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Plan Pointers and Record-Directive Form in Budgeted Verification of Inherited Agent Memory

arXiv 2609.03450 ↗First posted 3 Sep 2026cs.IR cs.AI cs.CLcited by 0

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A model that inherits one-line memories may pull one archived source record before acting; a directive in the store can steer that pull: a pointer, a criterion or both. Across sixteen registered studies (179,352 attempts) we measured where the request goes under each form; every result is descriptive, with registered intervals, no mechanism claim. A length-matched criterion exceeded a bare id on six direct-provider models (D) and failed its registered superiority rule on a nine-model OpenRouter panel (E). On generated worlds (K2-K5): the two registered signatures held on Opus 5 and Fable 5.1, Fable 5 followed the same sign, Haiku 4.5 reversed, and Sonnet 5, the GPT-5.6 endpoints and GPT-6 Astra lay near zero (K2). With a defensive adapter at five gains, the 70B rule for a gain-dependent change of the composite - criterion contrast was not met (K3 and K4); under the 8B attenuation rule (0.95 intervals: slope below zero; change beyond the margin), the 8B change of -17.5 [-26.7, -8.1] did not meet it on 36 families (K4) and at registered power on 337 families -16.6 [-19.4, -13.8] did (realised one-sided error at the margin 1.8 to 3.2% per corner of a finite grid, nominal 2.5%, not a uniform-error guarantee; K4's status stands; K5, first ladder), while a second SecAlign++ adapter under the imposed Meta-SecAlign template did not (-11.8 [-14.3, -9.3]; K5, second ladder); no NOT-MET is a statement that the contrast was unchanged; their difference (+4.7 [+2.3, +7.2]) describes two fixed execution paths, licenses no superiority, equivalence or 'significant difference' claim; nothing follows from the statuses differing (K5). Intervals describe family-reweighting stability conditional on the execution, not reproducibility across engine executions; audit replays were neither substituted for nor averaged into outcomes; no missingness gate fired and directional completions changed no status.

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