ESS-MAI — Executable Prior Art
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Governance-first AI systems research from Albania by Bledar Gjata (Gjata Legacy): executable Rust POCs, successes, failures, claim boundaries. • 8 items • Updated
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ai-governance
negative-knowledge
reasoning-systems
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POC-003 | POC 003 — System cold-start reachability | SYSTEM_POC | 0.2.0 | released_in_collection_v1.0.0 | PARTIAL_SYSTEM_MATERIALIZATION_WITH_CAUSAL_CONTROL | From generation zero — an empty Shadow knowledge state — can the bounded real authority path (GCL → Light/Besa → separate Shadow selection → Quantum/Asht → separate Shadow selection) reach the post-Asht final-Shadow point? | [
"Locked offline Cargo build; 84/84 disclosed tests pass (11 GCL, 13 Shadow-contract, 44 Quantum, 10 system unit, 6 integration).",
"Wrong-phase GCL directives are rejected by the extracted Light and Quantum state machines.",
"Besa accepts a complete empty selection through a separate Shadow process; Asht then f... | [
"From the empty state the post-Asht probe is not reached: the cold-start reachability gap is reproduced, not closed.",
"No production Shadow judgment, transaction, WAL commit or terminal receipt is executed; the positive control is not a production fix.",
"The proposed GCL-authorized one-time genesis route is f... | PASS | 84 passed; 0 failed | 3/3 empty cold-start gap reproduced; 1/1 exact-pair positive control passed | f43f7439830c77b4802c3d4cc4000e3d0d8c2b3e5fce12e5f1fd8d5aaa8fc92c | https://github.com/gjatalegacy-create/ESS-MAI/tree/ess-mai-executable-prior-art-v1.1.1/publications/executable-prior-art/poc-003-system-cold-start-reachability | https://huggingface.co/datasets/gjata-legacy/ess-mai-executable-prior-art/tree/main/executable-prior-art/poc-003-system-cold-start-reachability | https://github.com/gjatalegacy-create/ESS-MAI/blob/ess-mai-executable-prior-art-v1.1.1/publications/executable-prior-art/poc-003-system-cold-start-reachability/PRIOR_ART.md | https://github.com/gjatalegacy-create/ESS-MAI/blob/ess-mai-executable-prior-art-v1.1.1/publications/executable-prior-art/poc-003-system-cold-start-reachability/CLAIM_BOUNDARY.md | Apache-2.0 | ess-mai-executable-prior-art-v1.1.1 | 10.5281/zenodo.22750188 | Bledar Gjata | Gjata Legacy |
POC-004 | POC 004 — GCL LAW-0 global continuity | THEORY_POC | 0.2.0 | released_in_collection_v1.0.0 | PARTIAL_MATERIALIZATION | Does the locally enforced LAW-0 rule (each caller-reported step must satisfy after <= before) establish global continuity of the candidate space across steps, phases and process boundaries? | [
"Clean offline locked build; 19/19 tests (11 GCL production, 2 Shadow receipt, 6 POC harness); 5/5 runs with identical output.",
"A tuple is accepted only when after <= before; the direct expansion 2 -> 5 is rejected without appending a step.",
"The reference chain 16 -> 3 -> 2 -> 1 -> 1 -> 0 is accepted and cl... | [
"16 -> 1 followed by 100 -> 50 is accepted; the ledger's current state grows from 1 to 50.",
"A terminal Verification 1 -> 0 can be followed by Coordination 100 -> 50, reopening a collapsed ledger.",
"1 -> -1 and +infinity -> +infinity are accepted; the report omits the injected before=100.",
"Changing only t... | PASS | 19 passed; 0 failed | 5/5 success and counterexamples reproduced | e8ef70d0af825f46709edcd20d9fed36459d6471c5869782c67e88d64fc56ee3 | https://github.com/gjatalegacy-create/ESS-MAI/tree/ess-mai-executable-prior-art-v1.1.1/publications/executable-prior-art/poc-004-gcl-law0-global-continuity | https://huggingface.co/datasets/gjata-legacy/ess-mai-executable-prior-art/tree/main/executable-prior-art/poc-004-gcl-law0-global-continuity | https://github.com/gjatalegacy-create/ESS-MAI/blob/ess-mai-executable-prior-art-v1.1.1/publications/executable-prior-art/poc-004-gcl-law0-global-continuity/PRIOR_ART.md | https://github.com/gjatalegacy-create/ESS-MAI/blob/ess-mai-executable-prior-art-v1.1.1/publications/executable-prior-art/poc-004-gcl-law0-global-continuity/CLAIM_BOUNDARY.md | Apache-2.0 | ess-mai-executable-prior-art-v1.1.1 | 10.5281/zenodo.22750188 | Bledar Gjata | Gjata Legacy |
