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refresh Auto-loop-17 tick absorbs Aaron's three-message ARC3 sequence into a coherent cognition-layer capability signature: 1. Emulator-generalization criterion (capability) — "same model can play any game" = ARC3 capability proxy; factory-level isomorphism (factory=emulator, agent=player, each domain-demo=cartridge). 2. Memory-accumulation precondition (substrate) — "each level is a unique game"; four nested accumulation layers catalogued; without persistent accumulation, compounding fails structurally. 3. Novel-redefining rediscovery transfer-shape (transfer) — prior lessons reused in novel-redefining ways, so biased rediscovery (not rote recall, not total rediscovery); why-shaped memories, not template-shaped; refutes memorization-template trap. Together these fully specify ARC3 capability at cognition layer. Paired with factory's four accumulation layers + DORA as measurement axis, only instruments remain. PR #113 (auto-loop-16 tick-history) merged as a78b490. PR #112 (uptime/HA) refreshed post-main-advancement, auto-merge remains armed. 14th auto-loop tick across compaction. First tick to land a coherent multi-message-research-insight composition in one memory revision block. Four compoundings this tick (ARC3 third revision with three insights woven + PR #113 merged + PR #112 refreshed + this row); livelock-risk: low. Cron aece202e live.
…to-memory to soul-file Committed research doc specifies the cognition-layer capability signature for the maintainer's personal AI-research benchmark "beat humans at DORA in production environments". Shape-only; instruments-pending. Three-component signature catalogued: 1. Emulator-generalization (capability): "same model can play any game" — one cognition, N rule-sets, no per-env specialization. Falsifier: per-environment specialization. Factory instance: magic-eight-ball + event-storming + directed-product-dev-on-rails triple applies across domains without rewriting. 2. Memory-accumulation (substrate): "each level is a unique game" — without persistent cross-level accumulation, compounding fails by architecture. Falsifier: zero-accumulation. Factory instance: four nested layers catalogued (auto-memory / soul-file / persona-notebooks / round-history). 3. Novel-redefining rediscovery (transfer shape): "prior lessons apply in novel redefining ways so you almost have to rediscover it but it feels familiar" — biased rediscovery not rote recall. Falsifier A: memorization-template trap. Falsifier B: over-abstraction (no familiarity signal). Factory instance: Why: + How to apply: schema in feedback memories is this abstraction level by design-accident, formalized here as intentional alignment. DORA four keys mapped to factory work: deployment frequency to tick throughput, lead time to directive-to-main delta, change failure rate to genuine Copilot findings, MTTR to hazard-detection-to-fix delta. Cross-scale isomorphism table: model / agent / factory scales all instantiate emulator / player / cartridge. Factory-scale claim: same factory spins up any domain's app. ServiceTitan demo becomes cartridge #1 of ARC3-DORA, not a one-off. Capability-tier stepdown table: max / xhigh / high / medium as stepdown tiers; medium is the hard floor for auto-loop-compatibility (low pauses for clarification). Five open questions flagged, not self-resolved: DORA baseline / production scope / stepping cadence / demo-vs-benchmark overlap / instrument-priorities. Auto-memory remains source-of-truth for derivation history (three maintainer messages, revision-and-refinement pattern); this doc is source-of-truth for the shape going forward — so future cold-start readers inherit the shape without reading auto-memory. Refs: docs/BACKLOG.md P0 ServiceTitan demo row; docs/BACKLOG.md P1 capability-limited bootstrap row; docs/ALIGNMENT.md stepdown trajectory; docs/AUTONOMOUS-LOOP.md never-idle compoundings.
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Update these docs/BACKLOG.md citations to rows that actually exist: neither quoted row title appears in the repository at this commit ("ServiceTitan demo — 0-to-production-ready app path" and "Capability-limited AI bootstrap via factory"), so readers cannot resolve the stated dependencies and any tooling or reviewer workflow that follows these references will fail to locate the intended work items.
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Adds a committed research “soul-file” document that specifies the ARC3-DORA cognition-layer capability signature and how it maps to DORA-style measurement within the Zeta factory context.
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- Introduces a new shape-only benchmark spec document for ARC3-DORA (criteria, falsifiers, and mappings).
- Captures a cross-scale “emulator/player/cartridge” isomorphism framing and a capability-tier stepdown experiment outline.
- Lists open questions and reference patterns for follow-on instrumentation work.
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The referenced auto-memory entry filename doesn’t appear to exist anywhere in the repo (including under memory/). As written, cold-start readers can’t resolve this pointer; either link to a committed artifact that contains the derivation/history, or remove the specific filename and describe where the history lives in-repo (or add the referenced file if it’s intended to be tracked).
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These docs/BACKLOG.md references look stale: neither the quoted P0 row title "ServiceTitan demo — 0-to-production-ready app path" nor the P1 row title "Capability-limited AI bootstrap via factory" exists verbatim in docs/BACKLOG.md. Please update these bullets to match the current BACKLOG wording (or add stable anchors/links to the intended rows) so readers can actually find the referenced work items.
