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11_ACADEMIC_PAPER (ARCHIVE)

ARCHIVE NOTICE This document is preserved for historical context only. It reflects early conceptual thinking during the initial development of CORE. It does not represent the current architecture, governance model, terminology, or autonomy pipeline. All content below is lightly cleaned for formatting and readability, but otherwise unchanged.

Autonomous Development – What Actually Works Today (Archived Draft)

This is not a roadmap. This is live, shipped code (November 2025).

You can turn a natural-language goal into fully constitutional, tested, audited code with one command:

poetry run core-admin develop feature "Add rate-limiting middleware with Redis"

What happens (fully working today)

Step Status Proof It Works
Intent → Constitutional crate Done develop command + crate service
Autonomous code generation Done CoderAgent + Doc/Test agents produce real files
Canary validation Done Full audit + tests before anything touches main
Auto-accept / auto-reject Done Crates move to accepted/ or rejected/
Background daemon (Deprecated) core-admin daemon start --detach (archival reference)

30-second demo (Archived)

poetry run core-admin daemon start --detach      # start background processor
poetry run core-admin develop feature "Add health endpoint"
poetry run core-admin crate list --watch         # watch it happen

Result: 2–5 minutes later, a fully governed, passing feature appears.

(Note: the daemon workflow no longer exists in the modern system.)

Crate Creation & Develop Command (Archived Example)

Worked example (captured from an early development session):

[Example output omitted here — archival placeholder.]

This section originally contained console logs from early versions of the crate pipeline. These logs are outdated and not relevant to the modern A1/A2 system.

Early Architectural Observations (Archived)

The following points summarize realities observed during prototyping:

  • Agents are capable of generating production-ready code when context is sufficiently constrained.
  • Constitutional checks are mandatory before integrating any autonomous code.
  • The crate system must fully isolate agent output.
  • Validation (Black, Ruff, Syntax, Tests) must run before governance audits.
  • Background autonomy (daemon mode) was unstable and later removed.
  • Deterministic context is critical for reproducible agent behavior.

These points influenced early versions of the Mind–Body–Will architecture.

Notes From Experiments (Archived)

These represent early findings during experimentation in 2024–2025:

  • Multi-agent planning improved quality but introduced nondeterminism.
  • Limiting agent access to strictly curated context dramatically reduced errors.
  • Canary audits prevented unsafe merges even in early prototypes.
  • Drift between crate and repo state caused instability until crate isolation was introduced.
  • The system could generate full implementations but required stricter governance.

Many of these observations directly led to:

  • the development of .intent/ governance,
  • the modern validation pipeline,
  • the separation between planning, execution, and review agents.

Deprecated Concepts (Preserved for Transparency)

The following items existed in early versions but are no longer part of CORE:

  • core-admin daemon … commands
  • background autonomous workers
  • auto-integration of crates
  • early manifest formats
  • ungoverned planning workflows
  • direct LLM writes to repository
  • uncoupled test generators

These remain here only as historical artifacts.

Summary (Archive)

This document reflects an early proof-of-concept stage of CORE. It demonstrates the moment when autonomous development first became real — before governance, restructuring, and the mature A1 pipeline.

Modern CORE uses:

  • governed agents,
  • explicit CLI workflows,
  • strict constitutional audits,
  • no background daemons,
  • a unified crate pipeline,
  • and a fully formalized Mind–Body–Will architecture.

For the modern implementation guide, see:

  • core-concept/02_ARCHITECTURE.md
  • planning/01-complete-implementation-plan.md
  • `developer-guide/03-cli-reference