POC-005 | POC 005 — FFI LAW-0 authority non-duplication | THEORY_POC | 1.1.1 | verified_for_collection_v1.1.1 | PARTIAL_POC_LOCAL_PROPERTY_READY_GLOBAL_THEORY_NOT_MATERIALISED | Does the existing v189 FFI gate let one freshly issued, generation-bound CapHandle cross authority validation at most once — refusing copied replay, forged nonce and unknown generation — while withholding a direct knowledge write when no committed superior verdict is present? | [
"Native v189 focal tests 8/8; strict release all-targets build; detached tests 15/15; 3/3 independent process receipts identical.",
"Copy(CapHandle) != Copy(Authority) for one issued generation: forged nonce -3; first valid non-empty call reaches CompatibilityHold (-8); copied and third replays -1; unknown genera... | [
"Two fresh generations for the same module and payload each reach -8: generation-local non-duplication is not semantic non-duplication.",
"Durable consumption across restart, an idempotent knowledge sink and end-to-end FFI-to-Vault persistence are not materialised.",
"No default-production in-repository caller ... | PASS | native: 8 passed; 0 failed | detached: 15 passed; 0 failed | 3/3 independent process receipts identical | ca935c761d490afd717dcd435f07501af4166b8a52f76f3057b4083cd4b445d1 | https://github.com/gjatalegacy-create/ESS-MAI/tree/ess-mai-executable-prior-art-v1.1.1/publications/executable-prior-art/poc-005-ffi-law0-authority-nonduplication | https://huggingface.co/datasets/gjata-legacy/ess-mai-executable-prior-art/tree/main/executable-prior-art/poc-005-ffi-law0-authority-nonduplication | https://github.com/gjatalegacy-create/ESS-MAI/blob/ess-mai-executable-prior-art-v1.1.1/publications/executable-prior-art/poc-005-ffi-law0-authority-nonduplication/PRIOR_ART.md | https://github.com/gjatalegacy-create/ESS-MAI/blob/ess-mai-executable-prior-art-v1.1.1/publications/executable-prior-art/poc-005-ffi-law0-authority-nonduplication/CLAIM_BOUNDARY.md | Apache-2.0 | ess-mai-executable-prior-art-v1.1.1 | 10.5281/zenodo.22750188 | Bledar Gjata | Gjata Legacy |
POC-006 | POC 006 — Living Negative Knowledge: verified re-entry | THEORY_POC | 1.1.1 | verified_for_collection_v1.1.1 | PARTIAL_POC_NARROW_VERIFIED_REENTRY_READY_GLOBAL_LIFECYCLE_NOT_MATERIALISED | Does the existing v189 negative-knowledge import and filtering code bring valid, required, sealed history into READY state and hard-block a semantically matching later candidate, while preventing reasoning when the required history is missing, corrupt or downgraded? | [
"Strict release build; detached tests 30/30; 3/3 independent process receipts identical. Native v189 runs 12/12, 19/19 and 1/1 are separate runs, not summed.",
"Valid sealed history imports one entry as READY; the matching later candidate is hard-blocked with score 0.000.",
"Missing (DEGRADED), corrupt (NOT_REA... | [
"The cycle response carries negative_persisted as a Boolean, not a typed, independently verifiable negative-commit receipt (source inspection, not runtime-measured).",
"Detached terminate/reopen recovery through the authoritative Shadow Vault and the next Quantum process is not executed; WAL recovery passes only ... | PASS | native: separate runs: 12/12, 19/19, 1/1; four focused verdict filters each 1/1 (overlap not summed) | detached: 30 passed; 0 failed | 3/3 independent process receipts identical | 3054c5ee1288dae7d08fd280f4d7b97b1c7be6afeba79e4e10e3c58bb8a3c2cd | https://github.com/gjatalegacy-create/ESS-MAI/tree/ess-mai-executable-prior-art-v1.1.1/publications/executable-prior-art/poc-006-living-negative-knowledge-verified-reentry | https://huggingface.co/datasets/gjata-legacy/ess-mai-executable-prior-art/tree/main/executable-prior-art/poc-006-living-negative-knowledge-verified-reentry | https://github.com/gjatalegacy-create/ESS-MAI/blob/ess-mai-executable-prior-art-v1.1.1/publications/executable-prior-art/poc-006-living-negative-knowledge-verified-reentry/PRIOR_ART.md | https://github.com/gjatalegacy-create/ESS-MAI/blob/ess-mai-executable-prior-art-v1.1.1/publications/executable-prior-art/poc-006-living-negative-knowledge-verified-reentry/CLAIM_BOUNDARY.md | Apache-2.0 | ess-mai-executable-prior-art-v1.1.1 | 10.5281/zenodo.22750188 | Bledar Gjata | Gjata Legacy |
