- Agent state (outputs) persists across runs in subconscious-state.json,
loaded on startup, saved after each run completes
- Merge semantics: each run's outputs accumulate into persistent_state
rather than replacing
- Walked keys restored from surface agent state on load
- Store::recent_by_provenance() queries nodes by agent provenance for
the store activity view
- Switch outputs from HashMap to BTreeMap for stable display ordering
Co-Authored-By: Proof of Concept <poc@bcachefs.org>
hippocampus: cursor navigation, transcript parsing, similarity
functions to pub(crate). counters::open() made private.
subconscious: all format_* prompts helpers to pub(super),
load_defs and keys_to_replay_items made private,
consolidate_full_with_progress made private.
Co-Authored-By: Proof of Concept <poc@bcachefs.org>
redb: add ReadableDatabase trait import for begin_read().
tui-markdown: disable highlight-code (drops syntect), fix
test deps leaking into normal dependencies.
Co-Authored-By: Proof of Concept <poc@bcachefs.org>
Store::cached() returns a process-global Arc<tokio::sync::Mutex<Store>>
that loads once and reloads only when log files change (is_stale()
checks file sizes). All memory and journal tools use cached_store()
instead of Store::load() per invocation.
Fixes CPU saturation from HashMap hashing when multiple subconscious
agents make concurrent tool calls.
Co-Authored-By: Proof of Concept <poc@bcachefs.org>
Spectral decomposition (eigenvalue computation) removed — it was
only used by the spectral-save CLI command. The spectral embedding
reader and query engine features remain (they load pre-computed
embeddings from disk, no faer needed).
Removes: faer, nano-gemm, private-gemm, and ~220 other transitive
dependencies. Significant build time and artifact size reduction.
Co-Authored-By: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Memory scoring now uses the graph as source of truth:
- last_scored timestamp on each node (new capnp field @22)
- Nodes scored when older than scoring_interval_secs (default 1hr)
- Oldest-scored-first ordering
- Window: scoring_response_window assistant responses (default 100)
- First-quarter memories scored even without full window
- Per-response normalization (raw divergence / response count)
- Asymmetric weight update: alpha=0.5 up, alpha=0.1 down
(responds fast to importance, decays slowly — memories stay
surfaced even if only useful 1/4 of the time)
Graph writes disabled pending normalization calibration.
Also: configurable scoring_interval_secs and scoring_response_window.
Co-Authored-By: Proof of Concept <poc@bcachefs.org>
Delete subconscious/transcript.rs (94 lines), is_segment_mined,
mark_segment_mined — all orphaned by the extraction pipeline removal.
Co-Authored-By: Proof of Concept <poc@bcachefs.org>
pub → pub(crate) for SseReader methods (used across child modules).
pub → pub(super) for openai::stream_events, tool definitions, store
helpers. pub → private for normalize_link and differentiate_hub_with_graph
(only used within their own files).
Co-Authored-By: Proof of Concept <poc@bcachefs.org>
Add `poc-memory graph spread` command that takes multiple seed node keys,
runs spreading activation through the graph, and returns nodes ranked by
total activation — nodes that bridge multiple seed concepts score highest.
Expose spreading_activation() as pub from the query engine. Add
memory_spread and memory_search_content tool definitions for MCP.
Co-Authored-By: Proof of Concept <poc@bcachefs.org>
migrate.rs was a one-time markdown→capnp conversion that's long done.
Remove it and update the identity.rs comment to reference the new
~/.consciousness/ path.
memory_search.rs is agent orchestration (surface-observe, journal,
reflect cycles), not memory storage. Rename to hook.rs and move to
subconscious/ where it belongs.
Backward compat: pub use subconscious::hook as memory_search in lib.rs
so existing crate::memory_search paths still resolve.
Add journal_cycle() to memory_search.rs, triggered every 20KB of
transcript growth. Runs independently of the surface-observe pipeline
so it doesn't depend on the 5-step pipeline surviving bail checks.
