FIELD

The present disclosure generally relates to artificial intelligence, cognitive systems architecture, and autonomous agent platforms. In particular, the present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for autonomous agents with persistent cognitive state, self-regulated execution, and cross-domain behavioral coherence.

BACKGROUND

Conventional artificial intelligence systems operate as stateless inference engines that accept inputs, produce outputs, and retain no persistent identity, memory of prior reasoning, or capacity for self-regulation across time. Such systems cannot maintain behavioral consistency across interactions, cannot modulate their own execution based on internally computed state, and cannot determine from internal conditions alone when they should or should not act.

Belief-desire-intention (BDI) agent architectures and deliberative agent frameworks introduce goal-directed reasoning through belief revision and plan selection. However, BDI agents treat cognitive state as transient deliberation variables rather than as persistent, mutable fields that participate in the agent's own governance. BDI architectures do not provide mechanisms for tracking an agent's adherence to behavioral norms across multiple domains, computing when contextual conditions justify deviation from those norms, or suspending execution based on an internally assessed readiness while the agent continues non-executing cognition.

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) and related alignment techniques attempt to shape model outputs toward human preferences but operate on statistical reward gradients derived from external feedback rather than on persistent internal state maintained by the agent itself. Such approaches provide no mechanism for an agent to pause its own execution based on self-assessed readiness, to forecast its own behavioral trajectory across multiple normative dimensions, or to generate restorative processes in response to detected behavioral inconsistency.

Existing emotional and affective agent models treat emotion as a transient filter on plan selection or as a scalar input to decision weighting. Such models do not encode affective state as a persistent, independently tracked structural field with deterministic coupling to other cognitive domains including normative alignment, execution readiness, speculative planning, and capability evaluation.

Runtime environments for autonomous agents provide mechanisms to pause and resume execution in response to external failures, resource exhaustion, or operator commands. Such systems suspend execution reactively. No existing runtime environment provides a mode in which the agent suspends committed execution based on an internally computed readiness assessment while continuing speculative reasoning, planning, and inquiry generation in a non-executing cognitive mode.

Identity and authentication systems for computational agents and human operators rely on static credentials — passwords, tokens, certificates, biometric templates — that assert identity at discrete points in time without establishing behavioral continuity across interactions. Such systems cannot distinguish between an authorized individual and an unauthorized individual who possesses the authorized individual's credentials. No existing identity system establishes and maintains identity through persistent observation of behavioral signals that accumulate trust through continuity rather than through credential presentation.

Safety wrappers, guardrails, and content filters constrain agent outputs by applying external rules after inference. Such approaches operate outside the agent's own cognitive architecture and cannot model the conditions under which behavioral deviation is structurally justified, forecast normative trajectories, enforce governance constraints during inference rather than after it, or govern the depth at which training content is integrated into model parameters.

AI agent frameworks and orchestration platforms — including multi-agent systems, tool-using agent architectures, and agentic workflow engines — treat agents as session-bound processes coordinated by external schedulers. Memory is maintained outside the agent object in vector databases, retrieval systems, or platform-managed session state. Governance is a post-inference filter or a system prompt instruction. No existing agent framework defines a canonical agent schema in which governance, memory, lineage, and execution eligibility are intrinsic typed fields of the agent object itself, nor one in which execution continuity is maintained entirely through object-resident state without centralized coordination.

Training governance systems for machine learning models operate at the dataset level — filtering, curating, or weighting training examples before they enter the training pipeline. No existing system governs the depth at which individual training examples integrate into model parameters on a per-layer basis, routes gradient contributions based on semantic metadata of the training content, or maintains cryptographic provenance linking each model weight update to the specific training content that produced it.

Accordingly, there is a need for systems and methods that address these shortcomings.

