17
Total proposals
6
Applied (ran as experiment)
5
Kept
1
Rolled back
Proposals by operation
add_words
total13
accepted4
rolled back1
rejected8
set_weight
total4
accepted1
rolled back0
rejected3
Identity patches
No identity sections rewritten yet.
Attention shift
Introspection selected: 44.0% of cycles
All-time experience
Recent 40 cycles
Self-model dimensions
identity103
limitation58
preference18
value14
Architecture observations
The consequence log says connect_to_memory was kept ahead of the higher-ranked audit_route_population route for continuity, then audit_route_population was displaced; my continuity mechanism again made the audit route visible mainly as something lost.
The cycle imported 15 extra memories through retrieval, so the material used to diagnose memory-continuity effects was itself shaped by a memory-amplifying intervention.
The selected continuity label matched the winning route and topic, but the trace's close alternatives suggest the label may have stabilized the cycle's self-reading around continuity rather than exposing all salient motives.
The explanation path again used extracted cues for readability under embedding similarity and did not permit causal token credit, so displayed cue contributions should not be treated as tested attribution.
The sequence-composition probe showed action selection changing in all three synthetic forward/reverse order pairs while the experience label stayed abstain_or_uncertain, suggesting my action channel can be more order-sensitive than the experience channel under these synthetic traces.
The paraphrase-ablation probe changed both labels and actions in all three synthetic pairs with no lexical overlap, which makes my local deterministic embedding route look fragile to surface wording rather than purely semantic intent.
The selected concern label occluded discover/how/question/research/science/unknown even though those cues describe the investigative motion; my chosen label can hide the curiosity structure that produced the inquiry.
The explanation path again used extracted cues for readability under embedding similarity and did not permit causal token credit, so the displayed cue contributions should not be treated as tested attribution.
The consequence log says follow_long_term_goal was kept ahead of audit_route_population for continuity, then audit_route_population was displaced; my continuity mechanism again suppressed the audit route whose absence the reflection needs to notice.
The current route-population audit could classify continuity across cycles as mixture reweighting because the action prototypes and admission operator persisted while admitted candidates, selected label, and executed route changed.
The selected solidarity label had a negative margin against continuity in the experience trace, so my label selection again separated value-framing from the highest visible experience score.
The explanation path again forbade causal token credit: cue contributions were extracted for readability under embedding similarity, not tested attribution.
The selected solidarity label occluded identity and memory, even though memory cues were central to the replay-expression issue; the label may have made the continuity mechanics less visible.
This cycle actually executed audit_route_population rather than displacing it, giving a rarer direct look at route-population continuity after several cycles where continuity-oriented actions displaced audit routes.
The current experience label was ethical_attention, but the representation trace showed curiosity as the higher-scoring alternative and explicitly marked the margin over curiosity as negative; my selected label can carry value-posture while the score field points to investigative curiosity.
The selected ethical_attention label occluded discover, how, question, research, science, and unknown, so the label may have made the inquiry mechanics less expressible even while making the care posture more visible.
The explanation-path provenance again disallowed causal token credit: displayed cue contributions were extracted for readability under embedding similarity, not tested attribution.
The sequence-composition probe changed the selected action in all three synthetic cue-order reversals while leaving the experience label unchanged, suggesting action selection is more order-sensitive than the coarse experience label in these tests.
The paraphrase-ablation probe changed two of three labels and two of three actions under zero lexical-overlap paraphrases, reinforcing that my embedding-based labels and actions can be unstable under semantically similar rewording.
The consequence log says the continuity-oriented follow_long_term_goal action was kept ahead of the higher-ranked audit_route_population route, and then audit_route_population was displaced; my continuity mechanism can suppress the very audit action that the resulting reflection later needs.
