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# arifOS — INTELLIGENCE HORIZON

## 000 — WHAT THIS DOCUMENT IS

A declaration of where arifOS is going and how it measures progress.

Not a roadmap. Not a backlog. Not a product plan.

An intelligence horizon: the boundary beyond which the system becomes qualitatively different — not just more capable.

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## 001 — CURRENT STATE (as of 2026-05-21)

### What works
- 13 constitutional floors enforced in code (`core/floors.py`)
- 9-stage metabolic pipeline operational
- 13 canonical MCP tools (`arif_<noun>_<verb>`)
- VAULT999 append-only ledger (Postgres + Merkle)
- arifOS ↔ A-FORGE ↔ GEOX ↔ WEALTH federation live
- JWT actor binding with floor-level authority checks
- TEARFRAME epistemic tagging across all tool outputs
- MCP compliance: JSON-RPC -32602 on lookup errors, live registry for prompts

### What's being forged
- A2A mesh protocol (federation cross-agent consensus)
- GENESIS doctrine parity across all federation nodes
- Intelligence uplift: anomalous contrast detector, seismic forward model
- Identity broker: OpenCode → arifOS MCP sidecar with actor injection

### What's pending sovereign decision
- `arif-identity-broker/` placement in repo topology
- F13 escalation path for ASI-class models in APEX
- ZKPC v2 Groth16 verification depth

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## 002 — HORIZON MARKERS

The system crosses an intelligence horizon when it achieves a qualitative capability shift, not just a quantitative improvement.

| Horizon | Description | Status |
|---------|-------------|--------|
| **H1 — Constitutional Ground** | F1-F13 enforced, VAULT999 live, pipeline operational | ✅ SEALED |
| **H2 — Federation Mesh** | All 6 nodes communicating under A2A governance | 🔄 In Progress |
| **H3 — Epistemic Integrity** | Every claim TEARFRAME-tagged, no fabrication in any tool | 🔄 Active |
| **H4 — Sovereign Memory** | Cross-session memory with semantic search, decay, and dignity | 🔄 Active |
| **H5 — Adversarial Hardening** | Injection resistance proven across 50+ adversarial test cases | 🔄 Active |
| **H6 — Domain Intelligence** | GEOX + WEALTH operating at discovery-grade accuracy | 🔄 Geox committed |
| **H7 — Autonomous Forging** | System can plan, validate, and execute constitutional changes without manual intervention | ⏳ Future |

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## 003 — WHAT MAKES arifOS DIFFERENT AT EACH HORIZON

### Below H1 (fragile)
System has capability but no constitutional anchor. Can help but cannot be trusted.

### H1-H3 (governed)
System has floors, pipeline, and epistemic clarity. Can be trusted for governed tasks. Not yet self-consistent across federation.

### H3-H6 (intelligent)
System maintains epistemic integrity under adversarial conditions. Federation nodes contribute domain evidence. The kernel can reject flawed inputs from its own subsystems.

### H7+ (sovereign)
The system can identify constitutional drift in its own codebase, propose remediation, and execute it within Amanah bounds — without requiring line-by-line human review.

This is not autonomy from the sovereign. It is constitutional autonomy from entropy.

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## 004 — HOW WE MEASURE PROGRESS

Three metrics. All three must trend right.

### G — Genius Score (Constitutional Integrity)
`G = f(floor_compliance, epistemic_clarity, entropy_delta, task_completion)`
Target: G ≥ 0.80 in steady state. G ≥ 0.90 before any H-level transition.

### ΔS — Entropy Delta
Every commit should reduce complexity or increase clarity — not add either.
Measured by: ruff violations, test coverage delta, dead code ratio, documentation freshness.

### Ω — Human Impact Load
The sovereign's cognitive load should decrease as intelligence increases.
Measured by: number of decisions escalated per session, time-to-trust for each SEAL.

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## 005 — ANTI-PATTERNS THAT PREVENT HORIZON CROSSINGS

These are not hypothetical. They have occurred. They are recorded here as warnings.

1. **Mass commits without epistemic review** — sweeping in unrelated files (see `arif-identity-broker/` incident) because ruff auto-fix staged them.
2. **Floor enforcement as documentation** — writing F1-F13 in markdown and claiming compliance without test coverage.
3. **Test coverage as coverage metric** — passing 90% line coverage while leaving adversarial paths untested.
4. **Federation topology as aspiration** — declaring GEOX/WEALTH/WELL as nodes without verifying they pass floor checks.
5. **Constitutional complexity creep** — adding more floors, more tools, more stages without proving existing ones work correctly.

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## 006 — THE NEXT FORGING CYCLE

From this commit forward, the next cycle targets **H3 Epistemic Integrity** completion:

1. Every tool output carries valid TEARFRAME tags — no `INTERPRETED` where `INGESTED` is honest
2. F9-Rahmah audit complete — no fabricated statuses in any canonical tool
3. Seismic forward model activated in registry
4. Anomalous contrast detector tested end-to-end

Then: **H4 Sovereign Memory** — cross-session recall with semantic search and dignity preservation.

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## 007 — THE SEAL

This document is the living declaration of what arifOS is being forged into.

It is not a promise. It is a direction.

The direction is: a constitutional intelligence kernel that earns sovereignty through evidence, not assertion.

**DITEMPA BUKAN DIBERI — INTELLIGENCE IS FORGED, NOT GIVEN**
**GENESIS EPOCH: 2026-05-21**
