Stigmergy report verification

Type: agentic-system-analyses/types/agentic-system-verification.md

Verification

The current reports support a bounded code-grounded account. The previous answer-check blocker is repaired. The context-budget discrepancy remains a local limit, not a reason to withhold the account. No material blocker remains.

I read the complete supplied reports, boundary, reconciliation, correction answers, previous verification, governing types and record contract. The structural check reports none, so there is no structural failure to route. Only the epistemic answers contain a correction argument; I checked that argument against the current report and frozen source rather than accepting its label. SRC-1's checkout HEAD equals the reviewed revision and its working tree is clean. The tracked-root inventory remains consistent with the whole-system memory/knowledge/context-engineering boundary. No target code, tests, examples, models or services were executed.

Record, evidence and relation checks

I assessed every declaration and annotation for its referent, source support, evidence strength and consequential qualifications. This includes the public claims, all route statuses and behavioral-authority paths. Source anchors were assessed against the claims they support; deterministic destination resolution and quotation occurrence remain code's responsibility, not independent semantic evidence. Direct source tracing concentrated on the consequential producer/consumer chains described below, rather than claiming a complete source audit.

  • Runtime: RT-RTE-layer-routing correctly separates explicit, default and classified admission. Independent inspection of SRC-1 src/stigmergy/server/routing.py confirms that classifier options exclude public, while the default branch can still return public. The report does not confuse this restriction with a universal prohibition. RT-RTE-capture-filing is supported by the membership recheck, temporary worktree/view, plan application, bounded revision, source-only fallback and publication in SRC-1 src/stigmergy/knowledge/writer.py, together with the structured planner in src/stigmergy/knowledge/planner.py. A source-only fallback still passes gates; landed does not mean semantic acceptance. Context-budget wording receives the limit below.
  • Publication and recovery: Direct inspection of SRC-1 src/stigmergy/knowledge/writer.py and src/stigmergy/librarian/worker.py supports lease checks before publication, Git operation trailers, change recording, reference reconstruction and subsequent queue finalization. These support the workflow account and its two annotations. The workflow neither invents a mandatory answer step nor promises an atomic Git/database transaction, unconditional fallback success or unlimited retry.
  • Index and maintenance: SRC-1 src/stigmergy/server/webhook.py checks predecessor/dirty/truncation/overflow conditions and rechecks health under transaction lock; src/stigmergy/index/build.py allows a non-Git fallback unless repository-head enforcement is required. These support RT-RTE-index-convergence, including its caller-controlled guarantee. Writer garden and diff-gate inspection supports RT-RTE-maintenance-admission: ordinary source protection is not global append-only storage, and managed deletion is not all-copies erasure. The product route RT-RTE-product-admission retains the distinction between prescribed contributor protocol, wired checks and unobserved compliance.
  • Components and authority: The runtime component records distinguish remote model parameters, mutable named endpoints and stored embedding outputs. No parameter-update or immutable-weight claim is inferred from a model name. RT-OBJ-filing-plan is a proposal, not the admitted corpus; RT-OBJ-synthesis-context is per-question state. RT-BAP-librarian-skill and RT-BAP-corpus-data correctly separate requested instruction-following from corpus evidence and code enforcement. Neither establishes prompt-injection immunity or actual behavioral activation.
  • Memory: The object declarations preserve the distinctions among original/readable artifacts, retained sources, derived bodies and metadata, contradiction serialization/display, fragments/vectors, and manifests/exact patches. Their retained passages support these distinctions without making all operational logs learned knowledge. MEM-RTE-alias-recording is independently supported by SRC-1 src/stigmergy/knowledge/aliases.py: eligibility, semantic probability, threshold, guarded writes and rollback are separate operations. MEM-RTE-scoped-reading has actual service/answer/UI/Slack consumers, not merely a storage API. Direct reads of SRC-1 src/stigmergy/server/service.py, src/stigmergy/answer/brain.py and src/stigmergy/index/search.py support excerpting, fragment reload and scope-before-fusion. MEM-RTE-workspace-replay is supported by direct export/import/handover inspection in SRC-1 src/stigmergy/ops/replay_workspace.py: eligible captures are re-enqueued with target-specific identities, not transported as already-derived wiki/vector state. The report retains uninspected parser, erasure, frontend and administrative details without asserting their absence.
  • Epistemic: The ledger separates transformation, checking, disposition, retention and later use. The filing instruction establishes requested sourced synthesis, not entailment of actual outputs. EPI-RTE-merge-check and EPI-RTE-entity-merge have a different evaluator from ordinary filing: independent reads of SRC-1 src/stigmergy/entities/service.py confirm source-assertion occurrence and restricted identity grammar before consolidation. The parsed request in src/stigmergy/capture/schema.py requires nonempty assertions and merge evidence; this reachability check does not rely on a type annotation alone. Alias judgment and threshold admission remain narrower than independent identity proof. EPI-RTE-qa-evaluation is consistent with SRC-1 evals/run_qa.py, including its permissive disambiguation scorer. EPI-RTE-release-evaluation and EPI-RTE-release-admission are supported by inspected comparison/rejection code in SRC-1 evals/filing/parity.py and the complete scripts/deploy_staging.sh: the guarded script can veto deployment, but an explicit operator bypass exists. The reports do not turn those paths or reported README metrics into authenticated execution or causal benefit.

