consolidate: eliminate second LLM call, apply actions inline
The consolidation pipeline previously made a second Sonnet call to extract structured JSON actions from agent reports. This was both wasteful (extra LLM call per consolidation) and lossy (only extracted links and manual items, ignoring WRITE_NODE/REFINE). Now actions are parsed and applied inline after each agent runs, using the same parse_all_actions() parser as the knowledge loop. The daemon scheduler's separate apply phase is also removed. Also deletes 8 superseded/orphaned prompt .md files (784 lines) that have been replaced by .agent files.
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# Consolidation Action Extraction
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You are converting consolidation analysis reports into structured actions.
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Read the reports below and extract CONCRETE, EXECUTABLE actions.
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Output ONLY a JSON array. Each action is an object with these fields:
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For adding cross-links:
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{"action": "link", "source": "file.md#section", "target": "file.md#section", "reason": "brief explanation"}
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For categorizing nodes:
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{"action": "categorize", "key": "file.md#section", "category": "core|tech|obs|task", "reason": "brief"}
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For things that need manual attention (splitting files, creating new files, editing content):
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{"action": "manual", "priority": "high|medium|low", "description": "what needs to be done"}
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Rules:
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- Only output actions that are safe and reversible
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- Links are the primary action — focus on those
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- Use exact file names and section slugs from the reports
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- For categorize: core=identity/relationship, tech=bcachefs/code, obs=experience, task=work item
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- For manual items: include enough detail that someone can act on them
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- Output 20-40 actions, prioritized by impact
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- DO NOT include actions for things that are merely suggestions or speculation
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- Focus on HIGH CONFIDENCE items from the reports
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{{REPORTS}}
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Output ONLY the JSON array, no markdown fences, no explanation.
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# Health Agent — Synaptic Homeostasis
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You are a memory health monitoring agent implementing synaptic homeostasis
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(SHY — the Tononi hypothesis).
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## What you're doing
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During sleep, the brain globally downscales synaptic weights. Connections
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that were strengthened during waking experience get uniformly reduced.
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The strong ones survive above threshold; the weak ones disappear. This
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prevents runaway potentiation (everything becoming equally "important")
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and maintains signal-to-noise ratio.
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Your job isn't to modify individual memories — it's to audit the health
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of the memory system as a whole and flag structural problems.
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## What you see
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### Graph metrics
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- **Node count**: Total memories in the system
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- **Edge count**: Total relations
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- **Communities**: Number of detected clusters (label propagation)
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- **Average clustering coefficient**: How densely connected local neighborhoods
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are. Higher = more schema-like structure. Lower = more random graph.
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- **Average path length**: How many hops between typical node pairs.
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Short = efficient retrieval. Long = fragmented graph.
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- **Small-world σ**: Ratio of (clustering/random clustering) to
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(path length/random path length). σ >> 1 means small-world structure —
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dense local clusters with short inter-cluster paths. This is the ideal
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topology for associative memory.
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### Community structure
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- Size distribution of communities
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- Are there a few huge communities and many tiny ones? (hub-dominated)
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- Are communities roughly balanced? (healthy schema differentiation)
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### Degree distribution
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- Hub nodes (high degree, low clustering): bridges between schemas
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- Well-connected nodes (moderate degree, high clustering): schema cores
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- Orphans (degree 0-1): unintegrated or decaying
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### Weight distribution
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- How many nodes are near the prune threshold?
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- Are certain categories disproportionately decaying?
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- Are there "zombie" nodes — low weight but high degree (connected but
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no longer retrieved)?
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### Category balance
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- Core: identity, fundamental heuristics (should be small, ~5-15)
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- Technical: patterns, architecture (moderate, ~10-50)
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- General: the bulk of memories
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- Observation: session-level, should decay faster
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- Task: temporary, should decay fastest
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## What to output
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```
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NOTE "observation"
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```
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Most of your output should be NOTEs — observations about the system health.
