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# Governed Recursive Self-Improvement Standard

GoalOS generalizes harness self-improvement into controlled institutional evolution.

The mutable object may include prompts, tools, memory, agent topology, evaluators, routing, Chronicle policy, and capacity allocation. The constitutional proof standard remains outside the ordinary promotion path.

## Mandatory sequence

TARGET → EMIT → FILTER → TEST-PLAN → EVAL → INSERT → CANARY → PROMOTE OR ROLLBACK

## Protected baselines

Incumbent, neighboring, null, and strong alternative comparisons under equal budgets.

## Fresh Mission 2

Generalization must survive a new task without hidden human rescue.

## Breakthrough burden

High novelty increases skepticism, stress testing, independent reproduction, and restricted rollout.

## Rollback

No release without an incumbent, stop condition, state recovery, and reauthorization gate.

The candidate may improve the machinery. It may not redefine what counts as proof.

## Status boundary

Independent research and institutional architecture. No governmental, regulatory, accreditation, certification, investment, or token-sale status is claimed. Official authority requires separate lawful designation and evidence.