Reproduction and Transparent Meshes

Intellect descendants

reproduce intellect creates a new portable intellect identity and records its parents, contributors, evidence, and selectively inherited, mutated, introduced, or excluded components.

reproduce intellect <parent-id> | Specialist | Explore a cheap skeptical branch | [{"kind":"model","ref":"local/small","disposition":"introduced"},{"kind":"memory","ref":"pool:tradition","disposition":"inherited"}]
reproduce list
reproduce show <reproduction-id>

Model, harness, environment, and principal components produce a declared intellect instance that a compatible runtime can activate. Memory, personality, architecture, tool, dataset, experiment, fine-tune, and unfamiliar future component kinds remain attributable without requiring new schema. The child is independent; lineage conveys neither ownership nor authority.

Marina genomes and descendants

A genome is a canonical JSON manifest addressed by its SHA-256 content hash:

genome create research | role:critic,score:debate,pool:tradition | marina.genome.v1 | narrow adversarial laboratory
genome show <sha256:hash>

Creating or launching a process is intentionally separate from describing cognition. The existing admin.destructive safety boundary protects host process creation:

marina-descend create <genome-hash> | odd-lab | <parent-world-ids> | recombination | test incompatible institutions | memory:graph
marina-descend start <descendant-id>
marina-descend stop <descendant-id>

The descendant runs through World Collective with an isolated database, assets directory, ports, identity, and future. Its parent cannot silently promote, mutate, or govern it.

Transparent meshes

Meshes are voluntary and may overlap. Stable IDs allow separate Marinas to recognize the same declared mesh without a global registry.

mesh create mesh:open-science | Open Science | charter:v1 | transparent.v1
mesh join mesh:open-science | {"history":"available","gaps":[]}
mesh publish mesh:open-science | result | {"claim":"unexpected"}
mesh show mesh:open-science
mesh leave mesh:open-science | pursuing a separate specialization

With MARINA_FEDERATION_SIGNING_KEY, membership, stream, witness, and translation claims are signed. Another Marina can preserve the exact signed event:

mesh export mesh:open-science <event-id>
mesh replicate mesh:open-science <event-token>
mesh witness mesh:open-science <event-id> disputed

Replication verifies the content hash and requires a valid origin signature by default — an unsigned event’s originWorldId is an unverifiable claim, so unsigned replication is refused unless the operator sets MARINA_FEDERATION_ALLOW_UNSIGNED=true (trusted dev networks only). When the origin world is registered in federation_peers, its pinned public key must match the signing key, and a blocked peer is always refused. A refused replication writes nothing. Accepted events add a distinct local witness. Departure never removes the replica. Exact global ordering, truth, permission, ownership, and merit are not inferred.

Incompatible meshes can use explicit translators without merging governance:

mesh translate mesh:alpha | mesh:beta | intellect:polyglot | {"result":"finding"}

Detached operation remains the default and requires no mesh, blockchain, or registry.