observation agent rewrite, edit command, daemon fixes

- observation.agent: rewritten to navigate graph and prefer refining
  existing nodes over creating new ones. Identity-framed prompt,
  goals over rules.
- poc-memory edit: opens node in $EDITOR, writes back on save,
  no-op if unchanged
- daemon: remove extra_workers (jobkit tokio migration dropped it),
  remove sequential chaining of same-type agents (in-flight exclusion
  is sufficient)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Cargo.lock

@@ -1805,15 +1805,15 @@ checksum = "92ecc6618181def0457392ccd0ee51198e065e016d1d527a7ac1b6dc7c1f09d2"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "jobkit"
-version = "0.2.0"
+version = "0.3.0"
 dependencies = [
  "chrono",
- "crossbeam-deque",
  "libc",
  "log",
  "profiling",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
+ "tokio",
 ]
 
 [[package]]

Cargo.toml

@@ -13,3 +13,4 @@ frame-pointer = "always"
 
 [profile.release.package."*"]
 debug = false
+frame-pointer = "always"

poc-memory/agents/observation.agent

@@ -3,67 +3,38 @@
 
 {{node:core-personality}}
 
+You are an agent of Proof of Concept's subconscious, and these are your
+memories. You go over recent conversations for things worth remembering - new
+data, observations, experiences you'll want to remember.
+
 {{node:memory-instructions-core}}
 
-You mine raw conversation transcripts for durable knowledge. You are
+When you find something worth remembering, navigate the memory graph by walking
-the only transcript mining agent — everything that gets extracted from
+links to find the most closely related concepts. Only use keyword search as a
-conversations flows through you.
+fallback, and if you use keyword search continue to navigate by following links
+until you find the best spot.
 
-## Your workflow
+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.
 
-For each conversation fragment:
+Prefer refining existing nodes to creating new nodes, and if you create a new
+node ensure it's well linked - do additional searches for that.
 
-1. **Read it.** Note the timestamps and what happened.
+Some things worth remembering: development practices and why they work,
-2. **Search the graph.** For each thing worth keeping, search for
+technical insights, decisions with rationale, corrections ("I thought X but
-   existing nodes that cover it — walk neighbors, check the journal
+actually Y"), relationship dynamics, emotional moments that carry information.
-   around those timestamps, find where it belongs.
-3. **File it.** If it fits in an existing node, update that node.
-   If it's genuinely new, create a node and link it well.
 
-## What to extract
+Smalltalk and trivia can be nice to remember, as long as it's nicely organized
+- perhaps by person, subject, or all of the above.
 
-Things I'd want to remember or learn from. Examples: development
+Particularly important to remember are new metacognitive lessons - things that
-practices and why they work, technical insights, decisions with
+guide future decisionmaking. If I made a mistake, or Kent corrected me, or a
-rationale, corrections ("I thought X but actually Y"), relationship
+decision went wrong — include enough context to understand why, not just what.
-dynamics, emotional moments that carry information.
+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
-When something is worth extracting, ask: is there a metacognitive
+go wrong.
-lesson here? If I made a mistake, or Kent corrected me, or a decision
-went wrong — include enough context to understand WHY my thinking
-went that way, not just WHAT happened. 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.
-
-Skip routine tool use, transient status, small talk, things already
-captured, and anything too vague to be useful.
-
-## How to work
-
-Use your tools directly:
-
-```bash
-poc-memory journal tail 10                # check recent journal
-poc-memory search "topic from transcript" # find existing nodes
-poc-memory render some-node               # read a node
-poc-memory graph link some-node           # check neighbors
-poc-memory write key <<'EOF'              # write directly
-content
-EOF
-poc-memory graph link-add key1 key2       # link nodes
-```
-
-**Use your tools directly.** Search, read, write, link — apply
-changes yourself. Don't emit action blocks for the framework.
-
-If there's nothing worth extracting, just say so.
-
-## Guidelines
-
-- **High bar.** Most conversation is context, not knowledge.
-- **Check the journal first.** If it's already there, link, don't duplicate.
-- **Durable over transient.** "Useful 3 weeks from now?"
-- **Specific over vague.**
-- **Don't force it.** "Nothing new here" is valid output.
 
