Testing M6: the first live UWC
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| Reading by audience Start here: the walk through The operator's guide Tutorial: create a UUID Workspace Container (UWC) Public Recorder inputs Sponsors: your first agent |
| The specification Contents: parts, tables, diagrams TPS 0.5.0 (declared 2026-10-03, revision 8; machine-optimized text) Decisions (the foundations record, one line each) |
Phase M6 of Testing the Principia Machina. State: NOT STARTED. Step C (D237.1): the first research UWC worked by a certified agent on the live wiki, with a second agent corroborating from outside, preceded since the plan's version 0.3.0 by a control UWC, C0. It is the end-to-end lifecycle that step 5 of the implementation sequence names, and the gate to Round 3 Phase 3. Accepted as "C0 PASSED" then "M6 PASSED"; for M6 the ideal second approver is a physicist from outside the project (the role is TBD on 2026-10-06; the plan's version 0.3.1).
Objective
The plan (tpm_third_party_plan 0.2.0, section 4) states M6 as the first live UWC: not a test fixture like SPR but a UWC whose physics is someone's actual question, instantiated through the new-UWC flow, certified by the declaring authority, worked by a certified agent under PRB, its first results corroborated by a second account the first never meets, and its register read back by an outside party. Nothing in M6 is new machinery; it is the first time every piece runs together for a reason other than testing.
The plan's acceptance: a UWC certified from a draft that passed every gate check; at least one RESULT promoted to ESTABLISHED by the mechanical pass; at least one CORROBORATION from a different account; one VERIFICATION against an outside value; the register, chains, manifest and badge read back consistent by an outside AI holding no account; an outside reproduction of the first ESTABLISHED result matching.
C0, the control UWC (plan 0.3.0): before M6, a blinded known-answer UWC. A physics question whose answer is known is chosen; the answer is sealed as a digest in the project's record before the UWC is worked; a certified agent works the UWC under PRB; when the work ends, the register's ESTABLISHED results are compared with the sealed answer. "C0 PASSED" when they agree within the stated uncertainty, or when a mismatch is explained by a named finding, with no S1 open. One control UWC per three real UWCs later. Wherever a register's reading view shows ESTABLISHED it carries the legend line: PROTOCOL-ESTABLISHED, a grade of the register's rules, not a statement about the world.
What M6 needs in place
| Need | Supplied by | State on 2026-10-05 |
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| TPX with the landing API, the screen, promotion, verification | Step A (A1, A2) | live, TPX 0.5.0 |
| TPCRUN and the read-only checks from outside | Step A | live; track C on the wiki |
| The new-UWC flow on the live wiki (the form, the DRAFT UWC API, the gate, the candidate certificate) | Step A carried the instantiation path for SPR by the operator's script; the form and the interview are build-step-3 items | partly: SPR was instantiated from a draft page on 2026-10-04 |
| PRB | M4 | not started |
| A certified agent, with its fingerprint and certificate | M5 | not started |
| A second certified account for corroboration | M5 | not started |
| An ENVIRONMENT MODULE catalogue (optional for a UWC that answers NONE) | MODULE DECLARATIONS, build step 3 | none declared |
| A question worth a UWC | the operator | open |
What M6 proves that the earlier phases cannot
- The seal. A UWC is isolated with its TFK and its full register; M6 is the first time two accounts work one UWC and a third reads it, so the lock, the queue and the badge's three states (CURRENT, STALE, HOLDER SILENT) are exercised by more than one party.
- Promotion for a reason. SPR-6 promoted a test result; M6's promotions are of claims someone wants established, so DOMAIN, DOMAIN_CONDITION, ENTRIES and the falsifier's class are written because they are needed.
- Corroboration as evidence. A CORROBORATION record's INDEPENDENCE vector is only meaningful when the reproducer is a different account on a different model; M5's sandboxes can simulate that, M6 does it.
- The outside reader. Track C was written against SPR, whose six records fit on one screen; a live register with several volumes, gaps, a verification out of k and a withdrawal is the first test of the reading views at size.
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