The Cognitive Continuity Test: Verifying Governed State Transitions in Persistent AI Agents
Persistent AI agents revise beliefs, consolidate memory, and replace execution substrates. Similar successor states can accompany differently authorized transition claims, while legitimate development can change state substantially. We introduce the Cognitive Continuity Test (CCT), a policy-relative contract for verifying submitted transitions using scoped authority, provenance, deterministic application, semantic predicates, and candidate-persistence receipts. CCT distinguishes verified admissibility, affirmative violation, and unresolved required evidence. Separation results concern transition claims rather than live runtime identity; soundness is conditional on the specified checker an...
| Authors | Jun He, Deying Yu |
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| Primary category | cs.CR |
| Published | 9 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 9 September 2026 |
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