Universal Cognitive Runtime
Phase XI · V8 — the permanent reasoning layer. Given V7's deterministic memory and CognitiveContext, it produces structured reasoning: hypotheses, insights, contradictions, risks, a confidence model, and goal/priority/action CANDIDATES bundled into an immutable DecisionContext for the future Planner. Every item is evidence-cited; confidence is deterministic; missing memory produces UNKNOWN. It performs the reasoning V7 forbids itself — but mutates nothing, plans nothing, invokes no provider, and executes nothing. Read-only.
The Universal Cognitive Runtime is the permanent reasoning layer of GIOS: every future planner, simulator, autonomous agent, orchestration engine, and strategic runtime inherits this deterministic cognition layer instead of implementing reasoning independently. It consumes V7's memory (the 5 tiers + the knowledge graph + the CognitiveContext) and transforms it into structured reasoning — hypotheses about outcomes and providers, insights summarizing the landscape, explicit contradictions where evidence conflicts, risks derived from denial patterns, a confidence model over every produced item, and goal / priority / action CANDIDATES bundled into an immutable DecisionContext prepared for a future Planner Runtime. It reasons over the structured knowledge graph (edge counts and provider→outcome joins), not by parsing text, so its conclusions are deterministic and reproducible. Every item cites the memory evidence it derives from and carries an explicit, count-derived confidence, so nothing is inferred beyond the available evidence and nothing is hallucinated. Missing memory produces UNKNOWN rather than invention. It never mutates memory, never plans, never invokes a provider, never executes, and never performs a side effect, and it inherits the A0 Intelligence Kernel lifecycle.