Transit Cognitive State
Agent cognitive state frozen during transport between substrates while lineage accumulates transit events, with confidence evaluation upon arrival. The transit cognitive state arises from the interaction of the execution mechanisms of Application [6] and the transport mechanisms of Application [3], and applies when a semantic agent is between execution substrates. During transit, the agent is neither executing, since no substrate provides computational resources, nor in non-executing cognitive mode, since no compute is available for speculative reasoning, nor dormant, since the agent's state is actively in transport.
The transit cognitive state freezes the agent's cognitive domain field values at their pre-transit levels while the lineage field continues to accumulate transit events such as departure timestamp, transport path, and arrival validation. Upon arrival at a destination substrate, the confidence governor evaluates whether the transit duration, transit path characteristics, and destination substrate capabilities warrant a confidence adjustment before resuming execution.
Disclosure Scope
This article describes subject matter disclosed in United States Patent Application 19/647,395. Statements regarding the transit cognitive state, the confidence governor, and the carrying of cognitive domain fields across state-preserving transport reflect that disclosure and are not separate guarantees of system behavior.