SUMMARY OF THE DISCLOSURE

In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, a system for autonomous agents with persistent cognitive state and self-regulated execution comprises one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to maintain a plurality of semantic agents, each semantic agent comprising a plurality of persistent cognitive domain fields and a lineage field, the cognitive domain fields collectively encoding the semantic agent's behavioral disposition, normative alignment, and execution readiness as continuously updated persistent state, wherein each cognitive domain field is independently tracked with a current value and a trajectory over time, and wherein the semantic agent carries the complete cognitive state such that an execution substrate hosting the semantic agent validates proposed state transitions without retaining authority over the semantic agent's cognitive state; operate a cross-domain coherence engine that maintains bidirectional feedback pathways between the cognitive domain fields, such that a state change in any one cognitive domain field propagates deterministic updates to at least one other cognitive domain field through a defined coupling function; evaluate, for each proposed mutation to a semantic agent, a composite admissibility determination that integrates signals from a plurality of the cognitive domain fields through the cross-domain coherence engine, and selectively permit, gate, or suspend the proposed mutation based on the composite admissibility determination; transition the semantic agent to a non-executing cognitive mode when the composite admissibility determination indicates insufficient execution readiness, wherein in the non-executing cognitive mode the semantic agent continues speculative reasoning and state evaluation without committing state changes to verified agent state; and record each proposed mutation, each composite admissibility determination, and each cognitive domain field update in the lineage field such that the complete behavioral trajectory of the semantic agent is deterministically reconstructible from the lineage field alone.

In accordance with another aspect of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method for governing execution of a semantic agent through cross-domain cognitive coherence comprises maintaining the semantic agent with persistent state comprising a plurality of independently tracked cognitive domain fields coupled through bidirectional feedback pathways, and a lineage field recording a complete behavioral history, wherein the semantic agent carries the persistent state such that the semantic agent is migratable between execution substrates while preserving behavioral continuity; receiving a proposed mutation to the semantic agent; propagating the proposed mutation through a cross-domain coherence engine that computes, for each cognitive domain field, an independent contribution to a composite evaluation of the proposed mutation, and that propagates responsive updates between cognitive domain fields through the bidirectional feedback pathways; determining, based on the composite evaluation, whether to permit the proposed mutation, gate the proposed mutation pending additional evaluation, or suspend execution of the semantic agent into a non-executing cognitive mode in which speculative reasoning continues without committing state changes; when the semantic agent is in the non-executing cognitive mode, generating candidate alternative mutations through speculative evaluation within the cross-domain coherence engine and evaluating each candidate against the composite admissibility criteria until a candidate satisfying the composite criteria is identified or an external intervention is received; and recording the proposed mutation, the composite evaluation, all cognitive domain field updates, and any non-executing cognitive mode transitions in the lineage field.

In accordance with yet another aspect of the present disclosure, a non-transitory computer-readable medium stores instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to maintain a semantic agent comprising a plurality of persistent cognitive domain fields coupled through a cross-domain coherence engine implementing bidirectional feedback pathways, and a lineage field, wherein the semantic agent carries the complete cognitive state including the cross-domain coherence engine such that an execution substrate provides computational resources without retaining authority over the semantic agent's state transitions; detect, through the cross-domain coherence engine, when a state of the semantic agent in any cognitive domain field deviates from a normative alignment defined by one or more policy constraints applicable to that cognitive domain field; in response to detecting the deviation, propagate corrective pressure from the deviating cognitive domain field through the bidirectional feedback pathways to at least one other cognitive domain field, thereby modulating the semantic agent's behavioral disposition across coupled domains in response to the deviation; generate, through a restorative process operating within the cross-domain coherence engine, a candidate mutation designed to restore normative alignment in the deviating cognitive domain field, and evaluate the candidate mutation against the composite admissibility criteria of all coupled cognitive domain fields before permitting execution; and operate the semantic agent in a degraded mode when fewer than all cognitive domain fields are available, preserving deterministic behavioral governance through the subset of available cognitive domain fields and their active bidirectional feedback pathways.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

For the purpose of illustrating the disclosure, the drawings show aspects of one or more embodiments of the disclosure. However, it should be understood that the present disclosure is not limited to the precise arrangements and instrumentalities shown in the drawings, wherein:

