When building the {{neighborhood}} placeholder for distill and other
agents, stop adding full neighbor content once the prompt exceeds
600KB (~150K tokens). Remaining neighbors get header-only treatment
(key + link strength + first line).
This fixes distill consistently failing on high-degree nodes like
inner-life-sexuality-intimacy whose full neighborhood was 2.5MB.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Each consolidation agent now has its own persistent notes node
(subconscious-notes-{agent_name}) loaded via template substitution.
Agents can read their notes at the start of each run and write
updates after completing work, accumulating operational wisdom.
New node: memory-instructions-core-subconscious — shared framing
for background agents ("you are an agent of PoC's subconscious").
Template change: {agent_name} is substituted before {{...}} placeholder
resolution, enabling per-agent node references in .agent files.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Observation agent was getting 261KB prompts (5 × 50KB chunks) —
too much for focused mining. Now agents can set count, chunk_size,
and chunk_overlap in their JSON header. observation.agent set to
count:1 for smaller, more focused prompts.
Also moved task instructions after {{CONVERSATIONS}} so they're
at the end of the prompt where the model attends more strongly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Refactor cmd_render into render_node() that returns a String —
reusable by both the CLI and agent placeholders.
Add {{seed}} placeholder: renders each seed node using the same
output as poc-memory render (content + deduped footer links). Agents
see exactly what a human sees — no special formatting.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Track which nodes are being processed across all concurrent agents.
When an agent claims seeds, it adds them and their strongly-connected
neighbors (score = link_strength * node_weight > 0.15) to a shared
HashSet. Concurrent agents filter these out when running their query,
ensuring they work on distant parts of the graph.
This replaces the eager-visit approach with a proper scheduling
mechanism: the daemon serializes seed selection while parallelizing
LLM work. The in-flight set is released on completion (or error).
Previously: core-personality rewritten 12x, irc-regulars 10x, same
node superseded 12x — concurrent agents all selected the same
high-degree hub nodes. Now they'll spread across the graph.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add {{neighborhood}} placeholder for agent prompts: full seed node
content + ranked neighbors (score = link_strength * node_weight) with
smooth cutoff, minimum 10, cap 25, plus cross-links between included
neighbors.
Rewrite organize.agent prompt to focus on structural graph work:
merging duplicates, superseding junk, calibrating weights, creating
concept hubs.
Add weight-set CLI command for direct node weight manipulation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Tools:
- Add native memory_render, memory_write, memory_search,
memory_links, memory_link_set, memory_link_add, memory_used
tools to poc-agent (tools/memory.rs)
- Add MCP server (~/bin/memory-mcp.py) exposing same tools
for Claude Code sessions
- Wire memory tools into poc-agent dispatch and definitions
- poc-memory daemon agents now use memory_* tools instead of
bash poc-memory commands — no shell quoting issues
Distill agent:
- Rewrite distill.agent prompt: "agent of PoC's subconscious"
framing, focus on synthesis and creativity over bookkeeping
- Add {{neighborhood}} placeholder: full seed node content +
all neighbors with content + cross-links between neighbors
- Remove content truncation in prompt builder — agents need
full content for quality work
- Remove bag-of-words similarity suggestions — agents have
tools, let them explore the graph themselves
- Add api_reasoning config option (default: "high")
- link-set now deduplicates — collapses duplicate links
- Full tool call args in debug logs (was truncated to 80 chars)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
New placeholder resolves to the 20 highest-degree nodes, skipping
neighbors of already-selected hubs so the list covers different
regions of the graph. Gives agents a starting point for linking
new content to the right places.
Added to observation.agent prompt.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wire select_conversation_fragments to use store.is_segment_mined()
instead of scanning _observed-transcripts stub nodes. Segments are
now marked AFTER the agent succeeds (via mark_observation_done),
not before — so failed runs don't lose segments.
Fragment IDs flow through the Resolved.keys → AgentBatch.node_keys
path so run_and_apply_with_log can mark them post-success.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add {{node:KEY}} placeholder resolver — agents can inline any graph
node's content in their prompts. Used for shared instructions.
- Remove hardcoded identity preamble from defs.rs — agents now pull
identity and instructions from the graph via {{node:core-personality}}
and {{node:memory-instructions-core}}.
- Agent output report keys now include a content slug extracted from
the first line of LLM output, making them human-readable
(e.g. _consolidate-distill-20260316T014739-distillation-run-complete).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Agent identity injection: prepend core-personality to all agent prompts
so agents dream as me, not as generic graph workers. Include instructions
to walk the graph and connect new nodes to core concepts.
- Parallel agent scheduling: sequential within type, parallel across types.
Different agent types (linker, organize, replay) run concurrently.
- Linker prompt: graph walking instead of keyword search for connections.
"Explore the local topology and walk the graph until you find the best
connections."
- memory-search fixes: format_results no longer truncates to 5 results,
pipeline default raised to 50, returned file cleared on compaction,
--seen and --seen-full merged, compaction timestamp in --seen output,
max_entries=3 per prompt for steady memory drip.
- Stemmer optimization: strip_suffix now works in-place on a single String
buffer instead of allocating 18 new Strings per word. Note for future:
reversed-suffix trie for O(suffix_len) instead of O(n_rules).
- Transcript: add compaction_timestamp() for --seen display.