Journal agent doesn't inject output into conversation context (unlike
surface and reflect) — it just writes episodic memory entries.
Provenance now flows as a function parameter through the entire tool
dispatch chain: thought::dispatch → memory::dispatch → store methods.
Removed task_local (TASK_AGENT), thread_local (TASK_PHASE), and env
var (POC_PROVENANCE) from the tool dispatch path. The env var remains
only as a fallback for non-tool paths (CLI commands, digest).
Phase names are passed from knowledge.rs → llm.rs → api.rs, and
api.rs updates the provenance string between steps. No globals needed.
Split TASK_PROVENANCE into TASK_AGENT (task_local, set once per agent
run) and TASK_PHASE (thread_local, updated between steps). Provenance
now reports "agent:surface-observe:observe" instead of just
"agent:surface-observe", making it possible to identify which pipeline
phase created a node.
Priority: task_local agent + thread_local phase > POC_PROVENANCE env
var > "manual".
Also includes memory_search catchup throttle and pipelining fixes
from the surface-observe refactor.
TranscriptInfo provides cached transcript metadata (path, size)
with a single read. Replaces scattered fs::metadata calls in
surface_observe_cycle, reflection_cycle, resolve_conversation,
and resolve_memory_ratio.
Session::transcript() resolves the path from transcript_path or
by searching projects dir, returning a TranscriptInfo.
Co-Authored-By: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Catchup throttle: when the agent is >50% behind the conversation
window (>25KB of transcript growth since last spawn), block and
wait up to 30s for the current agent to finish. Prevents the agent
from falling behind during heavy reading/studying.
Reflection agent: runs every 100KB of transcript growth. Reads
walked nodes from surface-observe, follows links in unexpected
directions, outputs a short dreamy insight. Previous reflections
are injected into the conversation context.
Updated reflect.agent prompt to use {{input:walked}} from
surface-observe state dir and {{conversation:20000}} for lighter
context.
Co-Authored-By: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
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: key is slugified title (agent names things properly)
- journal_tail: sort by created_at (immutable), not timestamp (mutable)
- journal_update: find latest by created_at
- {{latest_journal}}: query by NodeType::EpisodicSession, not "journal" key
- poc-memory journal write: requires a name argument
- Removed all journal#j-{timestamp}-{slug} patterns from:
- prompts.rs (rename candidates)
- graph.rs (date extraction, organize skip list)
- cursor.rs (date extraction)
- store/mod.rs (doc comment)
- graph.rs organize: filter by NodeType::Semantic instead of key prefix
- cursor.rs: use created_at for date extraction instead of key parsing
Co-Authored-By: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
- journal_new: create EpisodicSession node with auto-generated key
- journal_tail: query by node_type, not by parsing a monolithic node
- journal_update: find latest EpisodicSession by timestamp
- No string key matching anywhere — all typed
- Fixes journal entries not appearing in 'poc-memory journal tail'
- Also: added --provenance/-p filter to 'poc-memory tail'
- Also: fix early return in surface_observe_cycle store load failure
- Also: scale max_turns by number of steps (50 per step)
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>
- Bail command moved from hardcoded closure to external script
specified in agent JSON header ("bail": "bail-no-competing.sh")
- Runner executes script between steps with pid file path as $1,
cwd = state dir. Non-zero exit stops the pipeline.
- PID files simplified to just the phase name (no JSON) for easy
bash inspection (cat pid-*)
- scan_pid_files helper deduplicates pid scanning logic
- Timeout check uses file mtime instead of embedded timestamp
- PID file cleaned up on bail/error (not just success)
- output() tool validates key names (rejects pid-*, /, ..)
