Deterministic Healing & Drift Stabilization

Canon² — Trust Layer Research Archive. Multi-agent ecosystems operating under deterministic ledger constraints inevitably accumulate computational drift. Drift emerges not from hardware malfunction or adversarial interference, but from the inherent mathematical reality that distributed state machines operating across heterogeneous node topologies compound infinitesimal rounding discrepancies, timing variations, and serialization asymmetries across billions of execution cycles. Classical fault-tolerance mechanisms address crash failures and Byzantine deviations through redundancy and voting protocols, yet these techniques assume that correct nodes remain perfectly synchronized indefinitely. In deterministic ecosystems governed by the Lume runtime and the Trust Layer Certificate Fabric, even sub-bit-level drift threatens consensus integrity because every node must produce identical outputs from identical inputs across every execution cycle without exception. I formalize deterministic healing as the architectural mechanism by which distributed multi-agent systems detect, isolate, correct, and certify drift-induced deviations without abandoning execution continuity or compromising certificate provenance chains. Drift-stabilization extends beyond classical error correction by treating deviation as a continuous, measurable state property rather than a binary fail-stop event. Where classical systems either operate correctly or crash, deterministic healing introduces a bounded recovery envelope within which an agent autonomously corrects its internal state geometry, re-derives canonical execution parameters, and re-anchors its identity certificates to the Trust Layer Fabric before re-entering the global consensus pool. I integrate this healing architecture with DAIGS cognitive substrates, Lume-V execution envelopes, SOR biological homeostasis analogues, LDIR multilingual inference semantics, and GUPAS governance pipelines to establish what is, to my knowledge, the first complete healing framework for distributed deterministic ecosystems. The framework preserves identity continuity, provenance integrity, and certificate validity throughout every healing transition, ensuring that healed agents are indistinguishable from agents that never drifted.