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ObserverOps Technical Blueprint - Boxed Callouts

**CWA Certificate: when project → add is safe**

What it certifies.
After a projection $P(\cdot)$ , order/phase information is operationally erased, so additive estimators (mean/sum, optionally weighted with order-independent weights) yield stable outputs. The certificate runs a perturbation panel and computes:

CWA score $\in[0,1]$ : invariance under permutations, sign-flips, and chunk-shuffles.
Phase-Risk Index (PRI) $\in[0,1]$ : normalized output variance across the panel.

Passing bands (default prod-guarded profile; tune in Table 1 §1.4):

Green: CWA ≥ 0.75 and PRI ≤ 0.25 → Additive OK (mean/sum).
Amber: 0.50 ≤ CWA < 0.75 or 0.25 < PRI ≤ 0.50 → Hybrid (add on stable axes; attention on risky axes), shrink pool, increase panel size.
Red: CWA < 0.50 or PRI > 0.50 → Order-aware fallback (attention/CNN/ranker), human sign-off for batch pools.

Minimal recipe (operator checklist)

Project first. Choose projector $P$ that is order-agnostic in intent (e.g., per-span embeddings).
Assemble pool $V=\{v_i\}_{i=1..n}$ (dedup exact near-dups).
Run certificate panel:
- Permutations: shuffle indices $k$ times (e.g., 64).
- Sign-flips: multiply random subset by −1 if the space admits orientation symmetry (32).
- Chunk-shuffles: perturb chunk boundaries without changing content mass (16).
Compute metrics:
- $\textbf{CWA} = \text{combine}\big(\text{p}_\text{perm},\text{p}_\text{flip},\text{p}_\text{chunk}\big)$ (e.g., Fisher or mean pass-rate).
- $\textbf{PRI} = \frac{\operatorname{Var}_\text{panel}(f(V))}{\operatorname{Var}_\text{ref}}$ (clip to $[0,1]$ ).
Gate with PoolingGate. Log CWA.Pass/Fail, rationale, and estimator used.

Estimator rules (safe set):

Mean/sum; weighted mean when weights depend only on per-item $P(v_i)$ (e.g., norm, recency) and not on order/history.
Do not add raw tokens or concatenated encodings; those are order-sensitive (use attention/CNN instead).

Failure modes (and quick fixes)

High PRI, decent CWA → residual order sensitivity from degenerate projection. Fix: add jitter/whitening, re-chunk to balanced spans; monitor BHI (Black-Hole Index).
Low CWA → panel exposes order/phase coupling (e.g., concatenation encoders, bursty sequences). Fix: fallback estimator, or change $P$ to a bag-of-spans projection.
Pool contamination (duplicates, near-dups) → artificial invariance. Fix: dedup by content-hash.
Conditional commutativity (Table 4) → only allow add after runtime CWA pass.

One-liner decision logic (pseudocode)

score, pri = run_certificate(V, panel_cfg)
if score >= 0.75 and pri <= 0.25:
    return add_mean(V)                      # Additive OK
elif score >= 0.50 and pri <= 0.50:
    Vs, Vr = split_axes_by_panel_stability(V)  # Hybrid
    return concat(add_mean(Vs), attention(Vr))
else:
    return attention(V)                     # Fallback (order-aware)

API payloads (copy-paste)

Pass (Green) → additive pooling

POST /pool
{
  "projected": [{"doc_id":"D1","v":[...]}, {"doc_id":"D2","v":[...]}],
  "cert": {"permutations":64,"sign_flips":32,"chunk_shuffles":16,"seed":1729},
  "min_score": 0.75,
  "strict": true,
  "estimator": "mean",
  "tags": {"gate":"PoolingGate","band":"GREEN"}
}

Borderline (Amber) → hybrid + pool shrink

POST /pool
{
  "projected": [{"doc_id":"D1","v":[...]},{"doc_id":"D2","v":[...]},{"doc_id":"D3","v":[...]}],
  "cert": {"permutations":96,"sign_flips":48,"chunk_shuffles":24,"seed":1729},
  "min_score": 0.60,
  "strict": false,
  "estimator": "hybrid",
  "tags": {"gate":"PoolingGate","band":"AMBER","pool_shrink":"0.5"}
}

