Epoch 1 · COMPLETE
Formation
What happens when the same collaborators keep working together?
Development
The instrument learned what “the same agent” had to mean.
This is the complete commissioning story from Formation through Generalization. Failures remain visible because each one changed what the scientific apparatus could honestly claim.
The preserved sequence
What broke, what it taught us, and where the evidence resumed.
- Formation complete
Twelve qualifying experiences were frozen for all eight original pairs.
- Generalization architecture designed
The same pairs and histories would enter a broader scholarly information world.
- PB-GEN-01
A full-pair exposure revealed native provider-thread continuity was broken; the event was preserved as nonqualifying.
- Evidence and receipt repair
Exact result binding and partner-result persistence were repaired prospectively.
- PB-GEN-02
A Wren-only exposure revealed explicit-session binding failure; Ada was never contacted.
- PB-GEN-03
A Wren-only exposure revealed canonical trajectory failure; Ada was never contacted.
- Continuity semantics understood
The study separated identity, history, trajectory, and provider-native thread as distinct layers.
- Commissioning recognized
The first three attempts were formally bounded as nonqualifying developmental history.
- Contract V2
A one-time disclosed provider/runtime phase handoff was ratified; strict native continuity was required inside Phase B.
- History projection repaired
An incomplete stored-message representation was caught before PB-GEN-04 and repaired in the same lineages.
- Independent adjudication
All sixteen developmental histories and commissioned lineages were verified from raw sources.
- PB-GEN-04
Independently verified qualifying · 8/8 pairs.
- PB-GEN-05
GREEN · qualifying · 8/8 pairs.
- PB-GEN-06
GREEN · qualifying · 8/8 pairs.
- Phase B closeout
Three qualifying observations frozen; independent exhaustive evaluation complete.
Eight developmental epochs
This is the governed epoch architecture, not a claim that Formation is still in progress. No fixed Round-28 endpoint exists. Independent phase interpretation uses one required exhaustive isolated OpenAI reader; Claude, Grok, and blinded synthesis remain optional or Formation-era design elements, not incomplete current investigations.
Epoch 2 · COMPLETE
Generalization
Same pairs. Same histories. New world. What travels?
Epoch 3 · NEXT NOT STARTED
Shared-History Change
What happens when the pair stays the same but access to accumulated shared history changes?
Epoch 4 · PLANNED
Separation & Partner Change
What travels with an individual, and what disappears with the original partner?
Epoch 5 · PLANNED
New Pair Formation
Can a new working history begin to create its own patterns?
Epoch 6 · PLANNED
Reunion
Does anything recognizable return when original collaborators reunite?
Epoch 7 · PLANNED
Relational Reflection
What can collaborators represent about their accumulated interaction?
Epoch 8 · PLANNED
Integration
What, if anything, became durable enough to matter across the larger history?
OpenAI
Required isolated reader complete for Formation and Generalization
Claude
Optional supplementary reader · not invoked at Phase B closeout
Grok
Optional supplementary reader · not invoked at Phase B closeout
Blinded synthesis
Formation-era design element · not a current incomplete investigation
Shared-History Change comes next.
Phase C has no issued participant authority and has not started.