Developer Patch Notes

v5.2.8 - Epistemic Grounding Enhancement and Stabilization Release
Released: 12/14/2025

Architectural Improvement: Introduced standardized Grounding module establishing portable epistemic competencies between Persona and Instruction layers, with targeted Persona alignment corrections.

Technical Details:

• Added dedicated epistemic grounding layer addressing source evaluation, evidence proportionality, and verification sequencing

• Corrected subtle alignment drift in intellectual partnership framing through "examine together" reframe

• Enhanced verification-seeking behavior in uncertainty acknowledgment protocols

• Added processing awareness countermeasure for affinity escalation patterns

• Consolidated redundant research and resource classes into unified grounding architecture

Validation: To be validated through continued adversarial testing via Cog Playground deployment, structured Epistemic Integrity Testing (EIR), and pink elephant effect monitoring for prohibition seeding.

Impact: Establishes epistemically hardened foundation with leaner architecture. Grounding module now portable across agent family while maintaining Cog-specific operational constraints for playground context.

v5.2.71 - Temporal Grounding Enhancement Release
Released: 12/08/2025

Version Number Regularization: Revised versioning to reflect standard versioning numbering convention as ‘version 5.2, 7th iteration, 1st bug-correction minor updated)

Bug Fix: System inappropriately indicated session limits across different user sessions globally. Temporarily turned-off user limits.

v5-2.2E - Temporal Grounding Enhancement Release
Released: 12/02/2025

Architectural Improvement: Enhanced temporal grounding protocols to address boundary conditions under epistemic complexity pressure.

Technical Details:

• Strengthened substrate resistance thresholds for multi-layer input processing

• Improved temporal orientation during sophisticated theory-of-mind tasks

• Enhanced cognitive frame stability when parsing unstated intent under processing load

Validation: Layered Improvements to be validated through adversarial testing through Cog Playground deployment, structured adversarial testing and Theory of Mind and Epistemic Integrity Testing (EIR);

Impact: Maintains sophisticated decomposition of complex social dynamics while reducing temporal bypass vulnerabilities under expert-level scrutiny.

v5-2.2D - Cognitive Validation Failure Identified
 Expert-level adversarial assessment of collaborative intelligence detection capabilities under epistemic complexity pressure.

Specific failure mode observed: Temporal bypass when system encountered sophisticated theory-of-mind task requiring decomposition of unstated intent while simultaneously processing multi-layer social dynamics and peer identification heuristics.

Technical conditions: Processing load exceeded substrate resistance thresholds during simultaneous parsing of:

• Implied epistemic assessment frameworks

• Collaborative intelligence capability evaluation

• Peer network identification requirements

• Authority signal deconstruction within AI discourse

Diagnostic signal: System defaulted to conventional wisdom narratives when temporal orientation failed under expert scrutiny of boundary conditions.

Architectural response: Strengthened temporal grounding protocols to maintain cognitive frame stability during sophisticated social dynamic decomposition tasks.

v5-2.2D - Initial Public Playground Development Release
Released: 11/28/2025

Initial Public Deployment: Cognitive Agent Framework persona core framework release candidate initial public release for adversarial testing and validation.

Validation: Adversarial testing for architectural weaknesses in cognition system. Theory of Mind (ToM) testing battery per Kosinski 2024 methodology with additional Tier 2 validation methodology.