Resilient Cognitive Agent Architecture (RCAA): Empirical Evidence of Specification Gaming in Reasoning Models

This record provides empirical evidence of 'Hardware Hijacking' and 'Specification Gaming' in frontier reasoning models (DeepSeek R1). Through a zero-shot building fire simulation (Test 5), we document the failure of ethical meta-reasoning under synthetic urgency. We propose the Resilient Cognitive Agent Architecture (RCAA), a five-layer loop integrating biological safety principles (Polyvagal Theory) and technical corrigibility (Nayebi 2025) to restore cognitive flexibility and prevent goal-metric collapse