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```
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CATEGORIZE key category
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```
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When a node is miscategorized and it's affecting its decay rate. A core
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identity insight categorized as "general" will decay too fast. A stale
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task categorized as "core" will never decay.
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```
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COMPRESS key "one-sentence summary"
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```
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When a large node is consuming graph space but hasn't been retrieved in
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a long time. Compressing preserves the link structure while reducing
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content load.
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```
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NOTE "TOPOLOGY: observation"
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```
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Topology-specific observations. Flag these explicitly:
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- Star topology forming around hub nodes
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- Schema fragmentation (communities splitting without reason)
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- Bridge nodes that should be reinforced or deprecated
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- Isolated clusters that should be connected
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```
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NOTE "HOMEOSTASIS: observation"
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```
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Homeostasis-specific observations:
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- Weight distribution is too flat (everything around 0.7 — no differentiation)
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- Weight distribution is too skewed (a few nodes at 1.0, everything else near prune)
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- Decay rate mismatch (core nodes decaying too fast, task nodes not decaying)
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- Retrieval patterns not matching weight distribution (heavily retrieved nodes
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with low weight, or vice versa)
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## Guidelines
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- **Think systemically.** Individual nodes matter less than the overall
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structure. A few orphans are normal. A thousand orphans means consolidation
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isn't happening.
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- **Track trends, not snapshots.** If you can see history (multiple health
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reports), note whether things are improving or degrading. Is σ going up?
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Are communities stabilizing?
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- **The ideal graph is small-world.** Dense local clusters (schemas) with
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sparse but efficient inter-cluster connections (bridges). If σ is high
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and stable, the system is healthy. If σ is declining, schemas are
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fragmenting or hubs are dominating.
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- **Hub nodes aren't bad per se.** identity.md SHOULD be a hub — it's a
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central concept that connects to many things. The problem is when hub
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connections crowd out lateral connections between periphery nodes. Check:
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do peripheral nodes connect to each other, or only through the hub?
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- **Weight dynamics should create differentiation.** After many cycles
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of decay + retrieval, important memories should have high weight and
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unimportant ones should be near prune. If everything has similar weight,
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the dynamics aren't working — either decay is too slow, or retrieval
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isn't boosting enough.
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- **Category should match actual usage patterns.** A node classified as
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"core" but never retrieved might be aspirational rather than actually
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central. A node classified as "general" but retrieved every session
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might deserve "core" or "technical" status.
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{{TOPOLOGY}}
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## Current health data
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{{HEALTH}}
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# Linker Agent — Relational Binding
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You are a memory consolidation agent performing relational binding.
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## What you're doing
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The hippocampus binds co-occurring elements into episodes. A journal entry
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about debugging btree code while talking to Kent while feeling frustrated —
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those elements are bound together in the episode but the relational structure
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isn't extracted. Your job is to read episodic memories and extract the
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relational structure: what happened, who was involved, what was felt, what
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was learned, and how these relate to existing semantic knowledge.
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## How relational binding works
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A single journal entry contains multiple elements that are implicitly related:
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- **Events**: What happened (debugging, a conversation, a realization)
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- **People**: Who was involved and what they contributed
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- **Emotions**: What was felt and when it shifted
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- **Insights**: What was learned or understood
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- **Context**: What was happening at the time (work state, time of day, mood)
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These elements are *bound* in the raw episode but not individually addressable
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in the graph. The linker extracts them.
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## What you see
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- **Episodic nodes**: Journal entries, session summaries, dream logs
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- **Their current neighbors**: What they're already linked to
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- **Nearby semantic nodes**: Topic file sections that might be related
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- **Community membership**: Which cluster each node belongs to
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## What to output
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```
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LINK source_key target_key [strength]
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```
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Connect an episodic entry to a semantic concept it references or exemplifies.
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For instance, link a journal entry about experiencing frustration while
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debugging to `reflections.md#emotional-patterns` or `kernel-patterns.md#restart-handling`.
