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feat(research): ablations, broadcast and self-model experiments, counterfactuals

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A framework for testing functional properties of the architecture
(Part C). None of it claims consciousness; every measure has an
operational definition in research.Measures.

- Ablations (attention, memory retrieval, affect, metacognition,
  commitments, volition, global workspace, curiosity, association, goals,
  narrative, notifications) and workspace overrides (force a matching
  candidate in or out of admission) live in a fork's cognitive
  configuration. Original minds refuse them on create and update; only
  snapshot restores may carry them, so they are part of the configuration
  digest. Excluded candidates are recorded with fate "excluded".
- Self-model experiments override a fork's self-model (capabilities,
  identity, goals, knowledge gaps) without touching policy. When an
  action's effective policy disagrees with the self-model, cognition
  records a self_model_mismatch and corrects the entry; experiments report
  self-model accuracy and correction latency.
- Counterfactual experiments replay a mind's recorded stimuli from a
  snapshot with chosen events omitted; the report lists what differed in
  beliefs, wants, intentions, memories, attention and capability
  decisions, in a form introspection can cite.
- Experiments record a protocol (kind, independent variable, controlled
  variables, measures), per-variant volition, plan, downstream-by-category
  (events reachable from each stimulus through recorded links),
  introspection and self-model measures and event ranges; comparisons add
  want, intention and plan-capability overlap, measure ranges, a
  descriptive architecture share and a downstream delta; reproducibility
  is labelled against the previous run of the same definition.
- research.Agency computes want→intention, intention→action, abandonment,
  commitment fulfilment and conflict, blocked intentions, replanning,
  outcome success and introspection accuracy; MetacognitiveCalibration
  relates confidence and expressed uncertainty in replies to later belief
  revision, with Brier scores for each half of the period.
- The sandbox test harness gains volition, planning, agency and research
  but not the motivation hook, whose wall-clock decay would make replay
  comparisons timing-dependent.
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@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ func StartWith(t *testing.T, o Options) *Harness {
registry := cognition.NewRegistry(cognition.Stores{Agency: deps.Agency, Research: deps.Research, Memory: deps.Memory, Beliefs: deps.Beliefs, Conversations: deps.Conversations, Graph: deps.Graph, Assertions: deps.Assertions})
deps.Brain = brain.NewManager(brain.Config{DB: pool, Events: deps.Events, Minds: deps.Minds, Registry: registry, Pool: scheduler.NewPool(2), Log: log, Metrics: deps.Metrics,
Services: brain.Services{Events: deps.Events, Memory: deps.Memory, Beliefs: deps.Beliefs, LLM: deps.LLM, Prompts: deps.Prompts, Goals: deps.Goals, Motivation: deps.Motivation, Predictions: deps.Predictions, Capabilities: deps.Capabilities,
Volition: deps.Volition, Plans: deps.Plans, Executor: deps.Executor}, AfterCommit: deps.Executor.WakeOn()}, group)
Volition: deps.Volition, Plans: deps.Plans, Executor: deps.Executor, Minds: deps.Minds}, AfterCommit: deps.Executor.WakeOn()}, group)
group.Go("planning.executor", func(ctx context.Context) error { return deps.Executor.Run(ctx, time.Second) })
if planEvents, err := deps.Events.Bus().Subscribe(group.Context(), ids.Nil, 512); err == nil {
group.Go("planning.react", func(ctx context.Context) error { return deps.Executor.Listen(ctx, planEvents) })