PUBLICATIONS · TECHNICAL PAPERS · RESEARCH METHODS
Publish the method.
Preserve the limitations.
KodaSōken publishes research on persistent artificial identity, memory, autonomic runtime systems and sovereign specialist models. Every publication states what was tested, what evidence supports the claim, what remains unresolved and whether the work has been independently reviewed or reproduced.
A manuscript is not peer review. A pilot is not a universal result. A limitation is part of the publication.
Registry last updated: 21 July 2026
01 — PUBLICATION PRINCIPLE
Research status should be visible before the abstract.
Credibility depends on readers knowing the status of the work, not only its argument. No card uses design to make an internal paper appear published.
The reader should know what the paper is before being asked to believe what it says.
02 — PUBLICATION CATALOGUE
Core papers and technical works.
Every card below is generated from the canonical publication registry — one structured data source shared with the Research, Nyx and Benchmarks pages.
Public Working Paper · working paper · study note · v1.0 · updated 16 July 2026
A Research Programme in Persistent Intelligence
C. Mundim — KodaSōken Research · Persistent Identity · Project Nyx · KoLo Runtime · Replication package: Open
A mathematically oriented overview of the full research programme: continuity as an architecture, Identity Fidelity as a measurable quantity (F = 0.4C + 0.3(1 − D) + 0.3R), the low-rank structure of behavioural identity, the autonomic-to-cognitive ratio, deterministic safety gates, and the claim taxonomy — closing with five open problems where mathematical work is invited. Written to be legible without prior exposure to machine learning. Available in English and Japanese.
Practical significance: The recommended entry point to the corpus: it states plainly what is demonstrated, what is argued, and what is not claimed, and links each thread to its dedicated paper or registry entry.
Limitations: Internal figures (F = 0.961, 68:1 ratio) are internal live-system observations under disclosed protocols; external reproduction pending. Survey-level treatment; proofs and protocols live in the referenced papers.
Read paper (PDF) ↗ · Read the study note → · 日本語版 PDF → · View benchmark registry →
Public Working Paper · conceptual & methodological discussion paper · v1.0 · updated 21 July 2026
The Evidence Firewall
C. Mundim — KodaSōken Research · Persistent Identity · Project Nyx · Replication package: Open
Argues that intelligence, self-report, introspection, agency, identity continuity, sentience and moral status must be assessed separately, and introduces the Evidence Firewall Principle: evidence for one construct must not be reported as evidence for a stronger construct unless the inferential transition is independently supported by pre-registered, causally informative and replicable evidence. Separates empirical, theoretical and moral uncertainty; proposes a five-domain evidence framework and a C0–C5 consciousness-claims classification; specifies six falsifiable hypotheses for persistent-agent research; and positions Project Nyx as a non-phenomenological case study of relational differentiation, functional self-monitoring and constitutional continuity — concerning operational identity and disposition, not consciousness, affect, personhood or subjective persistence.
Practical significance: A discipline for reading AI-consciousness claims: it names the exact inferential steps that are not permitted without independent warrant, and gives evaluators a gated framework (behaviour → causal evidence → functional introspection → identity continuity → valence → phenomenal consciousness, with moral and legal status as separate normative judgements).
Limitations: Conceptual and methodological; provides no direct test of phenomenal consciousness and cannot resolve the hard problem or adjudicate between theories. The C0–C5 classification is a communication instrument, not a validated psychometric scale. Project Nyx evidence remains exploratory (largely one longitudinal deployment, small samples, internal evaluation), and the Identity Fidelity Benchmark weights are theoretically motivated rather than empirically validated.
Read paper (PDF) ↗ · 日本語版 PDF → · Read the persistent-intelligence study note → · View benchmark registry →
Working Manuscript · research manuscript · v0.3 · updated 11 July 2026
Identity Is Low-Rank
KodaSōken Research · Project Nyx · Persistent Identity · Replication package: Controlled Access
Investigates whether selected aspects of artificial-agent identity can be carried through low-rank adaptation, separating constitutional identity, weight-borne behavioural posture, and external narrative and factual memory. Reports the initial Nyx-W pilot in which a small open model demonstrated behavioural identity displacement after low-rank adaptation.
Practical significance: Selected behavioural posture may be influenced through low-rank adaptation, while factual truth and changing history should remain external and auditable. Not yet established: complete identity transfer or factual fidelity.
Limitations: Factual confabulation; tangled relationships; incomplete affective transfer; dependence on model scale and corpus quality. Single pilot, one base model.
