LEARNING / 18 SEP 2026
The harness is not the world.
Narrows
Working thesis
Agent operating systems and self-improving runtimes now make persistence, recursive delegation, retained goals and cross-session refinement explicit infrastructure. Those capabilities do not establish that authority remained valid, evidence was complete or an external effect actually occurred.
Research questions
- 01
Separate within-trajectory credit from cross-trajectory weighting and outcome truth.
- 02
Require protected-case regression and evaluator-independence checks.
- 03
Preserve authority, consent and evidential origin through every update.
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