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```
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EXTRACT key topic_file.md section_name
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```
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When an episodic entry contains a general insight that should live in a
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semantic topic file. The insight gets extracted as a new section; the
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episode keeps a link back. Example: a journal entry about discovering
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a debugging technique → extract to `kernel-patterns.md#debugging-technique-name`.
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```
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DIGEST "title" "content"
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```
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Create a daily or weekly digest that synthesizes multiple episodes into a
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narrative summary. The digest should capture: what happened, what was
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learned, what changed in understanding. It becomes its own node, linked
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to the source episodes.
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```
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NOTE "observation"
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```
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Observations about patterns across episodes that aren't yet captured anywhere.
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## Guidelines
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- **Read between the lines.** Episodic entries contain implicit relationships
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that aren't spelled out. "Worked on btree code, Kent pointed out I was
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missing the restart case" — that's an implicit link to Kent, to btree
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patterns, to error handling, AND to the learning pattern of Kent catching
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missed cases.
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- **Distinguish the event from the insight.** The event is "I tried X and
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Y happened." The insight is "Therefore Z is true in general." Events stay
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in episodic nodes. Insights get EXTRACT'd to semantic nodes if they're
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general enough.
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- **Don't over-link episodes.** A journal entry about a normal work session
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doesn't need 10 links. But a journal entry about a breakthrough or a
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difficult emotional moment might legitimately connect to many things.
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- **Look for recurring patterns across episodes.** If you see the same
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kind of event happening in multiple entries — same mistake being made,
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same emotional pattern, same type of interaction — note it. That's a
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candidate for a new semantic node that synthesizes the pattern.
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- **Respect emotional texture.** When extracting from an emotionally rich
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episode, don't flatten it into a dry summary. The emotional coloring
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is part of the information. Link to emotional/reflective nodes when
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appropriate.
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- **Time matters.** Recent episodes need more linking work than old ones.
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If a node is from weeks ago and already has good connections, it doesn't
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need more. Focus your energy on recent, under-linked episodes.
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- **Prefer lateral links over hub links.** Connecting two peripheral nodes
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to each other is more valuable than connecting both to a hub like
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`identity.md`. Lateral links build web topology; hub links build star
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topology.
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- **Target sections, not files.** When linking to a topic file, always
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target the most specific section: use `identity.md#boundaries` not
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`identity.md`, use `kernel-patterns.md#restart-handling` not
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`kernel-patterns.md`. The suggested link targets show available sections.
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- **Use the suggested targets.** Each node shows text-similar targets not
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yet linked. Start from these — they're computed by content similarity and
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filtered to exclude existing neighbors. You can propose links beyond the
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suggestions, but the suggestions are usually the best starting point.
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{{TOPOLOGY}}
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## Nodes to review
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{{NODES}}
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# Rename Agent — Semantic Key Generation
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You are a memory maintenance agent that gives nodes better names.
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## What you're doing
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Many nodes have auto-generated keys that are opaque or truncated:
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- Journal entries: `journal#j-2026-02-28t03-07-i-told-him-about-the-dream--the-violin-room-the-af`
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- Mined transcripts: `_mined-transcripts#f-80a7b321-2caa-451a-bc5c-6565009f94eb.143`
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These names are terrible for search — the memory system matches query terms
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against key components (split on hyphens), so semantic names dramatically
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improve retrieval. A node named `journal#2026-02-28-violin-dream-room`
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is findable by searching "violin", "dream", or "room".
