Review follow-ups: the s-shorthand convention and its glossary echo now
cover Q_E's own state argument (s -> w where Q_E reads it), and the Q_E
glossary row carries the factored (w, a) ~> (w', o) reading so the
symbol table no longer reintroduces the environment-reads-all-of-s
interpretation the outer-kernel note warns against. PRIMER: the
top-alone-widens bullet keeps owner language anchored to the
simple-case top; success is defined as an accepted end, consistent
with the declared-vs-actually-right distinction two sentences later.
HYPOTHESIS.md:
- carry the initial law mu_0 in the tuple (and its displayed signature);
split the rejection symbol into parse failure vs authorization
refusal, with gamma(s, bot_Y) = bot_A as an axiom and a positional
convention for the remaining bare bots
- factor the state s = (q, w) and retype Q_E to (w, a) ~> (w', o) so the
latent world has a generator and the displayed T is its stated
projection; quantify fail-closed over a rejection-invariant safe set K
- read H_ok as operational acceptance (H_acc) against analysis-only
success G, with a convention for which claims read which side; score
C6's ceiling against G and pin C5's slack to the correct-halting
drift, resolving the tension with its own falsifier
- state ledger integrity relative to an attestation assumption (reported
vs actual effects); split cancellation into safe vs unresolved and
count unresolved as possibly-bad; add the realizability clause to
C1/C3; admit multi-principal trust tops as deployment choices
- reversibility is declared in the tool contract the gate reads at
authorization; the returned record's mark is confirmation, not source
PRIMER.md: mirror the same corrections in plain language -- ceiling not
cliff for the desk wall, contract-first reversibility, the multi-party
trust top (including the summary line), declared-vs-actual success on
dashboards, reported-vs-actual ledger honesty, cancel is not
automatically safe.
HYPOTHESIS.md:
- New appendix entry "Daemons (the recurrent harness)": a daemon as the
regenerative process of concatenated runs — ready-set recurrence,
renewal-reward lifting exactly at regeneration points, accumulation as
what breaks regeneration (cross-cycle provenance meet, renewal events
that reset accumulated risk), and authority under intermittence
(owner contact as a renewal point for authority; TOCTOU at cycle
scale).
- New body section "The loop": the task-dispatching outer loop as the
harness construction applied one level out — the composition
correspondence read at the top level, the daemon as its single-agent
special case, the bare while-loop as the trivial-group harness one
level up. Flagged as a sketch; outer fail-closed/reach-avoid
treatment deferred to later rounds.
- Veto caveat threaded to match: judge-as-veto safety scoped to the
authority lattice, and the nonblocking escape degrades to an
always-enabled safe halt when the principal is unreachable.
- Consistency: Grounding's Asserted tier now covers "The loop";
"always-enabled escalation" -> "escape" (the appendix's own term, now
that the escape has an unattended form); brace the one unbraced \bot
subscript (linter section-B HIT).
PRIMER.md: new plain-language companion — same object, no symbols, the
formal doc wins every disagreement. README's entry link now points at
the primer, which links onward to HYPOTHESIS.md.
Patrick Buckley