Emergence record
A structured event documenting an accepted or rejected architecture mutation, the conditions that triggered capability search, and the observed outcomes. Accumulated emergence records allow the meta-cognition engine to distinguish beneficial structural evolution from destabilizing drift.
Open-ended intelligence is only as useful as the system's ability to learn from what it tried. Emergence records capture the full lifecycle of a capability proposal: the trigger conditions (policy convergence, persistent failure, curiosity pressure), the proposed mutation and its constitutional review outcome, the initial performance observations after a mutation was accepted, and any failure attribution if the mutation was subsequently rolled back. The meta-cognition engine analyzes emergence records longitudinally - looking for patterns across many proposals rather than evaluating each in isolation. A system that accepts many small contradictory mutations may have a high acceptance rate but low coherence; emergence records make this pattern visible. They also allow previously quarantined proposals to be resubmitted with supporting evidence accumulated across multiple cycles.