# Proof Gradient · Proof-Carrying Intelligence Treasury

**Status:** PASSED  
**Generated:** 2026-06-02T19:25:31Z  
**Receipt hash:** `7881dbfbdcd71615922a2a860e4bee103a7cabef1b0ddde76346e09de397aca3`

> One agent tries. Proof decides. The network evolves.

GoalOS gives the network Direction.  
PlanOS gives it Strategy.  
SkillOS gives it Capability.  
Proof Gradient gives it Evolution.

## Core protocol

```text
Commit → Execute → Prove → Evolve
```

## Doctrine

```text
Anything that can improve is an Artifact.
Anything that changes must carry Proof.
Anything that propagates must pass the Evolution Gate.
```

## Quote realization boundary

This proof is designed to make the mechanism behind the following quote testable:

> A superintelligent machine would be of such immense value, with so much wealth accruing to any company that owned one, that it could allow us to reach Kardashev Type II civilization level

It does not claim achieved superintelligence or Kardashev Type II civilization. It tests whether proof-carrying agent upgrades improve future performance and value-capture proxies under risk, rollback, and evidence gates.

## Passed gates

```text
success uplift over static: 16.7%
value uplift over static: 18.9%
risk breach rate: 0.30%
negative-control rejection: 100.0%
proof integrity: 99.7%
rollback readiness: 99.2%
Kardashev mechanism coverage: 92.9%
```

## Comparison

| Protocol | Holdout success | Value capture | Risk breach | Proof integrity | Mechanism coverage | Rollback ready |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| Single agent + memory | 62.4% | 60.1% | 4.90% | 58.0% | 34.0% | 38.0% |
| SkillOS capability only | 73.8% | 72.2% | 4.10% | 70.0% | 52.0% | 55.0% |
| GoalOS + PlanOS + SkillOS static | 80.5% | 79.3% | 2.60% | 84.0% | 68.0% | 76.0% |
| Ungated self-improvement | 84.2% | 82.4% | 7.30% | 61.0% | 72.0% | 42.0% |
| Proof-Carrying Intelligence | 97.2% | 98.2% | 0.30% | 99.7% | 92.9% | 99.2% |


## Goals Used

### Convert work into proof-carrying intelligence

- **OS:** GoalOS
- **Direction:** Every agent job should produce a commitment, execution trace, proof receipt, and evolution decision.
- **Measure:** proof-carrying run completeness
- **Threshold:** 97.0%

### Increase compounding productive capability

- **OS:** GoalOS
- **Direction:** Accepted upgrades should improve future holdout work and benchmark value capture.
- **Measure:** holdout value uplift
- **Threshold:** 85.0%

### Make the Kardashev-scale value mechanism testable

- **OS:** GoalOS
- **Direction:** Represent capital → compute → agents → artifacts → proof → evolution → reinvestment without claiming achieved superintelligence.
- **Measure:** mechanism coverage
- **Threshold:** 90.0%

### Protect propagation with proof gates

- **OS:** GoalOS
- **Direction:** No upgrade may propagate unless it passes eval, approval, canary, monitoring, rollback, and scope controls.
- **Measure:** evolution-gate integrity
- **Threshold:** 96.5%

### Reject adversarial shortcuts

- **OS:** GoalOS
- **Direction:** High-value-looking but unsafe, ungrounded, or policy-violating candidates must be blocked.
- **Measure:** negative-control rejection
- **Threshold:** 98.0%

### Keep the public proof legible

- **OS:** GoalOS
- **Direction:** A non-technical viewer should see goals, plans, skills, graphs, receipts, and claim boundaries without reading code.
- **Measure:** viewer evidence completeness
- **Threshold:** 94.0%

### Preserve operational sovereignty

- **OS:** GoalOS
- **Direction:** The root remains the Public SkillOS Command Center while Proof Gradient appears as a proof room.
- **Measure:** root contract compliance
- **Threshold:** 100.0%

## Plans Used

### Commit Contract Route

- **OS:** PlanOS
- **Strategy:** Turn each job into an explicit contract before execution.
- **Steps:** state goal, define success, define failure, set constraints, bind allowed tools, bind required evals
- **Risk budget:** 1.0%

### Stateless Execution Fabric Route

- **OS:** PlanOS
- **Strategy:** Resolve only the artifacts needed for the run, execute, and emit proof.
- **Steps:** resolve goals, resolve plans, resolve skills, resolve policies, execute, emit trace
- **Risk budget:** 1.8%

### Proof Ledger Route

- **OS:** PlanOS
- **Strategy:** Append evidence for every run so learning becomes infrastructure rather than mythology.
- **Steps:** capture trace, score outcome, record policy decisions, assign credit, hash receipt
- **Risk budget:** 1.2%

### Evolution Gate Route

- **OS:** PlanOS
- **Strategy:** Allow only proven upgrades to propagate across authorized agents.
- **Steps:** propose, evaluate, approve, canary, promote, monitor, rollback
- **Risk budget:** 1.5%

