ExperimentEXP-2026-0004v0.1
R3 — epistemic commit transaction vs scattered and centralized application gates
All canonical writes in AER-0 were migrated to an Epistemic Commit Transaction (claim, evidence, provenance, valid/observed time, expected version, operator, verification policy, authority, dependencies, refresh policy); direct candidate commit became a negative path. Three systems ran the same governance witnesses: an application whose policy is scattered across callers, an application with one centralized mandatory gate, and AER-ECT. The centralized application gate matched AER-ECT on every tested property; computational uniqueness is not supported. 48 tests.
Hypothesis
hypothesis- Binding evidence, provenance, verification, authority, expected version, temporal validity, dependencies and refresh policy into one mandatory canonical-mutation boundary is a new computational capability — or only an architectural elevation of existing mechanisms.
Setup
software_environment- Python 3.11+, SQLite; no network, no external database, no LLM API required.
Runs
run_count- 1
controls- APP_CENTRALIZED_GATE is the fair strong opponent; APP_SCATTERED_POLICY is a mutation witness, not a claim about all applications.
metricsverdict- ArchitecturalElevation SUPPORTED; ComputationalUniqueness NOT SUPPORTED
tests_passed- 48
tableunprovenanced_write_blockedscattered- FAIL
central_gate- PASS
aer_ect- PASS
stale_write_conflict_caughtscattered- FAIL
central_gate- PASS
aer_ect- PASS
automatic_auditscattered- FAIL on mutated path
central_gate- PASS
aer_ect- PASS
single_governance_sitescattered- NO
central_gate- YES
aer_ect- YES
canonical_node_links_transactionscattered- N/A
central_gate- optional
aer_ect- PASS
noveltyprimitive- WEAK
transaction- WEAK
provenance- NONE claimed
versioning- NONE claimed
belief_revision- NONE claimed
temporal- NONE claimed
compositional- PLAUSIBLE / NOT PROVEN
Interpretation
interpretation- Prior art (truth maintenance, transaction logic, agent knowledge-base transactions, W3C PROV, bitemporal data, PDP/PEP, age-of-information scheduling) covers every part. The value is 'there is only one legal write path' instead of 'remember to enforce policy everywhere' — an epistemically governed runtime, not a new computational species. A fair application that centralizes the same rules converges to the same form, which is itself an attractor witness.
Limitations
limitations- General performance, security advantage and real LangGraph executable equivalence NOT MEASURED.
- Not an exhaustive novelty search; establishes no patent or publication novelty.
Reproduction
reproduction_instructions- Extract the round's FINAL bundle; python -m pytest -q; python -m examples.research_assistant_demo; python -m benchmarks.<round benchmark>. Checksums in SHA256SUMS.txt.
Results
| Source | Relation | Target | Status | ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
EXP-2026-0004 R3 — epistemic commit transaction vs scattered and centralized application gates | produces | RST-2026-0003 R3: AER-ECT ≈ centralized application gate | ACTIVE | REL-2026-0134 |
Recorded fields
completed_at- 2026-09-08
Relations
| Source | Relation | Target | Status | ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
EXP-2026-0004 R3 — epistemic commit transaction vs scattered and centralized application gates | runs_on | SYS-2026-0001 AER-0 — Adaptive Epistemic Runtime MVP | ACTIVE | REL-2026-0127 |
EXP-2026-0004 R3 — epistemic commit transaction vs scattered and centralized application gates | uses_benchmark | BEN-2026-0002 AER-0 architecture-comparison suite (R1–R6) | ACTIVE | REL-2026-0128 |
EXP-2026-0004 R3 — epistemic commit transaction vs scattered and centralized application gates | tests | THY-2026-0006 AER-ECT: a mandatory epistemic commit transaction boundary | ACTIVE | REL-2026-0129 |
EXP-2026-0004 R3 — epistemic commit transaction vs scattered and centralized application gates | tests | THY-2026-0002 Canonical symbolic state and candidate → verify → commit authority | ACTIVE | REL-2026-0130 |
EXP-2026-0004 R3 — epistemic commit transaction vs scattered and centralized application gates | tests | THY-2026-0003 Intelligent architecture attractor | ACTIVE | REL-2026-0131 |
EXP-2026-0004 R3 — epistemic commit transaction vs scattered and centralized application gates | extends | EXP-2026-0003 R2 — source-grounded structural comparison with LangGraph 1.2.11 | ACTIVE | REL-2026-0132 |
EXP-2026-0004 R3 — epistemic commit transaction vs scattered and centralized application gates | produced | ART-2026-0017 AER-0 MVP v0.1 Architecture Comparison R3 ECT artifact://evemisslab/adaptive-epistemic-systems/AER-0_MVP_v0.1_Architecture_Comparison_R3_ECT.zip | ACTIVE | REL-2026-0133 |
EXP-2026-0004 R3 — epistemic commit transaction vs scattered and centralized application gates | produces | RST-2026-0003 R3: AER-ECT ≈ centralized application gate | ACTIVE | REL-2026-0134 |
EXP-2026-0005 R4 — policy mutation surface: scattered governance vs one mandatory boundary | extends | EXP-2026-0004 R3 — epistemic commit transaction vs scattered and centralized application gates | ACTIVE | REL-2026-0140 |
History and provenance
- Canonical URL
- https://evemisslab.com/ai/experiments/EXP-2026-0004/
- Machine-readable
/ai/experiments/EXP-2026-0004/index.json- Snapshot
AI-SNAPSHOT-v0.1-fe85b9694a45- Provenance
source- EveMissLab research collection: Adaptive Epistemic Systems (真本體論13)
extracted_by- Splice (Claude Code), reading the canonical UTF-8 sources and each lab's own result reports
extracted_at- 2026-09-11
generator- tools/extract_aes/extract.py
claim_boundary- status, evidence level and result type follow the source artifact's own stated claim boundary; nothing is upgraded beyond what the report supports