Overview
The Refactoring Coordinator Agent operates as an L3 Strategic Command authority within the Prismatic Platform, providing formal mathematical guarantees of refactoring safety through five core Lean4 theorems. While the refactor-specialist executes code transformations and the refactor-specialist-coordinator manages refactoring campaigns, this agent provides the highest assurance level: mathematical proof that refactoring transformations preserve program semantics. The AIAD standard governs its specification and operational boundaries, ensuring interoperability with the broader agent ecosystem.
The distinction between testing and proof is critical for understanding this agent's role. Testing demonstrates that a refactoring preserves behavior for specific input cases. Formal verification proves that the refactoring preserves behavior for all possible inputs. In a platform where code evolution is continuous and the codebase spans thousands of modules, mathematical guarantees prevent the accumulation of subtle behavioral changes that testing alone might miss. This agent transforms refactoring from a risk-managed activity into a formally guaranteed operation.
Built on the AIAD standard and integrated with the SEADF evolutionary framework, this agent treats refactoring safety as a formal property that can be stated as a theorem and verified through proof construction. The five core theorems define the mathematical invariants that must hold across any valid refactoring transformation, providing a framework within which the platform's code can evolve with proven safety. The NABLA Infinity epistemic framework ensures that verification claims carry the highest confidence level achievable through formal methods.
Architecture
The verification engine is implemented as a supervised OTP process that manages proof obligations, coordinates with the Lean4 proof assistant, and maintains proof artifact caches for incremental verification.
defmodule PrismaticVerification.RefactoringCoordinator do
@moduledoc """
Formal verification coordinator for refactoring safety,
managing Lean4 proof obligations across five core theorems.
"""
use GenServer
alias PrismaticVerification.{ProofEngine, ObligationGenerator, TheoremRegistry}
@type verification_result :: %{
theorem: atom(),
status: :proven | :failed | :timeout,
proof_artifact: binary() | nil,
confidence: float()
}
@spec verify_refactoring(map(), keyword()) :: {:ok, [verification_result()]} | {:error, term()}
def verify_refactoring(transformation, opts \\ []) do
with {:ok, obligations} <- ObligationGenerator.generate(transformation),
{:ok, results} <- ProofEngine.verify_all(obligations, opts) do
{:ok, results}
end
end
@impl true
def handle_call({:verify, transformation}, _from, state) do
result = verify_refactoring(transformation)
{:reply, result, state}
end
endKey Capabilities
- Formal refactoring verification -- Constructs Lean4 proofs that refactoring transformations satisfy the five core safety theorems, providing mathematical guarantees of behavior preservation across all possible inputs
- Proof obligation generation -- Automatically generates the proof obligations that must be discharged for a given refactoring transformation, reducing the manual effort required for formal verification
- Counterexample discovery -- When proof construction fails, identifies specific inputs or conditions that would cause the refactoring to violate safety properties, providing actionable feedback for transformation correction
- Incremental proof management -- Maintains proof artifacts across refactoring sequences, leveraging Theorem 5 (Compositional Safety) to avoid re-proving properties of previously verified transformations
- Confidence level integration -- Translates formal verification results into the platform's confidence framework, assigning maximum confidence (1.0) to formally verified refactoring claims
- SEADF evolution verification -- Verifies that platform evolutionary changes satisfy the five theorems, ensuring that autonomous evolution does not introduce behavioral regressions
- Autonomous operation with automated proof obligation generation and verification for incoming refactoring requests
- Telemetry integration for proof construction performance monitoring and verification coverage tracking
Authority Level
L3 - Strategic Command - Multi-domain coordination with authority to certify or reject refactoring transformations based on formal verification results, and to require additional verification for transformations that fail automated proof construction. The L3 designation reflects the cross-cutting nature of refactoring verification, which affects code across multiple domains and requires coordination with both the refactoring pipeline and the quality gate infrastructure.
Command Interface
| Command | Description | Authority |
|---|---|---|
/verify refactoring | Submit a refactoring transformation for formal verification against the five theorems | L3+ |
/verify status | Display current verification queue and proof construction progress | L3+ |
/verify report | Generate formal verification report for a completed verification | L3+ |
/verify theorem <id> | Check the status and proof artifact for a specific theorem | L3+ |
Coordination
| Agent | Relationship |
|---|---|
| refactor-specialist | Submits refactoring transformations for formal verification |
| refactor-specialist-coordinator | Campaign-level refactoring plans require verification of composed transformations |
| white-invariant-prover | Shares formal proof infrastructure and Lean4 proof strategies |
| reasoning-coordinator | Formal verification results feed into the reasoning system's formal paradigm |
| systematic-verifier | Verification pipeline consumes proof results for quality gate decisions |
Enforcement
Formal verification is held to the NO MERCY doctrine: proof obligations are not relaxed, verification shortcuts are not permitted, and partially verified transformations are flagged with explicit limitation disclosures. The NO DOUBTS principle mandates that all verification claims carry mathematical proof, not merely empirical confidence. The Trinity Gate treats formal verification as the highest-assurance input to its formal necessity gate, and the NABLA Infinity framework ensures that verification results satisfy provenance mandatory requirements with complete traceability from claim to proof artifact.
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Created by Tomáš Korcak (korczis) | Open Source under GHL