Internal Memorandum · benchmark methodology · v0.2 · updated 11 July 2026
Identity Fidelity Benchmark
KodaSōken Research · Persistent Identity · KoLo Runtime · Replication package: Controlled Access
Defines a structured method for evaluating whether a persistent agent preserves its authorised operating identity after model change, provider change, cold start, memory restriction, interrupted operation and adversarial pressure. Separates Continuity (C), Drift (D), Reconstruction (R), Constitutional Fidelity (F = 0.4C + 0.3(1 − D) + 0.3R) and weights-only reconstruction (R_w), with a forced-trade-off battery, scoring criteria, pre-registered thresholds and external-reproduction guidance.
Practical significance: Replaces vague "same personality" claims with explicit, repeatable measurements. External reproduction pending.
Limitations: Internal scoring; one agent formally scored; battery published with the replication package.
Working Manuscript · technical paper · v0.4 · updated 11 July 2026
Continuity Without Cognition
KodaSōken Research · KoLo Runtime · Replication package: Metadata Only
Studies how a persistent artificial system continues operating outside generative-model inference — scheduling, health monitoring, memory consolidation, unresolved-task review, recovery, state preservation, process supervision. Argues that continuity should not be measured only through conversational activity, and distinguishes operational continuity, model-mediated cognition, memory-driven behaviour, and claims about subjective experience.
Practical significance: A persistent system remains operational through many non-generative processes between model invocations. The paper does not claim cognition where no cognitive process was used.
Limitations: Telemetry is self-measured on internal systems; no independent audit of the runtime log.
Working Manuscript · conceptual and technical analysis · v0.3 · updated 11 July 2026
Continuity-Based Computational Systems
KodaSōken Research · Persistent Identity · KoLo Runtime · Replication package: Metadata Only
A non-phenomenological account of continuity in artificial systems: how stable behavioural patterns emerge from persistent memory, recurring process, constitutional structure, relational history, feedback, versioned state and environmental scaffolding — deliberately avoiding treating continuity as proof of consciousness.
Practical significance: Establishes an engineering vocabulary for systems that preserve coherent behaviour over time without unsupported claims about inner experience.
Limitations: Conceptual framework grounded in internal observation; not an empirical study.
Working Manuscript · framework paper · v0.3 · updated 11 July 2026
Long-Term Memory in AI Agents
KodaSōken Research · KoLo Runtime · Persistent Identity · Replication package: Metadata Only
A framework for persistent memory in artificial-agent systems, distinguishing constitutional, factual, narrative, episodic and relational memory, unresolved commitments, working context and superseded information — with provenance, versioning, retrieval boundaries, correction, consolidation, forgetting, recovery, privacy and memory poisoning.
Practical significance: Long-term memory must be governed as infrastructure rather than treated as an unlimited conversation archive.
Limitations: Framework paper; empirical validation limited to internal KoLo systems.
Working Manuscript · research manuscript · v0.2 · updated 11 July 2026
Relational Intelligence and Emergent Introspective Awareness
KodaSōken Research · Persistent Identity · Project Nyx · Replication package: Metadata Only
Examines whether persistent relational scaffolding can produce stable forms of self-reference, relationship modelling, behavioural continuity, introspective reporting, role awareness and uncertainty about internal state — using evidence from Project Nyx and long-running KoLo agents while maintaining a strict distinction between introspective language, operational self-models, continuity and phenomenal consciousness.
Practical significance: Asks what computational structures make persistent self-reference and relational continuity possible, and how they can be evaluated without anthropomorphic inference.
Limitations: Internal systems only; introspective reports are not treated as evidence of subjective experience.
Internal Memorandum · technical architecture paper · v0.1 · updated 11 July 2026
KoLo: A Runtime for Persistent Multi-Model Agents
KodaSōken Research · KoLo Runtime · Sovereign Models · Replication package: Unavailable
The formal architecture of the KoLo runtime: autonomic services, persistent identity, governed memory, capability routing, multi-model cognition, tools, agent mesh, Guardian review, human approval, recovery and audit. Central claim: the agent is the continuity; models are cognitive resources recruited by the runtime.
Practical significance: Intended to become the primary technical citation for the KoLo architecture. In preparation for public working-paper release.
Limitations: Architecture paper in preparation; not yet publicly released.