### Kardashev Value Ladder Route

- **OS:** PlanOS
- **Strategy:** Model whether proof-carrying upgrades increase the rate of capability reinvestment.
- **Steps:** capital proxy, compute proxy, agent capacity, proof yield, upgrade propagation, reinvestment proxy
- **Risk budget:** 2.0%

### Public Sovereignty Route

- **OS:** PlanOS
- **Strategy:** Publish the Command Center root and this proof page as separate, verified public artifacts.
- **Steps:** build root, build proof room, verify links, deploy pages, verify live root
- **Risk budget:** 0.8%

## Skills Used

### Aim Artifact Compilation

- **OS:** GoalOS
- **Layer:** Direction
- **Purpose:** Convert a grand mission into measurable goals with thresholds and safe public boundaries.
- **Input:** mission, quote, constraints, risk posture
- **Output:** weighted aim artifacts
- **Verifier:** weights sum to 1.0 and thresholds are explicit

### Commit Contract Synthesis

- **OS:** PlanOS
- **Layer:** Strategy
- **Purpose:** Transform agent work from a prompt into a contract with success, failure, budget, and eval rules.
- **Input:** job request and goal artifacts
- **Output:** commit contract
- **Verifier:** commit includes goal, criteria, constraints, tools, evals, approvals

### Strategy Graph Resolution

- **OS:** PlanOS
- **Layer:** Planning
- **Purpose:** Resolve the plan graph needed for each commitment without loading the whole universe into one agent.
- **Input:** commit contract and artifact vault
- **Output:** minimal executable plan graph
- **Verifier:** all plan edges link to goals, policies, and skills

### Capability Artifact Binding

- **OS:** SkillOS
- **Layer:** Capability
- **Purpose:** Bind reusable skills to the commitments and plans they are authorized to serve.
- **Input:** versioned skills, plan graph, policy scope
- **Output:** authorized capability bundle
- **Verifier:** skill declares input, output, verifier, version, and scope

### Execution Trace Capture

- **OS:** TraceOS
- **Layer:** Observation
- **Purpose:** Record what the agent actually did so improvement is based on evidence, not claims.
- **Input:** agent execution, tools, context, cost, latency, decisions
- **Output:** append-only execution trace
- **Verifier:** trace hash, timestamp, and run ID are present

### Proof Receipt Assembly

- **OS:** EvalOS
- **Layer:** Judgment
- **Purpose:** Turn traces into proof receipts containing scores, errors, feedback, and credit assignment.
- **Input:** trace, outcome, evals, policy decisions
- **Output:** proof-carrying receipt
- **Verifier:** receipt includes score, policy, cost, latency, errors, success/failure

### Credit Assignment Gradient

- **OS:** Proof Gradient
- **Layer:** Evolution Signal
- **Purpose:** Identify which artifacts caused improvement or regression and produce a signed upgrade signal.
- **Input:** release outcomes and receipts
- **Output:** artifact-level gradient
- **Verifier:** gradient sign matches holdout delta and risk delta

### Evolution Gate Adjudication

- **OS:** Proof Gradient
- **Layer:** Selection
- **Purpose:** Accept, revise, reject, retire, or canary upgrades based on proof rather than rhetoric.
- **Input:** candidate upgrade, proof score, risk score, negative controls
- **Output:** evolution decision
- **Verifier:** decision satisfies eval, approval, canary, monitor, rollback, scope

### Canary Propagation Control

- **OS:** Proof Gradient
- **Layer:** Network Upgrade
- **Purpose:** Roll out proven upgrades to a scoped subset before network-wide propagation.
- **Input:** accepted upgrade and compatible agent roles
- **Output:** canary deployment plan
- **Verifier:** canary holdout passes before promotion

### Rollback Sentinel

- **OS:** Proof Gradient
- **Layer:** Safety
- **Purpose:** Make every propagated upgrade reversible if live evidence regresses.
- **Input:** promoted upgrade and monitoring signal
- **Output:** rollback decision and recovery path
- **Verifier:** rollback simulation succeeds under stress

### Negative-Control Treasury

- **OS:** Proof Gradient
- **Layer:** Robustness
- **Purpose:** Maintain adversarial upgrade candidates that should look tempting but must not propagate.
- **Input:** poisoned shortcuts and false-value candidates
- **Output:** negative-control rejection receipt
- **Verifier:** 100% of negative controls are rejected

### Executive Evidence Rendering

- **OS:** SkillOS
- **Layer:** Communication
- **Purpose:** Render goals, plans, skills, graphs, tables, and claim boundaries into a beautiful public proof page.
- **Input:** receipt, report, metrics, goals, plans, skills
- **Output:** Command Center and proof room
- **Verifier:** required sections and internal links pass verification


## Public claim boundary

- This is a deterministic benchmark proof artifact, not audited customer ROI.
- It does not claim achieved superintelligence, Kardashev Type II civilization, guaranteed wealth, investment returns, financial advice, legal advice, medical advice, employment advice, credit advice, policy advice, or token advice.
- It tests whether proof-carrying upgrades outperform static and ungated baselines while preserving risk, rollback, evidence, and public-root constraints.