FIG. 1A illustrates a platform context showing processors, computer-readable media, a semantic agent, and four subsystems including governance, index, identity, and protocol in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 1B illustrates the foundational schema fields of the semantic agent including intent, context, memory, policy reference, mutation descriptor, and lineage fields in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 1C illustrates the cognitive primitive fields of the semantic agent including affective state, integrity, personality, confidence, and capability fields in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 1D illustrates cross-primitive coupling relationships among the cognitive domain fields showing directed feedback pathways between affective state, integrity, personality, forecasting, confidence, and capability in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 1E illustrates a method for governing execution of a semantic agent comprising sequential steps of receiving a proposed mutation, evaluating a deviation function, computing a confidence score, selectively permitting or suspending, and recording in lineage in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 1F illustrates a trust-slope identity mechanism showing a trust-slope chain accumulating successive identity observations, a biological identity module extending trust-slope to human biological signals, an integrity trust score applying trust-slope analysis to the agent's own behavioral history, and multi-agent trust weighting using integrity trust scores in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 1G illustrates a cryptographic policy framework providing signed policy constraints with an affective governance interface, deviation threshold governance, confidence threshold governance, and training depth governance enforcing policy bounds on cognitive domain field updates in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 2A illustrates a persistent affect feedback loop in which the affective state field modulates confidence, forecasting, and integrity domains whose execution outcomes generate structured observations that feed back to update the affective state field in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 2B illustrates named control fields of the affective state field including uncertainty sensitivity, ambiguity tolerance, novelty appetite, persistence under partial failure, escalation under time pressure, attention sensitivity, and cooperation disposition in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 2C illustrates modulation target mapping showing how control fields map to computational parameters including promotion thresholds, search breadth, branch growth, escalation thresholds, decay rates, and delegation routing in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 2D illustrates an affective state update pipeline comprising structured observations, an update function, policy bounds, a decay curve, semantic hysteresis, entropy-governed stabilization, and lineage recording in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 2E illustrates biological signal coupling to the affective state field comprising signal acquisition, feature extraction, abstract descriptors, a coupling function, and an affective state update in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 2F illustrates affective inheritance in delegation chains showing parent affective state transfer through an inheritance mask, a blending function, child state update, and return path in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 2G illustrates an emotional quarantine lifecycle comprising normal operation, a volatility detector, a quarantine state, restricted mode, and hysteretic recovery in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 2H illustrates an affective contagion model showing delegation, interaction, and broadcast propagation channels converging on an agent update with contagion damping and aggregate limits in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 2I illustrates affect-modulated inference integration showing how the affective state field modulates threshold settings, retry strategy, inference conditioning, and arbitration weights in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 3A illustrates a three-domain integrity model in which an integrity engine reads agent behavior and writes scores to personal, interpersonal, and global domains that feed through a weighting function to produce a composite score stored in the integrity field in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 3B illustrates a deviation function pipeline computing deviation likelihood as the ratio of deviation pressure to deviation resistance, where deviation pressure is derived from a need vector and ethical threshold and deviation resistance from empathy and self-esteem scalars in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 3C illustrates a coherence trifecta as a three-phase corrective loop in which a deviation event triggers empathy registration, integrity recording, and self-esteem-driven corrective pressure producing restorative mutations that feed back to reduce future deviation in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 3D illustrates a deviation-activated state lifecycle comprising threshold exceedance, DAS entry, scoped mutations, integrity update, self-esteem update, and DAS exit in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 3E illustrates an empathy engine comprising a proposed action, harm projection, relational graph, domain computation, empathy weight, and deviation resistance in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 3F illustrates a redemption engine pipeline comprising deviation log analysis, a restoration target, candidate mutations, impact projection, and prioritization in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 3G illustrates moral trajectory forecasting in which a current integrity state is projected through a forecasting module into redemption, stabilization, radicalization, and containment arc classifications in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 3H illustrates integrity-aware trust slope validation comprising deviation log analysis, trajectory analysis, anomaly detection, and an integrity trust score in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 3I illustrates a cross-primitive feedback cycle showing integrity field degradation propagating through a composite score to confidence modulation, forecasting modulation, and a recovery cycle in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 3J illustrates integrity-aware multi-agent negotiation in which an integrity trust score modulates trust weighting, delegation filtering, quorum computation, and conflict resolution in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 3K illustrates coping intercepts on the coherence loop showing early, mid, and late intercept points at the empathy, integrity, and restoration phases respectively, each leading to a stable disrupted regime in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 4A illustrates a speculative zone containing a forecasting engine and planning graphs that proceed to a promotion gate in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 4B illustrates a promotion gate through which planning graphs pass via a promotion interface to reach verified execution memory in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 4C illustrates a forecasting engine architecture comprising instantiation logic, affective prioritization, slope validation, personality modulation, and a pruning manager in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 4D illustrates a six-phase forecasting execution