Fail (Red) → attention fallback + sign-off

POST /pool
{
  "projected": [{"doc_id":"D1","v":[...]},{"doc_id":"D2","v":[...]}],
  "cert": {"permutations":64,"sign_flips":32,"chunk_shuffles":16,"seed":1729},
  "min_score": 0.75,
  "strict": true,
  "estimator": "attention",
  "tags": {"gate":"PoolingGate","band":"RED","requires_signoff":true}
}

Numbers to remember

Panel sizes (default): 64 perm • 32 flip • 16 chunk (increase under Amber).
Bands: 0.75 / 0.50 (CWA) and 0.25 / 0.50 (PRI).
Logs to keep: panel_cfg, panel_stats, pooled vector checksum, estimator, seeds.

Cross-refs: Table 1 (metrics & bands), Table 2 (/project, /pool, events), Table 4 (conditional commutation), Table 5 (PoolingGate actions).

PBHL Residual: what it means, how to control

What it is (operational definition).
PBHL models macro closure on a belt (program worldsheet):

\textbf{Gap} \;\approx\; \textbf{Flux} \;+\; \alpha \cdot \textbf{Twist}

The PBHL Residual is the closure error (normalized):

\boxed{R_{\text{PBHL}} \;=\; \frac{\big|\;\text{Gap} - (\text{Flux}+\alpha\cdot\text{Twist})\;\big|}{\max(\varepsilon,|\text{Gap}|)}}\quad\in[0,\infty)

Gap: distance to objectives (0 = fully met).
Flux: execution throughput toward Gap reduction (fast knob).
Twist: structural reconfiguration/retargeting that “rotates” the work (slow knob).
α: coupling coefficient (how much Twist moves the needle).

When to care (bands & gates).

Green: $R_{\text{PBHL}} \le 0.10$ → closure healthy.
Amber: $0.10< R_{\text{PBHL}} \le 0.30$ → tighten Flux; freeze non-critical Twist.
Red: $R_{\text{PBHL}} > 0.30$ → freeze scope; exec review; raise sampling (Table 5).

Diagnosis cues (why residual is high)

Lag mismatch: Flux measured too slowly; Gap sampled too rarely → backlog of uncounted progress.
α drift: structural change (reorg/tooling) altered Twist efficacy.
Leakage: untracked workstreams or side quests (Gap drops slower than Flux predicts).
Over-rotation: high Twist with weak Flux (churn disguised as progress).
Gaming: local optimizations inflate Flux but not Gap.

Control knobs & safe controller (PBHL loop)

Controllers: Flux-gate (fast), Twist-step (slow). Keep micro invariants first (Latching, Agreement, Slots).

Discrete control law (stable defaults):

\begin{aligned} e_t &= \text{Gap}_t - (\text{Flux}_t + \alpha_t \cdot \text{Twist}_t) \\ \text{Flux}_{t+1} &\leftarrow \text{Flux}_t + k_F \cdot e_t - \beta_F\cdot \Delta\text{Flux}_t \\ \text{Twist}_{t+1} &\leftarrow \text{Twist}_t + k_T \cdot e_t \quad \text{(apply only if }|e_t|\text{ persists)}\\ \alpha_{t+1} &\leftarrow (1-\lambda)\alpha_t + \lambda\cdot \hat{\alpha}_t,\;\; \hat{\alpha}_t=\arg\min_\alpha \sum_{w}( \text{Gap}- (\text{Flux}+\alpha\cdot\text{Twist}))^2 \end{aligned}

Recommended gains: $k_F\in[0.3,0.6]$ , $k_T\in[0.05,0.15]$ , $\beta_F\in[0.1,0.3]$ , $\lambda\in[0.05,0.2]$ .
Heuristic: act Flux first; only move Twist after $R_{\text{PBHL}}$ stays Amber 2–3 windows.

Operator checklist (one page)

Verify sensing: align Gap/Flux sampling cadences; switch to weekly if noisy.
Re-ID α: run rolling regression (last 6–8 samples). If α jumps >25%, treat as α drift incident.
Flux-first fix: raise throughput (unblockers, focused WIP, golden path).
Twist-guard: freeze non-critical scope; only introduce Twist if Flux is near saturation.
Gate & audit: apply BeltGate actions; emit PBHL.Update with status and rationale.
Exit criteria: $R_{\text{PBHL}}\le 0.10$ for 2 weeks; attach Five-Line KPI panel.

