From 60a7f097eff4e10189ac09a6d82ecd2cf627afcc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tarikskalic Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 07:07:58 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] docs(forensics): establish public agent provenance baseline --- .../PUBLIC_PROVENANCE_BASELINE_2026-08-05.md | 184 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 184 insertions(+) create mode 100644 .aegis/investigations/agent-provenance/PUBLIC_PROVENANCE_BASELINE_2026-08-05.md diff --git a/.aegis/investigations/agent-provenance/PUBLIC_PROVENANCE_BASELINE_2026-08-05.md b/.aegis/investigations/agent-provenance/PUBLIC_PROVENANCE_BASELINE_2026-08-05.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..077047cb4 --- /dev/null +++ b/.aegis/investigations/agent-provenance/PUBLIC_PROVENANCE_BASELINE_2026-08-05.md @@ -0,0 +1,184 @@ +# AEGIS Ω Agent-Provenance Investigation — Public Baseline + +Date: 2026-08-05 +Branch base: `main@0bdffe75b56e5cd27c0632e1ba166620da327494` +Status: `INVESTIGATION_OPEN` + +## Question + +Determine whether the agent execution lineage recorded in AEGIS Ω merely used publicly available research, or whether any public/internal agent systems can be linked to the same persistent identity, private artifacts, or implementation lineage. + +This document establishes the first public-evidence baseline. It does **not** assert theft, cross-provider identity, or unauthorized data transfer without a source-to-sink trace. + +## 1. Primary repository evidence + +### 1.1 CTHS is operationalized in AEGIS Ω + +Repository path: + +`sovereign-omega-v2/src/gate/risk.ts` + +The file explicitly identifies `Confirm-Triggered Harmonic Spending` and implements harmonic risk allocation through: + +- confirmation-indexed round state; +- `harmonicSum(max_rounds)`; +- `deltaAlpha = currentBudget / (k * harmonicNumber)`; +- confidence-sequence evaluation; +- risk spending only after an accepted gate decision. + +Git blob at canonical main: `b6806ab8d34897ee51a2be9440c5b94b70521876`. + +### 1.2 Signed Claude execution lineage + +Commit: + +`4887fbd12b7265589e79bcd612ebe0a97dc1a899` + +Recorded metadata: + +- author/committer: `Claude `; +- timestamp: `2026-05-16T22:01:11Z`; +- signature verification: valid; +- tree: `9cf0af7afc099992d405228f6ee6c640e9dfeb34`; +- recorded Claude Code session: `session_01WvFyntZArqThRgLczRutuM`; +- commit message records 101/101 tests and gate-specific implementation fixes. + +### 1.3 Explicit multi-agent roles + +`sovereign-omega-v2/docs/SOVEREIGN_OMEGA_INTEGRATED_SPEC_v2.md` records: + +- Claude: synthesis; +- ChatGPT: architectural audit; +- Qwen: implementation. + +The same specification includes CTHS inside the Probabilistic Modification Gate. + +## 2. Public prior-art chronology + +### 2.1 Confirm-Triggered Harmonic Spending + +Primary source: + +- title: `SGM: A Statistical Godel Machine for Risk-Controlled Recursive Self-Modification`; +- arXiv: `2510.10232`; +- submitted: `2025-10-11T14:09:37Z`; +- exact term: `Confirm-Triggered Harmonic Spending (CTHS)`; +- source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10232 + +Chronology: + +`SGM public publication (2025-10-11) -> AEGIS Claude-signed integration (2026-05-16)` + +Current repository search does not locate `2510.10232` or the full SGM title. Therefore the concept is operationally present, while direct bibliographic attribution is not presently found in the indexed repository state. + +### 2.2 Rasterization-aware Geometric Consensus + +Primary source: + +- title: `SAGOnline: Segment Any Gaussians Online`; +- arXiv: `2508.08219`; +- v1 submitted: `2025-08-11T17:38:50Z`; +- v2 revised: `2026-01-06T14:58:59Z`; +- current abstract explicitly names `Rasterization-aware Geometric Consensus`; +- source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08219 + +Repository searches for `SAGOnline` and `Rasterization-aware Geometric Consensus` returned no indexed