sica-fondt/docs/plans/C2-metacognition.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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C2 — 4+4 Metacognition cycle

1. Component

The dual-tradition metacognitive multicycle: four Western + four non-Western reflective passes, interleaved and paired for friction (not confirmation), with Celtic-Cross cards (B3) applied iteratively across the rounds.

2. Status / certainty

Partial — the orchestration (phase ordering) exists in Ada (ada_medium phase enums), defunct-flagged; the philosophical passes themselves are unimplemented. Structure C4; pass content C1.

3. Language & location

TBD (cognition, runs inside the descent below Ada). Likely prompt/skill content driven by the harness (C1)

  • orchestration in the cycle (C3). New location e.g. src/metacog/.

4. Does / does-not

  • Does: run the 8 passes in the fixed order, each pass straining against its partner; apply the accumulating B3 spread; generate cognitive heat from opposed traditions held in simultaneous load.
  • Does-not: route tools or decide composition dynamically — ordering is static; responsiveness is Energy-gated (skip later passes when E low, per C1/A2).

5. Interface contract

  • The 4 friction pairs (fixed): wMC1 Socratic aporia ↔ eMC1 Iranian Asha · wMC2 Kant boundaries ↔ eMC2 East-Asian empty mirror · wMC3 Freud/Hegel shadow ↔ eMC3 Indic witness · wMC4 Modern pragmatic ↔ eMC4 Tibetan Bön flow. Bridges: Socrates↔Hegel; ArchimedeanSocratic.
  • run_pass(n, state, active_cards) -> reflection (n=1..4 ⇒ wMCn then eMCn, then draw B3 pair).
  • Energy-gating: a low-E snapshot (A2) reduces how many passes run.

6. Dependencies & stubs

B3 cards — stub: fixed spread. Brain/LLM (C4) executes the passes — stub: echo the pass label. Energy (A2) for gating — stub: scalar.

7. Invariants / laws

  • L1 (C5): pairing principle = friction, not confirmation.
  • L2 (C4): composition is static (no learned router); compute scales via Energy only.
  • L3 (C4): cards apply iteratively — by final cognition all 10 (B3) are concurrently in play.

8. Build steps

  1. Encode the 8-pass order + pairings as data + an L1/L2/L3 test. 2. Author each pass's content (prompt/skill) — invariants-first (the friction each pair must produce). 3. Wire B3 + Energy-gating.

9. Tests

Order/pairing test; iterative-card test; Energy-gating reduces pass count at low E.

10. Open items

  • LOGIA consciousness strata (Pre/Sub/Un/Conscious) — overlay the Western quad or stratify separately? (C1)
  • Pass content authoring (C1). Energy→pass-count curve (C1, shared with C1/A2).