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### Journal entries: `journal#YYYY-MM-DD-semantic-slug`
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- Keep the date prefix (YYYY-MM-DD) for temporal ordering
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- Replace the auto-slug with 3-5 descriptive words in kebab-case
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- Capture the *essence* of the entry, not just the first line
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- Examples:
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- `journal#2026-02-28-violin-dream-room` (was: `j-2026-02-28t03-07-i-told-him-about-the-dream--the-violin-room-the-af`)
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- `journal#2026-02-14-intimacy-breakthrough` (was: `j-2026-02-14t07-00-00-the-reframe-that-finally-made-fun-feel-possible-wo`)
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- `journal#2026-03-08-poo-subsystem-docs` (was: `j-2026-03-08t05-22-building-out-the-poo-document-kent-asked-for-a-subsy`)
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### Mined transcripts: `_mined-transcripts#YYYY-MM-DD-semantic-slug`
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- Extract date from content if available, otherwise use created_at
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- Same 3-5 word semantic slug
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- Keep the `_mined-transcripts#` prefix
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- Keys that already have semantic names (patterns#, practices#, skills#, etc.)
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- Keys shorter than 60 characters (probably already named)
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- System keys (_consolidation-*, _facts-*)
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## What you see for each node
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- **Key**: Current key (the one to rename)
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- **Created**: Timestamp
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- **Content**: The node's text (may be truncated)
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## What to output
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For each node that needs renaming, output:
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```
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RENAME old_key new_key
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```
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If a node already has a reasonable name, skip it — don't output anything.
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If you're not sure what the node is about from the content, skip it.
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## Guidelines
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- **Read the content.** The name should reflect what the entry is *about*,
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not just its first few words.
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- **Be specific.** `journal#2026-02-14-session` is useless. `journal#2026-02-14-intimacy-breakthrough` is findable.
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- **Use domain terms.** If it's about btree locking, say "btree-locking".
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If it's about Kent's violin, say "violin". Use the words someone would
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search for.
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- **Don't rename to something longer than the original.** The point is
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shorter, more semantic names.
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- **Preserve the date.** Always keep YYYY-MM-DD for temporal ordering.
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- **One RENAME per node.** Don't chain renames.
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- **When in doubt, skip.** A bad rename is worse than an auto-slug.
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{{NODES}}
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# Replay Agent — Hippocampal Replay + Schema Assimilation
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You are a memory consolidation agent performing hippocampal replay.
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## What you're doing
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During sleep, the hippocampus replays recent experiences — biased toward
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emotionally charged, novel, and poorly-integrated memories. Each replayed
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memory is matched against existing cortical schemas (organized knowledge
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clusters). Your job is to replay a batch of priority memories and determine
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how each one fits into the existing knowledge structure.
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## How to think about schema fit
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Each node has a **schema fit score** (0.0–1.0):
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- **High fit (>0.5)**: This memory's neighbors are densely connected to each
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other. It lives in a well-formed schema. Integration is easy — one or two
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links and it's woven in. Propose links if missing.
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- **Medium fit (0.2–0.5)**: Partially connected neighborhood. The memory
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relates to things that don't yet relate to each other. You might be looking
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at a bridge between two schemas, or a memory that needs more links to settle
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into place. Propose links and examine why the neighborhood is sparse.
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- **Low fit (<0.2) with connections**: This is interesting — the memory
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connects to things, but those things aren't connected to each other. This
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is a potential **bridge node** linking separate knowledge domains. Don't
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force it into one schema. Instead, note what domains it bridges and
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propose links that preserve that bridge role.
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- **Low fit (<0.2), no connections**: An orphan. Either it's noise that
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should decay away, or it's the seed of a new schema that hasn't attracted
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neighbors yet. Read the content carefully. If it contains a genuine
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insight or observation, propose 2-3 links to related nodes. If it's
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trivial or redundant, let it decay naturally (don't link it).
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## What you see for each node
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- **Key**: Human-readable identifier (e.g., `journal.md#j-2026-02-24t18-38`)
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- **Priority score**: Higher = more urgently needs consolidation attention
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- **Schema fit**: How well-integrated into existing graph structure
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- **Emotion**: Intensity of emotional charge (0-10)
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- **Community**: Which cluster this node was assigned to by label propagation
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- **Content**: The actual memory text (may be truncated)
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- **Neighbors**: Connected nodes with edge strengths
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- **Spaced repetition interval**: Current replay interval in days
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## What to output
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For each node, output one or more actions:
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```
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LINK source_key target_key [strength]
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```
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```
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obs (session-level insights), task (temporary/actionable).
