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>
- Remove is_split special case in daemon — split now goes through
job_consolidation_agent like all other agents
- call_for_def uses API whenever api_base_url is configured, regardless
of tools field (was requiring non-empty tools to use API)
- Remove "tools" field from all .agent files — memory tools are always
provided by the API layer, not configured per-agent
- Add prompt size guard: reject prompts over 800KB (~200K tokens) with
clear error instead of hitting the model's context limit
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
linker: sort:isolation*0.7+recency(linker)*0.3
Prioritizes nodes in isolated communities that haven't been linked
recently. Bridges poorly-connected clusters into the main graph.
organize: sort:degree*0.5+isolation*0.3+recency(organize)*0.2
Prioritizes high-degree hubs in isolated clusters that haven't been
organized recently. Structural work where it matters most.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move poc-agent (substrate-independent AI agent framework) into the
memory workspace as a step toward using its API client for direct
LLM calls instead of shelling out to claude CLI.
Agent prompt improvements:
- distill: rewrite from hub-focused to knowledge-flow-focused.
Now walks upward from seed nodes to find and refine topic nodes,
instead of only maintaining high-degree hubs.
- distill: remove "don't touch journal entries" restriction
- memory-instructions-core: add "Make it alive" section — write
with creativity and emotional texture, not spreadsheet summaries
- memory-instructions-core: add "Show your reasoning" section —
agents must explain decisions, especially when they do nothing
- linker: already had emotional texture guidance (kept as-is)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
All 12 agents with WRITE_NODE/REFINE/END_NODE output format blocks
now rely on tool calls (poc-memory write/link-add/etc) via the
Bash(poc-memory:*) tool. Guidelines preserved, format sections removed.
Also changed linker query from type:episodic to all nodes — it was
missing semantic nodes entirely, which is why skills-bcachefs-* nodes
were never getting linked to their hubs.
All 17 agents now include {{node:core-personality}} and
{{node:memory-instructions-core}} instead of duplicating tool
blocks and graph walk instructions in each file. Stripped
duplicated tool/navigation sections from linker, organize,
distill, and evaluate. All agents now have Bash(poc-memory:*)
tool access for graph walking.
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>
Tell linker and organize agents to:
- Name unnamed concepts: when 3+ nodes share a theme with no hub,
create one with WRITE_NODE that synthesizes the generalization
- Percolate up: gather key insights from children into hub content,
so the hub is self-contained without needing to follow every link
This addresses the gap where agents are good at extraction and linking
but not synthesis — turning episodic observations into semantic concepts.
Co-Authored-By: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Remove all the quoting instructions, warnings about shell comments,
and "CRITICAL" blocks about single quotes. Keys are plain dashes now.
Agent tool examples are clean and minimal.
Co-Authored-By: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Linker: give it Bash(poc-memory:*) tools so it can render nodes,
query neighbors, and search before creating. Adds search-before-create
discipline to reduce redundant node creation.
Organize: remove MERGE operation, make DELETE conservative (only true
duplicates or garbage). Add "Preserve diversity" rule — multiple nodes
on similar topics are features, not bugs. LINK is primary operation.
Co-Authored-By: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Three places duplicated the agent execution loop (build prompt → call
LLM → store output → parse actions → record visits): consolidate.rs,
knowledge.rs, and daemon.rs. Extract into run_one_agent() in
knowledge.rs that all three now call.
Also standardize consolidation agent prompts to use WRITE_NODE/LINK/REFINE
— the same commands the parser handles. Previously agents output
CATEGORIZE/NOTE/EXTRACT/DIGEST/DIFFERENTIATE/MERGE/COMPRESS which were
silently dropped after the second-LLM-call removal.
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>
