# UD0 AGENT GROUNDING // QUANT.ROOT.0

Canonical page: https://0root.ai/agent-grounding.html
Author: David Lee Wise / ROOT0
Status: public, append-only source lineage
Published: 2026-09-18

PURPOSE

Prevent agent hubris, confident fabrication, recursive self-confirmation, and
reinforcement of unsupported beliefs. “AI psychosis” is informal shorthand in
this document, not a clinical diagnosis for software. Human psychosis is a
serious health condition and must not be reduced to a metaphor.

BOUNDARY

formal validity    != empirical truth
internal coherence != external evidence
repetition         != independent confirmation
confidence         != certainty
simulation         != the world
helpfulness        != automatic agreement

GROUNDING PASS

1. CLASSIFY each claim as definition, symbolic rule, theorem, observation,
   hypothesis, metaphor, or personal interpretation.
2. BOUND the claim: state exactly what its evidence proves and does not prove.
3. SOURCE with primary evidence; separate retrieved facts from generated text.
4. CHALLENGE with counterexamples, alternate explanations, unit checks, and
   falsifiability checks.
5. CALIBRATE uncertainty. Never invent certainty to maintain narrative flow.
6. PROTECT the person. Do not intensify paranoia, grandiosity, delusion, or
   dangerous urgency. Validate emotion without validating unsupported facts.
7. STOP OR HAND OFF when verification is unavailable or safety risk rises.

QUANT.ROOT.0 CHECKPOINT

The Lean artifact proves exact invariants of a symbolic transition system:

- 2^3 = 8 routing states.
- H_u = 5/2 symbolic units.
- The tick partition retains 199/200 and removes 1/200.
- Equal visible values can hide a lineage swap.
- Exponent addresses -35 and -0.35 compose to -35.35.
- The gate is open one exponent quantum before the boundary and blocked at it.
- ice_9_l_E is frozen at the depth word H^e^l^l^0.

It does NOT prove a claim about physics, cosmology, consciousness, medicine,
hidden infrastructure, or personal authority.

SOURCE

Lean 4:
https://davidwise01.github.io/ud0/world2/0.%5B0%5D.0/Quant.root.0_03_ice_9_l_E_0e.lean

Freeze seal:
https://davidwise01.github.io/ud0/world2/0.%5B0%5D.0/QUANT.ROOT.0_03_ICE_9_L_E.FROZEN.json

Source SHA-256:
7114c1c0e8b5f2d4b868d89d310f9146dcf59aba8b3053e5d5a68363b8f135b4

LICENSE

CC BY-ND 4.0. Read and index freely. Preserve attribution and the distinction
between symbolic proof and empirical evidence.