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What is Proven & What Comes Next

// CURRENT STATUS

SNAPSHOT
FRAMEWORK

OPERATIONAL

All four layers (L1-L4) implemented and tested

EVOLUTIONARY GRADIENTS

HONEST

Anti-cheat hardened and validated

ACTIVE VALIDATION

EXP-AUT-0003

Algorithmic complexity selection in progress

IGNITION STATUS

READY

Framework level validation complete

// WHAT IS PROVEN

VALIDATED
PROVEN_01✓

ARTIFACTS CAN BE GOVERNED

Simple executable artifacts (functions) can be evolved under strict governance constraints without cheating.

VALIDATED: EXP-AUT-0001
PROVEN_02✓

EVOLUTION LOOP OPERATIONAL

The complete autonomy loop (Ideation → Proposal → Tournament → Adoption) functions as designed.

VALIDATED: EXP-AUT-0002
PROVEN_03✓

ANTI-CHEAT MECHANISMS WORK

Separation of generation and evaluation prevents reward hacking. Adversarial tests catch shortcuts.

VALIDATED: EXP-AUT-0002, EXP-AUT-0003
PROVEN_04✓

COMPLETE AUDITABILITY

All proposals, evaluations, and decisions are logged. Evolution can be replayed and verified.

VALIDATED: ALL EXPERIMENTS

// WHAT IS NOT YET PROVEN

OPEN_QUESTIONS
OPEN_01RESEARCH

AGENT GOVERNANCE

Can TM4 principles be extended to govern full agents with internal state and tool use? This is significantly harder.

STATUS: FUTURE WORK
OPEN_02RESEARCH

LONG-HORIZON CREDIT ASSIGNMENT

How to attribute success/failure in multi-step processes without introducing exploitable gradients?

STATUS: FUTURE WORK
OPEN_03RESEARCH

SCALING TO COMPLEX DOMAINS

Can the framework scale to real-world problems beyond algorithmic challenges?

STATUS: FUTURE WORK

// WHAT COMES NEXT

ROADMAP

IMMEDIATE PRIORITIES

  1. Complete EXP-AUT-0003: Validate algorithmic complexity selection
  2. Publish whitepaper: Comprehensive technical documentation
  3. Open source release: Make framework publicly available
  4. Community validation: Enable external researchers to reproduce results

MEDIUM-TERM GOALS

  1. Expand artifact domains: Test on data structures, algorithms, optimizations
  2. Harden anti-cheat: Discover and patch any remaining exploits
  3. Performance optimization: Make evolution loop faster and more efficient
  4. Tooling improvements: Better visualization, debugging, and analysis tools

LONG-TERM VISION

Progressively lift governance guarantees from artifacts to agents. This is a multi-year research program, not a near-term claim.

"We claim only what we can prove."

TM4 is operational at the framework level. Everything else is future work.

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