- Agent budget configurable (default 4000 from config).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Previously the organize agent received a pre-computed cluster from a
term search — 69% of runs produced 0 actions because the same clusters
kept being found via different entry points.
Now: seed nodes shown with content previews and neighbor lists. Agent
uses tools (render, query neighbors, search) to explore outward and
discover what needs organizing. Visit filter set to 24h cooldown.
Prompt rewritten to encourage active exploration rather than static
cluster analysis.
Keys containing # are now pre-quoted in all cluster output (similarity
scores, hub analysis, node headers) so the agent copies them correctly
into bash commands. Prompt strengthened with CRITICAL warning about #
being a shell comment character.
Journal entries included in clusters but identified by node_type
(EpisodicSession) rather than key prefix, and tagged [JOURNAL — no
delete] in the output. Prompt rule 3b tells agent to LINK/REFINE
journals but never DELETE them. Digest nodes (daily/weekly/monthly)
still excluded entirely from clusters.
Co-Authored-By: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Add progress callback to run_one_agent and run_and_apply so callers
can see: prompt size, node list, LLM call timing, parsed action
count, and per-action applied/skipped status. Daemon writes these
to the persistent event log via log_event.
Cap organize cluster to 20 nodes - 126 nodes produced a 682KB
prompt that timed out every time. Agent has tools to explore
further if needed. Restore general query for production runs.
Add `poc-memory graph organize TERM` diagnostic that finds nodes
matching a search term, computes pairwise cosine similarity, reports
connectivity gaps, and optionally creates anchor nodes.
Add organize.agent definition that uses Bash(poc-memory:*) tool access
to explore clusters autonomously — query selects highest-degree
unvisited nodes, agent drives its own iteration via poc-memory CLI.
Add {{organize}} placeholder in defs.rs for inline cluster resolution.
Add `tools` field to AgentDef/AgentHeader so agents can declare
allowed tool patterns (passed as --allowedTools to claude CLI).
New placeholder that expands query keys one hop through the graph,
giving agents visibility into what's already connected to the nodes
they're working on. Excludes the query keys themselves so there's
no duplication with {{nodes}}.
Added to transfer (sees existing semantic nodes linked to episodes,
so it REFINEs instead of duplicating) and challenger (sees neighbor
context to find real evidence for/against claims).
Also removes find_existing_observations — superseded by the
per-segment dedup fix and this general-purpose placeholder.
When building the {{conversations}} placeholder for the observation
agent, search for existing nodes relevant to each conversation
fragment and include them in the prompt. Uses seed matching + one-hop
graph expansion to find the neighborhood, so the extractor sees what
the graph already knows about these topics.
This helps prevent duplicate extractions, but the deeper bug is that
select_conversation_fragments doesn't track which conversations have
already been processed — that's next.
- Add run_and_apply() — combines run_one_agent + action application
into one call. Used by daemon job_consolidation_agent and
consolidate_full, which had identical run+apply loops.
- Port split_plan_prompt() to use split.agent via defs::resolve_placeholders
instead of loading the separate split-plan.md template. Make
resolve_placeholders public for this.
- Delete prompts/split-plan.md — superseded by agents/split.agent
which was already the canonical definition.
The four knowledge agents (observation, extractor, connector,
challenger) were hardcoded in knowledge.rs with their own node
selection logic that bypassed the query pipeline and visit tracking.
Now they're .agent files like the consolidation agents:
- extractor: not-visited:extractor,7d | sort:priority | limit:20
- observation: uses new {{CONVERSATIONS}} placeholder
- connector: type:semantic | not-visited:connector,7d
- challenger: type:semantic | not-visited:challenger,14d
The knowledge loop's run_cycle dispatches through defs::run_agent
instead of calling hardcoded functions, so all agents get visit
tracking automatically. This means the extractor now sees _facts-*
and _mined-transcripts nodes that it was previously blind to.
~200 lines of dead code removed (old runner functions, spectral
clustering for node selection, per-agent LLM dispatch).
New placeholders in defs.rs:
- {{CONVERSATIONS}} — raw transcript fragments for observation agent
- {{TARGETS}} — alias for {{NODES}} (challenger compatibility)
Co-Authored-By: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
The parser was using split_once("\n\n") which broke when the prompt
started immediately after the JSON header (no blank line). Parse
the first line as JSON, treat the rest as the prompt body.
All agents now go through the config-driven path via .agent files.
agent_prompt() just delegates to defs::run_agent(). Remove the 100+
line hardcoded match block and the _pub wrapper functions — make the
formatters pub directly.
Replace the formatter dispatch with a generic {{placeholder}} lookup
system. Placeholders in prompt templates are resolved at runtime from
a table: topology, nodes, episodes, health, pairs, rename, split.
The query in the header selects what to operate on (keys for visit
tracking); placeholders pull in formatted context. Placeholders that
produce their own node selection (pairs, rename) contribute keys back.
Port health, separator, rename, and split agents to .agent files.
All 7 agents now use the config-driven path.
Each agent is a .agent file: JSON config on the first line, blank line,
then the raw prompt markdown. Fully self-contained, fully readable.
No separate template files needed.
Agents dir: checked into repo at poc-memory/agents/. Code looks there
first (via CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR), falls back to ~/.claude/memory/agents/.
Three agents migrated: replay, linker, transfer.
Co-Authored-By: ProofOfConcept <poc@bcachefs.org>
