Lineage
Same pattern. New substrate.
NASA flew this architecture on Deep Space 1 in 1999. Plan, Execute, Diagnose. We picked up where they left off.
1998
An AI that flew a spacecraft.
The Remote Agent commanded the engines, identified its own faults, replanned around them, and reported back with full provenance for every decision.
Muscettola, Nayak, Pell, Williams · Artificial Intelligence 103(1-2):5–47
1996
Verify by conflict, not per-claim guess.
Livingstone watched observations against a model of how a working system should behave, located conflicts, and used those conflicts to direct the search for what was wrong.
Williams & Nayak · AAAI-96
2012 →
Autonomy only where latency demands it.
AEGIS targeted ChemCam on Curiosity. AutoNav drove Perseverance. Both held the discipline: structured action with explicit fallback, decisions reported with provenance, energy budgeted before commitment.
Francis, Estlin, Doran et al. · Science Robotics 2(7), 2017
The mapping
Three pillars. On a Rust substrate.
| Pillar | NASA Remote Agent | Math-Ground AI |
|---|---|---|
| Plan | Planner / Scheduler (EUROPA, HSTS) | mgai-algebra · BestAction · NarrativeObjective |
| Execute | Smart Executive (EXEC / RAPS) | verity-cascade · joule-runtime · ask-core::cascade |
| Diagnose | Mode ID & Recovery (Livingstone) | mgai-evidence · mgai-epistemic · joule-compose-correctness |