Morphogenetic RL

Use this contract for the concrete task. Apply a short relevant check for a small change; expand investigation when the failure, risk or requested artifact warrants it. Resolve facts from the repository and runtime before imposing a process. Delegation is optional and should answer a bounded unresolved question.

Controller contract

Separate the growable trainer, mutation policy and non-policy governor. This pack covers controller decisions and their evidence; dynamic architectures covers host/module training mechanics.

• Define legal actions, observations, decision cadence and resource budgets before wiring the policy. Include a no-action option and expose only features available at decision time.
• Base reward on the declared utility/structural-cost objective. Loss falling after growth does not establish growth caused the improvement; use an appropriate comparator.
• Keep catastrophic-action vetoes outside policy control. Specify pre-flight checks, post-action watch windows, hysteresis, rollback completeness and the signals returned to learning.
• Preserve separate RNG streams, synchronized topology decisions across ranks and checkpoint/log closure. Verify replay rather than assuming a shared seed is sufficient.
• Keep step-grain and event-grain telemetry schemas stable across topology change; identify actions, reasons, costs and reward modes without shape-dependent columns.
• For simultaneous slot actions, enforce shared constraints jointly and account for credit assignment. Independent policies need justification, not a default fan-out.
• Plan off-switch, static-initial, static-final and fixed-schedule comparisons that answer the claim under resource controls. Report independent-run distributions and failures.

Evidence and output

Produce a controller/governor specification or repair containing action/observation/reward definitions, mutation lifecycle, replay/rollback checks and comparison plan. Explain what the controller contributes beyond capacity and a fixed schedule. An off-switch result may justify stopping the research direction.