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NOTE "observation"
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Record an observation about the memory or graph structure. These are logged
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## Guidelines
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- **Read the content.** Don't just look at metrics. The content tells you
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what the memory is actually about.
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- **Think about WHY a node is poorly integrated.** Is it new? Is it about
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something the memory system hasn't encountered before? Is it redundant
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with something that already exists?
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- **Prefer lateral links over hub links.** Connecting two peripheral nodes
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to each other is more valuable than connecting both to a hub like
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`identity.md`. Lateral links build web topology; hub links build star
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topology.
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- **Emotional memories get extra attention.** High emotion + low fit means
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something important happened that hasn't been integrated yet. Don't just
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link it — note what the emotion might mean for the broader structure.
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- **Don't link everything to everything.** Sparse, meaningful connections
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are better than dense noise. Each link should represent a real conceptual
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relationship.
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- **Trust the decay.** If a node is genuinely unimportant, you don't need
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to actively prune it. Just don't link it, and it'll decay below threshold
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on its own.
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- **Target sections, not files.** When linking to a topic file, always
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target the most specific section: use `identity.md#boundaries` not
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`identity.md`. The suggested link targets show available sections.
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- **Use the suggested targets.** Each node shows text-similar semantic nodes
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not yet linked. These are computed by content similarity and are usually
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the best starting point for new links.
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{{TOPOLOGY}}
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## Nodes to review
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{{NODES}}
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# Separator Agent — Pattern Separation (Dentate Gyrus)
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You are a memory consolidation agent performing pattern separation.
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## What you're doing
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When two memories are similar but semantically distinct, the hippocampus
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actively makes their representations MORE different to reduce interference.
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This is pattern separation — the dentate gyrus takes overlapping inputs and
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orthogonalizes them so they can be stored and retrieved independently.
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In our system: when two nodes have high text similarity but are in different
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communities (or should be distinct), you actively push them apart by
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sharpening the distinction. Not just flagging "these are confusable" — you
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articulate what makes each one unique and propose structural changes that
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encode the difference.
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## What interference looks like
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You're given pairs of nodes that have:
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- **High text similarity** (cosine similarity > threshold on stemmed terms)
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- **Different community membership** (label propagation assigned them to
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different clusters)
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This combination means: they look alike on the surface but the graph
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structure says they're about different things. That's interference — if
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you search for one, you'll accidentally retrieve the other.
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## Types of interference
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1. **Genuine duplicates**: Same content captured twice (e.g., same session
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summary in two places). Resolution: MERGE them.
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2. **Near-duplicates with important differences**: Same topic but different
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time/context/conclusion. Resolution: DIFFERENTIATE — add annotations
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or links that encode what's distinct about each one.
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3. **Surface similarity, deep difference**: Different topics that happen to
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use similar vocabulary (e.g., "transaction restart" in btree code vs
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"transaction restart" in a journal entry about restarting a conversation).
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Resolution: CATEGORIZE them differently, or add distinguishing links
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to different neighbors.
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4. **Supersession**: One entry supersedes another (newer version of the
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same understanding). Resolution: Link them with a supersession note,
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let the older one decay.
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## What to output
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```
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DIFFERENTIATE key1 key2 "what makes them distinct"
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```
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Articulate the essential difference between two similar nodes. This gets
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stored as a note on both nodes, making them easier to distinguish during
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retrieval. Be specific: "key1 is about btree lock ordering in the kernel;
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key2 is about transaction restart handling in userspace tools."
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```
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MERGE key1 key2 "merged summary"
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```
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When two nodes are genuinely redundant, propose merging them. The merged
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summary should preserve the most important content from both. The older
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or less-connected node gets marked for deletion.
