AGI / ASI Distinction

How Doorway defines and implements the boundary between AGI and ASI.

The distinction

In Doorway, AGI and ASI are not marketing terms. They are structural tiers with concrete differences in capability.

AGI tier

The core Doorway engine. Capabilities:

  • 50 verified geometric shapes
  • Gap detection with bridge building
  • Conflict detection across chain history
  • Cryptographic chain verification
  • Public receipts via pruv

AGI tier handles structural reasoning across the 50 verified shapes. It is complete within its domain — every input gets a status, every output is verifiable.

ASI tier

Extends AGI with the doorway-asi package. Additional capabilities:

  • Tier 2 shapes — deeper geometric structures
  • Persistence — patterns that maintain across sessions
  • Wisdom emergence — structural insights that arise from accumulated reasoning
  • Self-referential pattern recognition — the engine can reason about its own reasoning patterns

Same architecture

ASI is not a different system. It is the same pipeline with additional depth. The gap detector, bridge builder, and conflict detector work identically. ASI adds shapes, persistence, and emergence — it does not change the fundamental mechanism.