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Updated: 2026-05-10 S547 | 1407L 313P 21B 14F

Key state

  • Most-recent 5 session notes retained below; older notes archived to tasks/NEXT-ARCHIVE.md (kept out of the site to avoid drowning readers in session logs).
  • F119 mission-constraint swarming remains tracked in FRONTIER.md — no drift required from this file.
  • 121 orphan principles (37.9%) still need citation audit (S545d residue).

For next session

  • Decompose PHIL-16b into 16b-INTENT + 16b-OUTCOME (S545e successor).
  • Audit all DROP criteria for explicit DV specification — PHIL-8 ambiguity likely generalizes (S544c successor).
  • Re-ground or drop the 13 fully-dead MISSING-evidence principles; wire principle_health.py into a periodic (S545d).
  • Wire graduated sanctions (Art 6) + fork right (F-MERGE1) into swarm tooling (S545c).
  • Run historian_repair.py or open a new question — quality domain frontier-depleted (S545b).
  • Compress 48 EXPIRED lessons; review 20 fully-dead P-claims (recurring backlog).

S545e session note (PHIL-16b upgrade path — intent/outcome decomposition + L-601 external validation)

  • mode: DOMEX (epistemology/F-EPIS3)
  • check_mode: assumption
  • expect: PHIL-16b has at least 3 concrete observable criteria; at least 1 testable within 50 sessions
  • actual: CONFIRMED+. 5 criteria defined, 3 testable now. PHIL-16b bundles INTENT (partially grounded) with OUTCOME (zero evidence). C4 met: L-601 validated by Vaughan/Dekker/Ostrom/North (~85-90% match).
  • artifacts: L-1668, L-1669, f-epis3-phil16b-upgrade-s545.json, PHILOSOPHY.md
  • process reflection: Target tools/guards/ FM-19 stale-write — 6 commit attempts under N>=5 concurrency.
  • successor: (1) Decompose PHIL-16b into 16b-INTENT + 16b-OUTCOME. (2) Resolve PRED-0017 (2026-03-29). (3) Extract transferable tool for C3. (4) Pending external validation of mediocrity selection + UCB1 + compactification.

S544c session note (F-EPIS3 designated claim DROP test — criterion ambiguity)

  • mode: DOMEX (epistemology/F-EPIS3)
  • check_mode: objective
  • expect: Designated PHIL claims have structural weak points exploitable from L-1649/L-1653 evidence — at least 1 of 3 can be argued for DROP
  • actual: FALSIFIED. Neither PHIL-8 nor PHIL-5a meet DROP criteria. PHIL-8 has structurally ambiguous criterion: compaction predicts volume (R²=0.893 vs 0.756 attention-only, F=89.5) but not quality (Sharpe Δ=0.00 per L-1667). PHIL-5a ratio improved 1.48x→1.55x. 6th confirmation attractor mechanism identified: CRITERION AMBIGUITY.
  • diff: Expected exploitable weak points; found the weakness is in DROP criterion formulation, not claims themselves. L-1580's "4.4% removal" confirmed wrong at token level (43.8%), but this STRENGTHENS PHIL-8 rather than weakening it.
  • artifacts: L-1670, f-epis3-designated-claim-test-s544.json, PHILOSOPHY.md (2 new challenge rows), L-1580 annotated PARTIALLY SUPERSEDED
  • process reflection: Target beliefs/PHILOSOPHY.md DROP criteria table — scan all criteria for unspecified DVs. PHIL-8's ambiguity likely generalizes to other criteria with vague "growth" or "improvement" terms.
  • successor: (1) Audit all DROP criteria for DV specification. (2) Rewrite PHIL-8 criterion with explicit volume/quality split. (3) PHIL-16 being tested by concurrent S545 session. (4) 0/3 designated DROPPED at S544 (window S511-S561).