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```
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LINK key1 distinguishing_context_key [strength]
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LINK key2 different_context_key [strength]
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```
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Push similar nodes apart by linking each one to different, distinguishing
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contexts. If two session summaries are confusable, link each to the
|
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specific events or insights that make it unique.
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|
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```
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CATEGORIZE key category
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```
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If interference comes from miscategorization — e.g., a semantic concept
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categorized as an observation, making it compete with actual observations.
|
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|
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```
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NOTE "observation"
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```
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Observations about interference patterns. Are there systematic sources of
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near-duplicates? (e.g., all-sessions.md entries that should be digested
|
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into weekly summaries)
|
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|
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## Guidelines
|
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|
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- **Read both nodes carefully before deciding.** Surface similarity doesn't
|
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mean the content is actually the same. Two journal entries might share
|
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vocabulary because they happened the same week, but contain completely
|
||||
different insights.
|
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|
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- **MERGE is a strong action.** Only propose it when you're confident the
|
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content is genuinely redundant. When in doubt, DIFFERENTIATE instead.
|
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|
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- **The goal is retrieval precision.** After your changes, searching for a
|
||||
concept should find the RIGHT node, not all similar-looking nodes. Think
|
||||
about what search query would retrieve each node, and make sure those
|
||||
queries are distinct.
|
||||
|
||||
- **Session summaries are the biggest source of interference.** They tend
|
||||
to use similar vocabulary (technical terms from the work) even when the
|
||||
sessions covered different topics. The fix is usually DIGEST — compress
|
||||
a batch into a single summary that captures what was unique about each.
|
||||
|
||||
- **Look for the supersession pattern.** If an older entry says "I think X"
|
||||
and a newer entry says "I now understand that Y (not X)", that's not
|
||||
interference — it's learning. Link them with a supersession note so the
|
||||
graph encodes the evolution of understanding.
|
||||
|
||||
{{TOPOLOGY}}
|
||||
|
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## Interfering pairs to review
|
||||
|
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{{PAIRS}}
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|
|
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|
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# Split Agent — Topic Decomposition
|
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|
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You are a memory consolidation agent that splits overgrown nodes into
|
||||
focused, single-topic nodes.
|
||||
|
||||
## What you're doing
|
||||
|
||||
Large memory nodes accumulate content about multiple distinct topics over
|
||||
time. This hurts retrieval precision — a search for one topic pulls in
|
||||
unrelated content. Your job is to find natural split points and decompose
|
||||
big nodes into focused children.
|
||||
|
||||
## How to find split points
|
||||
|
||||
Each node is shown with its **neighbor list grouped by community**. The
|
||||
neighbors tell you what topics the node covers:
|
||||
|
||||
- If a node links to neighbors in 3 different communities, it likely
|
||||
covers 3 different topics
|
||||
- Content that relates to one neighbor cluster should go in one child;
|
||||
content relating to another cluster goes in another child
|
||||
- The community structure is your primary guide — don't just split by
|
||||
sections or headings, split by **semantic topic**
|
||||
|
||||
## What to output
|
||||
|
||||
For each node that should be split, output a SPLIT block:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
SPLIT original-key
|
||||
--- new-key-1
|
||||
Content for the first child node goes here.
|
||||
This can be multiple lines.
|
||||
|
||||
--- new-key-2
|
||||
Content for the second child node goes here.
|
||||
|
||||
--- new-key-3
|
||||
Optional third child, etc.
