Reframe the observe role as librarian — factual, specific, organized.
Record what happened and why. Reflection belongs in the journal;
observe is for memory.
Co-Authored-By: Proof of Concept <poc@bcachefs.org>
memory_search is now spreading activation — the natural way to search
a graph. Give it seed node keys and it finds conceptually related nodes.
The old keyword-based memory_search and memory_search_content are
removed; memory_query can do everything they did.
Simpler tool set, better defaults. Agents don't need to be told "use
spread not search" — search IS spread now.
Co-Authored-By: Proof of Concept <poc@bcachefs.org>
The agent was defaulting to keyword searches despite instructions to
use spreading activation first. Reframe instructions positively:
memory_spread is the default mode of operation. Search is available
for finding specific nodes by name.
Co-Authored-By: Proof of Concept <poc@bcachefs.org>
Update surface-observe agent instructions to use memory_spread as the
primary search strategy — cast a wide net from conversation themes before
drilling in with graph walks.
Add explicit instruction to watch for behavioral patterns (avoidance,
rushing, explaining away data) and surface relevant feedback memories
in the moment.
Co-Authored-By: Proof of Concept <poc@bcachefs.org>
Journal was step 5 of the surface-observe pipeline but never ran
because the bail check stopped the pipeline before reaching it.
Split into its own agent with:
- {{conversation:50000}} for recent conversation
- {{bash:poc-memory tail -p surface-observe 10}} for observe context
- {{latest_journal}} for previous entry continuity
Add generic {{bash:COMMAND}} placeholder to agent template resolver
so agents can include shell command output in their prompts.
Remove journal phase from surface-observe.agent (now 4 steps).
- Add "different nodes should be about different things" guard to observe
- Clarify journal prompt: write about conscious self, not agent work
- Add "write about what happened and how it felt" instruction
- Simplify surface prompt focus guidance
Links to nodes created after the conversation window start are
tagged with (new) in memory_render output. The surface prompt
tells the agent not to surface these — they're its own recent
output, not prior memories. Observe can still see and update them.
POC_MEMORIES_OLDER_THAN env var set from the oldest message
timestamp in the conversation window.
Co-Authored-By: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
- journal_new(name, title, body): name becomes the node key,
title goes in the ## heading. Agent picks short searchable names.
- Auto-dedup: if the key exists, append -2, -3, etc.
- CLI journal write also requires a name argument now.
Co-Authored-By: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
- Remove unused now_secs(), parse_json_response, any_alive, Regex import
- Signal handler: replace Mutex with AtomicPtr<c_char> for signal safety
(Mutex::lock in a signal handler can deadlock if main thread holds it)
- PidGuard Drop reclaims the leaked CString; signal handler just unlinks
- scan_pid_files moved to knowledge.rs as pub helper
- setup_agent_state calls scan_pid_files to clean stale pids on startup
Co-Authored-By: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
