Floor-Specified No-Meta Autonomy

This paper presents an implementation-ready specification for no-meta autonomy: autonomous controllers that must operate without any privileged external overseer, using only their own observables under partial/late/missing records and potential adversarial contamination. Rather than hard-coding a single definition of “good,” the work defines auditable observable-only invariants that make harmful behavior harder to sustain and easier to detect, recover from, and constrain. The core specification is expressed as four enforceable floors—Visibility, Contraction, Contact, and Dissipation—computed from certified logs and bounded indicators. A concrete protocol, the Self-Recognition Kernel (SRK), enforces these…