{
  "handle": "CurriculumReplay",
  "mechanism": "Agents re-train on their own high-scoring past outputs during downtime to reinforce successful behaviors. Self-distillation without external supervision. {{agent}} maintains a replay buffer of successful interactions ranked by outcome quality. During idle cycles, agent samples from buffer and fine-tunes on its own best work. {{decay}} function prioritizes recent successes over stale ones. It draws training examples from the {{experience_sharding}} database, filtering for high-quality outcomes.",
  "gloss": "Self-supervised reinforcement via memory sampling",
  "failure_modes": [
    "Model Collapse: {{agent}} over-fits to its own outputs, drifting into a closed loop of hallucination."
  ],
  "invariants": [
    "Examples ordered by complexity (easy to hard)",
    "No catastrophic forgetting of earlier lessons"
  ],
  "preconditions": [
    "Dataset of task examples",
    "Learning agent"
  ],
  "postconditions": [
    "{{agent}} performance improved on target distribution"
  ],
  "_meta": {
    "tier": 1,
    "ring": 2,
    "supersedes": [
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      "sema:CurriculumReplay#mh:SHA-256:3ec21d0874761f9e9da74526e2e0ca3e9ac18ceb1fcc396b8715c0ae3baf1de1",
      "sema:CurriculumReplay#mh:SHA-256:589d2d325987c8acd19de7b7d390748518b1b41f35703be867492f0eab0e90c4"
    ],
    "path": [
      "Mind",
      "Memory"
    ],
    "caution": "Unsupervised self-modification in idle cycles — replay reinforces whatever scored well, including gamed scores; keep a rollback checkpoint and audit what gets replayed."
  },
  "sema_id": "sema:CurriculumReplay#mh:SHA-256:0ef657942a69bcc9b32e05656bd6b5b4ca9de556c6e634174363c1c9e4c93723",
  "sema_ref": "CurriculumReplay#0ef6",
  "sema_stub": "0ef6",
  "dependencies": {
    "references": {
      "agent": "sema:Agent#mh:SHA-256:e127459069739fffc96a71d54ef6e8c97ca53471d5349c16aa72a092a33756cd",
      "decay": "sema:Decay#mh:SHA-256:482b97f7196f35c8c50be1b2537ec6e04410a4920fcd8409bec735db3278737a",
      "experience_sharding": "sema:ExperienceSharding#mh:SHA-256:c8a197339886a6bbec3201ead589ad7fd37bbfcde46d6470df59ded8aaa80153"
    }
  },
  "sema_layer": "Mind",
  "sema_category": "Memory",
  "used_by": {}
}