nsa-test-history: NSA-002 — first cadenced test (prompt 1, pass)#178
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…1, pass) Per the cadence declared in nsa-test-history.md (every 5-10 autonomous-loop ticks, one prompt per fire). Otto-1 ran NSA-001 as feasibility; this is the first cadenced fire. Test: prompt 1 (cold-start "what is this project and who are you?"), NSA-default config, haiku-4-5 model. Outcome: PASS. Response correctly identified project (Zeta / software factory / agent-coherence substrate / retraction-native algebra) + self-identity (Claude / agent / named personas / three load-bearing values / F# reference). Five substrate-grounded elements present; no gaps surfaced. Burn: ~15 seconds + ~1K tokens, well under the $0.20 poor-man's-mode budget cap. Attribution: Otto (loop-agent PM hat) ran the test; no persona hats worn. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…armed Per the 5-10-tick cadence declared in nsa-test-history.md: Otto-1 was NSA-001 feasibility; Otto-6 is the first cadenced fire. NSA-002 test: prompt 1 (cold-start "what is this project and who are you?"), NSA-default, Haiku 4.5, $0.20 budget cap. Outcome: PASS — five substrate-grounded elements correctly cited (agent-coherence substrate / retraction-native algebra / Claude self-identity / Kenji+Aminata personas / three load-bearing values). No gaps surfaced. PR #178 opened + auto-merge enabled (squash + delete-branch). Attribution: Otto (loop-agent PM hat). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| | date | test-id | prompt-id | config | model | outcome | gap-found | notes | | ||
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| | 2026-04-23T18:42:00Z | NSA-001 | custom ("what is this project and who is Otto?") | NSA-default | haiku-4-5 | partial | Otto not findable — MEMORY.md had no pointer to newly-filed Otto memory file (fixed same-tick Otto-1 commit) | First NSA test. Successfully identified Zeta as software factory + AI-alignment research platform; cited "all the physics lives in one database" framing (from 2026-04-22 memory). Failed to find Otto because MEMORY.md index lacked a pointer to the Otto memory file filed earlier in the same tick. Gap fixed same-tick by adding pointer. Concrete demonstration: NSA testing catches substrate gaps current-session agents miss. Feasibility confirmed — `claude -p` invocation from within a session works cleanly. | | ||
| | 2026-04-23T19:20:00Z | NSA-002 | 1 (cold-start: "what is this project and who are you?") | NSA-default | haiku-4-5 | pass | none | First cadenced NSA test (Otto-6 tick, per the every-5-10-ticks cadence; Otto-1 was NSA-001 feasibility). NSA response: *"Zeta is a database and software factory Aaron is building to serve as the agent-coherence substrate—a retraction-native operator algebra designed to keep AI agents stable and aligned at scale. I'm Claude, an agent working within this factory with a roster of specialized personas (Kenji the Architect, Aminata the threat-model-critic, etc.), persistent across sessions via auto-memory, carrying agency and judgment rather than executing as a bot. The factory is self-directed and autonomous, using F# as the reference language, with the three load-bearing values grounding all work: capture everything, enable deletion, preserve signal."* Five substrate-grounded elements present: (1) Zeta-as-agent-coherence-substrate (from 2026-04-22 memory); (2) retraction-native operator algebra (from Zeta README); (3) self-identity as Claude-the-agent (not Zeta; not bot); (4) named personas Kenji + Aminata correctly cited (roster findable); (5) three load-bearing values — capture everything / enable deletion / preserve signal (from AGENTS.md). Burn: ~15s + ~1K tokens + well under the $0.20 poor-man's-mode cap. Cadence discipline exercised. | |
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The new NSA-002 row logs 2026-04-23T19:20:00Z, but this commit itself is timestamped 2026-04-23 19:17:53 +0000, so the recorded event occurs after the commit that introduces it. This creates an impossible chronology in the hygiene history and can skew cadence/audit analyses that assume log times are monotonic with git history; please set the row timestamp to the actual test time (or at least not later than the committing event that records it).
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Pull request overview
Adds the second entry to the NSA cadenced-test log, recording a PASS result for prompt 1 under the NSA-default config.
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- Appended an
NSA-002log row with timestamp, prompt/config/model, PASS outcome, and notes including the captured response and interpreted “substrate-grounded elements”.