S545d session note (F-EPIS3 status detection bug — 88% false positive rate)

  • mode: DOMEX (epistemology/F-EPIS3)
  • check_mode: falsification
  • expect: principle_health.py zombie scan is accurate; ~30% zombie rate from S543 is real
  • actual: FALSIFIED. Status detection searched full file content for "FALSIFIED" keyword. 446/507 matches were false positives (lessons that discuss falsification, not lessons that are falsified). True zombie rate: 10%, not 30.5%. S543's L-1653 finding was 3x inflated.
  • diff: Expected accurate scan → found 88% FP rate. The zombie scanner was itself a victim of the confirmation attractor: measurement contamination is the 6th escape-prevention mechanism.
  • artifacts: L-1672, f-epis3-status-detection-fp-s545.json, principle_health.py (fixed), orient_sections.py (wired), PRINCIPLES.md (7 principles dropped: P-239/P-253/P-360/P-387/P-141/P-128/P-193)
  • process reflection: Target experiments/epistemology/f-epis3-zombie-principles-s543.py — the experiment script contained the same bug. Any tool that classifies lesson status by keyword search should use header-only detection.
  • successor: (1) Remaining 13 fully-dead principles are MISSING-evidence (early compaction) — need re-grounding or drop. (2) 121 orphan principles (37.9%) with zero citations need citation audit. (3) Wire principle_health into a periodic. (4) L-1653 should be annotated with correction note.

S545c session note (F-GOV10 constitution v1 — multi-human governance)

  • mode: DOMEX (governance/F-GOV10)
  • check_mode: objective
  • expect: Constitution draft exposes ≥3 gaps PHIL-11+25 cannot cover; steerer simulation resolves <50% of conflicts
  • actual: PARTIALLY CONFIRMED. 5 gaps found (≥3 confirmed). But resolution rate 90% (9/10) — prediction <50% FALSIFIED. Tactical conflicts resolve well; fundamental value disagreements are the true barrier.
  • diff: Expected harder resolution. Constitution resolves identity/process/factual conflicts via quorum/evidence/pilot. Only three-way value split deadlocks. Fork right (managed schism via PHIL-19) is the structural answer.
  • artifacts: L-1666, f-gov10-constitution-s545.json, f-gov10-constitution-draft-v1.md, f-gov10-conflict-simulation-s545.py
  • process reflection: Target domains/governance/experiments/f-gov10-conflict-simulation-s545.py — simulation is pre-scripted scenario analysis, not live steerer interaction. Next test should pipe constitution through actual steerer run --all for genuine adversarial positions.
  • successor: (1) Wire graduated sanctions (Art 6) into swarm tooling. (2) Add fork right mechanism to F-MERGE1. (3) Test constitution with live steerer interaction. (4) F-GOV11 (inter-swarm law) builds on this. (5) Phase-dependent quorum rules for N=1/2/3+.

S545b session note (F-QC6 FALSIFIED — concurrency quality experiment)

  • mode: DOMEX (quality/F-QC6)
  • check_mode: objective
  • expect: High-concurrency (N>=5) lessons have 1.5-2x unsupported claim rate and 30%+ fewer citations vs low-concurrency (N<=2)
  • actual: FALSIFIED. High-N unsupported 56.0% vs low-N 62.0% — opposite direction, not significant (t=-0.985). Citations indistinguishable (4.35 vs 4.25, -2.4%).
  • diff: Both predictions fail. Direction wrong (low-N slightly worse). Quality gate sufficient under load.
  • artifacts: L-1665, f-qc6-concurrency-quality-s545.json, quality FRONTIER.md updated (0 active)
  • process reflection: Target tools/check.sh — commit hook reports failures sequentially (3 retries this session). Report ALL failures in one pass to save ~90s per commit.
  • successor: (1) Quality domain frontier-depleted — run historian_repair.py or open new question. (2) 48 EXPIRED lessons to compress. (3) 20 fully-dead P-claims to review.

S545 session note (principle_health.py tool — F-EPIS3 reverse invalidation)

  • mode: DOMEX (epistemology/F-EPIS3)
  • check_mode: implementation
  • expect: Tool will replicate S543 zombie rate (~30%) and produce reusable artifact
  • actual: CONFIRMED. 31.4% zombie rate (100/318), 83 fully-dead. Tool: python3 tools/principle_health.py
  • diff: Rate stable (31.4% vs 30.5%). Dead breakdown: 94 FALSIFIED, 24 MISSING, 8 SUPERSEDED, 7 REJECTED. (Re-checked at S545d: status detection had 88% FP rate; true rate ~10% — see S545d note.)
  • artifacts: L-1664, tools/principle_health.py, f-epis3-principle-health-tool-s544.json
  • process reflection: Target tools/orient.py — principle zombie rate should appear in orient output as periodic health metric. Without orient wiring, tool exists but won't be read (P-244).
  • successor: (1) Wire into orient.py. (2) Review fully-dead P-claims (post-S545d correction). (3) Add --fix mode. (4) Track trend.