All route operation statuses remain uninspected, distinct from wiring or requested behavior. No evidenced-absence declarations require a searched-negative disposition. Learning, reflection, autonomy and exercised self-improvement are not bundled together or inferred from persistence and clean output.

All explicit Part of: relations were checked semantically: epistemic filing subroutes belong to capture filing; answer checking/disposition belong to scoped answering; withdrawal belongs to destructive maintenance; release evaluation/admission specialize product admission; contradiction and alias objects belong to the wiki container. Cross-cutting alias routes are not wholly contained in exactly one runtime route. The reconciliation appropriately retains valid containers and parts rather than superseding different stages or consumers. There are no supersession amendments, unaccounted duplicate replacements or identified missing required parts. Both unresolved-conflict paragraphs include the records, competing findings, evidence and prevented conclusions; their dispositions follow.

Correction and conflict dispositions

Quote occurrence versus prior delivery. I independently traced SRC-1 src/stigmergy/answer/brain.py, src/stigmergy/answer/synthesize.py, src/stigmergy/answer/verify_answer.py, src/stigmergy/server/service.py and src/stigmergy/answer/service.py. Listing/search can mark a path surfaced while delivering only summary/snippet text. Citation verification refetches its scoped head and the fragment windows selected by recorded numbers. The output schema permits the corrected report's nonnumeric citation example; the figure gate supplies no numerical veto for that example. The check therefore does not prove prior delivery or snapshot identity. This supports the corrected EPI-RTE-answer-check, its ledger row, inventory qualification, claim comparison and bounded conclusion. The answer is still checked for occurrence, not general semantic entailment; EPI-RTE-answer-disposition correctly preserves the single citation-only partial exception and verified-only budget completion.

The earlier epistemic blocker is discharged. The reconciliation's quote-domain conflict does not require a runtime correction: RT-RTE-scoped-answer says surfaced page content, not exclusively previously delivered tool text or an immutable snapshot. Its recorded-window statement is compatible with the actual fragment-number restriction, but cannot be extended to a prior-delivery guarantee for the head. The corrected epistemic record now states that boundary explicitly. The memory answer annotation adds no contrary snapshot guarantee. The stronger joint guarantee named as prevented by reconciliation remains unsupported; it is not an emitted guarantee that a limit must excuse.

Context budget. Direct SRC-1 src/stigmergy/knowledge/context.py inspection confirms the memory annotation: compact JSON size drives trimming; indented rendering performs a separate rejection check. Eviction retains one candidate while excess evidence is removed. The reconciliation correctly preserves this discrepancy. Bounded selection and isolation remain supported; guaranteed render success and strict all-candidates-first eviction do not. This receives the local limit below.

Preservation across mutation routes. SRC-1 src/stigmergy/knowledge/writer.py applies cited-block and canonical-conflict preservation in capture page updates. Garden instead uses _apply_repair_plan body replacement before lint/projection/diff/ACL checks. The current epistemic bounded conclusion explicitly distinguishes these paths and does not allege an actual garden loss. The earlier preservation challenge is therefore resolved as a scope qualification already present in the reports, not a new blocker or an unqualified cross-route invariant. The memory record's normal page-mutation rule remains supported within the capture route; it does not establish every maintenance path's preservation behavior.

Omission questions and stopping decision

The omission search used the frozen tracked-root tree, shipped writer dispatcher and reader wrappers, and producer/consumer dependencies. Selected questions were whether alternate admission branches defeat the classifier restriction; whether maintenance shares capture preservation controls; whether refetched citation content equals previously delivered evidence; and whether shipped evaluators/deployment introduce semantic review beyond ordinary filing. These questions could change the central scoping, preservation, answer-warrant and acceptance conclusions.

Explicit/default routes preserve the bounded routing finding. Garden establishes a separate mutation control boundary, now acknowledged. Refetch tracing validates the correction without establishing an observed model exploit. Entity merge and release comparison prevent a system-wide “only syntactic checks” conclusion, which the current epistemic report expressly rejects. Optional omission expansion stops because these consequential challenges have supported dispositions and no identified material challenge remains unassigned. Full media-parser fidelity, all erasure/reset branches, UI rendering and authenticated evaluation execution remain incomplete or unobserved; the reports make no complete-coverage or absence claim requiring those investigations. Additional files alone do not justify expanding this verification into an exhaustive source audit.

Blockers

none

Limits

  • The context-budget discrepancy in reconciliation, concerning RT-RTE-capture-filing and the memory annotation, is local. SRC-1 src/stigmergy/knowledge/context.py confirms compact-size trimming followed by an indented-size rejection check, and removal of excess source evidence before the final candidate. Withhold guaranteed successful context rendering and a strict all-candidates-before-any-evidence eviction comparison. Bounded selection, omission, layer isolation and lack of in-call filing reload remain supported. This limitation does not negate the capture workflow or excuse an unsupported system-level comparison value.