What we have not yet proven.
Every experiment in the Evidence Room has a defensible result and an honest scope. Below is the union of those scopes — the open questions, research gaps, and current limitations we publish so visitors do not have to ask.
We do not claim what we cannot defend. When a hypothesis is untested, we say so. When a result holds only under specific conditions, we say so. When something has worked in simulation but not yet in the wild, we say so.
Open questions, by experiment
- E-001 · Long-Horizon StabilityOpen dossier →
Open: behaviour beyond 500 epochs in a single lineage is not yet observed.
- E-002 · Transfer ExperimentsOpen dossier →
Open: transfer to languages outside the current surface (e.g. Rust, Go) is not yet measured.
- E-003 · Compounding ChainsOpen dossier →
Open: long-horizon decay (chains > 20) is observed but the failure mode is not yet characterised.
- E-004 · Rollback IntegrityOpen dossier →
Open: rollback under partial-region failure is exercised in simulation only.
- E-005 · Governance LatencyOpen dossier →
Open: cross-region quorum under degraded network has worst-case 2.1s; investigation in progress.
- E-006 · Core SafetyOpen dossier →
Open: novel risk classes (post-deployment) rely on Reviewer escalation rather than automated classification.
- E-007 · Founder InterventionOpen dossier →
Open: this is a measured trend, not a guarantee. Some lineages still require operator review at every promotion.
- E-008 · Cognition EconomicsOpen dossier →
Open: cost numbers exclude human-review time, which is the dominant cost at low chain depth.
Cross-language transfer
Mutation portability across Rust and Go is not yet measured. Current evidence covers TypeScript, Python, and Java families.
Long-horizon decay
Compounding chains beyond depth 20 show observable drift. The failure mode is not yet characterised; instrumentation is in progress.
Cross-region quorum
Governor seal latency under degraded inter-region network has worst-case 2.1s. Mitigation path documented in the ledger; not yet shipped.