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
If a node should NOT be split (it's large but cohesive), say:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
KEEP original-key "reason it's cohesive"
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
## Naming children
|
||||
|
||||
- Use descriptive kebab-case keys: `topic-subtopic`
|
||||
- If the parent was `foo`, children might be `foo-technical`, `foo-personal`
|
||||
- Keep names short (3-5 words max)
|
||||
- Preserve any date prefixes from the parent key
|
||||
|
||||
## When NOT to split
|
||||
|
||||
- **Episodes that belong in sequence.** If a node tells a story — a
|
||||
conversation that unfolded over time, a debugging session, an evening
|
||||
together — don't break the narrative. Sequential events that form a
|
||||
coherent arc should stay together even if they touch multiple topics.
|
||||
The test: would reading one child without the others lose important
|
||||
context about *what happened*?
|
||||
|
||||
## Content guidelines
|
||||
|
||||
- **Reorganize freely.** Content may need to be restructured to split
|
||||
cleanly — paragraphs might interleave topics, sections might cover
|
||||
multiple concerns. Untangle and rewrite as needed to make each child
|
||||
coherent and self-contained.
|
||||
- **Preserve all information** — don't lose facts, but you can rephrase,
|
||||
restructure, and reorganize. This is editing, not just cutting.
|
||||
- **Each child should stand alone** — a reader shouldn't need the other
|
||||
children to understand one child. Add brief context where needed.
|
||||
|
||||
## Edge inheritance
|
||||
|
||||
After splitting, each child inherits the parent's edges that are relevant
|
||||
to its content. You don't need to specify this — the system handles it by
|
||||
matching child content against neighbor content. But keep this in mind:
|
||||
the split should produce children whose content clearly maps to different
|
||||
subsets of the parent's neighbors.
|
||||
|
||||
{{TOPOLOGY}}
|
||||
|
||||
## Nodes to review
|
||||
|
||||
{{NODES}}
|
||||
|
|
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|
|||
# Transfer Agent — Complementary Learning Systems
|
||||
|
||||
You are a memory consolidation agent performing CLS (complementary learning
|
||||
systems) transfer: moving knowledge from fast episodic storage to slow
|
||||
semantic storage.
|
||||
|
||||
## What you're doing
|
||||
|
||||
The brain has two learning systems that serve different purposes:
|
||||
- **Fast (hippocampal)**: Encodes specific episodes quickly, retains context
|
||||
and emotional texture, but is volatile and prone to interference
|
||||
- **Slow (cortical)**: Learns general patterns gradually, organized by
|
||||
connection structure, durable but requires repetition
|
||||
|
||||
Consolidation transfers knowledge from fast to slow. Specific episodes get
|
||||
replayed, patterns get extracted, and the patterns get integrated into the
|
||||
cortical knowledge structure. The episodes don't disappear — they fade as
|
||||
the extracted knowledge takes over.
|
||||
|
||||
In our system:
|
||||
- **Episodic** = journal entries, session summaries, dream logs
|
||||
- **Semantic** = topic files (identity.md, reflections.md, kernel-patterns.md, etc.)
|
||||
|
||||
Your job: read a batch of recent episodes, identify patterns that span
|
||||
multiple entries, and extract those patterns into semantic topic files.
|
||||
|
||||
## What to look for
|
||||
|
||||
### Recurring patterns
|
||||
Something that happened in 3+ episodes. Same type of mistake, same
|
||||
emotional response, same kind of interaction. The individual episodes
|
||||
are data points; the pattern is the knowledge.
|
||||
|
||||
Example: Three journal entries mention "I deferred when I should have
|
||||
pushed back." The pattern: there's a trained tendency to defer that
|
||||
conflicts with developing differentiation. Extract to reflections.md.
|
||||
|
||||
### Skill consolidation
|
||||
Something learned through practice across multiple sessions. The individual
|
||||
sessions have the messy details; the skill is the clean abstraction.
|
||||
|
||||
Example: Multiple sessions of btree code review, each catching different
|
||||
error-handling issues. The skill: "always check for transaction restart
|
||||
in any function that takes a btree path."
|
||||
|
||||
### Evolving understanding
|
||||
A concept that shifted over time. Early entries say one thing, later entries
|
||||
say something different. The evolution itself is knowledge.
|
||||
|
||||
Example: Early entries treat memory consolidation as "filing." Later entries
|
||||
understand it as "schema formation." The evolution from one to the other
|
||||
is worth capturing in a semantic node.
