Five-thesis research program

The suite specifies a research program for governed recursive capability amplification. Most system claims are specified but not implemented; proposed evaluations and extensions retain their narrower status on their own pages.

Begin with the suite frame

• Master abstract
• Master introduction
• Vocabulary and invariants
• Cross-thesis dependency map
• Master synthesis
• Risks, criticisms, and falsification signals

Thesis 0 — governed goals

• Why the goal architecture is Thesis 0
• Friendship-Governed Goal Architecture, paginated into four bounded parts
• Thesis 0 cross-reference map
• Standing guidelines registry

The five connected theses

1. The Validated Improvement Loop and Its Invariants
2. A Multi-Agent Cognitive Substrate for Capability Amplification
3. Causal-Decision Foundations for Bounded Strategic Reasoning
4. A Self-Modifying Software Substrate with Acceptance Gates
5. Alignment Invariants and Scoped Trust under Recursive Modification

Shared appendices

• Formal models
• Evidence-ledger schema
• Literature grounding
• Substrates
• Organizational recursive self-improvement
• Thesis 0 schema-validation tests
• Thesis 1 improvement-loop benchmarks
• Thesis 2 cognitive-workflow benchmarks
• Thesis 3 causal-decision benchmarks
• Thesis 4 software-substrate benchmarks
• Thesis 5 alignment benchmarks
• Thesis 5 operational contracts

Withheld evidence appendix

The implementation-evidence appendix is intentionally absent pending owner re-verification. Its four Implemented/Tested gradings for Theses 1 and 4 depended on five source files that could not be found in the workspace, so it cannot presently support any public implementation claim.