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§ccf-core
Contextual Coherence Fields — earned relational trust for autonomous systems.
Patent pending: US Provisional Application 63/988,438 (priority date 23 Feb 2026).
§What This Is
CCF is a computational architecture for emergent social behaviour in autonomous systems. Instead of a single emotional state, an agent maintains a field of trust states — one per sensory context — learned continuously from experience.
Trust earned in a bright quiet room does not transfer to a dark noisy room unless the field explicitly learns they are similar. The agent remembers the shape of its own comfort zone.
§Patent Claim Map
| Type | Patent Claims | Description |
|---|---|---|
[SensorVocabulary] | 1, 8 | Composite sensor context key trait |
[ContextKey] | 1, 8 | Discrete context identifier from quantised sensor signals |
[CoherenceAccumulator] | 2–5 | Per-context trust state with earned floor and asymmetric decay |
[CoherenceField] | 6–7, 13 | Trust field: context-keyed accumulator map with min-gate |
[SocialPhase] | 14–18 | Four-quadrant phase classifier with Schmitt trigger hysteresis |
[SinkhornKnopp] | 19–23 | Birkhoff polytope projector — doubly stochastic mixing matrix |
[MinCutBoundary] | 9–12 | Stoer-Wagner comfort-zone boundary discovery |
[Personality] | 3 (modulators) | Dynamic modulators: curiosity, startle sensitivity, recovery |
§no_std
This crate is no_std by default. Enable the std feature for persistence helpers.
Enable the serde feature for serialisation support (required for CCF_SEG / RVF).
§License
Business Source License 1.1. Free for evaluation and non-production use. Change date: 23 February 2032 — Apache License 2.0. Commercial production use requires a license from Flout Labs (cbyrne@floutlabs.com).
Modules§
- accumulator
- Per-context coherence accumulators and the full coherence field.
- boundary
- Comfort-zone boundary via global minimum cut on the trust-weighted context graph.
- phase
- Social phase classification and personality modulators.
- sinkhorn
- Birkhoff polytope projector via Sinkhorn-Knopp iteration.
- vocabulary
- Generic sensor vocabulary — the platform-independent context key system.