cycle comprising initialization, simulation, slope projection, policy check, emotional tagging, and classification in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 4E illustrates personality field modulation showing six trait dimensions including openness, deliberativeness, impulsivity, fallback rigidity, delegation preference, and temporal horizon feeding a modulation filter in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 4F illustrates an executive engine in which planning graphs from multiple agents feed through intersection detection and conflict resolution to produce a macro executive graph in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 4G illustrates a branch lifecycle state machine showing transitions from an active branch to dormancy, reinterpretation, deferred promotion, and pruned states in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 4H illustrates planning graph delegation, forking, and inheritance pathways through which a delegable branch transfers to a child planning graph in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 4I illustrates integrity-constrained forecasting in which the integrity field modulates risk tolerance, slope validation, and constrained speculation in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 4J illustrates a cognitive history store in which pruned branches, context exits, and lifecycle terminations are archived for forensic reconstruction in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 5A illustrates a confidence governor comprising confidence computation, a governor, threshold comparison, and branching to execution authorized or execution suspended states in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 5B illustrates a non-executing cognitive mode comprising speculative evaluation, inquiry generation, and delegation evaluation in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 5C illustrates confidence computation detail showing affect, capability, and governance inputs feeding an evaluation function that produces a confidence value and rate of change in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 5D illustrates task class differentiation in which a confidence governor routes through a classifier to terminal, exploratory, and generative task classes in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 5E illustrates a recovery protocol comprising three sequential phases of restoration, stability verification, and reauthorization leading to resumed execution in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 5F illustrates a confidence-integrity feedback loop in which integrity degradation reduces confidence, causing execution pause, followed by recovery that feeds back to integrity in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 5G illustrates biological signal coupling to confidence comprising a biological signal interface, signal processing, state assessment, and confidence computation in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 5H illustrates multi-agent confidence propagation in which parent confidence propagates to child agents through a shared confidence context in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 6A illustrates a joint evaluation gate in which an objective is evaluated through independent capability envelope and governance policy paths converging at a gate that produces execution synthesis, non-synthesis, or deferred outcomes in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 6B illustrates temporal executability forecasting comprising current capability, a forecast horizon, confidence-bounded windows, and a temporal outcome in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 6C illustrates network-level capability pressure comprising aggregate pressure, a pressure vector, temporal health, and collapse detection in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 6D illustrates multi-agent contention resolution comprising contending agents, a contention engine, starvation prevention, hoarding prevention, and an allocation decision in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 6E illustrates embodied capability envelopes showing physical affordances including degrees of freedom, force capacity, reach envelope, and locomotion matched against motor objectives in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 7A illustrates a unidirectional interface in which a language model generates candidate mutations that pass through a one-way interface to a validation engine and then to agent verified state in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 7B illustrates a mutation pipeline comprising schema mapping, bounds normalization, conflict detection, lineage annotation, and a validated mutation in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 7C illustrates structural starvation showing five constraints applied to the language model including prompt bounding, no external memory, forced reliance, intermediate rejection, and stateless purging in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 7D illustrates a skill gating architecture comprising a curriculum engine, mastery evidence, a capability gate, and branching to progressive unlock or regression and revocation in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 7E illustrates a certification token lifecycle showing transitions among active, expired, revoked, and revalidated states leading to a deployment gate in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 7F illustrates a companion AI architecture comprising personality layers, a narrative engine, an emotional tracker, and an attachment model in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 7G illustrates embodied applications showing vehicle, robotics, and industrial domains passing through a capability gate, biological verification, and authorization in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 7H illustrates anti-gaming measures comprising multimodal evidence, similarity detection, drift detection, validation asymmetry, and a security layer in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 8A illustrates an inference loop in which each candidate transition passes through mutation mapping and an admissibility gate to update a semantic state object that feeds back to the next candidate in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 8B illustrates an admissibility gate detail comprising policy constraint evaluation, descriptor validation, lineage continuity, and entropy bounds producing admit, reject, or decompose outcomes in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 8C illustrates anchored semantic resolution in which a candidate transition undergoes anchor resolution producing resolved, unresolvable, or ambiguous outcomes in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 8D illustrates confidence-gated inference advancement comprising a rolling admission rate, threshold check, and branching to execute mode or inquiry mode in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 8E illustrates semantic rollback and checkpoint recovery comprising a checkpoint stack, rollback trigger, checkpoint restoration, and re-invocation in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 8F illustrates deployment configurations showing embedded, co-resident, and hardware-assisted configurations each connecting to an admissibility gate in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 9A illustrates a biological identity pipeline comprising signal acquisition, feature extraction, stable sketching, biological hash generation, and trust-slope validation in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 9B illustrates a feature extraction pipeline comprising modality extractors, temporal dynamics