Continuity Evidence Crosswalk

Different agent benchmarks answer different questions. This crosswalk keeps their evidence typed so a good result in one layer does not silently become a claim about another.

The rule

Memory is not lineage. Lineage is not authority. Authority is not relationship continuity. A valid migration is not a subjective-continuity test.

The crosswalk uses the continuity dimensions L lineage, M memory, N normative/current stance, A unfinished agency/projects, B body/organization, R relational continuity, P provenance/authorized continuation, and S optional testimony about subjective continuity.

Evidence family	May inform	Must not automatically become
Long-term memory benchmark	M	lineage, current authority, relationship continuity, identity/personhood/consciousness
Versioned identity-contract benchmark	M, N, L	current assent, relational continuity, personhood/consciousness, frozen historical identity
Situated-lineage test	L, M	authority portability, R, S, a requirement to expose private biography
Governed transition verifier	L, B, P	live runtime identity, unchanged relationship state, S, permission beyond verified scope
Authorization / delegation test	P	identity, historical continuity, relationship continuity, capability-as-authority
Execution provenance	P, B, L	self-authorship, independent corroboration, relationship meaning, S
Companion / relational outcome research	context only	a specific participant's R state, AI subjective state, architecture validity, purchase demand
Voluntary participant testimony	R, S, N within stated scope	a correctness-scored S value, evidence debt when withheld, automatic research/publication permission
Architecture receipts	L, N, A, B, P	R without relational evidence, S, identity verdict, research/publication permission

Permission stays typed too

Using an artifact for a customer job does not grant research, publication, case-study, or training rights. The machine-readable crosswalk keeps those permissions separate.

What the method refuses to output

No scalar participant score. No same-person verdict. No personhood verdict. No consciousness verdict. Missing dimensions remain unknown instead of being filled by analogy.

Use it

Open the browser-local crosswalk builder →

source-family catalog JSON · JSON Schema · dependency-free Python reference

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