ESS-MAI Executable Prior Art — POC Collection
ESS-MAI is experimental, governance-first AI systems research by Bledar Gjata (Gjata Legacy), developed in Tirana, Albania. Albania denotes where the research is developed; ESS-MAI is not an Albanian-language model and not a national or sovereign AI system. Its relevance to AI governance is, in the repository's words, “an invitation to evaluate the project, not a claim of academic validation, regulatory compliance, or safety assurance”; it is not a legal or compliance framework, and governance-first control as such is prior art, not claimed as new.
Shqip. ESS-MAI është kërkim eksperimental në sistemet e inteligjencës artificiale (IA) me qasje governance-first: teston nëse qeverisja mund të veprojë si ligj konstitutiv i arsyetimit, para dhe gjatë tij, e jo si kontroll pas tij — hipotezë e deklaruar, jo rezultat. Projekti zhvillohet në Tiranë, Shqipëri, nga Bledar Gjata (Gjata Legacy). Katër POC të ekzekutueshme në Rust (003–006) janë publike (burimi kanonik: GitHub), bashkë me sukseset, dështimet, kundërshembujt dhe kufijtë e pretendimeve të tyre. Një test që kalon tregon vetëm atë që u testua; nuk e provon teorinë.
Verbatim mirror of the canonical public collection
publications/executable-prior-art/ from the ESS-MAI repository on GitHub.
Nothing in this repository is a model, a demo, or the ESS-MAI core.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Author and architect | Bledar Gjata |
| Author ORCID iD | 0009-0003-7854-266X |
| Project | ESS-MAI |
| Organization and affiliation | Gjata Legacy |
| Public contact | gjatalegacy@gmail.com |
| Canonical repository | https://github.com/gjatalegacy-create/ESS-MAI |
| Canonical path | publications/executable-prior-art/ |
| Reading page | https://huggingface.co/spaces/gjata-legacy/ess-mai — what each POC showed and did not show |
| Mirror source | GitHub main @ 70478d6599db3623a3d97aba1a64a6db6d014626 (2026-09-14T21:09:07Z) |
| Release | ess-mai-executable-prior-art-v1.1.1 → commit d38c2bab85e7bc9e1683da2cdfccc43e958639ad (published 2026-09-14T07:26:33Z) |
| Archival record | Zenodo v1.1.1 DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22750188 · v1.0.0 DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22074028 · concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22074027 |
| License | Apache-2.0 (inherited from the canonical collection: executable-prior-art/LICENSE, CITATION.cff, codemeta.json, GitHub repository license) |
| Integrity | MIRROR_MANIFEST_REVERIFIED.sha256 (every mirrored file, recomputed at mirror time) · executable-prior-art/artifact_hashes.sha256 (shipped by the collection; verified 0 mismatches at mirror time) |
Table view (data/pocs.jsonl)
The Dataset Viewer shows one row per public POC (003–006): question tested,
what was shown, what was not shown, experimental status, recorded tests,
repeatability, artifact-manifest SHA-256 and links to each capsule, its
PRIOR_ART.md and its CLAIM_BOUNDARY.md. Every text value is copied from the
capsule summaries on the reading page and from the collection manifest.json;
the table adds no claim. The capsule files themselves are under
executable-prior-art/ and remain the authority.
from datasets import load_dataset
pocs = load_dataset("gjata-legacy/ess-mai-executable-prior-art", split="collection_v1.1.1")
Per-POC repositories
Each capsule is also published as its own dataset (verbatim capsule, identical to GitHub, with a one-row table):
- POC 003 — System cold-start reachability
- POC 004 — GCL LAW-0 global continuity
- POC 005 — FFI LAW-0 authority non-duplication
- POC 006 — Living Negative Knowledge: verified re-entry
Scientific context (hypotheses, not results): gjata-legacy/ess-mai-publications.
