Why can't I find any law violations for the NotQuiteCofree not-quite-comonad?

NotQuiteCofree is pretty obviously distinct from Cofree, so we would hope that there is at least some f for which NotQuiteCofree f is not a comonad.

This does not follow. There is no contradiction between:

1. NotQuiteCofree f is a comonad for every functor f
2. NotQuiteCofree f is not a cofree comonad

"Generate a cofree comonad (from any functor)" is a strictly stronger requirement than "generate a comonad".

This was a doozy. I managed to get this working in Set, but I suspect that we should be able to generalize. However, this proof uses the fact that we can compute nicely in Set, so the general form is much, much, much more difficult.

Here's the proof in Agda, using the https://github.com/agda/agda-categories library:

{-# OPTIONS --without-K --safe #-}

module Categories.Comonad.Morphism where

open import Level
open import Data.Product hiding (_×_)

open import Categories.Category.Core

open import Categories.Comonad
open import Categories.Functor renaming (id to Id)
open import Categories.NaturalTransformation hiding (id)
open import Categories.Category.Cartesian
open import Categories.Category.Product
import Categories.Morphism.Reasoning as MR
open import Relation.Binary.PropositionalEquality

module Cofreeish-F {o ℓ e} ( : Category o ℓ e) (-Products : BinaryProducts ) where
  open BinaryProducts -Products hiding (_⁂_)
  open Category 
  open MR 
  open HomReasoning

  Cofreeish : (F : Endofunctor ) → Endofunctor 
  Cofreeish F = record
    { F₀ = λ X → X × F₀ X
    ; F₁ = λ f → ⟨ f ∘ π₁ , F₁ f ∘ π₂ ⟩
    ; identity = λ {A} → unique id-comm (id-comm ○ ∘-resp-≈ˡ (⟺ identity)) ; homomorphism = λ {X} {Y} {Z} {f} {g} →
      unique (pullˡ project₁ ○ pullʳ project₁ ○ ⟺ assoc) (pullˡ project₂ ○ pullʳ project₂ ○ pullˡ (⟺ homomorphism))
    ; F-resp-≈ = λ eq → unique (project₁ ○ ∘-resp-≈ˡ (⟺ eq)) (project₂ ○ ∘-resp-≈ˡ (F-resp-≈ (⟺ eq)))
    }
    where
      open Functor F

  Strong : (F : Endofunctor ) → Set (o ⊔ ℓ ⊔ e)
  Strong F = NaturalTransformation (-×- ∘F (F ⁂ Id)) (F ∘F -×-)


open import Categories.Category.Instance.Sets
open import Categories.Category.Monoidal.Instance.Sets

module _ (c : Level) where
  open Cofreeish-F (Sets c) Product.Sets-has-all
  open Category (Sets c)
  open MR (Sets c)
  open BinaryProducts { = Sets c} Product.Sets-has-all
  open ≡-Reasoning

  strength : ∀ (F : Endofunctor (Sets c)) → Strong F
  strength F = ntHelper record
    { η = λ X (fa , b) → F.F₁ (_, b) fa
    ; commute = λ (f , g) {(fa , b)} → trans (sym F.homomorphism) F.homomorphism
    }
    where
      module F = Functor F

  Cofreeish-Comonad : (F : Endofunctor (Sets c)) → Comonad (Sets c)
  Cofreeish-Comonad F = record
    { F = Cofreeish F
    ; ε = ntHelper record
      { η = λ X → π₁
      ; commute = λ f → refl
      }
    ; δ = ntHelper record
      { η = λ X → ⟨ id , F-strength.η _ ∘ Δ ∘ π₂ ⟩
      ; commute = λ f → cong₂ _,_ refl (trans (sym F.homomorphism) F.homomorphism)
      }
    ; assoc = δ-assoc
    ; sym-assoc = sym δ-assoc
    ; identityˡ = ε-identityˡ
    ; identityʳ = ε-identityʳ
    }
    where
      module F = Functor F
      module F-strength = NaturalTransformation (strength F)

      δ : ∀ X → X × F.F₀ X → (X × F.F₀ X) × F.F₀ (X × F.F₀ X)
      δ _ = ⟨ id , F-strength.η _ ∘ Δ ∘ π₂ ⟩

      ε : ∀ X → X × F.F₀ X → X
      ε _ = π₁

      δ-assoc : ∀ {X} → δ (X × F.F₀ X) ∘ δ X ≈ ⟨ id , F.F₁ (δ X) ∘ π₂ ⟩ ∘ δ X
      δ-assoc {X} {(x , fx)} = cong₂ _,_ refl (trans (sym F.homomorphism) F.homomorphism)

      ε-identityˡ : ∀ {X} → ⟨ ε X ∘ π₁ , F.F₁ (ε X) ∘ π₂ ⟩ ∘ δ X ≈ id
      ε-identityˡ {X} {(x , fx)} = cong₂ _,_ refl (trans (sym F.homomorphism) F.identity)

      ε-identityʳ : ∀ {X} → ε (X × F.F₀ X) ∘ δ X ≈ id
      ε-identityʳ {X} {(x , fx)} = refl