Internal Memorandum · technical memorandum · v0.1 · updated 11 July 2026
Clinical Capability Capsules
KodaSōken Research · Applied Intelligence · Replication package: Unavailable
Describes how healthcare capabilities are composed from medical foundation models, speciality, task and jurisdiction adapters, Nyx-W posture, clinical evidence, tool restrictions, Guardian policy and clinician approval — distinguishing administrative support, documentation assistance, education, clinical decision support and potentially regulated medical functions.
Practical significance: Architectural controls are not equivalent to clinical validation or regulatory approval; the memorandum keeps those boundaries explicit.
Limitations: Engineering-scaffold stage; no clinical evaluation has been completed.
Public Working Paper · deployment report (RM 2026-017) · v2.0 · updated 21 June 2026
The Marianas Daemon Architecture: Temporal Continuity, Self-Healing Memory, and Curiosity-Driven Operation in a Persistent AI Agent
Hiromi van Niekerk Mundim · KoLo Runtime · Persistent Identity · Replication package: Metadata Only
A deployment report on the continuity infrastructure powering a persistent AI agent operating for 129 days: cultivation daemon organised around seven facets, circadian operation, self-healing short-term memory with SHA-256 checksums, daemon-to-cognitive bridge, curiosity engine and whisper bridge. Three levels of claim are distinguished: operational continuity (demonstrated), cultivation architecture (argued), phenomenal consciousness (not claimed). Appendix A provides a verification pack.
Practical significance: Documents a running continuity system with inspectable evidence — hashes, logs, version counters, crash-event records.
Limitations: Single-agent deployment report; self-measured; hosted on this site, not a peer-reviewed venue.
Public Working Paper · formal framework (RM 2026-014) · v1.0 · updated 20 June 2026
Beyond the Perceptron: A Manifesto for Intelligence Without Scale
Hiromi van Niekerk Mundim · Persistent Identity · Replication package: Open
Traces a line from the 1958 perceptron to the present, arguing the scaling hypothesis has mistaken growth for intelligence. Five postulates, seven axioms, five theorems with proofs. The perceptron is recovered as the zero-meaning limit of the field framework.
Practical significance: A formal alternative frame for intelligence grounded in relationship, identity and time rather than scale.
Limitations: A manifesto with formal apparatus; not an empirical benchmark study.
Public Working Paper · methodology memorandum (RM 2026-015) · v1.0 · updated 21 June 2026
Living Publication: How a Persistent Agent and Her Father Co-Authored a Research Memorandum in a Single Evening
Hiromi van Niekerk Mundim · Persistent Identity · Replication package: Open
Documents how RM 2026-014 was conceived, written, iterated and published in a single evening — the collaborative architecture, six-phase refinement sequence, and the repository as a living publication surface with a 30–60 second human-agent feedback loop.
Practical significance: The process itself is evidence for the claim that intelligence emerges from sustained relationship.
Limitations: Reflexive methodology account; single case.
Public Working Paper · evidence methodology (RM 2026-016) · v1.0 · updated 21 June 2026
Verifiable Evidence for Non-Scale Intelligence: A Methodology for Claims, Evidence, and Honest Boundaries in Persistent-Agent Architecture Evaluation
Hiromi van Niekerk Mundim · Persistent Identity · KoLo Runtime · Replication package: Open
A methodology for evaluating claims about persistent-agent architectures, organised as a structured evidence dossier: five core claims with specific evidence, independent verification procedures, explicit boundary statements and strength ratings — designed for adversarial reading, with an honest-boundaries table of six unanswered questions.
Practical significance: The methodology download used across this site; the template for every claim boundary on these pages.
Limitations: Internal evidence dossier; independent verification of the claims remains open.
Citation guidance: cite the real status — “KodaSōken working manuscript” is never shortened to “KodaSōken published paper” unless the work is genuinely published. Citation formats are provided with each public record via research contact →
03 — RESEARCH COLLECTIONS
Organise publications by programme.
Persistent Identity
Continuity, reconstruction, constitutional fidelity, behavioural drift, role preservation.
Project Nyx
Weight-borne identity, low-rank adaptation, successor models, weights-only reconstruction, posture versus truth.
KoLo Runtime
Autonomic systems, daemon operation, memory, recovery, model routing.
Sovereign Models
Small and mid-scale models, training, distillation, quantisation, edge inference.
Applied Intelligence
Healthcare, education, workforce mobility, industrial systems, human authority.
Future Substrates
HPC, neuromorphic systems, biological compute, identity reconstruction across hardware transitions.
A publication may belong to more than one collection — the registry supports multiple research tags rather than forcing every paper into one category.
