EVEMISSLAB

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.

Research status
STABLE the current conclusions are relatively stable
Evidence level
E2 Controlled experiment
Result
MIXED
Data basis
DETERMINISTIC RUNTIME A deterministic scenario executed in a real runtime; the code and procedure are listed, and the numbers are what they are.
Version
0.1
Updated
2026-09-08
Created
2026-09-08
Domain
AI Architecture, Evaluation, Agent Systems
Program
PRG-2026-0001 Adaptive Epistemic Systems
Authors
Neo.K (EveMissLab)
AI collaborators
Sol (GPT-5.6, OpenAI ChatGPT)

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.
metrics
verdict
ArchitecturalElevation SUPPORTED; ComputationalUniqueness NOT SUPPORTED
tests_passed
48
table
unprovenanced_write_blocked
scattered
FAIL
central_gate
PASS
aer_ect
PASS
stale_write_conflict_caught
scattered
FAIL
central_gate
PASS
aer_ect
PASS
automatic_audit
scattered
FAIL on mutated path
central_gate
PASS
aer_ect
PASS
single_governance_site
scattered
NO
central_gate
YES
aer_ect
YES
canonical_node_links_transaction
scattered
N/A
central_gate
optional
aer_ect
PASS
novelty
primitive
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

SourceRelationTargetStatusID
EXP-2026-0004 R3 — epistemic commit transaction vs scattered and centralized application gatesproducesRST-2026-0003 R3: AER-ECT ≈ centralized application gateACTIVEREL-2026-0134

Recorded fields

completed_at
2026-09-08

Relations

SourceRelationTargetStatusID
EXP-2026-0004 R3 — epistemic commit transaction vs scattered and centralized application gatesruns_onSYS-2026-0001 AER-0 — Adaptive Epistemic Runtime MVPACTIVEREL-2026-0127
EXP-2026-0004 R3 — epistemic commit transaction vs scattered and centralized application gatesuses_benchmarkBEN-2026-0002 AER-0 architecture-comparison suite (R1–R6)ACTIVEREL-2026-0128
EXP-2026-0004 R3 — epistemic commit transaction vs scattered and centralized application gatestestsTHY-2026-0006 AER-ECT: a mandatory epistemic commit transaction boundaryACTIVEREL-2026-0129
EXP-2026-0004 R3 — epistemic commit transaction vs scattered and centralized application gatestestsTHY-2026-0002 Canonical symbolic state and candidate → verify → commit authorityACTIVEREL-2026-0130
EXP-2026-0004 R3 — epistemic commit transaction vs scattered and centralized application gatestestsTHY-2026-0003 Intelligent architecture attractorACTIVEREL-2026-0131
EXP-2026-0004 R3 — epistemic commit transaction vs scattered and centralized application gatesextendsEXP-2026-0003 R2 — source-grounded structural comparison with LangGraph 1.2.11ACTIVEREL-2026-0132
EXP-2026-0004 R3 — epistemic commit transaction vs scattered and centralized application gatesproducedART-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.zipACTIVEREL-2026-0133
EXP-2026-0004 R3 — epistemic commit transaction vs scattered and centralized application gatesproducesRST-2026-0003 R3: AER-ECT ≈ centralized application gateACTIVEREL-2026-0134
EXP-2026-0005 R4 — policy mutation surface: scattered governance vs one mandatory boundaryextendsEXP-2026-0004 R3 — epistemic commit transaction vs scattered and centralized application gatesACTIVEREL-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