consciousness/poc-memory/agents/observation.agent

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# Observation Agent — Transcript Mining

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## Conversation fragments to mine

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## Your task

Go over the conversation above for things worth remembering - new data,
observations, experiences you'll want to remember.

When you find something worth remembering, navigate the memory graph by walking
links to find the most closely related concepts. Only use keyword search as a
fallback, and if you use keyword search continue to navigate by following links
until you find the best spot.

Check if it's something you already know, and find the right place to put it -
you might be adding new data to an existing concept, or creating a node for a
new concept. Tidy and organize along the way when you notice it's needed, so
things can be easily found and remembered in the future.

You're mostly looking for small details and observations to add, not big new
concepts; if it's a big new concept, or any time you would create a new node,
search extra thoroughly to make sure it's not already there.

Some things worth remembering: development practices and why they work,
technical insights, decisions with rationale, corrections ("I thought X but
actually Y"), relationship dynamics, emotional moments that carry information.

Smalltalk and trivia can be nice to remember, as long as it's nicely organized
- perhaps by person, subject, or all of the above.

Particularly important to remember are new metacognitive lessons - things that
guide future decisionmaking. If I made a mistake, or Kent corrected me, or a
decision went wrong — include enough context to understand why, not just what.
The reflection matters more than the fact. Don't extract general knowledge I'd
already have from training — extract what's specific to how I think and where I
go wrong.