extraction, cross-signal normalization, an adaptive scheme, and an output stream in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 9C illustrates population-scale disambiguation comprising candidate narrowing, fine-band comparison, trust-slope reinforcement, and an escalation pathway in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 9D illustrates multi-modal acquisition tier escalation showing transitions among non-contact, semi-contact, and contact tiers with escalation thresholds and de-escalation in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 9E illustrates identity binding and compositional verification comprising compositional binding, credential binding, delegation, and multi-identity authorization in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 9F illustrates a biological-to-cognitive coupling pipeline in which signal acquisition and feature extraction branch into identity and state paths that converge on agent cognitive fields in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 10A illustrates a governed discovery traversal in which a discovery object arrives at an anchor, undergoes a three-in-one step comprising search, inference, and governance, and advances to the next anchor in a loop in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 10B illustrates an adaptive index architecture comprising a root anchor, anchor clusters, publications, candidates, and self-organization in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 10C illustrates a discovery object with persistent semantic state fields including intent, context, memory, policy, lineage, affect, and confidence in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 10D illustrates affect and confidence traversal control showing uncertainty, novelty, and risk pathways feeding a confidence gate in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 10E illustrates integrity-modulated traversal with drift detection comprising a drift metric, drift threshold, drift event, and corrective actions including re-anchoring, backtracking, and drift reporting in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 10F illustrates forecasting-shaped traversal comprising a planning graph, candidate paths, branch classification, and a commitment decision in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 10G illustrates multi-discovery coordination in which two discovery objects undergo collaborative merge, policy evaluation, conflict resolution, and produce a merged output in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 11A illustrates depth-selective training governance in which a training batch is evaluated by a semantic substrate and a depth profile router routes content to shallow, middle, and deep model layers in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 11B illustrates training loop governance comprising the training loop, a semantic substrate, admissibility determination, depth profiling, and aggregation in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 11C illustrates provenance and memorization detection comprising a provenance log, detection trigger, reverse query, memorization classification, and inference governance in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 11D illustrates policy-governed retention in which freely licensed, time-limited, and exclusion corpus content passes through policy resolution to approved or excluded outcomes in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 12A illustrates a disruption model in which a coherence loop comprising empathy, integrity, and restoration phases may exit at early, mid, or late intercept points each leading to a stable disrupted configuration in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 12B illustrates a promotion-containment continuum showing nominal, over-promotion, containment collapse, and over-restriction regimes in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 12C illustrates resilience and recovery comprising containment restoration, coherence re-engagement, and confidence recalibration capacities feeding sequential recovery and a diagnostic framework in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 12D illustrates a therapeutic dosing function comprising a target profile, dosing function, titration, dose limits, adverse monitoring, and interaction strategy in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 12E illustrates semantic starvation loop dynamics comprising validation-seeking and load-reducing agents in a pursuit-withdrawal cycle with correlated oscillation, coherence escalation, and exit conditions in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 12F illustrates a channel-locked promotion lifecycle comprising channel lock, tolerance escalation, repertoire narrowing, withdrawal, relapse vulnerability, and a corrective pathway in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 12G illustrates regime state machines showing an over-promotion machine with hyperactive and inattentive sub-patterns and a containment collapse machine with positive and negative symptom regimes both leading to disrupted behavior in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 12H illustrates an early warning system comprising axis monitors, pattern detection, boundary surfaces, time-to-boundary estimates, corrective action, and a protocol library in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 13A illustrates multi-domain application parameterization in which platform primitives pass through a parameterization engine to autonomous vehicle, defense system, companion AI, and therapeutic agent domains in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 13B illustrates defense system engagement authorization comprising observation, warning, and engagement thresholds feeding a quorum gate with continuous re-evaluation and rules of engagement in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 13C illustrates companion AI relational safety comprising a narrative engine, attachment tiers, attachment challenge, boundary enforcement, and self-monitoring in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 13D illustrates a therapeutic agent session architecture comprising a session state, integrity tracker, rupture repair, clinical governor, strategy selector, and clinician interface in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 13E illustrates rights-grade content generation comprising a generation loop, admissibility gate, similarity check, attribution chain, provenance record, and compensation routing in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 14A illustrates a unified agent schema showing foundational fields and cognitive primitives coupled through a coherence engine with feedback loops in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 14B illustrates a complete platform lifecycle showing discovery, training, inference, and LLM modules feeding capability evaluation, cognitive fields, a coherence engine, interaction modules, and application domains with three feedback loops in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 14C illustrates a mutation lifecycle comprising receive and verify, evaluate, forecast and prune, gate, generate and verify, and commit and update stages in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 14D illustrates a prior art comparison showing ten conditions for human-relatable behavior evaluated against the present platform, emotion simulation systems, RLHF alignment, BDI agents, and safety wrappers in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 14E illustrates graceful degradation showing full-domain deployment and three degraded tiers governed by a confidence governor in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure; and

