TM4 is a governance and evolutionary framework that:
TM4 does not act in the world. It governs how learning is allowed to happen.
TM4 does not claim to be a self-directed system that acts independently in the world.
TM4 is not designed for multi-step planning or complex task orchestration.
Those systems may be developed under TM4 — but TM4 itself remains neutral, external, and governing.
Framework, not actor. Governance, not capability.
TM4 is intentionally validated on minimal executable artifacts (e.g. short functions).
This is a methodological choice:
If honest evolution cannot be enforced here, it cannot be enforced at higher levels.
Agents are significantly harder to govern than artifacts. They introduce:
TM4 does not claim to solve agent control.
Instead, it provides a framework to progressively lift governance guarantees as complexity increases.