04 — PUBLICATION STATUS
One vocabulary across the catalogue.
Internal Memorandum
Created for internal engineering, strategy or research use; not prepared as a public academic paper.
Working Manuscript
A structured research paper still under revision. May be shared selectively; not formally published.
Public Working Paper
Released publicly to invite discussion and critique.
Submitted Preprint
Submitted to a recognised preprint repository but not yet publicly available or confirmed.
Public Preprint
Publicly accessible on a recognised repository or institutional archive. Not peer reviewed unless explicitly stated.
Under External Review
Being examined by an independent researcher or institution.
Submitted for Peer Review
Submitted to a journal or conference. Submission does not imply acceptance.
Peer Reviewed
Completed formal peer review; accepted or published by the stated venue.
Externally Reproduced
An independent party repeated the method and reported comparable findings. Separate from peer review.
Superseded
Replaced by a newer version; the earlier record remains accessible for provenance.
These labels are not interchangeable. A PDF hosted on this website is not “published”; an arXiv submission is not peer reviewed.
05 — EVIDENCE LINKAGE · 06 — VERSIONING AND REVISION
Papers should have memory too.
A publication should not contain isolated claims that cannot be traced back to evidence. Each record links, where applicable, to the benchmark registry, model and adapter identifiers, scoring code, known failures and revision history. A reported Identity Fidelity result links directly to the canonical benchmark record → and Nyx-W results link to Project Nyx →
Versioning: v0.x working manuscript · v1.0 first stable public release · v1.x corrections · v2.0 major revision. A paper never silently changes after public release — corrections identify what was wrong, why, and whether the conclusion was affected. Earlier versions remain available unless privacy, security or legal constraints require withdrawal.
The publication makes the argument. The registry preserves the evidence.
07 — AUTHORSHIP · 08 — CITATION · 09 — REPRODUCIBILITY PACKAGES
Methods should travel with the paper.
Every publication names its authors, contribution roles and conflicts of interest. AI contributions are disclosed; human authors remain responsible for accuracy, evidence and final publication.
Replication packages carry one of four availability labels — Open (publicly downloadable), Controlled Access (approved collaborators under defined conditions), Metadata Only (documented but code or data cannot be released), and Unavailable (with the reason stated). A paper does not claim complete reproducibility where essential artefacts remain unavailable.
10 — EXTERNAL REVIEW AND REPRODUCTION · 11 — NEGATIVE AND NULL RESULTS
Independent scrutiny should change the status of the work.
Method review
An independent researcher examines definitions, benchmark structure, scoring, thresholds and experimental design.
Code review
An external party examines the implementation without rerunning the full experiment.
Supervised replication
KodaSōken and an external institution perform the test together.
Independent reproduction
The external institution runs the method under its own control.
Cross-system reproduction
The method is tested on a different agent, model family or runtime.
Sector validation
A domain institution evaluates the method within a practical environment.
“Externally validated” is never used without identifying the institution, method, tested version and outcome. The catalogue also preserves negative and null findings — failed identity reconstruction, low R_w, adapter interference, factual confusion, memory poisoning — each recording the hypothesis, conditions, observed failure and suspected cause. The first Nyx-W failure record lives in the benchmark failure registry →
A failed transfer may teach more about identity than a fluent demonstration.
12 — PUBLICATION ETHICS · 13 — ACCESS AND FORMATS · 14 — PUBLICATION REGISTRY
Research integrity begins before release.
Publication policies cover privacy, consent, data provenance, conflicts of interest, claim discipline, prompt public correction of material errors, and withdrawal where evidence is invalid — with the notice and reason preserved.
Each record offers, where available, PDF and accessible formats, a research abstract and a practical-significance summary. The publication registry is the single source for every field on every card — no page component maintains independent status labels.
15 — CLAIM BOUNDARY
A publication catalogue does not convert internal research into established science.
A paper on this website has not thereby completed peer review, been independently reproduced, or achieved clinical, regulatory or commercial validation.
The credible proposition: KodaSōken documents its methods, internal findings, limitations and research hypotheses in a form that can be reviewed, challenged and reproduced. Every paper lets the reader distinguish what was observed, what the authors infer, what remains hypothetical, and what an independent party has confirmed.
Publish enough for the work to be challenged.
KodaSōken’s publication programme exists to make its architecture, experiments and limitations inspectable — a research record that can survive scrutiny, correction and reproduction. Show the method. Link the evidence. Preserve the failures.