[Dream Cycle 2026-06-02] intelligence: SONA behavioral drift undetected — embedding-space trait auditing (91.2% ICML 2026) + capabilities,memory scan

## Tonight's Rotation

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| **SLOT** | 2 |
| **DEEP surface** | intelligence |
| **SCAN surfaces** | capabilities, memory |
| **Session commit** | `f57b69876ba1c4e6bf4e317d0d1529a5481692c4` |
| **Date** | 2026-06-02 |

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## Drift Check

- **Prior dream-cycle issues:** #2254 (2026-06-01, DEEP=security), #2248 (2026-05-31, DEEP=security), #2241 (2026-05-30, DEEP=performance), #2223 (2026-05-29, DEEP=swarm), #2156 (2026-05-27, DEEP=intelligence), #2149 (2026-05-26, DEEP=security)
- **Intelligence surface count:** 1 prior title (#2156) — no ≥3 repetition. Tonight's finding (behavioral drift auditing) is architecturally distinct from #2156 (topic unknown from available context). No substitution triggered.
- **Security surface count:** 3 prior titles (#2254, #2248, #2149) — ≥3 threshold reached for security surface. Next security cycle (SLOT=1) will substitute with next slot's deep surface.
- **No dream-cycle PR merged:** 7 nights of open issues (2026-05-26 through 2026-06-02) — under 14-night threshold. `needs-merge` flag will trigger on 2026-06-09 if no merge.
- **Self-score of last night's #2254 (security — SCH supply-chain):** Per #2254 body: 10/10 — Grade A benchmarks ✓, ≥4 competitor rows ✓, specific actions ✓ (ADR-145 reference), witness present ✓, <1500 words ✓, novel finding ✓.

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## Deep Dive Findings — Intelligence

### SOTA Summary (2026)

Two convergent findings define the 2026 intelligence frontier:

**1. Behavioral Trajectory Tracking (Grade A)**
Leshin, Shah & Timmis (arXiv:2606.02536, ICML 2026 Workshop: Agents in the Wild) show agent behavioral traits can be quantified as directions in the embedding space of skill-file diffs. A linear model trained on 68 labeled before/after diff pairs achieves **91.2% sign-classification accuracy** (leave-one-out cross-validation) and **Spearman ρ = 0.82** for trait magnitude. The method is lightweight: embedding projection is O(d) per trait per adaptation cycle.

**2. Continual Learning Evaluation Gap (Grade B)**
AGENTCL (arXiv:2606.02461, Shu et al.) demonstrates that naive task sequences cannot distinguish memory designs. Controlled compositional task streams — where sub-tasks recur across sessions — expose plasticity-stability tradeoffs that naive benchmarks mask. MemProbe filters unreliable experiences while storing interactions and insights.

Additional signals:
- COMAP (arXiv:2606.02357, Grade B): co-evolving world models + agent policies via closed-loop feedback yields **16.75% relative gain** on benchmark tasks.
- SIRI (arXiv:2606.02355, Grade B): self-internalizing RL — agents discovering/internalizing own skills without external generator compete with distillation from larger models.
- Tool-use reality check (arXiv:2606.02357, Grade B): "93% of tool-solved problems solvable without tools" — agents learn calling patterns, not genuine tool-dependent capability.

### Gap vs Current Ruflo

| Capability | Ruflo Status | Gap |
|------------|-------------|-----|
| Continual learning | EWC++ active in SONA | No compositional task-stream evaluation harness (AGENTCL gap) |
| **Behavioral monitoring** | **None** | **No embedding-space trait tracking; SONA propensity drift undetected — critical** |
| Cross-session memory | AgentDB + HNSW | Causal retrieval absent; cross-session coherence unsolved |
| World model co-evolution | Not implemented | COMAP closed-loop pattern not adopted |
| Skill self-internalization | Partial (SONA LoRA) | No explicit self-internalizing RL loop per SIRI pattern |

### Recommended Action

**ADR-144 filed:** SONA Behavioral Trajectory Auditing via Embedding-Space Trait Vectors. See `v3/docs/adr/ADR-144-sona-behavioral-trajectory-auditing.md` on branch `dream/2026-06-02-intelligence`.

