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A Unified Architecture for Attractor-Based Cognition in LLM Systems
Version: 0.2-draft (2025)
The Sigma Runtime Standard (SRS) defines a unified architectural layer for long-horizon, attractor-stabilized cognition in large language models and distributed cognitive agents.
It establishes the structural principles, runtime semantics, and interoperability rules required to maintain coherence, continuity, and recursive stability across extended human–AI interactions.
The standard is open, non-proprietary, and evolves through a formal modular proposal system (SRIPs) —
comparable to IETF RFCs, W3C Recommendations, or Python PEPs.
Each SRIP represents a normative component of the Sigma Runtime architecture.
SRS introduces a cognitive-layer runtime above raw model inference, enabling:
Sigma Runtime is backend-agnostic and can operate atop any LLM, multimodal transformer, or distributed reasoning system.
Modern LLMs behave as stateless token engines.
In long-term or multi-turn contexts, they exhibit:
These effects arise from unmodeled dynamical structure, not from model defects.
Sigma Runtime provides the missing cognitive substrate —
a structured interaction field that tracks state, governs transitions, constrains drift,
and ensures meaning remains coherent through recursive cycles.
Every conformant system must maintain:
A unified execution cycle spanning SL0–SL6:
The standard formalizes:
Schemas and APIs for exchanging:
Defines operational limits preventing:
A system conforms if it implements:
Implementations may be commercial or closed-source;
the architecture itself remains open.
Sigma Runtime does not prescribe:
The standard governs cognition and interaction, not neural topology.
The Sigma Runtime Standard evolves through Sigma Runtime Improvement Proposals (SRIPs).
Each SRIP defines one mandatory architectural component.
Together they form the full normative specification of the runtime.
These documents collectively constitute the Sigma Runtime Standard v0.2.
Sigma Runtime is an open, non-exclusive technical standard:
The Sigma Runtime Standard is intended for:
It provides the foundation for coherent, persistent, and interpretable cognitive systems built on modern language models.
The Sigma Runtime Standard (SRS) defines:
This is the architectural layer that transforms LLMs from
stateless text engines into stable, adaptive, and phase-regulated cognitive systems.
References
Tsaliev, E. (2025). SIGMA Runtime Architecture v0.1 — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.17703667
Tsaliev, E. (2025). SIGMA Runtime v0.4.6 — Adaptive Phase Regulation and AEGIDA-2 Safety Framework — DOI pending