GOLDEN PATH

Golden Path · Step 07 of 08

BEAM + Future Work

Show the preregistered next experiment without presenting it as completed evidence: BEAM 1M hybrid retrieval, multi-session reasoning, multi-agent perturbation lineage, and measured economics.

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Step 07 of 08 · Future Work · PREPARED_UNEXECUTED

BEAM 1M + Multi-Agent Custody

The public BEAM 1M target scope is 35 conversations and 700 probes. HydraDG has prepared the A–H architecture contract, but official rows have not yet been materialized, revision-pinned, or row-hashed in this repository. No HydraDG BEAM score is claimed.

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07A / External reference

Published HydraDB BEAM reference

HydraDB reports 82% overall on BEAM 1M, compared with 74% for Hindsight. These are external benchmark references, not HydraDG measurements and not Route A–H scores.

07B / Architecture ablation

Routes A → H

RouteArchitectureHydraDG state
Route ADense Content OnlyPREPARED_UNEXECUTED
Route BDense + BM25 HybridPREPARED_UNEXECUTED
Route CRoute B + Sliding-Window Latent ContextPREPARED_UNEXECUTED
Route DRoute C + Adaptive Query ExpansionPREPARED_UNEXECUTED
Route ERoute D + FCG Bounded Graph TraversalPREPARED_UNEXECUTED
Route FRoute E + Valid-Time / Supersession FilterPREPARED_UNEXECUTED
Route GRoute F + Reranking / Evidence FusionPREPARED_UNEXECUTED
Route HRoute G + Full FCO/FCG Custody & Claim-StatePREPARED_UNEXECUTED

07C / Multi-agent perturbation hypothesis

Preserve where the error entered — and what inherited it.

Future work will represent retrieval, extraction, reasoning, decision, and answer agents as FCG participants. Wrong decisions remain perturbation evidence, allowing HydraDG to measure first divergence, downstream inheritance, and recovery rather than deleting the bad state.

Primary hypothesis: explicit FCO supersession, validity, provenance, claim-state, and agent-decision lineage can improve knowledge-update, contradiction-resolution, and multi-session reasoning without degrading HydraDB-style temporal reasoning and event ordering.

07D / Economics to measure

Accuracy and cost stay separate until measured.

ErrorPropagationRateRecoveryRateFirstDivergenceAccuracyCurrentStateAccuracyHistoricalStateRetentionCompleteEvidencePathRecoverySerializedByteReductionContextTokenReductionAvoidedDownstreamInferenceCallsUsefulComputeRatioCostPerCorrectGovernedAnswer

Anticube classification is preregistered as a governance/classification signal, not an assumed ranking boost. Storage savings, token savings, avoided model calls, and cost-per-correct-governed-answer remain NOT MEASURED until bytes, context tokens, and inference calls are counted.

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