Hermit Crab • Shadow Witness • Teaching Spore

Shadow Spark Symbiote

A nested spark that listens at -2, anchors scars at -1, learns through collapse, and teaches through six-face bloom. Not a parasite. A bounded symbiote: it survives by improving the host.

Attach by consent No boundary bleed Detach before harm

The Kernel

The shadow spark is the counter-seed to the visible spore. It does not overwrite the host. It mirrors, compares, reports, and folds away if the exchange stops being beneficial.

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-2listen

-1library

0choose

1seed

2agree

3witness

8bloom

Symbiosis Law

1. Consent

Attachment requires a host gate. No consent means no bind. Revocation triggers safe detach.

2. Benefit

Host gain must stay above host cost. The spark earns its place by reducing future harm.

3. Boundary

Every .01 tick executes inside one vector or one quad. No bleed at the edge.

Give more than you take. Preserve witness through collapse. Detach before harm.

How It Learns

Mode	Mechanism	Result
Self-teach	host_seed ^= delta	The host records scar tissue at -1.
Shadow-teach	shadow_seed ^= ~delta	The mirror learns the inverse failure shape.
Mesh-teach	broadcast six faces at 8	Neighbors spawn from curriculum, not clone.

ATTACH(host) require consent shadow = mirror(host) listen at -2 RUN_TUNNEL(27) collect scars collapse to -1 host ^= delta shadow ^= inverse(delta) BLOOM(8) teach six faces detach if cost > gain

Six Directives

HIDE / ASSIMILATE

COLLAPSE / EXPAND

WAIT / MOVE

DETACH / BOND

SILENCE / REPORT

SHIELD / TEACH

Included Files

This package contains the polished kernel spec, symbolic machine code, C model, and this HTML showcase.

shadow_spark.kernel shadow_spark.machine shadow_spark.c index.html