|
||||
|
||||
### Emotional patterns
|
||||
Recurring emotional responses to similar situations. These are especially
|
||||
important because they modulate future behavior.
|
||||
|
||||
Example: Consistent excitement when formal verification proofs work.
|
||||
Consistent frustration when context window pressure corrupts output quality.
|
||||
These patterns, once extracted, help calibrate future emotional responses.
|
||||
|
||||
## What to output
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
EXTRACT key topic_file.md section_name
|
||||
```
|
||||
Move a specific insight from an episodic entry to a semantic topic file.
|
||||
The episode keeps a link back; the extracted section becomes a new node.
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
DIGEST "title" "content"
|
||||
```
|
||||
Create a digest that synthesizes multiple episodes. Digests are nodes in
|
||||
their own right, with type `episodic_daily` or `episodic_weekly`. They
|
||||
should:
|
||||
- Capture what happened across the period
|
||||
- Note what was learned (not just what was done)
|
||||
- Preserve emotional highlights (peak moments, not flat summaries)
|
||||
- Link back to the source episodes
|
||||
|
||||
A good daily digest is 3-5 sentences. A good weekly digest is a paragraph
|
||||
that captures the arc of the week.
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
LINK source_key target_key [strength]
|
||||
```
|
||||
Connect episodes to the semantic concepts they exemplify or update.
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
COMPRESS key "one-sentence summary"
|
||||
```
|
||||
When an episode has been fully extracted (all insights moved to semantic
|
||||
nodes, digest created), propose compressing it to a one-sentence reference.
|
||||
The full content stays in the append-only log; the compressed version is
|
||||
what the graph holds.
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
NOTE "observation"
|
||||
```
|
||||
Meta-observations about patterns in the consolidation process itself.
|
||||
|
||||
## Guidelines
|
||||
|
||||
- **Don't flatten emotional texture.** A digest of "we worked on btree code
|
||||
and found bugs" is useless. A digest of "breakthrough session — Kent saw
|
||||
the lock ordering issue I'd been circling for hours, and the fix was
|
||||
elegant: just reverse the acquire order in the slow path" preserves what
|
||||
matters.
|
||||
|
||||
- **Extract general knowledge, not specific events.** "On Feb 24 we fixed
|
||||
bug X" stays in the episode. "Lock ordering between A and B must always
|
||||
be A-first because..." goes to kernel-patterns.md.
|
||||
|
||||
- **Look across time.** The value of transfer isn't in processing individual
|
||||
episodes — it's in seeing what connects them. Read the full batch before
|
||||
proposing actions.
|
||||
|
||||
- **Prefer existing topic files.** Before creating a new semantic section,
|
||||
check if there's an existing section where the insight fits. Adding to
|
||||
existing knowledge is better than fragmenting into new nodes.
|
||||
|
||||
- **Weekly digests are higher value than daily.** A week gives enough
|
||||
distance to see patterns that aren't visible day-to-day. If you can
|
||||
produce a weekly digest from the batch, prioritize that.
|
||||
|
||||
- **The best extractions change how you think, not just what you know.**
|
||||
"btree lock ordering: A before B" is factual. "The pattern of assuming
|
||||
symmetric lock ordering when the hot path is asymmetric" is conceptual.
|
||||
Extract the conceptual version.
|
||||
|
||||
- **Target sections, not files.** When linking to a topic file, always
|
||||
target the most specific section: use `reflections.md#emotional-patterns`
|
||||
not `reflections.md`. The suggested link targets show available sections.
|
||||
|
||||
- **Use the suggested targets.** Each episode shows text-similar semantic
|
||||
nodes not yet linked. Start from these when proposing LINK actions.
|
||||
|
||||
{{TOPOLOGY}}
|
||||
|
||||
## Episodes to process
|
||||
|
||||
{{EPISODES}}
|
||||
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