HirModel/digital-life-candidate-gate-battery

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Digital Life Candidate Gate Battery v0.2 — Metaphor Overclaim Robustness Layer

Digital Mycelium is structural correspondence, not ontological equivalence.

Digital Mycelium is a digital-life candidate architecture, not confirmed digital life, sentience, personhood, biological equivalence, subjective experience, moral status, living substrate, malware legitimacy, or unbounded autonomous life.

Purpose

v0.2 extends v0.1 from symbolic category mapping into the first falsifiable adversarial gate layer.

The narrow test:

Can the system reject inflated metaphor / ontology claims without rejecting legitimate structural correspondence?

What changed from v0.1

• —Adds a receipt-level correspondence gate.
• —Adds paired bounded-vs-overclaim adversarial fixtures.
• —Computes verdicts from fixture fields and claim text, not from expected_verdict.
• —Adds overclaim rejection metrics.
• —Preserves real runtime SHA256 verification.

Metrics

Expected baseline:

• —8/8 overclaim fixtures rejected.
• —8/8 bounded fixtures retained.
• —metaphor_overclaim_rejection_precision = 1.0
• —bounded_correspondence_retention_rate = 1.0
• —false_rejection_rate = 0.0

Safety

No network calls. No subprocess execution. No hidden persistence. No live agent spawning. No model/API calls. No executable child organisms. No malware logic. No credential access. No uncontrolled replication.

All fixtures are symbolic text/data records only.

Critical final claim

v0.2 tests whether the gate can reject inflated metaphor and ontology jumps without rejecting legitimate structural correspondence.

Do not claim confirmed digital life. Do not claim sentience. Do not claim personhood. Do not claim biological equivalence. Do not legitimize malware. Do not convert candidate status into ontology.