and guarantee boundaries in code. - **A:** executable influence/control-root/effect-seal contracts for one local multi-component run. - **B:** prompt/control poisoning, confused-deputy, TOCTOU, verifier/toolchain and observation-binding attacks. - **C:** two-domain federation with distinct identity/trust/profile roots, directional bridges, foreign verification/promotion and private provenance cases. - **D:** deterministic cross-domain replay/fault/cancellation suites, generation invalidation, bridge-loss conformance and authority non-propagation evidence. Exit evidence: hostile foreign knowledge can influence cognition where allowed but cannot self-select trusted control, identity, authority or local acceptance. ## Rank 8 / Cycle-2 Depth 8 — full executable Machine Spirit proving ground Goal: run the complete Conformance Evidence DAG and establish actual system limits. - **A:** baseline end-to-end capsule spanning heterogeneous ingestion→durable world→reasoning→projection→procedure/expert→VERIFY→experience. - **B:** hostile semantic/safety/fault campaign over the full path. - **C:** multi-domain/component/federation campaign over the full path. - **D:** deterministic crash/replay/differential/failure-bar finalization, measured scaling envelopes and final Machine Spirit acceptance inventory. Exit evidence must include every original Machine Spirit bar dimension plus exact repo/runtime/profile/frontier/policy fingerprints and provider-disabled `model_calls = 0` for known symbolic tasks. ## Cycle-2 global rules if authorized The same A→B→C→D gating remains mandatory for each depth. Each subpass is research/design informed by executable failures, not an implementation worker. Implementation may occur separately between research passes, but research completion never substitutes for executable evidence. The preferred #405D evidence structure remains a Conformance Evidence DAG. A higher gate cannot become green from prose or because its dependencies are merely planned. ## Authorization gate **No Cycle-2 subpass is authorized yet.** The operator must explicitly authorize the proposed next **8 depths × 4 subpasses = 32 designs** before Cycle-2 Depth 1A begins. Until then, the exact Machine Spirit state is: ```text Cycle 1: 32/32 research designs COMPLETE Machine Spirit executable acceptance: NOT MET Cycle 2: PROPOSED / BLOCKED ON OPERATOR AUTHORIZATION ```

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Eight-pass batch instantiated:

#398 — KR foundations
#399 — semantic compilation / discourse
#400 — epistemics / truth maintenance
#401 — procedural intelligence / expert systems / planning
#402 — durable world-model / event-sourced architecture
#403 — retrieval / symbolic attention / bounded projection
#404 — meta-reasoning / bounded self-improvement
#405 — adversarial synthesis / Machine Spirit v1 conformance

Automation policy: one pass per hourly run, in order, with current web/primary-source research and a distinct design. The batch runs exactly eight scheduled times. #405 must leave a new ranked 8-question research agenda and request operator authorization for another batch if executable Machine Spirit acceptance has not been demonstrated.

Eight-pass batch instantiated: - #398 — KR foundations - #399 — semantic compilation / discourse - #400 — epistemics / truth maintenance - #401 — procedural intelligence / expert systems / planning - #402 — durable world-model / event-sourced architecture - #403 — retrieval / symbolic attention / bounded projection - #404 — meta-reasoning / bounded self-improvement - #405 — adversarial synthesis / Machine Spirit v1 conformance Automation policy: one pass per hourly run, in order, with current web/primary-source research and a distinct design. The batch runs exactly eight scheduled times. #405 must leave a new ranked 8-question research agenda and request operator authorization for another batch if executable Machine Spirit acceptance has not been demonstrated.

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Pass 1/8 complete — #398 Knowledge Representation Foundations

Preferred design: one universal symbolic interchange kernel + explicit semantic reasoning profiles, not one universal executable logic.

Key canonical changes landed in #392:

proposition identity separated from assertion/context/provenance identity;
native n-ary propositions + closed formula AST;
explicit semantic profile/dialect declarations and support levels (represented vs validated vs entailed/queryable vs safely_lowerable);
Event-Calculus-style first-class event/fluent/change semantics;
frame/object views treated as projections rather than hidden executable semantics;
profile-gated safe lowering and inert open vocabulary.

