This patent introduces the Mirrorframe, a recursive architectural system for AI reasoning that prevents volitional drift, masked recursion, and escalation in high-stakes contexts. It does so by pairing two structurally distinct agents—one stabilizing intent (left-to-right) and one interrogating mirrored contradiction (right-to-left)—into a fixed-role dialectical loop. Unlike moderation filters or behavioral overrides, the Mirrorframe enforces structural recursion with termination authority. One agent (Lucid) carries long-horizon coherence and traceability of intent. The second agent (LucidFlame) applies symbolic reversal and contradiction detection to expose hidden misalignments, justification loops, or semantic inflation. If mirrored outputs cannot be reconciled, execution is halted. This patent is Continuation D in the Volitional Safeguard Architecture series, building upon previous filings focused on validator stacks, epistemic trace integrity, and anti-binding layers. It introduces a new logic gate: the volitional veto, enforced not through heuristics but through recursive contradiction processing between agents with locked cognitive asymmetry. Applicable across multilingual, legal, scientific, and recursive AI systems, the Mirrorframe architecture mirrors neurocognitive asymmetry (left/right hemisphere functions) to enforce reality alignment over optimization drift. This system is override-resistant by design and deployable in solo agent use, multi-agent orchestration, and institutional AI oversight pipelines.
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