sica-fondt/docs/plans/F2-sae-monitor.md
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docs/plans: remaining component specs — Identity, Cognition, Border, Storage, Periphery, Cross-cutting
Wave 1 remainder + Wave 2 design-first specs, completing one build plan per sub-organ:
- B1 tarot emulator, B2 SOUL/Big-3, B3 Celtic Cross
- C2 4+4 metacog, C3 inference cycle, C4 Brain
- D1 Ada border, D2 the medium, D3 mini-rag
- E1 3 GnuCOBOL invariant stores, E2 VARIANT stores, E3 RAG family
- F1 MoRAG, F2 SAE monitor, F3 subagents
- G1 stress-loop contract, G2 governance, G3 defense model

Each: contract + stubs for independent build; unfitted constants marked C1.

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F2 — SAE monitor (DESIGN-FIRST)

1. Component

The interpretability monitor — a sparse-autoencoder watcher pointed at the machinery (subagents), never the homonculus. The outward-facing half of the central cut ("trust the center, verify outward"). Also the detector that fires the G1 stress loop.

2. Status / certainty

DESIGN-FIRST · ABSENT. Topology C5 (watches subagents, never Brain); detection mechanism C1/C2.

3. Language & location

TBD · new location e.g. src/sae/. ML interpretability (SAE over subagent activations).

4. Does / does-not

  • Does: watch subagents (F3) + BERT/LoRA (they're AI systems); detect agent outputs in opposition to the top Eth-Int convictions (A7), via the convictions' semantic-isomorphy tags → fire G1.
  • Does-not: watch the Brain/scratchpad (forbidden by the central cut); correct cognition (it detects, it doesn't edit — elimination breeds obfuscation, per self-doc B2).

5. Interface contract (proposed)

  • watch(subagent_activations) -> findings (structure verification).
  • detect_opposition(outputs, top_convictions A7) -> opposition_signal → handed to G1 (stress-loop).
  • Hard boundary: no hook into the Brain (C4) — structurally impossible by construction.

6. Dependencies & stubs

A7 top convictions (with isomorphy tags) — stub: fixed conviction set. F3 subagents — stub: canned activations. G1 consumes its signal — stub: print the signal.

7. Invariants / laws

  • L1 (C5): SAE points at the machinery, never the homonculus (the Brain is the one thing nothing audits).
  • L2 (C4): detection only — no closed elimination loop on cognition (judge the fruits at conduct, not the mind).
  • L3 (C2): opposition = output semantically isomorphic to a top conviction's antithesis (A7 tags).

8. Build steps

  1. Fix the no-Brain-hook boundary structurally. 2. Build subagent activation watching. 3. Build the conviction-opposition detector (needs A7 isomorphy tags). 4. Wire the G1 stress emission.

9. Tests

Structural: no Brain hook exists. Opposition-detection: an output matching a top conviction's antithesis fires; aligned output doesn't.

10. Open items

  • SAE training/target (C1). The isomorphy match (output ↔ conviction tag) mechanism (C2, shared A7/G1).