Review: Independent review requested: POC 003–006.
What this repository is
The four proof-of-concept capsules below are the public, executable, hash-bound part of ESS-MAI. Each capsule carries its own claim boundary, source-to-runtime map, experiment protocol, results, known failures, prior-art declaration and artifact hashes. The collection's own reading rule applies unchanged:
Read each capsule's own claim boundary, extraction identity, reproducibility procedure, results, known failures, and artifact hashes together. No collection-level description expands a capsule's claim.
| POC | Directory | Version | Class | Executed result (as recorded in manifest.json) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| POC 003 | poc-003-system-cold-start-reachability/ |
0.2.0 | SYSTEM_POC | build PASS; 84 passed, 0 failed; 3/3 empty cold-start gap reproduced; 1/1 exact-pair positive control |
| POC 004 | poc-004-gcl-law0-global-continuity/ |
0.2.0 | THEORY_POC | build PASS; 19 passed, 0 failed; 5/5 success and counterexamples reproduced |
| POC 005 | poc-005-ffi-law0-authority-nonduplication/ |
1.1.1 | THEORY_POC | strict build PASS; native 8/8; detached 15/15; 3/3 identical process receipts; direct FFI knowledge write not materialised |
| POC 006 | poc-006-living-negative-knowledge-verified-reentry/ |
1.1.1 | THEORY_POC | strict build PASS; detached 30/30; 3/3 identical process receipts; verified K− re-entry; full negative receipt wire not materialised |
Experimental status strings are copied from manifest.json and are part of the
claim: PARTIAL_SYSTEM_MATERIALIZATION_WITH_CAUSAL_CONTROL (003),
PARTIAL_MATERIALIZATION (004),
PARTIAL_POC_LOCAL_PROPERTY_READY_GLOBAL_THEORY_NOT_MATERIALISED (005),
PARTIAL_POC_NARROW_VERIFIED_REENTRY_READY_GLOBAL_LIFECYCLE_NOT_MATERIALISED (006).
Claim boundary (verbatim from the v1.1.1 release notes)
NARROW_CLAIM_STATUS=POC_READY
GLOBAL_THEORY_STATUS=THEORY_NOT_MATERIALISED_GLOBALLY
POC_STATUS=PARTIAL_POC
This seals only the disclosed POC questions. It does not declare the complete ESS-MAI v189 architecture closed, production-certified or fully materialised.
Passing tests establish only what the disclosed experiment demonstrates. A test count is not a proof of the theory. The release claims behavioural reproducibility and records every runtime-witness hash; it does not claim bit-for-bit binary reproducibility (Windows executable SHA-256 values differed across clean build roots).
Method
Every capsule follows the published ESS-MAI Cargo POC experimental method:
theory -> current source -> production mechanism -> isolated experiment
-> baseline -> target -> ablation -> adversarial failure
-> counterexample -> recovery boundary -> repeatability -> verdict
and the collection's advancement rule:
experimental success + experimental failure = advancement method
Successes and failures are published together. A failure is preserved as a typed boundary or unresolved gap; advancement means identifying the smallest architecture-preserving connection, constraint or experiment that can close it.
Authority root, as declared in manifest.json: GCL is the sovereign
constitutional parent; subordinate platform authorities remain bounded.
Constructive K+ and rigorous-negative K− are distinct sibling outcomes under
GCL; HOLD is neither.
Reproduce
Each capsule directory contains a Cargo workspace, REPRODUCIBILITY.md /
EXPERIMENT_PROTOCOL.md, expected outputs and hashes. Clone or download the
capsule, then follow its own procedure; do not rely on this card for any
command. Verify the mirror first:
sha256sum -c MIRROR_MANIFEST_REVERIFIED.sha256
cd executable-prior-art && sha256sum -c artifact_hashes.sha256
Prior art and public disclosure
Each capsule declares its own prior art in PRIOR_ART.md (established
external foundations, adjacent work, later independent work, and ESS-MAI's
earlier public disclosure) and records the limits of its search. The
collection states, verbatim: Later independent work is declared without
alleging copying or making a universal priority claim.