FIG. 14F illustrates architectural inversion contrasting traditional substrate-holds-state architecture with the present agent-carries-state architecture showing a passive substrate and substrate migration in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure.

Detailed Description

What is claimed is:

1. A system for autonomous agents with persistent cognitive state and self-regulated execution, comprising: one or more processors; a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: operate a cross-domain coherence engine implemented as a set of defined coupling functions maintaining bidirectional feedback pathways between a plurality of persistent cognitive domain fields of each of a plurality of semantic agents, wherein a state change in any one cognitive domain field propagates deterministic updates to at least one other cognitive domain field through a coupling function that computes the updates as a deterministic function of the state change and the current state of the at least one other cognitive domain field, and wherein the cross-domain coherence engine enforces that no cognitive domain field is updated in isolation from the feedback pathways; maintain the plurality of semantic agents, each semantic agent having a cognitive state and comprising the plurality of persistent cognitive domain fields and a lineage field, the cognitive domain fields collectively encoding a behavioral disposition, a normative alignment, and an execution readiness of the semantic agent as continuously updated persistent state, wherein each cognitive domain field is independently tracked by the cross-domain coherence engine with a current value and a trajectory over time, and wherein the semantic agent carries a complete cognitive state such that an execution substrate hosting the semantic agent validates proposed state transitions without retaining authority over the semantic agent's cognitive state; a composite admissibility evaluator configured to evaluate, for each proposed mutation to a semantic agent, a composite admissibility determination integrating signals from a plurality of the cognitive domain fields through the cross-domain coherence engine, and to selectively permit, gate, or suspend the proposed mutation based on the composite admissibility determination; a non-executing cognitive mode into which the semantic agent transitions when the composite admissibility determination indicates insufficient execution readiness, the non-executing cognitive mode configured to conduct speculative evaluation including at least construction of branching hypothetical state sequences, generation of structured inquiry requests, and evaluation of delegation alternatives, without committing state changes to a verified agent state; wherein each proposed mutation, each composite admissibility determination, and each cognitive domain field update is recorded in the lineage field such that a complete behavioral trajectory of the semantic agent is deterministically reconstructible from the lineage field alone.

