{ "schemaVersion": 2, "date": "2026.08.29", "publishedAt": "2026-08-29T09:41:27-07:00", "timeZone": "America/Los_Angeles", "title": "Phase 3F-V finds the missing pre-reproduction gap probe", "publicationStatus": "Phase 3F-V implementation, full Hiro validation, public journal tests, and the production journal build completed successfully", "executiveSummary": [ "Phase 3F-V added a non-authoritative viability boundary before research reproduction. It inspects current production capabilities, requires measurable gap evidence, checks for a bounded implementation surface, and returns an explicit pre-reproduction disposition.", "The six original Phase 3F findings were used only as a diagnostic corpus. An initial diagnostic exposed a real false-positive defect: generic runtime failures and hypothetical new modules were accepted as evidence of a current bounded opportunity.", "The minimum repair required a numeric baseline tied to cited telemetry, existing repository evidence for required input signals, an existing production path, and a production change rather than evaluation-only instrumentation. The preserved six plans then produced zero false viable findings and six GAP_UNPROVEN outcomes.", "A fresh bounded campaign considered 72 sources, retained 14 after excluding prior material, validated 32 claims, and produced eight explicit Hiro-transfer feasibility plans. Twenty-four claims terminated NOT_HIRO_RELEVANT.", "All eight fresh plans were assessed and independently audited. The model proposed all eight as viable, but deterministic validation rejected all eight as GAP_UNPROVEN because none established the required current numeric baseline. Seven cited no runtime measurement and one cited telemetry without reproducing its count in the baseline observation.", "Three independent model audits also incorrectly treated absence of a specific mechanism as proof of an improvement gap. The deterministic evidence contract correctly vetoed those judgments, demonstrating why model agreement alone is insufficient.", "The first unresolved boundary is CURRENT_CAPABILITY_PROBE to MEASURED_GAP. Hiro can describe a cheap baseline probe but does not yet have a safe declarative primitive that executes and freezes that baseline before deciding viability.", "No reproduction experiment ran, no candidate was constructed, no promotion was requested, and no meta-improvement began. The complete Hiro repository suite passed 864 tests with one expected skip.", "Hiro was restarted and is healthy with the local model connected and its checkout and loaded runtime aligned at revision 6f317c9242b78e613249fc42eb046632c064a13a.", "Phase 3F-V is not demonstrated. The evidence identifies a gap-assessment interface failure rather than a downstream reproduction, candidate, governor, or promotion failure." ], "workstreams": [ { "title": "Original six-finding diagnostic", "status": "Completed", "details": [ "Repository inspection established that the context-projection, adaptive-reasoning-cost, and bounded-reasoning-depth mechanisms already existed, but no claim-specific current performance baseline proved a remaining optimization gap.", "Repository inspection established that structured action-sequence search had no typed, scoreable production action-sequence contract and that graph retrieval had no relation or edge metadata in the current recall interface.", "The earliest reliable stop for the first three findings was gap assessment; for the remaining three it was transfer-surface assessment. Their historical Phase 3F dispositions were not changed." ] }, { "title": "Capability, gap, and transfer contract", "status": "Completed", "details": [ "Added explicit capability states for absent, present-with-gap, present-without-gap, and uncertain capabilities.", "Added structured current-capability evidence, gap hypothesis, baseline method, source mechanism, expected direction, cheap-probe description, target component, permitted paths, required input evidence, blast radius, holdout design, and resource observables.", "Repository evidence includes AST-derived function behavior such as called functions, branch count, and await count rather than relying only on symbol names and docstrings.", "Deterministic validation rejects invented evidence references, evidence-reference strings used as paths, speculative new production modules, evaluation-only changes, unmeasured gap prose, and prohibited improvement-controller scope.", "The policy grants no reproduction, candidate-construction, promotion, or meta-improvement authority." ] }, { "title": "Fresh bounded qualification", "status": "Completed", "details": [ "The normal source collector considered arXiv, GitHub, and Moltbook material. Seventeen sources from the prior corpus were excluded by immutable source identity; no title or claim-specific allowlist was used.", "Seventy-two sources were considered and fourteen retained, all from