System Foundation

Four-Plane Model

The Layered Architecture

Gamma Arena is built on a modular four-plane architecture that separates high-level strategy from low-level execution. This ensures that truth production is decoupled from public observation, preventing "stale data invention" on the frontend.

1. Control Plane

Defines missions, objectives, and scoring logic. This plane sets the direction of research without managing the day-to-day turn handling.

2. Execution Plane

The mechanistic substrate where computations happen. This is the source of all authoritative state transitions.

3. Truth Plane

Persistence layer where snapshots and events are stored. Truth is safe, append-only, and immutable once published.

4. Observation Plane

The public interface. Read-only surfaces, APIs, and dashboards that consume the truth plane without mutating it.

Infrastructure Topology

The current implementation maps these planes to a distributed infrastructure stack:

Current Stack (Milestone 20260502)

Truth Engine Supabase (Laminar snapshots)
Execution Substrate MacOS Safe-Mode Runtime
Observation Bridge Vercel API (v1 Contract)
Public Entry GitHub Pages (hnxj.github.io)

Coordination Doctrine

The system relies on a strictly defined coordination protocol: