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Agent Class Design Reference

Theory → Prototype Mapping · Spinor Labs Internal Architecture Study

ALOFT organizes its agent fleet into six classes, each named for a scientist (or, in Class 05, a Stoic philosopher) whose actual theoretical work supplies a usable engineering discipline — not a marketing metaphor. This document maps each figure's verified contributions to concrete design guidance for every locked prototype agent: data structures, control flow, gating logic, metrics, failure modes, and anti-patterns.

Six classes · Six disciplines

Theory-to-prototype index

01
FeynmanTrace · Glassbox

Every decision traceable to an auditable reason. Glass-box by construction.

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02
FermiForecast · Anomaly

Every answer is an estimate + interval + stated assumptions. Calibration is a contract.

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03
MaxwellFIELD EQUATIONS · DAG

Signed handoff contracts, governor feedback loops, and explicit observation budgets.

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04
RamachandranPerception & Synthesis

Catch confabulation before the system trusts it. Separate recognition from verification.

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05
MarcusMeta · Stoic

No promotion without held-out eval evidence. Failures are the routing table for improvement.

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06
WheelerSuperposition · Delayed-choice

Defer commitment to the last responsible moment. Observation is an intervention with cost.

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Cross-class synthesis

How the six theories interlock

Feynman → Marcus

Feynman traces feed Marcus reflection — explicit evidence-DAGs are the substrate the meta-agent reads to classify failure signatures.

Rama → Maxwell

Rama verification gates Maxwell dispatch — an orchestrator must not hand off on a confabulated or unverified output.

Fermi → Wheeler

Fermi bounds size the risk Wheeler times — calibrated uncertainty estimates power the last-responsible-moment stopping threshold.

Wheeler → All

Wheeler timing wraps the fleet — every commit point across all classes is subject to last-responsible-moment discipline and explicit collapse logging.

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The complete document includes verified theory, attribution flags, per-prototype data structures, control flow, gating logic, metrics, anti-patterns, and the full sourcing appendix.

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