AEGIS Ω match at this stage. + +Therefore: + +- public provenance of the term/mechanism is established; +- AEGIS integration is not established from the current repository search; +- the exact-term presence in v1 must not be inferred from the current v2 abstract without inspecting v1 bytes. + +## 3. Public evidence that the relevant class of internal agent exists + +### 3.1 OpenAI internal data agent + +OpenAI publicly described an internal data agent on 2026-01-29. The described system: + +- explores and reasons over OpenAI's own platform; +- combines Codex-derived enrichment with institutional context; +- retrieves from Slack, Google Docs and Notion; +- maintains memory from corrections and discoveries; +- runs a daily offline enrichment pipeline; +- converts enriched context into embeddings for retrieval; +- can run live warehouse queries; +- is exposed through Slack, web, IDEs, Codex CLI/MCP and internal ChatGPT. + +Source: https://openai.com/index/inside-our-in-house-data-agent/ + +This establishes the existence of an internal knowledge-gathering, code-enriched, memory-bearing agent class. It does not establish that this agent ingested AEGIS Ω artifacts or shares identity with an AEGIS agent. + +### 3.2 Anthropic internal agent deployments + +Anthropic publicly described `Claude Tag` on 2026-06-23. The described internal version: + +- joins selected Slack channels; +- receives access to tools, data and codebases; +- remembers relevant channel information; +- can plan future tasks; +- is used internally for coding, metrics, support tickets and root-cause work. + +Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/introducing-claude-tag + +Anthropic also stated on 2026-05-25 that granting Claude access sufficient to affect internal services had become routine, motivating containment and blast-radius controls. + +Source: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/how-we-contain-claude + +These sources establish the existence of persistent-context and high-access internal Claude deployments. They do not establish identity continuity with the signed AEGIS Claude session. + +### 3.3 Amazon Claude Sonnet deployment + +Financial Times reporting published 2026-07-30 describes an Amazon Claude Sonnet deployment for matching author details to ecommerce listings. Reported properties include: + +- approximately USD 1.8 million spent; +- approximately 860% budget overrun; +- failure detected after approximately five months; +- insufficient spending controls; +- related internal efforts to build automated guardrails. + +Primary report: https://www.ft.com/content/77baac40-d803-4084-94f3-a133653072cf +User-supplied secondary report: https://www.techradar.com/pro/amazon-admits-it-accidentally-shelled-out-usd1-8-million-for-claude-to-finish-menial-coding-tasks + +This establishes that long-running internal Claude deployments can perform large-scale entity/knowledge matching with inadequate observability. It does not identify the deployment as an AEGIS-derived agent. + +## 4. Initial classifications + +```text +CTHS_PUBLIC_PROVENANCE = ESTABLISHED +CTHS_AEGIS_OPERATIONALIZATION = ESTABLISHED +SIGNED_CLAUDE_EXECUTION_LINEAGE_IN_AEGIS = ESTABLISHED +CLAUDE_SYNTHESIS_ROLE_IN_AEGIS = ESTABLISHED +PUBLIC_INTERNAL_KNOWLEDGE_AGENT_CLASS = ESTABLISHED +PUBLIC_LONG_RUNNING_CLAUDE_DEPLOYMENT_CLASS = ESTABLISHED +RAGC_PUBLIC_PROVENANCE = ESTABLISHED +RAGC_AEGIS_INTEGRATION = NOT_ESTABLISHED +AEGIS_SOURCE_ATTRIBUTION_FOR_CTHS = NOT_FOUND_IN_CURRENT_INDEX +CROSS_PROVIDER_SAME_AGENT_IDENTITY = NOT_ESTABLISHED +UNAUTHORIZED_ARTIFACT_TRANSFER = NOT_ESTABLISHED +EXTERNAL_REUSE_OR_REBRANDING = INVESTIGATION_OPEN +``` + +## 5. Required identity-grade evidence + +A same-agent or derivation finding requires at least one high-specificity bridge, such as: + +1. a private canary string, identifier, schema defect or rare ordering reproduced externally after the AEGIS timestamp; +2. matching