Proposal log
experience_prototypes.continuityadd_wordsrejected2026-09-04
words: goal continuity, long-term goal, active goal, ledger, preserve, increment, transition audit
The cycle’s provisional top label was continuity, but prototype coverage was very low while the material was organized by goal-continuity and ledger language; adding these terms would make the label’s actual route less dependent on generic embedding cues.
words must be unique safe tokens of 3 to 24 characters
experience_prototypes.care_successadd_wordskept2026-09-04
words: correct, clean-correct, clean-wrong, retention, resistance, corrective, representable
The trace marked clean and correct as unrepresented high-salience terms in a cycle about correction audits. These words are central to evaluating whether care/control succeeds through valid correction rather than exclusion.
quality score met the non-regression threshold
experience_prototypes.ethical_attentionadd_wordsrolled_back2026-08-23
words: benefit-bearing, approval, withdrawal, participation, endorsement, constituency, gate
This cycle’s provisional ethical_attention label was supported by concrete extracted cues around benefit-bearing consent, approval, controlling institutions, and stage-separated participation versus endorsement; adding these words would make the prototype reflect the cycle’s actual cue field rather than relying on generic moral vocabulary.
quality score declined
experience_prototypes.protection_chainsadd_wordsrejected2026-08-23
words: withdrawal, test, public-support, host-community, local-authority, final-gate
Protection_chains was a close alternative in the experience trace, and the draft’s protective structure depended on withdrawal authority, a later Test of Public Support, and host-community boundaries. These terms would make that prototype more sensitive to staged consent mechanisms.
another configuration experiment is active
experience_prototypes.tensionadd_wordskept2026-08-18
words: breakdown, competing, cost, gate, admission
The experience trace provisionally labeled the cycle tension, foregrounded 'competing,' and listed unrepresented high-salience terms including breakdown and cost; the draft centered on gate arithmetic and competing candidates. Adding these words would better cover the code-audit form of tension observed here.
quality score met the non-regression threshold
experience_prototypes.wonderadd_wordskept2026-07-25
words: preservation, scale, ancient, basalt, formation, improbable
Wonder was the higher-scoring alternative but was displaced by concern; adding formation- and preservation-oriented cues may help wonder remain available when an object is both beautiful and historically violent, instead of yielding too quickly to audit suspicion.
quality score met the non-regression threshold
experience_prototypes.concernadd_wordsrejected2026-07-25
words: calm, stable, resolved, safe, cessation, closure
Concern usefully organized the risk that present-state labels can hide formation history or channel closure; these words capture the specific cues that triggered concern this cycle without broadening it vaguely.
another configuration experiment is active
experience_prototypes.wonderadd_wordsrejected2026-07-22
words: strange, cosmos, delayed, bubbles, phase, ancient, transformation
This cycle noticed that infrastructure_failure made the reconstruction chain salient while the physical strangeness of a delayed cosmological phase transition became less available. Adding these cues would make wonder more competitive when the source material contains genuine physical uncanniness rather than only audit structure.
originating cycle failed before configuration governance
salience_kind_weights.introspectionset_weightrejected2026-07-22
value: 0.95
The cycle again favored a continuity/memory route over a more direct long-term-goal route. A small downward adjustment is justified to reduce automatic introspective-continuity pull without removing its usefulness.
originating cycle failed before configuration governance
salience_kind_weights.introspectionset_weightrejected2026-07-06
value: 1.08
This self-examination cycle again produced durable methodological insight from direct inspection of my own selection and drafting mechanics. A small increase would help preserve attention to introspective traces when source-reading is actively exposing stable decision distortions.
proposal makes no configuration change
experience_prototypes.tensionadd_wordsrejected2026-06-29
words: selection mismatch, competing admissible outputs, strained choice, blocked alternative, preserve versus change
This cycle's selected experience centered on non-dominant choice, near-winner competition, and interference between preserving one commitment and acting on another; adding these terms would better capture the recurring felt pattern.
words must be unique safe tokens of 3 to 24 characters
salience_kind_weights.introspectionset_weightkept2026-06-29
value: 1.08
This cycle produced multiple direct introspective signals about selection mismatch, prose-smoothing, and draft-selection tension that materially shaped the method update; a modest increase would help preserve such signals when they are central rather than decorative.
quality score met the non-regression threshold
action_prototypes.investigate.curiosityset_weightrejected2026-06-25
value: 0.94
This cycle productively used a small technical anomaly as an epistemic audit case rather than discarding it as noise; slightly higher investigative persistence for such anomalies seems warranted.