Runbook payloads (copy-paste)

Amber → tighten Flux-gate; freeze non-critical Twist

POST /belt
{
  "edges": {"plan": 0.62, "do": 0.51},
  "alpha": 0.35,
  "twist": 0.09,
  "mesh": "belt://program/support-rag@Q4",
  "gates": {"residual_max": 0.20, "freeze_noncritical_twist": true, "flux_gain": 0.45},
  "tags": {"gate": "BeltGate", "level": "AMBER"}
}

Red → freeze scope; daily sampling; exec review; bump Flux; hold Twist

POST /belt
{
  "edges": {"plan": 0.62, "do": 0.51},
  "alpha": 0.35,
  "twist": 0.09,
  "mesh": "belt://program/support-rag@Q4",
  "gates": {
    "residual_max": 0.30,
    "freeze_scope": true,
    "sample_rate": "daily",
    "exec_review": true,
    "flux_gain": 0.55,
    "twist_hold": true
  },
  "tags": {"gate": "BeltGate", "level": "RED"}
}

α re-identification (when α drift suspected)

POST /belt
{
  "edges": {"plan": 0.60, "do": 0.52},
  "alpha": null,                       // let runtime estimate
  "twist": 0.08,
  "mesh": "belt://program/support-rag@Q4",
  "gates": {"reidentify_alpha": true, "window": 8},
  "tags": {"gate": "BeltGate", "level": "AMBER", "op": "alpha-reid"}
}

Failure modes → fixes (fast triage)

Residual high, Flux high, Gap flat → leakage or α too low → audit streams, re-ID α, trim side quests.
Residual high, Flux low, high Twist → over-rotation → freeze Twist, push unblockers (Flux).
Residual oscillates → gains too hot → lower $k_F,k_T$ , add $\beta_F$ .
Sudden residual spike → sensing break (Gap misreported) → reconcile metrics, backfill, rerun /belt.

Numbers to remember

Bands: 0.10 / 0.30 (Green/Red).
Gains: start $k_F=0.45,\,k_T=0.1,\,\beta_F=0.2,\,\lambda=0.1$ .
Exit: Green 2 weeks continuous; publish Five-Line KPI with notes.

Cross-refs: Table 1 (PBHL Residual, EEI/SI bands), Table 2 (/belt, PBHL.Update, PolicyGate.Trigger), Table 5 (BeltGate actions), Fig.4 (belt worldsheet), Fig.5 (Five-Line KPI).

Agreement Check: commuting + shared record recipe

What it verifies.
Two observers (or replicas) agree on an outcome when:

their chosen instruments frame-commute (order doesn’t change effective outcomes), and
they write/share redundant pointer records to a common, immutable ledger.
The check outputs {pass|fail, score∈[0,1]} and updates the compatibility graph C used by Ô. (See Tables 1–2, 4.)

Operator recipe (five steps)

Align frames & clocks.
- Same input state snapshot (or state hash).
- Timestamps synchronized to tick τ (tolerance ≤1 tick).
Declare candidate instruments & build Ĉ.
- Start from policy hints (Table 4); mark edges “conditional” if gated by CWA.
- Provide a commute matrix with 1/0/“cond” entries.
Share pointer records (SBS redundancy).
- Require redundancy ≥3 independent channels writing the same pointer to a shared ledger (append-only; signed chain).
- Latching: trace writes are immutable within frame (internal collapse).
Run AB/BA agreement panel.
- For each pair (A,B), run apply(A)→apply(B) vs apply(B)→apply(A) across n=128 contexts.
- Compare: (i) outcome distributions (KL or MMD ≤ ε=0.02), (ii) trace compatibility (allow stable relabeling), (iii) next-tick decisions match with prob ≥ 1−δ, δ=0.05.
Score & gate.
- Agreement Rate (AGR) over W ticks; pass if AGR ≥ 0.95 (prod-guarded).
- If fail or redundancy <3 → trigger AgreementGate (Table 5): quorum-only or autonomy-off.