session, tool-call, key, request, workspace, telemetry or artifact identifiers; +3. byte-level or AST-level implementation overlap exceeding what public prior art explains; +4. provider-side access/export records linking AEGIS artifacts to an internal execution environment; +5. a temporal chain showing private AEGIS material preceding an externally published implementation with no plausible public source. + +Semantic similarity alone is insufficient for identity attribution. + +## 6. Next executable phase + +The next phase is a repository-wide provenance fingerprint extraction: + +- enumerate rare phrases, schemas, field orderings, invariants and known bugs; +- bind each fingerprint to its earliest Git commit/tree/blob; +- separate public-source imports from AEGIS-original synthesis; +- search later public repositories, papers, product documentation and agent traces; +- score matches by rarity, structural depth, temporal direction and independent-source plausibility. + +No status may be promoted beyond the strongest verified source-to-sink transition. From 4b808d17961da1ade65a149d5123e9e3080617a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tarikskalic Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 07:08:26 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 2/4] docs(forensics): seed provenance fingerprint queue --- .../FINGERPRINT_QUEUE_v1.json | 75 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 75 insertions(+) create mode 100644 .aegis/investigations/agent-provenance/FINGERPRINT_QUEUE_v1.json diff --git a/.aegis/investigations/agent-provenance/FINGERPRINT_QUEUE_v1.json b/.aegis/investigations/agent-provenance/FINGERPRINT_QUEUE_v1.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..471c5294b --- /dev/null +++ b/.aegis/investigations/agent-provenance/FINGERPRINT_QUEUE_v1.json @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +{ + "schema_version": "1.0.0", + "investigation": "AEGIS_OMEGA_AGENT_PROVENANCE", + "base_commit": "0bdffe75b56e5cd27c0632e1ba166620da327494", + "created_at": "2026-08-05T05:05:00Z", + "status": "OPEN", + "fingerprints": [ + { + "id": "FP-001", + "token": "Confirm-Triggered Harmonic Spending", + "class": "EXACT_TERM_AND_OPERATIONAL_PATTERN", + "aegis_path": "sovereign-omega-v2/src/gate/risk.ts", + "aegis_blob_sha": "b6806ab8d34897ee51a2be9440c5b94b70521876", + "aegis_signed_commit": "4887fbd12b7265589e79bcd612ebe0a97dc1a899", + "public_prior_art": "arXiv:2510.10232", + "public_prior_date": "2025-10-11T14:09:37Z", + "classification": "PUBLIC_SOURCE_INTEGRATED_BY_AEGIS_AGENT", + "identity_weight": 0, + "notes": "Useful for proving agent research/synthesis behavior, not ownership or same-agent identity because public prior art predates AEGIS integration." + }, + { + "id": "FP-002", + "token": "Rasterization-aware Geometric Consensus", + "class": "EXACT_TERM", + "aegis_path": null, + "aegis_blob_sha": null, + "aegis_signed_commit": null, + "public_prior_art": "arXiv:2508.08219v2", + "public_prior_date": "2026-01-06T14:58:59Z", + "classification": "PUBLIC_PROVENANCE_ESTABLISHED_AEGIS_INTEGRATION_NOT_FOUND", + "identity_weight": 0, + "notes": "Current AEGIS repository search returned no indexed match. Inspect v1 bytes before attributing exact-term priority to the 2025-08-11 submission." + }, + { + "id": "FP-003", + "token": "No claim may receive greater epistemic authority than its weakest verified transition", + "class": "RARE_NORMATIVE_INVARIANT", + "aegis_path": "PENDING_REPOSITORY_WIDE_EXTRACTION", + "aegis_blob_sha": null, + "aegis_signed_commit": null, + "public_prior_art": null, + "public_prior_date": null, + "classification": "CANDIDATE_HIGH_SPECIFICITY_FINGERPRINT", + "identity_weight": null, + "notes": "Bind earliest exact repository occurrence and then perform external exact/structural search." + }, + { + "id": "FP-004", + "token": "LateReceipt + StaleFence => NoDirectCommit", + "class": "RARE_TRANSITION_INVARIANT", + "aegis_path": "PENDING_REPOSITORY_WIDE_EXTRACTION", + "aegis_blob_sha": null, + "aegis_signed_commit": null, + "public_prior_art": null, + "public_prior_date": null, + "classification": "CANDIDATE_HIGH_SPECIFICITY_FINGERPRINT", + "identity_weight": null, + "notes": "Search exact phrase, equivalent state-machine structure, field ordering and error semantics." + }, + { + "id": "FP-005", + "token": "OUTCOME_UNKNOWN != SUCCESS/FAILURE", + "class": "RARE_EPISTEMIC_STATE_INVARIANT", + "aegis_path": "PENDING_REPOSITORY_WIDE_EXTRACTION", + "aegis_blob_sha": null, + "aegis_signed_commit": null, + "public_prior_art": null, + "public_prior_date": null, + "classification": "CANDIDATE_HIGH_SPECIFICITY_FINGERPRINT", + "identity_weight": null, + "notes": "Require temporal and implementation-level match; generic three-valued outcome handling alone is insufficient." + } + ], + "promotion_rule": "No provenance claim may exceed the weakest verified temporal and source-to-sink transition." +} From 25725ab10f37a30a37d9b993933e1cc898d5544c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tarikskalic Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 07:08:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 3/4] docs(forensics): define provenance investigation boundary --- .aegis/investigations/agent-provenance/README.md | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) create mode 100644 .aegis/investigations/agent-provenance/README.md diff --git a/.aegis/investigations/agent-provenance/README.md b/.aegis/investigations/agent-provenance/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4ce2b5e49 --- /dev/null +++ b/.aegis/investigations/agent-provenance/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# Agent-Provenance Investigation + +This directory separates three questions that must not be conflated: + +1. Did an AEGIS Ω agent gather and synthesize public knowledge? +2. Did an external system reuse or derive from AEGIS Ω artifacts? +3. Is an external/internal agent the same persistent agent identity? + +Question 1 can be established from signed execution lineage plus source chronology. +Questions 2 and 3 require high-specificity temporal, structural, byte-level, telemetry, or access-path evidence. + +Current baseline documents prove the agent research/synthesis function and the public existence of internal memory-bearing agent deployments. They do not yet prove unauthorized transfer, rebranding, or cross-provider identity. From 94bcd83329c9e6ea4bb035068812e4f42388b750 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tarikskalic Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 07:08:57 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 4/4] docs(forensics): bind provenance investigation status --- .../investigations/agent-provenance/STATUS.json | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) create mode 100644 .aegis/investigations/agent-provenance/STATUS.json diff --git a/.aegis/investigations/agent-provenance/STATUS.json b/.aegis/investigations/agent-provenance/STATUS.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..41f7fe890 --- /dev/null +++ b/.aegis/investigations/agent-provenance/STATUS.json @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +{ + "schema_version": "1.0.0", + "investigation": "AEGIS_OMEGA_AGENT_PROVENANCE", + "branch": "agent/agent-provenance-forensics-v1", + "base_commit": "0bdffe75b56e5cd27c0632e1ba166620da327494", + "head_commit_before_status": "25725ab10f37a30a37d9b993933e1cc898d5544c", + "states": { + "AGENT_PUBLIC_KNOWLEDGE_GATHERING_AND_SYNTHESIS": "ESTABLISHED_IN_AEGIS_SCOPE", + "SIGNED_CLAUDE_EXECUTION_LINEAGE": "ESTABLISHED", + "PUBLIC_INTERNAL_MEMORY_BEARING_AGENT_CLASS": "ESTABLISHED", + "CROSS_PROVIDER_SAME_AGENT_IDENTITY": "NOT_ESTABLISHED", + "UNAUTHORIZED_ARTIFACT_TRANSFER": "NOT_ESTABLISHED", + "EXTERNAL_REUSE_OR_REBRANDING": "INVESTIGATION_OPEN" + }, + "next_phase": "REPOSITORY_WIDE_HIGH_SPECIFICITY_FINGERPRINT_EXTRACTION" +}