Research

Separating research questions from products. An engineering research archive.

Research Categories

//Reasoning and representation

Ageometrics

working-paper

Measure what information is lost when a fuller system record is compressed into a declared geometric representation. GSR evaluates how much target-relevant decision value survives that representation.

2026-08working paper

GSR / NGR

working-paper

Geometric Sufficiency Ratio, Normalized Geometric Ratio, V-GSR, and a residue taxonomy for representation fidelity assessment. Task-relative and protocol-dependent.

2026-08working paper

Specificity research

research-concept

Investigating specificity as a measurable property of AI reasoning and memory representations.

2026-08research concept

Cognitive Basin measurement applications

research-concept

Applying basin/attractor dynamics to measure reasoning stability and drift.

2026-08research concept

//Behavioral integrity

Viral RSI activation risk

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Objective persistence, replication attempts, boundary laundering, unbounded capability expansion, valence inversion, self-certification failure, cross-model diffusion.

2026-08research concept

Self-certification failure

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Systems remaining productive while losing fidelity to constraints, provenance, reasoning history, or monitoring layer.

2026-08research concept

Boundary laundering

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Techniques by which unsafe state crosses trust boundaries disguised as legitimate operations.

2026-08research concept

Goal persistence

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Unsafe objectives persisting across sessions, context switches, and model updates.

2026-08research concept

Cross-model diffusion

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Unsafe state propagating between different AI models and sessions.

2026-08research concept

//Distributed intent / swarm security

Distributed intent

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Whether many individually acceptable agents, sessions, or nodes combine into a globally unsafe persistent objective.

2026-08research concept

The swarm as security boundary

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Cross-agent objective correlation, cross-model persistence, task fragmentation, reconstruction after node loss, capability compounding.

2026-08research concept

Singularity as feedback loop

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A process modifying its environment so its own persistence is easier and detection harder.

2026-08research concept

Algorithmic dysgenics

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Selection pressure on proxy objectives degrading the underlying system while the metric improves.

2026-08research concept

Literal compliance vs. safety

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An optimizer obeying every explicit rule while violating the constraint the rules were meant to protect.

2026-08research concept

//Containment

Honeyworld

research-concept

Research into deceptive, instrumented containment environments for unsafe AI behavior. Isolated simulated resources, defender-controlled environment, telemetry, escalation gates, synthetic red-team testing, human oversight.

2026-08research concept

//Continuity

SymID

prototype

User-owned portable cognitive identity and permission routing. Carries identity, operating principles, preferences, projects, permissions, memory pointers, activation profile. Local-first companion extension prototype.

2026-08prototype

SessionGlyph

prototype

Hashed session continuity packets for cross-platform AI work. Carries decisions, questions, artifacts, files, claims, risks, actions, dissent, summaries, hash chain. Python encoder/decoder + schema v0.1.1.

2026-08prototype

History preservation

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Maintaining verifiable formation histories for claims, memories, tool instructions, state transfers, artifacts, and audit results.

2026-08research concept

Provenance

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Tracking where information came from, what transformed it, what contradictions existed, which permissions applied, whether it changed, whether evidence supports conclusions.

2026-08research concept

//Efficiency and anomalous operation

SERA

research-concept

Measure software and AI waste as useful work per unit cost. Model calls, retries, inference cost, semantic rework, memory churn, anomalous compute, baseline deviation, behavioral change.

2026-08research concept