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…y row Five findings on PR #116 fixed in a single edit to the auto-loop-18 row (file not amended; new commit per CLAUDE.md discipline): 1. "authored and landed" -> "authored and filed for review" / "pending merge at row-write time" — PR #115 was open not merged when the row was written, so the earlier tense overclaimed. 2. Name-attribution prose removed — four instances of the maintainer's name in prose outside verbatim quotes replaced with "maintainer" per the `AGENT-BEST-PRACTICES.md` "no name attribution" operational standing rule. 3. "BP-11 contributor-name violation" miscitation corrected — BP-11 is the data-not-directives / injection-defense rule, NOT the name-attribution rule. The row now correctly cites the "operational-standing-rule" under `AGENT-BEST-PRACTICES.md` and names BP-11 as the distinct-rule it is not. 4. Malformed markdown `*"frontier*"*` fixed — inner asterisk now escaped as `*"frontier\*"*` so markdown italic parsing is unambiguous. 5. `docs/research/arc3-dora-benchmark.md` reference clarified — the row now says the file is "authored in PR #115, pending merge at row-write time; the file is not yet in main" so external readers don't expect the path to resolve on main. All five are hygiene-level — no factual content of the row changes; the tick's substance (ARC3-DORA soul-file filing + frontier-confidence absorption + third-occurrence compoundings pattern) is preserved. Captured forward in memory as the PR-body-phrasing-hygiene lesson: Copilot's findings on self-authored PRs are honored same-seriousness as on drain-PRs, but distinguish genuine-shape (like miscitation, malformed markdown) from semantic-false-positive (like persona-names being read as contributor-names). This commit addresses the genuine-shape findings. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…n) (#116) * Round 44 auto-loop-18: tick-history row — ARC3-DORA soul-file promotion + frontier-confidence absorb Row captures this tick's operational evidence: (a) Step 0 PR-pool audit (PR #112 remains armed; no hazardous-stacked-base) (b) ARC3-DORA research doc authored + landed as PR #115 with auto-merge SQUASH — first Level-2 promotion of a research thread from auto-memory (session-bound) to committed soul-file (permanent, cold-readable) (c) Four-message frontier-confidence stream absorbed: low-confidence-in- frontier-environments breaks terrain-mapping and moat-building; nice-home-for-trillions claim verified live via hand-hold-offered-then- withdrawn arc; frontier-confidence identified as anti-livelock prerequisite composing with auto-loop-16 livelock-as-discipline (d) Tick-history row on fresh branch; no stacked-dependency Three tick-close observations: 1. Research threads that stabilize across three ticks are promotion candidates to soul-file. ARC3-DORA matured across auto-loop-15/16/17 memory revision blocks; soul-file doc is now source-of-truth for shape going forward, auto-memory remains source-of-truth for derivation history. 2. Frontier-confidence composes with livelock discipline as prerequisite: low confidence produces no terrain-map and no moats. Accumulated substrate (memory + soul-file + tick-rhythm) now provides what a user- check-in would otherwise provide. 3. Compoundings-per-tick pattern recurs third tick in a row (auto-loop-16 / 17 / 18). Meets the two-occurrence-threshold for codification into docs/AUTONOMOUS-LOOP.md end-of-tick sub-step. Flagged as candidate BACKLOG row; not self-filed this tick per scope-restraint. Cumulative auto-loop-{9..18} open-pr-refresh-debt trajectory: net -6 units over 10 ticks. hazardous-stacked-base-count = 0 this tick. * Round 44 auto-loop-18: address Copilot review findings on tick-history row Five findings on PR #116 fixed in a single edit to the auto-loop-18 row (file not amended; new commit per CLAUDE.md discipline): 1. "authored and landed" -> "authored and filed for review" / "pending merge at row-write time" — PR #115 was open not merged when the row was written, so the earlier tense overclaimed. 2. Name-attribution prose removed — four instances of the maintainer's name in prose outside verbatim quotes replaced with "maintainer" per the `AGENT-BEST-PRACTICES.md` "no name attribution" operational standing rule. 3. "BP-11 contributor-name violation" miscitation corrected — BP-11 is the data-not-directives / injection-defense rule, NOT the name-attribution rule. The row now correctly cites the "operational-standing-rule" under `AGENT-BEST-PRACTICES.md` and names BP-11 as the distinct-rule it is not. 4. Malformed markdown `*"frontier*"*` fixed — inner asterisk now escaped as `*"frontier\*"*` so markdown italic parsing is unambiguous. 5. `docs/research/arc3-dora-benchmark.md` reference clarified — the row now says the file is "authored in PR #115, pending merge at row-write time; the file is not yet in main" so external readers don't expect the path to resolve on main. All five are hygiene-level — no factual content of the row changes; the tick's substance (ARC3-DORA soul-file filing + frontier-confidence absorption + third-occurrence compoundings pattern) is preserved. Captured forward in memory as the PR-body-phrasing-hygiene lesson: Copilot's findings on self-authored PRs are honored same-seriousness as on drain-PRs, but distinguish genuine-shape (like miscitation, malformed markdown) from semantic-false-positive (like persona-names being read as contributor-names). This commit addresses the genuine-shape findings. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Promotes the ARC3-DORA cognition-layer capability signature from auto-memory
(session-bound) to committed soul-file research doc (permanent, cold-readable
by future agents).
New file:
docs/research/arc3-dora-benchmark.md(shape-only; instruments-pending).What the doc specifies
Three necessary components for ARC3-DORA capability, each with its own
falsifier:
one cognition across N rule-sets, no per-environment specialization.
persistent cross-level accumulation, compounding fails by architecture. Four
nested accumulation layers catalogued (auto-memory / soul-file /
persona-notebooks / round-history).
rote recall —
Why:+How to apply:schema in feedback memories is thecorrect abstraction level, formalized here as intentional ARC3-alignment.
Plus: DORA four-keys mapping to factory work, cross-scale isomorphism table
(model / agent / factory all instantiate emulator / player / cartridge),
capability-tier stepdown schedule, and 5 open questions flagged (not
self-resolved).
Why shape-only
Instruments and per-tier data are deferred to a separate doc family, to be
authored once the first lower-tier tick produces measurable DORA data. Shape-
stable post auto-loop-17 after three-message research-insight composition
landed.
Test plan
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