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Telic Fields HI-6 — Semantic Trails, Memory, and Retrieval

Parent lineage: The Telic Field Papers

Source artifacts

I.6 technical branch

• I.6 semantic trails, memory, and retrieval specification
• Trace, memory, retrieval, and authority matrix
• Correction, salience, archive, and release matrix
• Model memory and cross-loop transfer matrix

H.6 public branch

• H.6 What the Field Leaves Behind

Gate, validation, and export

• HI-6 gate review
• HI-6 validation report
• HI-6 negative conformance fixtures
• HI-6 validation results
• HI-6 validation runner
• HI-6 semantic-trail witness export

Positive demonstrations and memory records

• PD-1 useful trail without field reconstruction
• PD-2 source and inference remain distinct
• PD-3 correction propagates into active retrieval
• PD-4 archival memory ineligible for action
• PD-5 salience decay without witness deletion
• PD-6 protected forgetting
• PD-7 stigmergic coordination
• PD-8 stale memory breach and repair
• Semantic-trail event stream
• Generated semantic-trail witness
• Cross-loop memory transfer
• Memory-state hazard
• Model-session memory envelope
• Retrieval-authority maintenance
• Trace-hazard marker

I.6 candidate schemas

The twelve candidate schema sources are preserved under the standard-named source directory, with the SCHEMA__CANDIDATE__I-6 prefix: semantic-trail event, durable-trace record, memory state, retrieval-authority grant, salience-decay record, memory assertion, trace-link coordination, forgetting/release, memory contamination, model-session memory envelope, cross-loop memory transfer, and semantic-trail witness.

Intake archive

• Complete HI-6 intake package

Package SHA-256: 1d00f040ba6e20964a4c4576ab7c9a2d989487208fc6ba6f5e32a921e3748baa

The complete package and its independent semantic-trail witness export passed their internal SHA-256 manifests before installation. The standard-named copies are byte-preserving source copies; the inbound ZIP and extracted contents remain in the intake archive.

Working focus

HI-6 completes I.6 and H.6 as a phase-locked pass. It keeps records distinct from living events and traces distinct from fields; treats memory as reconstruction; separates active memory from archive; preserves source, inference, and correction boundaries; propagates correction into retrieval; distinguishes salience from legitimacy; supports decay and protected forgetting; enables stigmergic coordination; bounds model-session memory; makes cross-loop transfer visible; and quarantines stale authority.

The package reports twelve candidate schemas, eight positive demonstrations, twelve negative conformance fixtures, an event-generated SemanticTrailWitness, an independent semantic-trail export, and zero technical/public contradictions. These are structural and internal semantic validations, not a complete theory of memory, legal deletion compliance, guaranteed descendant deletion, production security, scientific validity, or public-reader comprehension.

Gate and boundaries

HI-6 is complete at v0.1 with a PASS WITH CONDITIONS gate. Remaining conditions include source-independence tracking, salience manipulation, correction fan-out, deletion verification, archive leakage, model relationship inflation, and independent public-reader testing.

The I.6 specification, H.6 page, matrices, schemas, demonstrations, fixtures, and export remain working/candidate artifacts. Installation does not make them canonical or production specifications.

Roadmap transition

The next paired pass is HI-7:

• I.7 Polytelometric Deliberation, Portfolio, and Public Decision Specification
• H.7 How Several Futures Move Together

HI-7 should remain phase-locked through public-field assembly, standing admission, option-set witness, protected conditions, decision-rule and route portfolios, dissent, cost and delay bearers, abstention, no-decision, public decision witness, and consequence-return.