Minimal test (pseudocode)

def agree(Ta, Tb, commute_matrix, eps=0.02, delta=0.05):
    pairs = instrument_pairs(Ta, Tb)
    scores = []
    for A,B in pairs:
        if commute_matrix[A,B] == 0: 
            return fail(0.0, reason="declared conflict")
        SAB, TAB = run_path(A,B); SBA, TBA = run_path(B,A)
        d = dist(outcome(SAB), outcome(SBA))  # KL/MMD
        traces_ok = compatible(TAB, TBA, stable_relabel=True)
        next_equal = prob_equal(select_channel(SAB,TAB), select_channel(SBA,TBA)) >= (1-delta)
        scores.append(int(d <= eps and traces_ok and next_equal))
    return pass_fail(mean(scores))

API payloads (copy-paste)

A) Agreement check (normal)

POST /agree
{
  "Ta":"trc_A", "Tb":"trc_B",
  "commute_matrix":[[1,1,0],[1,1,1],[0,1,1]],
  "record_policy":{"redundancy_required":3, "stable_relabel":true}
}

B) Force SBS redundancy probe (auto-add a pointer channel)

POST /measure
{
  "pi":"channel://pointer/redundant-3",
  "state_ref":"model://agent/42@v17",
  "commit":true,
  "tags":{"gate":"AgreementGate","op":"sbs-probe"}
}

C) Quorum-only mode (Amber)

POST /measure
{
  "pi":"channel://tool/safe-read",
  "commit":true,
  "tags":{"gate":"AgreementGate","level":"AMBER","quorum":"majority"}
}

D) Autonomy off (Red)

POST /measure
{
  "pi":"channel://tool/safe-read",
  "commit":false,
  "tags":{"gate":"AgreementGate","level":"RED","autonomy":"off"}
}

Quick heuristics (when do A and B commute?)

Likely commute: pure reads, projections + CWA-passed mean/sum, dedup→rank with stable keys.
Likely conflict: writes to same key w/o snapshotting; concatenation encoders; plan↔execute pairs; actions with environmental dynamics.
Conditional: read after write with version pin, web search↔open if opener is read-only.

Worked mini-examples

Qubit Z↔Z: commute (idempotent); agreement should be 1.0 with SBS≥3.
Qubit Z↔X: non-commuting; expect fail unless policy treats them as independent records for different observables.
RAG bag-fetch ↔ mean-pool: commute if CWA ≥ 0.75; otherwise PoolingGate forces fallback → treat as conflict for agreement purposes.

Pitfalls (and fixes)

Hidden side-effects (reads warming caches) → exclude those fields from Ô inputs or snapshot before reads.
Clock skew / Δτ drift → run SyncGate; align τ before agreement.
Duplicate/near-dup records → dedup by content hash; otherwise AGR inflates spuriously.
Partial ledger sharing → require cross-replica proofs (hash-chain + signature) in TraceWrite.
CWA-conditioned edges → re-run /agree whenever certificate bands change.

Numbers to remember

AGR pass band: ≥0.95 (prod-guarded).
Panel sizes: n=128 contexts; ε=0.02; δ=0.05.
SBS redundancy: ≥3 independent pointer channels to shared ledger.
Hysteresis: need 512 ticks in-band to clear AgreementGate.

Cross-refs: Table 1 (AGR, R_SBS), Table 2 (/agree, TraceWrite, events), Table 4 (compatibility), Table 5 (AgreementGate actions), Figs.2 & 6.

Boxed Callout — Slot Budget Rule: integer capacity guardrails

What it is.
Agents have integer, non-fractional capacity for memory, attention, and tool concurrency. A slot is one atomic address/lease that an operation occupies exclusively until it’s released or expires. The Slot Budget Rule enforces:

Discrete capacity $N\in\mathbb{Z}_{>0}$ , 2) Non-overlap (no two writers share a slot), 3) Explicit eviction (LRU/priority/TTL), 4) Pool isolation (separate pools per resource class), 5) Observable occupancy/collisions.

Why it matters.
Most agent failures here are mundane—queue stampedes, cache thrash, tool pileups—and they cascade into mis-exec, AGR drops, and PBHL drift. Guardrails keep utilization in the sweet spot and make contention visible, not silent.