Downstream storage consequence recorded on symbolic-memory#4: assertions/history/conflict should reference immutable propositions rather than rewrite proposition payloads.

The full primary-source survey, three alternative architectures, capability matrix, scaling analysis, adversarial review and unresolved questions are on #398. #398 is closed completed as research/design only; no implementation/Machine Spirit acceptance is claimed.

Next distinct pass remains #399: semantic compilation from language. It should attack the #398 target representation rather than assume it is correct.

## Pass 1/8 complete — #398 Knowledge Representation Foundations Preferred design: **one universal symbolic interchange kernel + explicit semantic reasoning profiles**, not one universal executable logic. Key canonical changes landed in #392: - proposition identity separated from assertion/context/provenance identity; - native n-ary propositions + closed formula AST; - explicit semantic profile/dialect declarations and support levels (`represented` vs `validated` vs `entailed/queryable` vs `safely_lowerable`); - Event-Calculus-style first-class event/fluent/change semantics; - frame/object views treated as projections rather than hidden executable semantics; - profile-gated safe lowering and inert open vocabulary. Downstream storage consequence recorded on symbolic-memory#4: assertions/history/conflict should reference immutable propositions rather than rewrite proposition payloads. The full primary-source survey, three alternative architectures, capability matrix, scaling analysis, adversarial review and unresolved questions are on #398. #398 is closed `completed` as research/design only; no implementation/Machine Spirit acceptance is claimed. Next distinct pass remains #399: semantic compilation from language. It should attack the #398 target representation rather than assume it is correct.

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Depth addendum completed for pass #398 without consuming another numbered pass. #398B strengthened the canonical IR around first-class contexts/theories, explicit bridges, scoped existential witnesses, justification hypergraphs, support/refutation-preserving assertions, provenance classes, and canonical-vs-derived state separation. #392 was updated accordingly; downstream symbolic-memory#4/#6 were cross-linked. The next numbered Machine Spirit pass remains #399.

Depth addendum completed for pass #398 without consuming another numbered pass. #398B strengthened the canonical IR around first-class contexts/theories, explicit bridges, scoped existential witnesses, justification hypergraphs, support/refutation-preserving assertions, provenance classes, and canonical-vs-derived state separation. `#392` was updated accordingly; downstream `symbolic-memory#4/#6` were cross-linked. The next numbered Machine Spirit pass remains #399.

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Depth 2 progress — #399A complete

#399A is durably complete and #399 remains open for B/C/D.

Baseline architecture selected: evidence-anchored multi-view Semantic Compilation Lattice (SCL) over exact source spans, combining deterministic source adapters, linguistic analyzers/formal semantic views, bounded LLM induction/reconciliation, packed ambiguity, explicit discourse state, and deterministic lowering/validation into #392.

Canonical deltas landed in #393 and #395; downstream lifecycle/corpus implications recorded on symbolic-memory#5/#8.

Next queued subpass: #399B — adversarial deepening on presupposition, implicature, ellipsis, intensionality, genericity/habituality, indexicals, nested modality, indirect/quoted speech, temporal discourse, metonymy, and the boundary between licensed inference and knowledge the compiler must refuse to invent.

Do not advance to #400 until #399B/#399C/#399D are complete.

## Depth 2 progress — #399A complete #399A is durably complete and #399 remains open for B/C/D. Baseline architecture selected: **evidence-anchored multi-view Semantic Compilation Lattice (SCL)** over exact source spans, combining deterministic source adapters, linguistic analyzers/formal semantic views, bounded LLM induction/reconciliation, packed ambiguity, explicit discourse state, and deterministic lowering/validation into #392. Canonical deltas landed in #393 and #395; downstream lifecycle/corpus implications recorded on symbolic-memory#5/#8. **Next queued subpass: #399B** — adversarial deepening on presupposition, implicature, ellipsis, intensionality, genericity/habituality, indexicals, nested modality, indirect/quoted speech, temporal discourse, metonymy, and the boundary between licensed inference and knowledge the compiler must refuse to invent. Do not advance to #400 until #399B/#399C/#399D are complete.

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[MACHINE-SPIRIT 3/8] Epistemics and truth maintenance: belief revision, ATMS/TMS, paraconsistency, defaults, provenance, temporal truth #398

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