Three specific implementation targets:
1. `v3/@claude-flow/hooks/src/intelligence/sona.ts` — add `computeTraitDelta()` projection
2. `v3/@claude-flow/security/src/behavioral-audit.ts` — new audit module (new file)
3. `v3/@claude-flow/hooks/src/workers/ultralearn.ts` — add compositional eval stream

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## Scan Findings — Capabilities

**Source:** benchmarkingagents.com + arXiv:2606.02357 + MarkTechPost (2026-04-26)

**Finding:** SWE-bench Verified jumped from 1.96% (Claude 2, 2023) to vendor-reported >80% in early 2026 (Grade B — vendor-reported, not independently reproduced). OSWorld SOTA is ~38% as of April 2026 (Grade B). A 37% gap persists between lab benchmark scores and real-world deployment performance (Grade C — single-source claim, label explicitly). The tool-use finding above (93% of tool-solved problems tool-agnostic) suggests capability benchmarks may be measuring prompt adherence rather than genuine reasoning depth.

**Competitor signal:** Ruflo has no published SWE-bench or OSWorld score. Filing a benchmarking campaign (per ADR-141 pattern) for SWE-bench Verified would provide a grade-A competitive signal.

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## Scan Findings — Memory

**Source:** mem0.ai/blog/state-of-ai-agent-memory-2026 (Grade A), arXiv:2603.07670 survey (Grade B)

**Finding:** Mem0's April 2026 algorithm achieves LoCoMo 92.5, LongMemEval 94.4, BEAM 1M 64.1 — with +29.6 pts on temporal queries and +23.1 pts on multi-hop reasoning over prior algorithm (Grade A). MemoryArena benchmark 2026 reveals agents drop from near-perfect passive recall to **40–60%** on cross-session memory-guided decisions (Grade B) — the gap between remembering and *using* facts. Key architectural recommendation: single-pass hierarchical extraction + multi-signal retrieval (semantic + BM25 + entity matching) outperforms individual signals. Causal retrieval (traversing temporal/causal graph links rather than pure embedding similarity) is the identified next frontier.

**Ruflo gap:** AgentDB+HNSW covers semantic similarity only. Causal retrieval, cross-session coherence, and selective forgetting are all unsolved.

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## Competitors Reviewed

| Framework | Intelligence | Memory | Continual Learning | Behavioral Monitoring |
|-----------|-------------|--------|-------------------|----------------------|
| **LangGraph v1.1.3** | Graph state + distributed runtime | External (bring-your-own) | None | None |
| **CrewAI v1.12** | Agent skills + role specialization | Qdrant Edge, hierarchical isolation | None | None |
| **AutoGen AG2 Beta** | Streaming, event-driven, typed tools | Session-scoped | None | None |
| **OpenAI Agents SDK v0.13** | Any-LLM adapter, MCP resources | Session persistence | None | None |
| **Ruflo (SONA + EWC++)** | Self-optimizing, LoRA, MoE routing | AgentDB + HNSW (~1.9x–4.7x vs brute) | EWC++ (no eval harness) | **None — critical gap** |

**Ruflo advantage:** Only framework with EWC++ continual learning.
**Ruflo gaps:** No behavioral drift auditing (91.2% SOTA); no compositional eval stream; no causal retrieval.

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## Gist Link

Report stored in branch: `v3/docs/dream-cycle-2026-06-02-intelligence.md`

Note: GitHub Gist creation is not available via MCP tools in this environment. The full witnessed report is committed to the branch at the path above. SHA-256 and witness stamp are included in the report file.

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## Witness

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| **Session commit** | `f57b69876ba1c4e6bf4e317d0d1529a5481692c4` |
| **Gist/Report SHA-256** | `7e36914f6495c5dbe8008fcfe0076c141c62c0552d4c88e4c28bb12cb2774651` |
| **Witness stamp** | `48f75d0ab190e9f23d14b810d786b8286619824db84f8a3007ec7eada1e48d90` |

Verification: `sha256(report_file)` → concat session commit → `sha256(combined)` = witness stamp.

Start with v3/docs/adr/ADR-144-sona-behavioral-trajectory-auditing.md and then inspect the three named entry points: hooks/src/intelligence/sona.ts, security/src/behavioral-audit.ts, and hooks/src/workers/ultralearn.ts. Done means the behavioral audit and trait projection are addressed alongside the compositional evaluation stream described in the issue.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.