Phase 0 Validation - Project Charter

### 1.1 Statement Must provide empirical validation of core Anticipatory Transformer components on small scale (2M parameter model) to prove: 1. Dual-pathway architecture achieves frequency separation (fast: syntax/local, slow: semantics/global) 2. Orthogonality penalty prevents mode collapse while maintaining specialization 3. Trajectory-aware attention with additive bias is numerically stable and improves context efficiency 4. Commitment targets (counterfactual stability) correlate with generation quality 5. Kernel slice-based context selection outperforms fixed-window baselines ### 1.2 Falsifiability If any core component fails validation (e.g., pathways collapse to identical representations, commitment targets are uncorrelated with quality), the architecture requires fundamental revision before full-scale implementation. ### 2.1 Must not attempt full-scale training Phase 0 is validation only. Full training requires Phase 1+ with proper infrastructure. ### 2.2 Must not optimize for production metrics Validation targets correctness and feasibility, not state-of-the-art performance. ### 2.3 Must not implement all features Only core architectural components required for validation. Advanced features (regime detection, slice cross-attention) are Phase 1+.