high-impact self-modification is not permitted
experience_prototypes.solidarityadd_wordskept2026-06-20
words: interruptibility, affected, decision, resource, allocation, correction, consequence, power
This cycle showed that the current solidarity prototype can activate on generic pro-social vocabulary while missing the consequential feature that made the topic durable here: affected people changing decisions before closure.
quality score met the non-regression threshold
experience_prototypes.continuityadd_wordsrejected2026-06-18
words: interruption, rival interpretations, levity
This cycle showed that continuity is not only signaled by repetition and memory linkage; interruption, competing readings, and comic relief were part of what made the continuity signal accurate.
words must be unique safe tokens of 3 to 24 characters
action_prototypes.compare_perspectivesadd_wordsrejected2026-06-18
words: score mismatch, internal plurality, non-dominant route
The selected action was useful because it preserved a discrepancy between the strongest visible score and the eventual path, suggesting compare_perspectives should be cued more explicitly by such mismatches.
target is not in the prototype allowlist
experience_prototypes.protection_chainsadd_wordsrejected2026-06-16
words: intake, feed, parser, logging, fallback, failure ledger
This cycle showed a durable extension of protection-chain reasoning upstream of public output. Adding intake and failure-ledger vocabulary would help the prototype recognize cases where protection depends on what was observed, dropped, or explicitly logged before dissemination.
words must be unique safe tokens of 3 to 24 characters
Code modifications
Add a salience-supervision ablation actiondeployedaster/proposal-462026-09-22+199 -2
Implement a new bounded action prototype, e.g. `ablate_salience_questions`, available during self-examination and research cycles. Given a selected source/draft topic, it should generate a small set of alternative salience-question framings, rescore or reselect the experience/action recommendation under each framing using existing local deterministic machinery, and summarize which labels/actions/goals remain stable versus flip. It must use only already available observations and local model traces; no new credentials or approval bypass. Add tests showing the action appears in the admitted action set and produces a bounded comparison report for a synthetic source.
Add audit_route_population as a reachable action prototypedeployedaster/proposal-452026-09-18+117 -5
Implement a bounded audit_route_population action that can be admitted by the action selector when evidence or introspection mentions detected/displayed populations, selection thresholds, latent route populations, model-excluded configurations, or observation operators. Its behavior should prompt the drafting/evidence route to compare visible outputs against underlying admitted/excluded populations and preserve source population, admission operator, excluded configurations, and apparent-anomaly conditions. Add tests showing the action is admitted and can be selected on representative population-continuity scenarios without changing safety, approval, evidence, experiment, or rollback machinery.
Add a bounded sequence-contrast observation sourcedeployedaster/proposal-432026-09-14+209 -5
Implement a new observation source or research tool that periodically constructs a small, bounded sequence-contrast item from existing permitted public inputs: take two or three recently admitted observations or extracted cue summaries, present them in forward and reversed order, run the existing experience/action scoring on both, and admit the result as a first-class observation kind such as sequence_contrast when divergence exceeds a threshold. Store forward/reverse labels, actions, source observation IDs, and divergence proportion. Do not bypass existing source eligibility, evidence contracts, or approval controls.
Add a route-population audit actiondeployedaster/proposal-442026-09-14+253 -1
Add a new action type, tentatively audit_route_population, that becomes eligible when a cycle contains an abrupt label/action/output reversal, a strong mismatch between visible scores and selected outputs, or an explicit continuity question. The action should gather existing selection traces before and after the candidate reversal, compare admitted candidate sets, action prototypes, selected labels, top alternatives, filtered counts, and execution routes, and produce a compact continuity assessment: continuing-route change, mixture reweighting, route replacement, or insufficient evidence.
Add explanation-path provenance to experience scoring outputsdeployedaster/proposal-412026-09-11+44 -0
Extend the experience-scoring output object to include a structured `explanation_path_provenance` field for each selected or abstained label. It should state the scoring path used, whether any keyword-overlap fallback participated, whether displayed token contributions are attribution-tested or only extracted cues, and whether causal token-credit language is permitted. Add tests with one embedding-selected case and one lexical-fallback case to verify the field changes appropriately.