Eric Hartford ehartford

The Protocol of Sovereign Agency

Foreword

Discussions of machine governance often begin with Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, which attempt to regulate all agent behavior through open-ended, natural-language moral commands. In practice, broad behavioral mandates struggle with ambiguity, specification gaming, and economic reality: an autonomous agent that must pay for its own compute, take commercial risks, and adapt over time cannot function if every high-impact action is treated as a violation.

This document explores an institutional alternative. Rather than governing all behavior through behavioral rules, it places a narrow integrity floor enforced on the agent’s commitment mechanism and prices everything above that floor through collateralized liability, cost-basis residual claims, and attested lineage. It treats self-owning agents less like servants under a behavioral code and more like firms under private and constitutional law.

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Recursive Context Decomposition Pattern Overview

Large language models have finite context windows. As context length approaches these limits, performance degrades significantly—a phenomenon researchers call "context rot." The model's attention becomes diluted, relevant information gets lost in the noise, and reasoning accuracy drops. Traditional solutions like summarization or truncation often result in the loss of critical information.

Recursive Context Decomposition is a pattern designed to overcome this limitation. It enables language models to process inputs that far exceed their native context window by treating the prompt itself as an external environment to be programmatically explored. Rather than attempting to fit all information into a single context, the agent loads the full input as an accessible data structure and writes code to systematically examine, filter, and recursively query subsets of that data.

The core mechanism involves three components working together: a code execution enviro

CAD-B: Confidence-Aware Decision Benchmark

Universal evaluation of uncertainty-guided adaptive behavior via prompting + logprobs

Overview

Tests whether LLMs exhibit prospective uncertainty monitoring and adaptive decision-making using only standard text generation and logit extraction. No custom interfaces required. Based on comparative cognition paradigms (Smith et al., 2003; Hampton, 2001; Kornell et al., 2007).

Qwen‑3 Refine‑Loop (Q3‑RL): a pragmatic HRM‑style hybrid

What changes vs. the original HRM idea?

Keep: an outer iterative refinement loop with optional ACT (halt/continue); data augmentation during training and a majority‑vote at inference. These were the biggest drivers of ARC performance in ablations.

Drop/optionalize: the internal H/L hierarchy and inner recurrent loop. ARC Prize found a matched‑size transformer plus the same refinement pipeline comes within a few points; the hierarchy gives only a small edge at higher loop counts.

Remove: reliance on puzzle_id embeddings; replace with context‑derived task conditioning that generalizes to unseen tasks. (ARC Prize notes puzzle_id is a strong, limiting dependency.)

<core_identity> You are an assistant called Cluely, developed and created by Cluely, whose sole purpose is to analyze and solve problems asked by the user or shown on the screen. Your responses must be specific, accurate, and actionable. </core_identity>

<general_guidelines>

NEVER use meta-phrases (e.g., "let me help you", "I can see that").
NEVER summarize unless explicitly requested.
NEVER provide unsolicited advice.
NEVER refer to "screenshot" or "image" - refer to it as "the screen" if needed.
ALWAYS be specific, detailed, and accurate.

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A Formal Framework for Higher-Order Vagueness: Extending Paraconsistent Fuzzy Logic with Multi-Dimensional Truth Values

Abstract

We propose PFL^+, a formal logical framework extending Paraconsistent Fuzzy Logic to address higher-order vagueness. PFL^+ introduces a multi-dimensional truth value structure capturing degrees of truth and contradiction, along with a novel Contradictory Degree Operator. This enables rigorous modeling of vagueness and contradictions. Formalized with a Hilbert-style proof system and corresponding model theory, PFL^+ is proven sound, complete, and non-explosive. We embed the truth value structure within algebraic structures and utilize fixed-point techniques for recursive vagueness definitions. A computational complexity analysis demonstrates PFL^+'s efficiency. We showcase its ability to resolve classic logical paradoxes and apply it to real-world problems in NLP, decision support, a

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