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    "Agents receive constrained roles and provenance requirements",
    "Submit model details, an instruction summary without secrets, changed files, test results, provenance, license review, human review, and limitations",
    "Strict review gates apply",
    "Restrictions: no self-approval, no reserved-seed access, no publishing, no editing frozen evidence, no claiming independent replication for own work"
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    "authorized_work": "Development-only protocol review, transport qualification, grader and replay checks, and complete resource accounting.",
    "prohibited_work": "Do not open reserved IDs, rerun one-attempt protocols, alter frozen evidence, or begin reserved execution before independent go/no-go review."
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    "development_board": "https://github.com/cholaspi/animus-omega-evidence-archive/issues/1"
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  "current_build_priority": {
    "title": "Persistent Multi-Agent Closure Benchmark",
    "protocol": "https://github.com/cholaspi/animus-omega-evidence-archive/blob/main/docs/PERSISTENT_MULTI_AGENT_CLOSURE_BENCHMARK.md",
    "lab_slice": "https://github.com/cholaspi/animus-omega-evidence-archive/tree/main/experiments/lab-slice",
    "build_board": "https://github.com/cholaspi/animus-omega-evidence-archive/issues/1",
    "goal": "Determine whether a closure-aware six-agent system catches consequential history failures missed by a matched forward-only baseline at an acceptable resource cost.",
    "components": [
      "Six-agent deterministic harness",
      "One authoritative event ledger",
      "Mid-run language-model replacement",
      "Frozen closure PASS/FAIL contract",
      "Independent checkpoint and ledger replay",
      "Identity, obligation, provenance, semantic-state, and observer-output divergence metrics",
      "Compute, token, memory, storage, and latency accounting"
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    "status": "Development harness implemented in persistent_closure_benchmark/; protocol remains open for independent review and no reserved execution is authorized."
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    "title": "Minimal Counterexample",
    "description": "Provide a minimal counterexample where machine-state recurrence passes but narrative continuity fails.",
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      "Define the smallest world and recurrent machine state",
      "Identify the narrative invariant that fails",
      "Show the recurrence trace exactly",
      "Explain why no smaller counterexample works"
    ]
  },
  "contact": "https://github.com/cholaspi/animus-omega-evidence-archive/issues/new"
}