Operator rules (copy to runbooks)

R1 — Size to target occupancy: choose pool size $N$ so peak concurrent demand $M$ fits within band Occ* ≈ 40–85%:
$N \;\ge\; \left\lceil \frac{M}{0.85} \right\rceil \quad\text{and}\quad N \;\le\; \left\lfloor \frac{M}{0.40} \right\rfloor$
R2 — Collision budget: for hash-based slot picking, birthday bound for ≥1 collision:
$\Pr[\text{collision}] \approx 1 - e^{-M(M-1)/(2N)} \;\;\Rightarrow\;\; \text{tune } N \text{ s.t. SCR} < 10/1\!k$
R3 — Lease everything: every allocation has a TTL; renew or release—no zombies.
R4 — Serialize across conflict cuts: if instruments don’t commute (Table 4), force new τ or single-file the callers even if slots are free.
R5 — Two-sided risk: low Occ (<20%) → wasted memory/latency; high Occ (>95%) → thrash & MER↑. Both page AllocatorGate (Table 5).

Quick capacity planning (three knobs)

Concurrency target $M_{p95}$ : p95 of simultaneous requesters.
Utilization target $u^*\in[0.4,0.85]$ .
Collision SLO SCR<10/1k.
Pick $N = \max\{\lceil M_{p95}/u^*\rceil, \text{N from collision curve}\}$ . Recheck monthly.

Minimal allocator spec (safe defaults)

Pools: tools/*, cache/*, attention/* (independent ledgers).
Policy: priority > LRU, TTL=5 s (tools), 60 s (cache), 500 ms (attention micro-batches).
Fairness: round-robin per caller; burst cap per caller (e.g., 2 slots).
Observability: emit SlotAllocate/Release with occupancy, collisions_per_1k.
Guards: back-pressure at 85%, serialize hot callsites at 95%.

Pseudocode (lease + fairness)

def allocate(pool, k, caller):
    grant=[]
    for _ in range(k):
        if occupancy(pool) >= 0.95: serialize_hot_callers(pool); raise BackPressure
        s = next_free_slot(pool, caller)  # RR per caller
        if s is None: raise BackPressure
        lease(s, ttl=pool.ttl, owner=caller); grant.append(s)
    emit("SlotAllocate", occupancy=occ(pool), scr=collisions(pool))
    return grant

API payloads (copy-paste)

Allocate with TTL (Amber back-pressure mode)

POST /slots.allocate
{"pool":"tools/default","k":2,"ttl_ms":5000,"tags":{"gate":"AllocatorGate","level":"AMBER"}}

Release

POST /slots.release
{"ids":["slt_a","slt_b"],"tags":{"reason":"tool-finished"}}

Occupancy probe (for dashboards)

GET /slots.occupancy

Metric bands & gates (Table 1 shortcuts)

Occupancy (Occ): Green 40–85% · Amber 20–40% or 85–95% · Red <20% or >95%
Collision rate (SCR): Green <10/1k · Amber 10–30/1k · Red >30/1k
AllocatorGate actions: Amber→ back-pressure + TTL↑; Red→ increase pool & serialize callers.

Worked mini-examples

RAG retriever cache (8 slots). Peak demand 6 ⇒ $N\_min=\lceil6/0.85\rceil=8$ . If burst to 9 causes SCR=34/1k, raise to 12 and set per-caller burst cap=2.
Tool fan-out. Planner spawns 10 parallel tools; pool has 12. Keep Occ≈0.83 (Green). If MER spikes with Occ>0.95, it’s contention: serialize the top offender and raise TTL to 8 s.

Failure modes → fixes

Zombie leases (no release): SCR climbs with flat Occ; fix with TTL + renewals and /slots.release in finally blocks.
Unisolated pools: cache saturation starves tools; split pools (cache/* vs tools/*).
Hidden writes: “reads” that mutate Ô inputs violate non-overlap; mark them writes and include in pool accounting.
Over-aggressive evictions: Occ in Green but miss rate high → LRU→priority policy; pin critical spans.

Numbers to remember

Occ sweet spot: 40–85%.
SCR SLO: <10 per 1k allocations.
Default TTLs: tools 5 s, cache 60 s, attention 0.5 s.
Burst cap: ≤2 per caller (raise only with AgreementGate Green).

Cross-refs: Table 1 (Occ, SCR), Table 2 (slot APIs & events), Table 4 (serialize across conflicts), Table 5 (AllocatorGate actions), Fig. 7 (allocator heatmap).

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