Residue Integration

Claim Type: mechanism_hypothesis
Scope: Sleep residue integration
Depends On: ARC-011, ARC-007
Status: candidate
Claim ID: MECH-018

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Source: docs/processed/legacy_tree/architecture/sleep/residue_integration.md

Elaborates Section 4.5 (Moral Residue) and 4.6 (Offline Integration / Sleep) of REE_CORE.md.

Residue Integration

Moral residue represents persistent deformation of latent space caused by harm.

Sleep-phase residue integration should:

• Preserve the fact that harm occurred
• Tie residue to the correct contexts
• Prevent global overgeneralisation
• Compress residue into efficient representations

Failure modes addressed:

• Moral injury overload
• Spurious guilt / avoidance

• Loss of traversability in trajectory space

Open Questions

None noted in preserved sources.

Related Claims (IDs)

• MECH-018

References / Source Fragments

• docs/processed/legacy_tree/architecture/sleep/residue_integration.md