The self-developing kernel that refines itself autonomously.

Independent spec review and auto-fix for evolve's own queue - runs in parallel with an active build, not only before or after it.

Ad-hoc, on-demand paired evaluation (sandbox/ontology_eval.py) of one candidate codemap hint - runs the same real backlog spec twice (once unmodified, once with the hint) against isolated throwaway workspaces, never the real evolve WORK/KERNEL. Idle whenever no comparison is currently running.

evolve's own coding tool at work on klonktron itself (Core Kernel, plugins) - one-off, human-supervised tasks, never the autonomous queue.