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From: Allaun Silverfox <28494262+allaunthefox@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 16 May 2026 19:08:34 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add autonomous speedrun harness gate documentation

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+# Autonomous Speedrun Harness Gate
+
+## Purpose
+
+Integrate the Prime Intellect `auto-nanoGPT` lesson into the FAMM stack as an autonomous research harness.
+
+This gate models a long-running research loop as a receipt-bearing search machine:
+
+```text
+AGENTS.md / rules
+→ goal.md / target invariant
+→ plan.md / mutable frontier
+→ THREAD.md / durable mission memory
+→ variant logs / delta stream
+→ run logs / experiment receipts
+→ pruning rounds / Warden cleanup
+→ source refresh / drift gate
+→ statistical receipt
+```
+
+## Source boundary
+
+The Prime Intellect run is an external reference pattern, not a dependency. The article describes agents iterating on the nanoGPT speedrun optimizer track, using a markdown harness with durable working memory and run logs. It also documents failure modes: local-loop grinding, insufficient upstream refresh, premature stopping, and weak novelty without external/public-record scaffolding.
+
+This gate imports the **harness architecture**, not any benchmark-specific optimizer claim.
+
+## Core stack
+
+```text
+Builder-Judge-Warden
+→ Autonomous Speedrun Harness
+→ Experiment Delta-DAG
+→ FAMM Scar Ledger
+→ Source Refresh Warden
+→ Statistical Receipt
+```
+
+## FAMM object
+
+```math
+\mathfrak C_{\mathrm{AutoHarness}}
+=
+A_{16}(u_{\mathrm{run}})
+\otimes
+[
+\Sigma_{\mathrm{goal}}
++
+\Sigma_{\mathrm{plan}}
++
+\Sigma_{\mathrm{thread}}
++
+\Sigma_{\mathrm{variant}}
++
+\Sigma_{\mathrm{run}}
++
+\Sigma_{\mathrm{source}}
++
+\Sigma_{\mathrm{scar}}
++
+\Sigma_{\mathrm{stats}}
++
+\Sigma_{\mathrm{receipt}}
+]
+```
+
+## 16D autonomous harness state
+
+```math
+X_{\mathrm{harness}}
+=
+[
+\nu,
+g,
+p,
+t,
+v,
+r,
+s,
+\mu,
+z,
+\Delta,
+\Omega,
+R,
+I,
+C,
+\rho,
+\pi
+]
+```
+
+| Axis | Meaning |
+|---:|---|
+| 0 | NUVMAP run/frontier address |
+| 1 | goal / target invariant |
+| 2 | plan/frontier state |
+| 3 | durable thread memory |
+| 4 | variant / hypothesis stack |
+| 5 | run-result metric |
+| 6 | source-refresh freshness |
+| 7 | semantic mass / promise pressure |
+| 8 | recurrence / local-loop detector |
+| 9 | delta-memory / experiment lineage |
+| 10 | FAMM scar pressure |
+| 11 | residual / validation gap |
+| 12 | invariant / benchmark-rule overlap |
+| 13 | route cost / compute cost |
+| 14 | receipt strength / statistical validity |
+| 15 | projection / report gauge |
+
+## Builder-Judge-Warden mapping
+
+| Role | Harness behavior |
+|---|---|
+| Builder | proposes optimizer, schedule, initialization, or search-policy mutation |
+| Judge | checks benchmark rules, target metric, seeds/statistical noise floor, and reproducibility |
+| Warden | blocks stale loops, rule violations, overfit/seed hacking, premature pruning, stale upstream source, and unsupported novelty claims |
+
+## Experiment delta edge
+
+```math
+\nu_t
+\xrightarrow{\Delta e_t}
+\nu_{t+1}
+```
+
+```text
+Δe_t = {
+  idea_hash,
+  patch_hash,
+  config_hash,
+  run_id,
+  seed_set,
+  metric_delta,
+  compute_cost,
+  receipt_hash
+}
+```
+
+## Source Refresh Warden Gate
+
+Long autonomous runs must periodically refresh source-of-truth state:
+
+```text
+upstream PRs
+leaderboard / records
+paper notes
+previous best local stack
+external benchmark rule changes
+```
+
+If source freshness exceeds a threshold:
+
+```math
+S_{\mathrm{stale}}>\Theta_{\mathrm{source}}
+\Rightarrow
+\mathrm{WARDEN\_BLOCK}
+```
+
+## Coarsening failed ideas
+
+```text
+failed idea
+→ residual measured
+→ scar written
+→ local basin coarsened
+→ future fine search downweighted
+→ reopened only if new evidence/source refresh changes the boundary
+```
+
+## Statistical receipt
+
+A run is not promoted by a single attractive metric. It must carry a statistical receipt:
+
+```text
+multi-seed result
+noise-floor margin
+rule compliance
+reproducibility status
+run-log hash
+patch/config hash
+```
+
+## Stack placement
+
+```text
+MARKOVJUNIOR_16D_PIST_REWRITE_SHIM
+→ AUTO_NANOGPT_AUTONOMOUS_RESEARCH_HARNESS_GATE
+→ BJW_GEODESIC_CLEANUP
+→ NUVMAP_DELTA_DAG
+→ FAMM_SCAR_LEDGER
+→ SOURCE_REFRESH_WARDEN_GATE
+→ STATISTICAL_RECEIPT
+```
+
+## No-drift boundary
+
+This gate does not claim autonomous agents can discover truth alone. It models the surrounding harness needed for useful autonomous search: durable memory, receipts, source refresh, pruning, coarsening, and statistical validation.
+
+## Project sentence
+
+The Autonomous Speedrun Harness Gate turns long-running agent research into a FAMM-compatible search machine: Builder proposes mutations, Judge validates statistical receipts, Warden blocks stale or invalid loops, failed ideas become coarsened scar basins, and every experiment becomes a Delta-DAG edge with replayable provenance.