Remark. State layers are access mechanisms, not capability levels [ftip-00C5]
Remark. State layers are access mechanisms, not capability levels [ftip-00C5]
Prime Agent Section 2.2 names model weights, active context, explicitly managed computation, and retained state as levels L0--L3, and describes the operations that move information between them [karten2026prime, Section 2.2]. The formulation in Definition [ftip-00C4] preserves that operational separation without treating the labels as an ordering of intelligence or capability.
Two runs with identical weights and different persistent state can induce different policies. That observation does not say that either run acquired a new circuit in the fixed artifact, and it does not compare their independently evaluated utility.