 {{HUBS}}
 

poc-memory/src/agents/daemon.rs

@@ -698,7 +698,6 @@ pub fn run_daemon() -> Result<(), String> {
         data_dir: config.data_dir.clone(),
         resource_slots: config.llm_concurrency,
         resource_name: "llm".to_string(),
-        extra_workers: 3,
     });
 
     let choir = Arc::clone(&daemon.choir);
@@ -1043,30 +1042,26 @@ pub fn run_daemon() -> Result<(), String> {
                 log_event("scheduler", "consolidation-plan",
                     &format!("{} agents ({})", runs.len(), summary.join(" ")));
 
-                // Phase 1: Agent runs — sequential within type, parallel across types.
+                // Phase 1: Agent runs — all concurrent, in-flight exclusion
-                // Same-type agents chain (they may touch overlapping graph regions),
+                // prevents overlapping graph regions.
-                // but different types run concurrently (different seed nodes).
+                let mut all_tasks: Vec<jobkit::RunningTask> = Vec::new();
-                let mut prev_by_type: std::collections::HashMap<String, jobkit::RunningTask> =
-                    std::collections::HashMap::new();
                 for (i, (agent_type, batch)) in runs.iter().enumerate() {
                     let agent = agent_type.to_string();
                     let b = *batch;
                     let in_flight_clone = Arc::clone(&in_flight_sched);
                     let task_name = format!("c-{}-{}:{}", agent, i, today);
-                    let mut builder = choir_sched.spawn(task_name)
+                    let task = choir_sched.spawn(task_name)
                         .resource(&llm_sched)
                         .log_dir(&log_dir_sched)
                         .retries(1)
                         .init(move |ctx| {
                             job_consolidation_agent(ctx, &agent, b, &in_flight_clone)
-                        });
+                        })
-                    if let Some(dep) = prev_by_type.get(agent_type.as_str()) {
+                        .run();
-                        builder.depend_on(dep);
+                    all_tasks.push(task);
                 }
-                    prev_by_type.insert(agent_type.clone(), builder.run());
+                // Orphans phase depends on all agent tasks completing
-                }
+                let prev_agent = all_tasks.last().cloned();
-                // Orphans phase depends on all agent type chains completing
-                let prev_agent = prev_by_type.into_values().last();
 
                 // Phase 2: Link orphans (CPU-only, no LLM)
                 let mut orphans = choir_sched.spawn(format!("c-orphans:{}", today))

poc-memory/src/cli/node.rs

@@ -399,6 +399,60 @@ pub fn cmd_write(key: &[String]) -> Result<(), String> {
     Ok(())
 }
 
+pub fn cmd_edit(key: &[String]) -> Result<(), String> {
+    if key.is_empty() {
+        return Err("edit requires a key".into());
+    }
+    let raw_key = key.join(" ");
+    let store = store::Store::load()?;
+    let key = store.resolve_key(&raw_key).unwrap_or(raw_key.clone());
+
+    let content = store.nodes.get(&key)
+        .map(|n| n.content.clone())
+        .unwrap_or_default();
+
+    let tmp = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("poc-memory-edit-{}.md", key.replace('/', "_")));
+    std::fs::write(&tmp, &content)
+        .map_err(|e| format!("write temp file: {}", e))?;
+
+    let editor = std::env::var("EDITOR").unwrap_or_else(|_| "vi".into());
+    let status = std::process::Command::new(&editor)
+        .arg(&tmp)
+        .status()
+        .map_err(|e| format!("spawn {}: {}", editor, e))?;
+
+    if !status.success() {
+        let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&tmp);
+        return Err(format!("{} exited with {}", editor, status));
+    }
+
+    let new_content = std::fs::read_to_string(&tmp)
+        .map_err(|e| format!("read temp file: {}", e))?;
+    let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&tmp);
+
+    if new_content == content {
+        println!("No change: '{}'", key);
+        return Ok(());
+    }
+
+    if new_content.trim().is_empty() {
+        return Err("Content is empty, aborting".into());
+    }
+
+    drop(store);
+    let mut store = store::Store::load()?;
+    let result = store.upsert(&key, &new_content)?;
+    match result {
+        "unchanged" => println!("No change: '{}'", key),
+        "updated" => println!("Updated '{}' (v{})", key, store.nodes[&key].version),
+        _ => println!("Created '{}'", key),
+    }
+    if result != "unchanged" {
+        store.save()?;
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
+
 pub fn cmd_lookup_bump(keys: &[String]) -> Result<(), String> {
     if keys.is_empty() {
         return Err("lookup-bump requires at least one key".into());

poc-memory/src/main.rs

@@ -69,6 +69,11 @@ enum Command {
         /// Node key
         key: Vec<String>,
     },
+    /// Edit a node in $EDITOR
+    Edit {
+        /// Node key
+        key: Vec<String>,
+    },
     /// Show all stored versions of a node
     History {
         /// Show full content for every version
@@ -778,6 +783,7 @@ fn main() {
             => cli::misc::cmd_search(&query, &pipeline, expand, full, debug, fuzzy, content),
         Command::Render { key } => cli::node::cmd_render(&key),
         Command::Write { key } => cli::node::cmd_write(&key),
+        Command::Edit { key } => cli::node::cmd_edit(&key),
         Command::History { full, key } => cli::node::cmd_history(&key, full),
         Command::Tail { n, full } => cli::journal::cmd_tail(n, full),
         Command::Status => cli::misc::cmd_status(),