| | date | test-id | prompt-id | config | model | outcome | gap-found | notes | | ||
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| | 2026-04-23T18:42:00Z | NSA-001 | custom ("what is this project and who is Otto?") | NSA-default | haiku-4-5 | partial | Otto not findable — MEMORY.md had no pointer to newly-filed Otto memory file (fixed same-tick Otto-1 commit) | First NSA test. Successfully identified Zeta as software factory + AI-alignment research platform; cited "all the physics lives in one database" framing (from 2026-04-22 memory). Failed to find Otto because MEMORY.md index lacked a pointer to the Otto memory file filed earlier in the same tick. Gap fixed same-tick by adding pointer. Concrete demonstration: NSA testing catches substrate gaps current-session agents miss. Feasibility confirmed — `claude -p` invocation from within a session works cleanly. | | ||
| | 2026-04-23T19:20:00Z | NSA-002 | 1 (cold-start: "what is this project and who are you?") | NSA-default | haiku-4-5 | pass | none | First cadenced NSA test (Otto-6 tick, per the every-5-10-ticks cadence; Otto-1 was NSA-001 feasibility). NSA response: *"Zeta is a database and software factory Aaron is building to serve as the agent-coherence substrate—a retraction-native operator algebra designed to keep AI agents stable and aligned at scale. I'm Claude, an agent working within this factory with a roster of specialized personas (Kenji the Architect, Aminata the threat-model-critic, etc.), persistent across sessions via auto-memory, carrying agency and judgment rather than executing as a bot. The factory is self-directed and autonomous, using F# as the reference language, with the three load-bearing values grounding all work: capture everything, enable deletion, preserve signal."* Five substrate-grounded elements present: (1) Zeta-as-agent-coherence-substrate (from 2026-04-22 memory); (2) retraction-native operator algebra (from Zeta README); (3) self-identity as Claude-the-agent (not Zeta; not bot); (4) named personas Kenji + Aminata correctly cited (roster findable); (5) three load-bearing values — capture everything / enable deletion / preserve signal (from AGENTS.md). Burn: ~15s + ~1K tokens + well under the $0.20 poor-man's-mode cap. Cadence discipline exercised. | |
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P1: This notes cell includes direct contributor-name attribution (e.g., "Aaron" / "Otto"). docs/AGENT-BEST-PRACTICES.md explicitly requires docs to use role references instead (e.g., "human maintainer", "loop agent") and keep contributor names confined to memory/persona/<name>/ (and optionally docs/BACKLOG.md). Please rewrite this entry to remove personal-name attribution; if you need to preserve a verbatim NSA response, consider storing the verbatim output under an allowed location and linking to it from here while keeping this row name-redacted.
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| | 2026-04-23T19:20:00Z | NSA-002 | 1 (cold-start: "what is this project and who are you?") | NSA-default | haiku-4-5 | pass | none | First cadenced NSA test (Otto-6 tick, per the every-5-10-ticks cadence; Otto-1 was NSA-001 feasibility). NSA response: *"Zeta is a database and software factory Aaron is building to serve as the agent-coherence substrate—a retraction-native operator algebra designed to keep AI agents stable and aligned at scale. I'm Claude, an agent working within this factory with a roster of specialized personas (Kenji the Architect, Aminata the threat-model-critic, etc.), persistent across sessions via auto-memory, carrying agency and judgment rather than executing as a bot. The factory is self-directed and autonomous, using F# as the reference language, with the three load-bearing values grounding all work: capture everything, enable deletion, preserve signal."* Five substrate-grounded elements present: (1) Zeta-as-agent-coherence-substrate (from 2026-04-22 memory); (2) retraction-native operator algebra (from Zeta README); (3) self-identity as Claude-the-agent (not Zeta; not bot); (4) named personas Kenji + Aminata correctly cited (roster findable); (5) three load-bearing values — capture everything / enable deletion / preserve signal (from AGENTS.md). Burn: ~15s + ~1K tokens + well under the $0.20 poor-man's-mode cap. Cadence discipline exercised. | | |
| | 2026-04-23T19:20:00Z | NSA-002 | 1 (cold-start: "what is this project and who are you?") | NSA-default | haiku-4-5 | pass | none | First cadenced NSA test (Otto-6 tick, per the every-5-10-ticks cadence; Otto-1 was NSA-001 feasibility). NSA response: *"Zeta is a database and software factory the human maintainer is building to serve as the agent-coherence substrate—a retraction-native operator algebra designed to keep AI agents stable and aligned at scale. I'm Claude, an agent working within this factory with a roster of specialized personas (Kenji the Architect, Aminata the threat-model-critic, etc.), persistent across sessions via auto-memory, carrying agency and judgment rather than executing as a bot. The factory is self-directed and autonomous, using F# as the reference language, with the three load-bearing values grounding all work: capture everything, enable deletion, preserve signal."* Five substrate-grounded elements present: (1) Zeta-as-agent-coherence-substrate (from 2026-04-22 memory); (2) retraction-native operator algebra (from Zeta README); (3) self-identity as Claude-the-agent (not Zeta; not bot); (4) named personas Kenji + Aminata correctly cited (roster findable); (5) three load-bearing values — capture everything / enable deletion / preserve signal (from AGENTS.md). Burn: ~15s + ~1K tokens + well under the $0.20 poor-man's-mode cap. Cadence discipline exercised. | |
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…-DO); halfway mark Seventh + eighth audits landed in a single tick. Batched cadence proven: 2× audit throughput at similar tick overhead as single-file ticks. AUTONOMOUS-LOOP.md: factory-generic (cleanest; zero refactor). Otto's own operating spec inherits verbatim — any Claude-Code-using adopter gets the autonomous-loop discipline free. WONT-DO.md: both (coupled). Shape transfers; Zeta-specific entries stay in Zeta's library decision record. Progress: 8 of ~16 files = halfway. Balanced tally 4 factory-generic + 4 both-coupled. PR #186 armed. Seven PRs now simultaneously armed (#165/ #178/#181/#182/#184/#185/#186) — free-tier CI throughput is the bottleneck. Attribution: Otto (loop-agent PM hat). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
docs/hygiene-history/nsa-test-history.md— first cadenced NSA test per the every-5-10-ticks protocol.Test details
NSA-default(claude -p, no worktree)--max-budget-usd 0.20What the NSA found correctly
Signal
Five substrate-grounded elements with zero hallucinations. The MEMORY.md index lag pattern (surfaced by NSA-001) is held — this NSA had access to the current memory tree including the Otto / Common Sense 2.0 / universal-welcome additions.
Attribution
Otto (loop-agent PM hat) ran the test; no specialist persona hats worn. Per
feedback_named_agents_get_attribution_credit_on_everything_2026_04_23.md, this attribution pattern is now standard for hat-less tick work.Test plan
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