ARCHITECTURE SEAL
Architecture complete is not implementation complete.
Architecture complete means
- major component boundaries
- interfaces
- authority
- memory architecture
- development path
- compatibility rules
- negative constraints
It does not mean
- all software exists
- all models are trained
- all benchmarks pass
- all hardware exists
- the system is empirically validated
- production deployment is complete
THE BUILD PRINCIPLE
CONVENTIONAL BASELINE FIRST.
The cognitive architecture must be buildable on ordinary compute. Experimental compute is optional. If an accelerator fails to demonstrate value, the baseline organism still works.
U0–U7 complete the conventional baseline.
Conventional organism trunk from U0 to U7, then optional experimental branches U8 to U12. Optional stages are not a mandatory sequential chain.
CONVENTIONAL ORGANISM TRUNK
U0
CONTRACT FREEZE
- architecture
- canonical IDs
- schemas
- authority
- compatibility aliases
- negative fixtures
No model training is required to pass U0.
U1
RUNTIME KERNEL
- process isolation
- grants
- policy
- traces
- health
- checkpoints
- Action gateway
U2
PREDICTIVE CORTEX FABRIC
- PCF
- payload references
- sparse communication
- activation
- temporary coalitions
U3
EVIDENCE & MEMORY
- Evidence Library
- M0–M7 memory ecology
- memory governance
- provenance
- retention / consolidation mechanisms
U4
LANGUAGE & REPRESENTATION
- GPT-U
- RPL-IR
- codec registry
- communication interfaces
Language is not the whole cognitive system.
U5
REASONING & PLANNING
- reasoning
- constraint processing
- planning
- scenario generation
- decision-support pathways
Planning still does not own external action authority.
U6
PERCEPTION & WORLD
- perception
- world-model integration
- temporal state
- uncertainty
- observation interfaces
U7
DEVELOPMENT
- self-model continuity
- relationships
- plasticity
- skill development
- consolidation
- automaticity
- homeostasis
- governed self-modification
At this point the conventional-compute baseline is structurally complete according to the roadmap. This is not a claim of empirically validated general intelligence.
OPTIONAL EXPERIMENTAL BRANCHES
U8–U12 are optional experimental branches. They are not prerequisites for U0–U7 cognition, and they are not a mandatory sequential chain.
U8 · OPTIONAL
E8 EXPERIMENTAL MEMORY / REPRESENTATION
- optional E8 codec / index research
Must fail independently.
U9 · OPTIONAL
QTI / QPU
- optional quantum / alternative-compute acceleration
U10 · OPTIONAL
RHU / RPCI
- optional experimental resonant / hybrid compute interfaces
U11 · OPTIONAL
EMBODIMENT
- simulator-first embodied integration
- shadow
- human-in-loop
- physical systems
U12 · OPTIONAL
MEASURED SUBSTRATE MIGRATION
- advantage
- parity where required
- correctness
- rollback capability
Move components to alternative hardware only when measurement demonstrates the case. No speculative migration by ideology.
BUILD GATES
Progress through evidence, not optimism.
CONTRACT
Does the component satisfy its interface?
CORRECTNESS
Does it behave as specified?
ISOLATION
Can failure remain bounded?
AUTHORITY
Can it exceed permitted power?
MEMORY
Does it preserve provenance and continuity?
REGRESSION
Did new capability break previous capability?
BENCHMARK
Does it improve relevant measured behaviour?
ROLLBACK
Can it safely return to a known-good state?
DEVELOPMENTAL TRAINING
The system is not intended to appear fully formed.
Training and development can progress through increasing competence. This is not a claim that child development is literally reproduced, and no training schedule is published here.
- basic capability
- integration
- increasing complexity
- social interaction
- memory continuity
- tool competence
- world understanding
- self-model
- governed adaptation