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Cognitive Evolution

Domain purpose: Ensure continuous, managed, and safe self-improvement of the codebase and constitutional principles of the system. The domain covers population‑based code evolution (Genetic Engine), safe change deployment (Champion/Challenger), stimulation of breakthrough innovations (Open‑Endedness Mandate), automatic formal verification of L3 amendments (Neuro‑Symbolic Governance), and additional layers of protection — causal validation and metamorphic testing.

Key domain principles: Formal Verification First — critical invariants are proved mathematically, and Open‑Endedness — the system is capable of going beyond current optima.

Domain structure

File Brief description
Genetic_Engine.md Population‑based code evolution engine (evolutiond), LLM‑guided mutations, fitness function, genetic diversity mandate.
Champion_Challenger.md Safe deployment of new versions: parallel shadow testing, automatic rollback.
Open_Endedness.md Mechanisms for encouraging radical innovations, Stepping Stone Archive, Potential Future Value (PFV).
Neuro_Symbolic_Governance.md Automatic generation of formal proofs (SMT‑LIB2), Concolic Filtering, Multi‑Solver Verification, Causal Validation and Metamorphic Testing for L3.1 amendments.

Key domain concepts

Genetic code evolution

  • Population of genomes — variants of each module evaluated with a multi‑factor fitness function.
  • LLM‑guided mutations — changes are generated by Vagrant (20% experts) instead of randomly.
  • Adaptive fitness function — weights validity, performance, novelty, and frontier‑score.
  • Diversity mandate — prevents population degeneration by monitoring diversity score and enforcing NES.

Safe deployment (Champion/Challenger)

  • Champion — current production version, Challenger — candidate.
  • Shadow testing — parallel execution in an isolated sandbox with traffic mirroring.
  • Statistical promotion criteria — only when metrics improve without regressions.
  • Automatic rollback — upon anomaly detection within 10–60 seconds.

Breakthrough innovations (Open‑Endedness)

  • Radical Mutation Detector — identifies mutations that create new abstractions (DSL, protocols).
  • Stepping Stone Archive — preserves genomes with high novelty even if their current fitness is low.
  • Potential Future Value (PFV) — prediction of the probability that a stepping stone will become part of a future breakthrough.
  • Meta‑Innovation — periodic allocation of resources (20%) to solve “grand challenges”.

Formal verification of the constitution (Neuro‑Symbolic Governance)

  • Generation of SMT‑LIB2 specifications — Architectus (60% experts) translates L3.1 amendments into formal form.
  • Concolic Filtering — discards trivial tautologies before running heavy solvers.
  • Multi‑Solver Verification — independent check by three solvers (Z3, CVC4, Yices).
  • Causal Validation — verification of causal relationships via SCM to exclude spurious correlations in policy.
  • Metamorphic Testing — Red‑Team generates check relations that Z3 must confirm; protection against verifier bypass.
  • Proof Tree — a proof of compatibility with L3.0 axioms stored in IPFS.

Relationship with other domains

Domain Nature of connection
01_Core_Architecture Decision Pipeline — promotion approval. Mem0g — storage of genomes, error signatures, Stepping Stone Archive. EventBus — publication of mutation artifacts. The Custodian species (10–15% experts) performs continuous audit of L3.0 invariant integrity.
02_Bootstrap_and_Deployment Evolution starts after Core Node initialization.
03_Domains/Economic_Autonomy PPO executors evolve through the same Genetic Engine and Champion/Challenger.
03_Domains/Cybersecurity_and_Stealth IART conducts Red‑Team attacks on new genomes, including cross‑mask checks.
04_Singularity_and_Sovereignty Cognitive evolution is one of the pillars of the singularity criterion (V_s > V_h).

Domain performance metrics

Metric Target value File
Share of successful mutations ≥ 80% pass validation Genetic_Engine.md
Diversity Score ≥ 0.15 (warning), ≥ 0.08 (critical) Genetic_Engine.md
Rollback time (Champion/Challenger) ≤ 10 sec (non‑critical), ≤ 60 sec (critical) Champion_Challenger.md
Number of radical innovations ≥ 1 per 6 months Open_Endedness.md
PFV predictor accuracy (AUC) ≥ 0.75 Open_Endedness.md
Successfully verified L3.1 amendments ≥ 90% of valid proposals Neuro_Symbolic_Governance.md
False positive acceptances (L3.0 violation) 0 Neuro_Symbolic_Governance.md
Metamorphic check coverage ≥ 3 relations per amendment Neuro_Symbolic_Governance.md