test-driver/research/hypotheses/H-003-crystallization.md
tegwick bec7fdc465 T03: research control plane
H-001..H-005 with explicit falsification conditions, E-001..E-003, the
Concept-Implementation Fitness Map, findings log and ID convention. Plain
files, no tooling.

- fitness map corrects Improvement Loop section 13 levels downward: nothing
  exceeds C1 without implementation
- H-005 (Energy) dormant by decision - events captured, no scoring written
- H-001 gets a genuine control arm so the semantic-action thesis is not
  trivially true
- E-003 added: deliberately attacks the safety boundary rather than only
  sampling benign cases

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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id title status created experiments concepts
H-003 Crystallization PROPOSED 2026-08-22
E-002
C-crystallization

H-003 — Crystallization

Claim

A sufficiently stable agentic execution can be converted into deterministic test code without losing relevant oracle coverage.

Falsification condition

Any of:

  • the generated deterministic test cannot be produced without human authorship of the assertions;
  • it drops one or more oracles present in the agentic ancestor;
  • it passes where the ancestor would have failed, or vice versa, on the same lab version;
  • it costs no less to execute than the agentic ancestor.

Measurement

  • Crystallization success rate.
  • Oracle set of descendant vs ancestor — must be a superset or equal.
  • Verdict agreement between ancestor and descendant across lab versions.
  • Execution cost ratio (tokens, wall time) descendant : ancestor.

Note on the cost criterion

The cost criterion is included deliberately. If crystallization preserves semantics but saves nothing, the thesis is intact but the product rationale is not — and that distinction should be visible in the record rather than discovered by a user.

Status log

  • 2026-08-22 PROPOSED. No evidence.