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The Cognitive Continuity Test: Verifying Governed State Transitions in Persistent AI Agents

Jun-Fei He De-Ying Yu
Sep 2026 · 0 citations · 34 references
Computer Science

Abstract

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 and evaluator assumptions. IdentityLineageBench provides 24 generated transition families. The reference post-resolution verifier matches all 576 canonical held-out labels; lexical state similarity and a lineage-only diagnostic baseline admit 60.0% and 80.0% of invalid fixtures. These comparisons establish synthetic conformance, not superiority to a policy-aware deployed system. Signed adversarial regressions cover fabricated interaction counts, unsupported belief changes, and mixed missing/contradictory evidence. SIT behavior and actual model migration remain unmeasured. An 18,000-execution valid-path study measures a 6.21 ms default median on resident inputs. We specify the additional activation and recovery obligations needed for deployment.

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