What changes
Modes
Prepared Single · General
Parent prepares a researcher before task identity is revealed.
B0 / B1 / C1 / D1
Cold, raw-context, human-prepared and AI-prepared task-aware singles are compared under the same held-out contract. C1 is now explicitly aligned across protocol, schema and validator.
D2 / P2_MATCHED
D2 coordinates a functionally diverse prepared team. P2_MATCHED uses the same prepared workers without communication and redirects equivalent budget into independent work.
What v0.4.1 R2 hardened
Complete immutable chain
Contract → commitment → request/trace/capsule/readiness → runtime/blueprint → sealed Round 1 → review/tension/synthesis → proposal/result → bridge adjudication → cost → blind evaluation → reveal → final run record.
Mandatory schemas
Every claim-bearing JSON is checked against an SHA3-pinned Draft 2020-12 schema. Missing jsonschema is a hard failure.
Direct evidence and hashes
Exact-byte sidecars, internal canonical self-hashes, task commitments, capsule/output bytes, raw evidence and evaluator rules are recomputed.
Causal decomposition
Preparation, diversity and coordination remain separate. Both D2 and P2_MATCHED must pass complete validation before comparison.
Team-only emergence
CROSS_MEMBER_BRIDGE requires sealed multi-source lineage, downstream testing and independent adjudication.
Real fail-closed suite
Three packaged valid fixtures and 20 integration tests invoke the actual claim validator; sixteen deliberate corruptions must be rejected.
Why this matters for Bounded-Ridge
A prepared worker may merely reach a better point on the same abstraction ridge—or may become more likely to challenge and rebuild the representation. D2 adds a second hypothesis: differently prepared workers may cover different ridges and create a valid bridge only after controlled interaction.
Public claim boundary
This page documents an experiment-ready candidate mechanism, not a validated capability. It does not establish AI self-improvement, team superiority, autonomous representation invention, AGI, consciousness, or a CLV result.
The canonical CLV v0.4.2 documents remain unchanged. Preparation / Genesis is linked here because it may become a useful experimental instrument for testing representation reopening and worker/team configuration under matched budgets.
Promotion boundary
Current status: validator-hardened and experiment-ready, not evidence-backed.
Promotion into an ArenaLoop candidate architecture should require replicated, cost-adjusted downstream gain and independently adjudicated team-only bridge evidence on more than one held-out task family. Until then, Architecture Spec v0.2.2 remains immutable.
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