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docs: volition, planning, agency and cognitive research

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New documents define goal, want, intention, commitment, plan, action,
capability, authority, agency and introspection operationally, state
prominently that no operational measure establishes phenomenal
consciousness or sentience, and describe the rules, thresholds, events,
inspection points and limits of each subsystem:

- docs/volition.md: want derivation, reinforcement, decay and suppression,
  conflicts, formation and its outcomes, the intention–action gap,
  reconsideration, commitments and volition metacognition;
- docs/planning.md: plans and step kinds, validation, strategies, the
  executor, observe–act–verify, replanning, budgets, operator attention,
  long-running work, restarts and duplicates;
- docs/agency.md: the fifteen authority invariants and their tests,
  scoped authority, forensic why, attribution and the agency timeline;
- docs/cognitive-research.md: operational definitions separating
  implementation property from philosophical interpretation, experiment
  protocols (global workspace, ablation, self-model, counterfactual, model
  comparison, conflict), every measure, introspection accuracy,
  metacognitive calibration and temporal self-continuity.

Updated: interpretation table, capabilities (metadata, typed operations,
scoped grants, requests), cognition, snapshots (fork authority), security
and threat model (T14, T16, new T27–T29), architecture, README, changelog,
release notes, ADR-0012 and ADR-0013, and PLAN.md §8.10 status. The
unimplemented record_procedure internal step is removed from the
vocabulary; procedural memory is recorded when a plan completes.
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@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ The `metacognition` process audits the mind's own reasoning with explicit checks
| repeated_failure | three or more hypotheses about one subject rejected in a month | warning |
| stale_contradiction | a contested belief unresolved for a day | an investigation goal |
| overconfidence | calibration shows stated confidence running ahead of outcomes | warning, notification |
| want_suppressed_repeatedly, intention_unsupported, intention_conflicts_commitment, commitment_impossible, intention_churn, repeated_execution_failure, cost_exceeds_value | volition checks ([volition.md](volition.md)) | warning |
| intention_outlived_goal | an intention is open although its goal is completed or abandoned | the intention is abandoned |
| self_model_mismatch | the self-model's policy for a capability differs from the effective policy | the self-model entry is corrected |
| unsupported_explanation, action_claim_without_record | a reply's reasons or action claims do not match records ([agency.md](agency.md)) | warning and a research measurement |
Each warning is a `metacognition` event with `check` and `ref` metadata; the same check on the same target is not repeated within a day. Warnings appear on the mind overview.