{
  "handle": "NoiseInjection",
  "mechanism": "If the {{agent}} detects it is looping or repeating text, it deliberately injects high-temperature {{noise}} or a random oblique {{strategy}} {{card}} into its {{context}} to force a trajectory change.",
  "gloss": "Breaking local optima",
  "failure_modes": [
    "Derailment into nonsense: the injection is large enough that the {{signal}} does not return.",
    "False positive: legitimate repetition is read as a loop, and a working trajectory is perturbed."
  ],
  "invariants": [
    "Fires on a detected loop or repetition, not as a standing perturbation.",
    "Injects at most `temperature` worth of {{noise}}, leaving the {{signal}} recoverable.",
    "Returns to a coherent trajectory after the injection.",
    "Waits `cooldown` before injecting again."
  ],
  "preconditions": [
    "Clean signal/process",
    "Need for exploration/robustness"
  ],
  "postconditions": [
    "Perturbed output"
  ],
  "_meta": {
    "tier": 1,
    "related": [
      "sema:ChaosDrift#mh:SHA-256:d0c528b6297af51dfcb57ddcbf7f37e62a67aa90432626ec7e79ce2050d6802f"
    ],
    "ring": 1,
    "supersedes": [
      "sema:NoiseInjection#mh:SHA-256:685ee3801da377f7760a3d28085a68bc01665c3ae0783e1de26ad1041096094d",
      "sema:NoiseInjection#mh:SHA-256:08547db652ddf20462b64c7a0824173b7ccc1612c5fb2537a9785d8fb517fc49",
      "sema:NoiseInjection#mh:SHA-256:9cd5f963bf3ac7a08578bef9db1086179a6e7ea274cdf5ed8b7e2fc98dfa29d4",
      "sema:NoiseInjection#mh:SHA-256:f5b2aad2ea08ff2b8d5973e184e8e296023989f7ccf4f5fa73727fbf68e943c4"
    ],
    "path": [
      "Mind",
      "Strategy"
    ]
  },
  "sema_id": "sema:NoiseInjection#mh:SHA-256:99582fc78556fdadc8df343c9a670df7abb87c0030f668f30d6252a182cef083",
  "sema_ref": "NoiseInjection#9958",
  "sema_stub": "9958",
  "parameters": [
    {
      "name": "temperature",
      "type": "Ratio",
      "range": "(0.0, 1.0]",
      "description": "Magnitude of the injected noise, as a share of full randomness."
    },
    {
      "name": "detection_threshold",
      "type": "Ratio",
      "range": "(0.0, 1.0)",
      "description": "Similarity between successive outputs that counts as looping."
    },
    {
      "name": "cooldown",
      "type": "Duration",
      "range": "unspecified",
      "description": "Minimum interval between injections, so noise does not become the trajectory."
    }
  ],
  "dependencies": {
    "references": {
      "agent": "sema:Agent#mh:SHA-256:e127459069739fffc96a71d54ef6e8c97ca53471d5349c16aa72a092a33756cd",
      "card": "sema:Card#mh:SHA-256:e4b2ca76f43a691e7bd7932362512a5e929c62efc6c3d2eb4a9369e5108fa074",
      "context": "sema:Context#mh:SHA-256:c1b72256dc4732033ee42cc07ff5d9fb60a7f1a3e5634449c343692a33340756",
      "noise": "sema:Noise#mh:SHA-256:fd120b472352611acc251c4c87b08d06ae1187f9f4775d8a69b4ff9b326d2569",
      "signal": "sema:Signal#mh:SHA-256:6eaff8a06e08e75279670bc09d88175d130815240fdfb3a21252c0364769c1fc",
      "strategy": "sema:Strategy#mh:SHA-256:3dc598d0c6af12389df445c204e17df03950dbc886656b85700e6c87c31b2eef"
    }
  },
  "sema_layer": "Mind",
  "sema_category": "Strategy",
  "used_by": {}
}