ENGLISH-ONLY PUBLIC RESEARCH RELEASE · V0.8.1

Centered Agency Under Persistent Uncertainty

A public working paper, bounded executable research package, and open external-review target by Ivan Kotov.

Ivan Kotov · ORCID 0009-0009-6002-9845 · Independent Researcher, Brussels, Belgium

Release identifier: ESTHER-RP-001 v0.8.1

Windows reproduction: PASS
Sixth blind review: no candidate blockers
Human review: open
DOI published: 10.5281/zenodo.21443105

Question

The question

What must a persistent system preserve in order to maintain unresolved models of the world, commit to a concrete action, revise itself without rewriting its history, and remain accountable for authority, obligations, and physical consequences?

The work separates physical quantum coherence, classical probabilistic uncertainty, and semantic model plurality. It proposes Selective Operational Commitment: a local action may be binary without declaring one complete world-model finally true.

Review entry points

Read and test

English public package

Canonical English paper, five normative specifications, review protocol, citation metadata, and bounded reproducibility surface.

Open the public package

GitHub release

Release notes, deterministic assets, machine-readable metadata, and the DOI-bound Zenodo archive import.

Open the release

External review

Formal methods, belief revision, experimental methodology, quantum information, photonics, reproduction, and endpoint-rater participation.

Join the external review

DOI archive

Canonical English DOI archive

Archive: ESTHER_RP001_v0_8_1_ENGLISH_DOI_RELEASE_2026-07-19.zip
SHA-256: 83e71e2fab938e3110293a61967a85440969d8d7eb78a69bf4c1ae40afd4a9d7
Members: 116
CRC: PASS

The exact packet used for the sixth blind model review remains separately identified by SHA-256. The English public package is a publication derivative and is not presented as byte-identical to the Russian-language blind-review input.

Bounded evidence

190/190current tests

177/177legacy tests

100thread rounds

20process rounds

16/16source mutants killed

6/6cross-analysis fixtures matched

Rejectedfalse-PASS negative control rejected

Reviewer protocol

What reviewers should test

formal consistency of authority, prefix, lifecycle, and succession semantics;
bypass paths in obligations, evidence status, requests, nonces, effects, and receipts;
construct validity and endpoint gaming in SRR, OCA, PAR, and RCS/RCG;
information parity with a strong matched persistent-profile control;
physical claim boundaries for quantum and photonic substrates;
clean reproducibility on independent environments.

Persistent identifiers

Published version DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21443105
Concept DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21443104
Zenodo record: zenodo.org/records/21443105
Previous DOI-backed release: 10.5281/zenodo.20679718

Scope boundary

Claim boundary

This release does not establish consciousness, subjective experience, life, personhood, AGI, entity status, empirical continuity, production security, unbounded mathematical correctness, or quantum/photonic necessity.