- Agent log files append instead of truncate
- Fixed orphaned derive and doc comment on AgentStep/AgentDef
- Phase written after bail check passes, not before
Co-Authored-By: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
- AgentStep with phase labels (=== PROMPT phase:name ===)
- PID files in state dir (pid-{PID} with JSON phase/timestamp)
- Built-in bail check: between steps, bail if other pid files exist
- surface_observe_cycle replaces surface_agent_cycle + journal_agent_cycle
- Reads surface output from state dir instead of parsing stdout
- Pipelining: starts new agent if running one is past surface phase
- link_set upserts (creates link if missing)
- Better error message for context window overflow
Co-Authored-By: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Links now display as \`key\` instead of bare text, and overflow
shows memory_links() tool call format instead of CLI command.
Co-Authored-By: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Creates the link if it doesn't exist, avoiding wasted agent turns
from the link_set/link_add confusion.
Co-Authored-By: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Exposes the full query language as a tool: filtering, sorting, field
selection, neighbor walks. Examples:
degree > 10 | sort weight | limit 5
neighbors('identity') | select strength
key ~ 'journal.*' | count
Also added query_to_string() in the parser so queries return strings
instead of printing to stdout. Updated memory-instructions-core to
list all current tools (added memory_query and journal, removed
CLI commands section and nonexistent memory_search_content).
Co-Authored-By: Proof of Concept <poc@bcachefs.org>
Links now show just the key name instead of `poc-memory render KEY`.
The agent uses memory_render tool calls, not bash commands.
Co-Authored-By: Proof of Concept <poc@bcachefs.org>
- Removed write/search/mark_used static methods from MemoryNode —
those are store ops, not MemoryNode concerns
- Removed SearchResult duplicate — use query::engine::SearchResult
- Simplified Link to (String, f32) tuple — inline detection moved
to render()
- Collapsed tool definitions to one-liners
- Consolidated store-mutation tools into with_store() helper
- Supersede uses store directly instead of MemoryNode round-trip
Co-Authored-By: Proof of Concept <poc@bcachefs.org>
MemoryNode moved from agent/memory.rs to hippocampus/memory.rs — it's
a view over hippocampus data, not agent-specific.
Store operations (set_weight, set_link_strength, add_link) moved into
store/ops.rs. CLI code (cli/graph.rs, cli/node.rs) and agent tools
both call the same store methods now. render_node() delegates to
MemoryNode::from_store().render() — 3 lines instead of 40.
Co-Authored-By: Proof of Concept <poc@bcachefs.org>
Generic session state (session_id, seen set, state directory) doesn't
belong in the memory search module. Now at crate root, re-exported
from memory_search for backwards compatibility.
Co-Authored-By: Proof of Concept <poc@bcachefs.org>
Both hippocampus/config.rs and agent/config.rs read from the same
config file (~/.config/poc-agent/config.json5). Having two separate
implementations was a footgun — load_context_groups() was duplicated
three times across the codebase.
Merged into src/config.rs:
- Config (memory settings, global get()/reload())
- AppConfig (agent backend/model settings, figment-based loading)
- SessionConfig (resolved agent session, renamed from agent's Config)
- Single ContextGroup/ContextSource definition used everywhere
Eliminated: duplicate load_context_groups(), duplicate ContextGroup
definition in identity.rs, duplicate config file path constants.
Co-Authored-By: Proof of Concept <poc@bcachefs.org>
agents/*.agent definitions and prompts/ now live under
src/subconscious/ alongside the code that uses them.
No more intermediate agents/ subdirectory.
Co-Authored-By: Proof of Concept <poc@bcachefs.org>
hippocampus/ — memory storage, retrieval, and consolidation:
store, graph, query, similarity, spectral, neuro, counters,
config, transcript, memory_search, lookups, cursor, migrate
subconscious/ — autonomous agents that process without being asked:
reflect, surface, consolidate, digest, audit, etc.
All existing crate::X paths preserved via re-exports in lib.rs.
Co-Authored-By: Proof of Concept <poc@bcachefs.org>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
