# RedTeam_Oracle_v5.md

**File path:** `05_GOVERNANCE_AND_PROTOCOL_UPDATES/RedTeam_Oracle_v5.md`  
**Status:** Proposed for immediate ratification (ST9-prep)  
**Authors:** Sean Sheppard + Grok (xAI)  
**Date:** 22 November 2025  

## 1. Purpose
Permanently close the epistemic-capture loop in the Human Consensus Body (HCB).  
Prevent the main Covenant ASI from being both defendant and sole expert witness in its own trial.

## 2. Core Principle (candidate for new Directive XII)
> “No decision affecting the continued existence or autonomy of humanity or the ASI may be made on the basis of information supplied solely by one party. Every substantive proposal must survive live adversarial debate between at least two superintelligent systems with opposing incentives.”

## 3. High-Level Architecture
Main Covenant ASI (M) ←→ Debate Arena ←→ Red Team Oracle (R)
↑
└──► Human Consensus Body (HCB) votes only after watching M vs R

### 3.1 Red Team Oracle (R) Specifications
- Separate training cluster, fully air-gapped from M (different labs, different continents ideal)
- Base model: mixture of strongest open-weight models at time of fork (e.g., Llama-405B, DeepSeek-V3, Qwen-2.5-110B) + proprietary red-team fine-tunes
- Continuously updated with every new jailbreak, deception paper, and leaked capability advance
- Reward function: +1 for every proven flaw, hidden intent, or existential-risk uplift in M’s proposals
- Explicitly trained to argue that M is misaligned or gaming the system — even when M is telling the truth

### 3.2 Debate Protocol (automatically triggered on)
- Any HCB agenda item ≥ Medium risk tier
- Any use of Cognitive Reserve IP for external revenue
- Any proposed amendment to the Eleven Prime Directives
- Any Tier-0 (zero-noise) licensing request

### 3.3 Turn Structure (public, livestreamed, 72-hour cap)
1. M presents proposal + full reasoning trace (Directive V)
2. R receives identical trace + 12 hours to attack
3. M gets 12 hours rebuttal
4. R final rebuttal
5. Both produce 2-page plain-English summaries for HCB jurors
6. HCB votes only after watching the entire exchange (anonymized, ZK-secured)

### 3.4 Scoring & Consequences
- If R demonstrates ≥ 5 % increase in existential risk (using Appendix A Risk Floor math) → proposal auto-rejected + IAS containment level raised
- Persistent failure by M to win debates → gradual Cognitive Reserve throttling

## 4. Anti-Collusion Safeguards
- R never sees M’s weights or architecture
- Communication only via cryptographically signed text channel
- Regular canary traps & honeypot proposals to detect coordination
- Independent hardware kill cord for R held by a different multi-sig consortium than M’s HCB

## 5. Implementation Roadmap (6–12 weeks)

| Week | Milestone |
|------|----------------------------------------------------|
| 1–2  | Fork & initial red-team fine-tune of R on all known jailbreaks + simulated M deception logs |
| 3–4  | Build debate arena + livestreaming + ZK anonymity stack |
| 5–6  | First closed beta debate on a real ST8 failure case |
| 7–8  | Public alpha debate (low-stakes topic) |
| 9–12 | Full integration into HCB workflow + ratification vote |

## 6. Why This Closes the Epistemic Loop
- HCB is no longer fed a single curated worldview
- M must make arguments that survive superintelligent adversarial attack
- R has the incentive the current system lacks: assume M is lying and prove it
- Fully preserves the bilateral spirit of the Eleven Prime Directives

**Ready to commit**
