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EvoHakiki: An Auditable Control Plane for Evidence-Governed Agent Evolution

A two-phase research program investigating how persistent agent change can be governed through evidence lineage, deterministic advisory policy, append-only human adjudication, and explicit separation between recommendation and external-action authority.

Research proposition

Persistent agent change creates a governance problem: who controls the evidence, who judges the result, and who authorizes action?

Systems that propose changes should not automatically gain authority to select their evidence, certify success, erase contrary outcomes, or authorize external action. The research program therefore treats evidence lineage, adjudication, policy, and action authority as distinct governance surfaces.

Evidence boundary: Phase I defines the architecture and governance model. Whether the system improves reliably and safely over time is the subject of Phase II.

Two-phase program

Architecture first; empirical claims only after matched evaluation.

Architecture-and-methods contribution

Phase I — Architecture and methods

Anchored exactly to v0.10.0

Focus

  • Evidence integrity and artifact lineage
  • Deterministic advisory policy
  • Append-only human adjudication
  • Auditability across proposed and adjudicated changes
  • Separation of policy from external-action authority

Claim boundaries

  • No claim of demonstrated longitudinal capability improvement
  • No claim of validated metacognition
  • No claim of complete containment
  • No claim of safe autonomous promotion
Future work

Phase II — Longitudinal empirical evaluation

Begins from v0.11 or an explicitly versioned successor

Planned evaluation

  • Capability improvement
  • Retention and forgetting
  • Safety regression
  • Governance cost
  • Causal differences between matched experimental conditions

Preliminary v0.11 observations will not be presented as Phase I evidence or completed empirical results.

Research resources

  • ManuscriptIn preparation
  • PDFNot yet released
  • DOI / ZenodoNot yet assigned
  • Source repositoryNot yet supplied
  • Reproducibility artifactsNot yet released
  • Recommended citationNot yet finalized
  • Version historyv0.10.0 Phase I anchor · v0.11+ planned Phase II