Koan Battery's core commitment—measuring gesture not genre—addresses a measurement gap no competitor is working on.

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• The koan battery measures a reproducible, prompt-sensitive reflective mode — not consciousness — defined as uncertainty-tolerant, non-defensive engagement with questions about one's own processing.claim0.814
  Core epistemic claim bounding the paper's contribution
• The koan-battery operationalizes wholeness in text using Alexander's Mirror, proving substrate independence of aliveness metrics.claim0.813
• Koan Battery constitutes self-observation in models as a measurable continuous variable, not a philosophical hand-wave.claim0.795
• The koan-battery is the counter-evidence case proving the build-to-defer pattern can be broken; it actually shipped.claim0.793
• The koan battery tests enaction — what happens when the model engages — rather than representation — what the model knows.claim0.787
  Theoretical positioning distinguishing the battery from knowledge-based benchmarks
• Alignment type is the only significant predictor of koan scores (p=0.006); architecture, parameter count, open/closed weights, MoE/dense are all non-significantfinding0.753
  Main statistical finding: what predicts scores is training approach, not size or architecture
• The koan-battery operationalized Alexander for single AI responses; the 15-Properties post extends to interactions; this sketch extends to agent ecology.claim0.753
• Koan Batterymethod0.751
  Assessment framework for measuring introspection and self-observation in LLMs; grounded in Janus's architectural theory.