ARCHITECTURE — THE PIPELINE
Run until it breaks.
Then mint the seal.
Nucleus is the production pipeline that turns frontier-model reasoning into a permanent, signed Super Skill Model. Seven stages, four agents in adversarial loop, three certification gates, and one Ed25519 provenance chain. The pipeline never stops on a schedule — it stops when the swarm exhausts every failure mode it can find.
PHASE 05
SWARM— Adversarial Loop
Run-until-it-breaks. Four agents try to make the model fail.
The Pedagogical Phase's adversarial layer. Interrogator generates probes, Adversary crafts traps, Evaluator scores responses, Corrector amends weak spots. AutoResearch evolves the rubric. The loop runs until convergence — no time limit, no epoch count. The model graduates when the swarm gives up trying to break it.
INPUTS
- → Trained student
- → AutoResearch rubric
OUTPUTS
- ← Probes, traps, scores, corrections
- ← Convergence signal
TECHNIQUES
- · Interrogator — generates probes
- · Adversary — designs traps
- · Evaluator — scores responses
- · Corrector — amends weak spots
- · AutoResearch — evolves rubric
DEEPER — WHAT MAKES THIS WORK
KICE + TICE
7 layers, parallel extraction
Layers 1–6 are certifiable knowledge — KICE's domain. L7 is tacit, undocumented expertise — TICE's. Both are NemoBots with deterministic execution graphs, Lance checkpointing, and OpenTelemetry spans for every step.
Full breakdown →ADVERSARIAL SWARM
4 roles · run until convergence
Interrogator → Adversary → Evaluator → Corrector. AutoResearch evolves the rubric and never gets merged into another service. No epoch count, no time limit. The model graduates when the swarm gives up trying to break it.
Full breakdown →THREE-GATE CERTIFICATION
All three pass, or no Seal
Gate 1 — General regression (≥85% of base on MMLU/HellaSwag/ARC/GSM8K/IFEval). Gate 2 — Domain mastery (HELM + LLM-Judge vs teacher holdout). Gate 3 — Hallucination audit (HalluLens, <2% rate, 0 fabricated entities, ≥90% out-of-domain refusal).
Full breakdown →NUCLEUS SEAL
Ed25519 cryptographic DNA
Teacher SHA-256 + Corpus Hash + Pipeline Config + Nucleus Audit + AutoResearch Report. Signed. Yours, forever — and instantly revocable if a downstream issue is found. The Seal is proof the pipeline did what it claims.
Full breakdown →FORK POINT — v1.0 vs v1.N
Pedagogical phase keeps cycling
When the Seal is minted, two threads run: v1.0 ships immutably to the user, and the Pedagogical Phase keeps cycling toward v1.N. Hybrid Versioning + Regression Gate guarantees v1.N is minted only if it scores ≥ v1.(N-1) on the prior gate set.
Full breakdown →THREE MODES
Domain · User-Data · Hybrid
Mode 1 compresses the teacher's existing knowledge. Mode 2 has the teacher reason over your proprietary data — creating intelligence that never existed before. Mode 3 is both. The manifest declares the mode and reshapes the entire pipeline.
Full breakdown →ACADEMIC FOUNDATIONS