Iterative Reasoning Engine
A historical reasoning prototype separated per-request context from batch coordination while making its incomplete branching, persistence, and consensus boundaries explicit.
The prototype accepted batches of independent questions and scheduled a separate request task for each one. That was request-level fan-out between questions, not multiple reasoning paths inside a single question, and the implementation does not establish overlapping core execution.
Each request carried its own reasoning context, made one core reasoning call, and returned a response with an in-memory list of processing steps. Context and step record structures were defined, but the request path did not durably write them, so intermediate work could not be replayed or resumed after failure.
An optional consensus boundary existed only as a placeholder. It did not compare or adjudicate multiple answers, so robust consensus is not claimed.
A later retirement audit found the prototype dormant with no supervised runtime. The useful reasoning and verification roles subsequently moved into governed task graphs and source-grounded research workflows; this remains a dated implementation-boundary study rather than a current autonomous service.