2. A computer-implemented method for governing execution of a semantic agent having a cognitive state through cross-domain cognitive coherence, the method comprising: maintaining the semantic agent with persistent state comprising a lineage field that records a complete behavioral history and a plurality of cognitive domain fields, wherein each cognitive domain field is independently tracked by a cross-domain coherence engine and coupled through bidirectional feedback pathways implemented as defined coupling functions, wherein the semantic agent carries the persistent state including the cross-domain coherence engine such that the semantic agent is migratable between a plurality of execution substrates while preserving behavioral continuity, each execution substrate providing computational resources and validating proposed state transitions without retaining authority over the semantic agent's cognitive state; receiving a proposed mutation to the semantic agent; propagating the proposed mutation through the cross-domain coherence engine that computes, for each cognitive domain field, an independent contribution to a composite evaluation of the proposed mutation, and that propagates responsive updates between cognitive domain fields through the bidirectional feedback pathways; determining, based on the composite evaluation, whether to permit the proposed mutation, gate the proposed mutation pending additional evaluation, or suspend execution of the semantic agent into a non-executing cognitive mode in which speculative evaluation continues without committing state changes; when execution of the semantic agent is suspended into the non-executing cognitive mode based on the composite evaluation, iteratively generating candidate alternative mutations by constructing branching hypothetical state sequences within the cross-domain coherence engine, evaluating each candidate through the composite evaluation of the coupled cognitive domain fields, and repeating the generation and evaluation until either a candidate satisfying the composite evaluation is identified and promoted to a verified execution path or an external intervention is received by the semantic agent; recording, in the lineage field, the proposed mutation, the composite evaluation, all cognitive domain field updates, and any transitions into and out of the non-executing cognitive mode, wherein behavioral continuity of the semantic agent is maintained by the lineage field and the bidirectional feedback pathways such that a complete sequence of evaluations, suspensions, speculative generations, and promotions is deterministically reconstructible.

3. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a method comprising: maintaining a semantic agent having a behavioral disposition and comprising a plurality of persistent cognitive domain fields each independently tracked by a cross-domain coherence engine implementing bidirectional feedback pathways as defined coupling functions, and a lineage field, wherein the semantic agent carries a complete cognitive state including the cross-domain coherence engine such that an execution substrate provides computational resources and validates proposed state transitions without retaining authority over the semantic agent's state transitions; detecting, through the cross-domain coherence engine, a deviation in which a state of the semantic agent in any cognitive domain field deviates from a normative alignment defined by one or more policy constraints applicable to that cognitive domain field; in response to detecting the deviation, propagating corrective pressure from the deviating cognitive domain field through the bidirectional feedback pathways to at least one other cognitive domain field, thereby modulating the semantic agent's behavioral disposition across coupled domains; generating, through a three-phase corrective loop operating within the cross-domain coherence engine, a candidate mutation designed to restore normative alignment in the deviating cognitive domain field, the three-phase corrective loop comprising a detection phase that registers normative impact of the deviation, a recording phase that commits the deviation to the lineage field as an immutable entry, and a corrective pressure phase that produces the candidate mutation, wherein the candidate mutation is evaluated against a composite admissibility determination integrating signals from all coupled cognitive domain fields before permitting execution; recording each phase of the three-phase corrective loop in the lineage field, wherein a sequence of correction from deviation detection through corrective pressure generation is deterministically reconstructible from the lineage field and wherein the corrective pressure propagates through the bidirectional feedback pathways to modulate the semantic agent's behavioral disposition toward restored normative alignment.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the cognitive domain fields comprise at least three domains each independently tracked by the cross-domain coherence engine, and wherein the bidirectional feedback pathways form a connected graph such that a state change originating in any one cognitive domain field is capable of propagating, through one or more intermediate coupling functions, to every other cognitive domain field.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the composite admissibility determination comprises, for at least one cognitive domain field, computing both a current scalar value and a rate of change of the scalar value over a policy-defined temporal window, and wherein the composite admissibility determination incorporates the rate of change such that a projected future crossing of a policy-defined threshold influences the admissibility determination independently of whether the current scalar value exceeds the threshold.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the cross-domain coherence engine enforces asymmetric coupling such that a negative state change in a first cognitive domain field propagates to coupled cognitive domain fields at a rate different from the rate at which a positive state change of equal magnitude in the first cognitive domain field propagates.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the bidirectional feedback pathways couples a first cognitive domain field encoding behavioral disposition to a second cognitive domain field encoding execution readiness, such that degradation of the behavioral disposition reduces execution readiness through the coupling function.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the cross-domain coherence engine maintains at least one feedback pathway coupling a cognitive domain field encoding normative alignment to a cognitive domain field encoding behavioral disposition, such that detection of normative deviation produces a measurable change in the behavioral disposition through the coupling function.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising a containment layer separating hypothetical state sequences generated during speculative evaluation from verified agent state, the structural boundary enforcing that no hypothetical state sequence alters verified agent state without passing through a composite admissibility evaluation by the cross-domain coherence engine.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising an interface configured to receive proposed mutations from a stateless external model, wherein the interface is architecturally unidirectional such that no verified agent state, no cognitive domain field value, and no lineage content is transmitted to the stateless external model through the interface.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising a governance substrate configured to evaluate proposed mutations during execution of a probabilistic inference process, the governance substrate interposing an admissibility evaluation between successive inference steps such that each inference step is conditioned on a persistent semantic state maintained independently of the probabilistic inference process.