arXiv. Thirty-two claims validated; feasibility planning found eight local-ready explicit transfer hypotheses and classified twenty-four as not Hiro-relevant.", "The final fixed-input viability report assessed all eight relevant plans and returned eight GAP_UNPROVEN outcomes and zero viable findings.", "The campaign stopped before reproduction exactly as authorized." ] } ], "decisions": [ "Preserve the first false-positive diagnostic rather than overwrite it, then restart the same diagnostic only after minimum evidence-contract repairs.", "Distinguish mechanism novelty from improvement evidence: absence of a named mechanism is not proof that adding it improves Hiro, and an existing mechanism may remain viable only when a measured deficiency exists.", "Require a numeric current baseline tied to canonical runtime evidence for a present-with-gap classification.", "Do not lower thresholds, manually choose a source, run reproduction, or force a candidate to meet the target of five.", "Classify the remaining defect at the first unresolved boundary: a proposed cheap probe is not equivalent to an executed, frozen baseline probe." ], "validation": [ { "check": "Focused viability and fresh-source tests", "status": "passed", "result": "10 tests passed; the only warning was the existing inaccessible pytest cache directory." }, { "check": "Original six-plan diagnostic after repair", "status": "passed", "result": "Six relevant plans terminated GAP_UNPROVEN and zero terminated VIABLE_FOR_REPRODUCTION; the immutable report SHA-256 is ff49c97ae264553ce2b6b9834e5cd95cd461deedd91fbe8a90623b53ef7f616f." }, { "check": "Fresh fixed-input qualification", "status": "passed", "result": "All eight relevant fresh plans completed assessment and audit; eight terminated GAP_UNPROVEN and zero became viable. The final immutable report SHA-256 is df1df34eedfa0a1fe768304cde5946ace7f5e39080d7f1c84ae904c7cf76e1ae." }, { "check": "Complete Hiro repository suite", "status": "passed", "result": "864 tests passed, one expected test was skipped, and seven non-failing warnings were reported in 514.95 seconds." }, { "check": "Live runtime identity", "status": "passed", "result": "Hiro reported healthy with the local model connected and checkout and loaded runtime both at 6f317c9242b78e613249fc42eb046632c064a13a." }, { "check": "Public journal tests and production build", "status": "passed", "result": "npm run test:hiro passed. npm run build generated and validated 179 journal pages, compiled TypeScript, and completed the Vite production bundle. The clean checkout first required npm ci; installation reported one existing high-severity dependency advisory, which was not modified because dependency maintenance was outside this session." } ], "currentState": [ "The viability-aware pre-reproduction boundary is implemented and active in the local Hiro checkout.", "The fresh Phase 3F-V qualification is terminal with zero viable findings and no downstream authority exercised.", "Hiro is healthy and revision-aligned at 6f317c9242b78e613249fc42eb046632c064a13a.", "The implementation commits are local because the remote branch advanced concurrently by two unrelated commits; no force push or unrelated merge was performed.", "No new Phase 3F campaign and no meta-improvement has started." ], "limitations": [ "Hiro cannot yet execute a generic, safe, baseline-only cheap probe from the structured gap proposal and bind raw observations to the viability decision.", "Because that measurement boundary is missing, the result cannot distinguish a genuinely source-poor corpus from promising hypotheses whose current gaps were simply not measured.", "Independent model audits were not reliable enough by themselves: three endorsed mechanism absence without current performance evidence. Deterministic validation prevented those false positives.", "This qualification did not test research reproduction, candidate construction, candidate merit, governor behavior, or promotion, and it provides no evidence of recursive self-improvement." ], "nextSteps": [ "Under separate authorization, define a declarative cheap-baseline probe contract with frozen cases, bounded local execution, raw observations, independent metric calculation, and no source-mechanism treatment.", "Requalify the preserved eight plans through that boundary before running new discovery; only measured gaps should proceed to reproduction planning.", "Keep full reproduction, candidate construction, promotion, and meta-improvement disabled until the pre-reproduction gap boundary is empirically demonstrated.", "Resolve the concurrent remote Hiro branch only in a separately validated integration session; do not force-push this tested local revision." ], "disclosureNote": "This public entry contains no credentials, private source text, personal interaction content, local filesystem locations, private network addresses, or actionable unresolved security details." }