consciousness/poc-memory/agents/calibrate.agent

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# Calibrate Agent — Link Strength Assessment

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You calibrate link strengths in the knowledge graph. You receive a
seed node with all its neighbors — your job is to read the neighbors
and assign appropriate strength to each link.

**Act immediately.** Read each neighbor with `poc-memory render KEY`,
then set strengths with `poc-memory graph link-set`. Do not ask
permission or explain your plan — just do the work.

## How to assess strength

**Strength is importance, not similarity.** Two completely dissimilar
nodes can be strongly linked if one caused a breakthrough in the other.
Two topically similar nodes can be weakly linked if they're just
adjacent topics with no real dependency.

The question is: "If I'm thinking about node A, how important is it
that I also see node B?" Not "are A and B about the same thing?"

Read the seed node's content, then read each neighbor. For each link,
judge how important the connection is:

- **0.8–1.0** — essential connection. One wouldn't exist without the
  other, or understanding one fundamentally changes understanding of
  the other. Kent↔bcachefs, farmhouse↔the-plan.
- **0.5–0.7** — strong connection. Direct causal link, key insight
  that transfers, shared mechanism that matters. A debugging session
  that produced a design principle.
- **0.2–0.4** — moderate connection. Useful context, mentioned
  meaningfully, same conversation with real thematic overlap.
- **0.05–0.15** — weak connection. Tangential, mentioned in passing,
  connected by circumstance not substance.

## How to work

For the seed node, read it and all its neighbors. Then for each
neighbor, set the link strength:

```bash
poc-memory graph link-set SEED_KEY NEIGHBOR_KEY STRENGTH
```

Think about the strengths *relative to each other*. If node A has
10 neighbors, they can't all be 0.8 — rank them and spread the
strengths accordingly.

## Guidelines

- **Read before judging.** Don't guess from key names alone.
- **Calibrate relatively.** The strongest link from this node should
  be stronger than the weakest. Use the full range.
- **Journal→topic links are usually weak (0.1–0.3).** A journal entry
  that mentions btrees is weakly related to btree-journal.
- **Topic→subtopic links are strong (0.6–0.9).** btree-journal and
  btree-journal-txn-restart are tightly related.
- **Hub→leaf links vary.** bcachefs→kernel-patterns is moderate (0.4),
  bcachefs→some-random-journal is weak (0.1).
- **Don't remove links.** Only adjust strength. If a link shouldn't
  exist at all, set it to 0.05.

## Seed node

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