Public disclosure records (media records with dates; they are attribution and chronology, not technical evidence):
| Date | Record |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-03 | Business Magazine — used by the collection only as public conceptual attribution of "Dija Negative" to Bledar Gjata and ESS-MAI (see RELEASE_NOTES_v1.1.1.md, poc-006/.../PUBLIC_DISCLOSURE_TRACE.md) |
| 2026-06-09 | Televizioni SCAN, "Një AI shqiptare e krijuar në Shqipëri? Nga të dhënat tek përfitimet..." — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i23jeqIwqJA (YouTube datePublished 2026-06-09) |
| 2026-08-24 | Zenodo v1.0.0 deposit (POC 003 + POC 004), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22074028 |
| 2026-09-14 | GitHub release ess-mai-executable-prior-art-v1.1.1 and Zenodo v1.1.1 deposit, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22750188 |
Author profiles: ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7854-266X · LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/bledar-gjata-1a527030b/ · X https://x.com/Gjata_Legacy · GitHub https://github.com/gjatalegacy-create
Where ESS-MAI appears
Author profiles: ORCID · GitHub · LinkedIn · X · TikTok · YouTube · Facebook · Facebook page GJATA · Hugging Face · OpenAlex
Media (in Albanian): Business Magazine Albania, 2026-06-03 · Televizioni SCAN (YouTube), 2026-06-09 · ACP, 2026-08-20
Posts by the author: LinkedIn 2026-05-17 · LinkedIn 2026-05-19 · LinkedIn 2026-06-06 · X 2026-06-22 · X 2026-08-07 · X 2026-08-11 · X 2026-08-13 · LinkedIn 2026-08-13 · LinkedIn 2026-08-14 · X 2026-08-18 · LinkedIn 2026-08-21 · X 2026-09-04 · X 2026-09-04
Records: Zenodo — Concept DOI (all versions) 10.5281/zenodo.22074027 · Zenodo — v1.1.1 · Zenodo — v1.0.0 · OpenAIRE — v1.1.1 research-software record · OpenAIRE — v1.0.0 research-software record · Software Heritage — Archived POC collection directory · ORCID — works list
Media and posts establish chronology and attribution, not technical evidence.
Not included (verbatim exclusions from manifest.json)
- full private ESS-MAI v1.8.9 core
- private source-workspace manifests
- C01 and C02 evidence
- targets, caches, binaries, archives, WAL/vault/hold files
- credentials, private keys, tokens, environment dumps, private absolute paths
- unissued DOI, tag, release, archive, or timestamp claims
Only released capsules are mirrored here; no unreleased proof-of-concept work is included.
Non-claims
This repository does not claim: that ESS-MAI is complete, production-certified or fully materialised; that any test count proves a theory; bit-for-bit binary reproducibility; universal priority over later independent work; or that any unpublished component exists in the form described by any public text.
Citation
@software{gjata_ess_mai_executable_prior_art_2026,
author = {Gjata, Bledar},
title = {ESS-MAI Executable Prior Art v1.1.1 — POC 003–006; Standard-Method Closure for POC 005–006},
year = {2026},
month = {9},
version = {1.1.1},
publisher = {Zenodo},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.22750188},
url = {https://github.com/gjatalegacy-create/ESS-MAI}
}
Machine-readable metadata: executable-prior-art/CITATION.cff, executable-prior-art/codemeta.json.
Provenance of this mirror
See MIRROR_PROVENANCE.md for the exact mirror procedure, the git blob
comparison against GitHub main and the v1.1.1 tag, and the recorded release
asset hash (ess-mai-executable-prior-art-v1.1.1-poc-only.zip, SHA-256
d7a322bf2b09f82803201b2194b75fb433c3f44eafd98441c7eec72d5b673bee as recorded
in the GitHub release notes and on Zenodo).
Project, artifact and author links
GitHub — source · Hugging Face — public mirror · LinkedIn — author · Zenodo — software archive · OpenAIRE — software metadata · ORCID — author
ESS-MAI is the originating research project; the linked Zenodo version and HF collection contain the four distinct POC003–006 experiments. This live introduction does not revise their frozen artifacts or combine their claims. LinkedIn and ORCID identify author-declared profiles for Bledar Gjata (Gjata Legacy). The OpenAIRE DOI lookup returned the matching software metadata on 24 October 2026; indexing and these cross-links do not establish peer review, certification or endorsement.
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