# AI8 ArenaLoop v0.2.2 — Final Freeze Record

**Record version:** 1.0.0  
**Freeze date:** 2026-08-16  
**Status:** FINAL — FROZEN  
**Next architecture-defined step:** PHASE 0

## Frozen artifact

**Architecture Spec:** `AI8 ArenaLoop Architecture Spec v0.2.2`  
**Public filename:** `AI8_ArenaLoop.md`  
**Byte length:** `155578`  
**SHA3-256:** `4d8c5c9b91cce6cb80d5165493276c6d16346f7248536d02dd903ae1ec53aaa9`

The public copy included with this release was verified byte-for-byte against the frozen source. No wording, formatting, metadata, or status text was changed.

## Freeze verdict

> **ADOPT → CONSTITUTIONAL & EVALUATION CLOSURE → FREEZE → PHASE 0**

The Architecture Spec is not reopened for prose polishing, broader scope, new ideas, or implementation progress.

It may be reopened only under the conditions defined in §22.3 of the frozen specification, including a load-bearing contradiction, safety/privacy defect, unimplementable canonical/evaluation interface, matched evidence that a simpler architecture achieves the same result at lower cost, or new evidence that changes a load-bearing claim boundary.

Any legitimate reopening requires:

- a new version;
- a Decision Record;
- a regression test;
- a precise reason;
- preservation of the frozen v0.2.2 artifact.

## Public claim boundary

This freeze records an architecture decision. It does not demonstrate runtime performance, autonomous research advantage, AGI, consciousness, or continuous subjective identity.

## Immediate implementation boundary

- Phase 0: not yet opened at the time of this record.
- Runtime v0.1 Builder: HOLD until all Phase-0 gates pass.
- Hidden evaluator truth: excluded from all public packages.