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§04 Reasoning — Governed Autonomous Reasoning — Externally observable properties

Mars® Spec§04 Reasoning — Governed Autonomous Reasoning › Externally observable properties

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4. Externally observable properties

Each property is capability-gated: it applies only to a deployment that meets the §1 gate for the corresponding operation. Verification class per the Appendix B convention (Y external differential, E retained-evidence, Y/E both). These compose the constituent properties named in §2; this table adds the loop-level tests.

ID Property Class
AR-L1 Gap-driven acquisition — every autonomous acquisition action’s record cites a gap record in Open or a recorded calibration divergence existing at initiation; an action citing neither is refused. (§3.1) E
AR-L2 Map-governed autonomous traversal — every autonomous traversal hop records an authorizing guide; substituting/removing a guide changes the path; a proximity-only hop is refused. (§3.2) Y/E
AR-L3 Declared autonomous synthesis input — every autonomous higher-order synthesis act carries a composition-provenance record enumerating its bounded input selection with version markers. (§3.3) E
AR-L4 Registration before reuse — no loop iteration consumes an unregistered product of a prior iteration; every increment is registered (delta-attestation or gap-closure) before propagation. (§3.4) E
AR-L5 Recomputable loop trail — for a sampled completed iteration, an independent inspector re-derives the gap→traversal→acquisition/synthesis→registration→version chain from retained records alone. (§3.5) Y/E
AR-L6 Declared termination discipline — the autonomous loop carries a declared bound / convergence criterion / budget / revocable authorization; an unbounded loop with none is non-conforming. (§3.6) E
AR-L7 No autonomy by disclaimer — where acquisition/synthesis actions occur with no human authorization act in the record, the capability is treated as present and §2–§3 apply regardless of description. (§1) Y/E


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