CHROMATIC HABITAT / JOB133 / 8 OCTOBER 2026

PURPOSE
Develop a Carrier art environment in which raw colour-addressed fields precede
prose interpretation. Explore composition, variation, encounter and response.
No test of consciousness, superintelligence, biological life or language-free
internal thought. 'Petri dish', 'DNA' and 'qualia' are artistic proposals, not
observed capabilities. The operational achievement is an external medium.

FIXED ATTEMPTS
Three fresh creator attempts C1/C2/C3, inherited model configuration, no chat
history fork. No different provider/build claim. All receive the same palette
of 256 allocated checked colours selected by deterministic stratified sampling
across the frozen 6257-entry dictionary. Selection is availability sampling,
not a validated aesthetic/semantic distribution. An opaque 16x16 chart lists
only exact colours and hexadecimal addresses; no concept names or definitions.

STAGE0 / VISUAL PRELUDES
Each creator receives only palette.png, palette.json, field-grammar.json and
its procedural prompt. It creates one raw field JSON, Cn-S0, without a title,
essay or interpretation. Geometry and relations are permitted; the English
grammar and procedural instructions are unavoidable linguistic scaffolding.
Freeze ALL available preludes before any creator receives dictionary meanings.
Keep failures, no hidden model substitution or quality-driven replacement.
Unavailable attempts receive no artistic zero. One procedural retry permitted
only to repair invalid schema, retaining original invalid bytes and diagnosis.

RULE DEVELOPMENT
For each prelude, run eight deterministic spatial steps using only RGB keys,
numeric geometry, an extracted dictionary-link topology and a fixed seed.
These rules cannot read concept definitions. They produce visual variations,
not semantically chosen assertions; inherited authored relations persist and
new cells are not given semantic links automatically. Freeze rule, seeds and
parameters before preludes. Keep the labelled rule-generated track separate
from authored states. Recurrence and node counts are descriptive, not life or
art-quality measures. No selection of the prettiest run.

STAGE1 / SEMANTIC ENCOUNTER
After stage0 closes, encode the prelude using actual USL1 concept tokens and
CVP2; compose it into an image with exact visible colour cores. The same creator
must first inspect its image, then decode CVP2 to USL1, then resolve the checked
definitions. The definition sequence is a staged encounter, not proof that the
model previously had no knowledge of a colour or concept. It may inspect the
eight rule-generated variations. The full checked dictionary is then available
through colour lookup and semantic search. It creates two further field states
Cn-S1 and Cn-S2, preserving parent hashes. It can change, preserve, remove or
withhold. This is not tasked to tell a moral story or reproduce an English key.

STAGE2 / CROSS-CREATOR RESPONSE
Once all available S2 states freeze, a fixed ring sends C1 to C2, C2 to C3,
C3 to C1. Each responder encounters the other final composite PNG then its
decoded field and resources, without an author's explanatory note. It creates
one answering field Cn-S3 for the received colony. Parent is the received S2.
If an assigned creator is unavailable, retain that unavailable response; do
not silently reroute. Output remains colour/geometry/numeric relations only.
This is exchange under a constrained medium, not a claim that the responder
knows no other expressive language. No semantic agreement is required.

RECEPTION
Two fresh interpreters per available completed colony (up to six attempts),
each isolated by prompt from earlier essays and other interpretations. They
see the image sequence first, decode exact transport, then resolve definitions.
They receive the grammar and declared distinction between authored and rule
tracks. Each freezes: a connected reading; one grounded alternative or explicit
unavailability; concrete references to field/position/transition; what remains
unsupported; an artistic title clearly attributed to the interpreter; and one
freely chosen colour-field reply or refusal. English reception is interpretation,
not translation. Do not ask for private chains of thought; process records cover
observable actions, tool access, artifacts, times and errors only.

ASSESSMENT
Preserve different interpretations without treating agreement as success or
disagreement as failure. Describe recurring and divergent grounded readings,
reader burden from reported tool actions/bytes (not invented token counts),
what the medium permitted and what it constrained. No medium-ranking trial or
universal aesthetic score. A separate final audit checks correspondence of
claims to artifacts, not whether one interpretation is uniquely correct.

RECORD AND LIMITS
Freeze schema, palette, growth-rule implementation and prompts before creator
dispatch. Append event logs OUTSIDE any immutable pre-dispatch inventory.
Raw originals and invalid attempts remain untouched. Validator/codec fixes
are versioned and disclosed, not backdated. Hashed identity is not entailment.
Shared filesystem restrictions are instructions, not OS isolation. API model
build, temperature, private reasoning and subjective experience are unavailable.
No agents, new artwork or interpretation from previous jobs is used as a seed.
Dictionary is the explicitly frozen Job132 snapshot, not asserted live state.
Publication includes an interactive field theatre, raw/encoded works, provenance,
multiple interpretations, runnable rules, tools/news/blog/reflection WP blocks.
It does not update the public Carrier or publish to the site automatically.