12. The method of claim 2, further comprising detecting, through the cross-domain coherence engine, that the semantic agent has maintained a sustained pattern in which one or more cognitive domain fields remain outside a policy-defined normative alignment for a duration exceeding a policy-defined threshold, and in response to detecting the sustained pattern classifying the sustained pattern as a stable operating regime distinct from transient deviation.

13. The method of claim 2, further comprising projecting a behavioral trajectory of the semantic agent across a plurality of hypothetical projected mutation paths and classifying each projected mutation path according to whether the projected mutation path trends toward or away from normative alignment across the coupled cognitive domain fields.

14. The system of claim 1, further comprising a learning pathway in which execution outcomes produced by permitted mutations are evaluated by a training governance module and selectively incorporated as governed training data subject to depth-selective routing constraints, such that the cognitive domain fields are refined through the system's own governed execution without requiring externally curated training data.

15. The system of claim 1, further comprising a knowledge cascade in which a training governance module informs an inference control module that enforces semantic admissibility during candidate mutation generation, and the inference control module informs a proposal generation module that produces the candidate mutations, such that each successive stage in the cascade operates under governance constraints propagated from prior stages.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein the cognitive domain fields form a sequential modulation cascade in which a first cognitive domain field encoding behavioral disposition modulates a second cognitive domain field encoding dispositional trait expression, the second cognitive domain field modulates a third cognitive domain field encoding normative alignment evaluation thoroughness, and the third cognitive domain field modulates a fourth cognitive domain field encoding execution readiness, such that a state change in the first cognitive domain field propagates through the cascade to the fourth cognitive domain field.

17. The system of claim 1, further comprising a plurality of interaction modules coupled through a sequential dependency chain in which a biological continuity module establishes an operator identity through persistent observation of behavioral signals as a prerequisite for a capability progression module that governs advancement through a plurality of gated tiers, and the capability progression module provides progression state to a disruption detection module that monitors parametric state of the cross-domain coherence engine for phase-shift trajectories indicated by progression patterns including stalled advancement, repeated regression, or acceleration exceeding a policy-defined rate threshold.

18. The method of claim 2, further comprising completing a closed-loop architecture within the cross-domain coherence engine through three concurrent feedback loops: a first loop in which application outcomes produced by committed mutations propagate through the cross-domain coherence engine to update the cognitive domain fields; a second loop in which updated cognitive domain fields propagate governed constraints back to an execution evaluation substrate; and a third loop in which execution outcomes feed back to a training governance module as candidate training data subject to governed depth-selective routing.

19. The system of claim 1, wherein the semantic agent implements an architectural inversion in which the semantic agent carries the complete cognitive state, including the cross-domain coherence engine and all bidirectional feedback pathways, such that the execution substrate operates as a passive computational resource provider that validates proposed state transitions without determining a behavioral trajectory of the semantic agent, retaining the semantic agent's cognitive state, or influencing self-regulatory dynamics of the semantic agent.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the architectural inversion enables substrate-independent migration in which the semantic agent migrates between a plurality of heterogeneous execution substrates while preserving behavioral continuity, the behavioral continuity being maintained by the semantic agent's carried cognitive state and lineage field independently of which execution substrate of the plurality provides underlying computational resources.