consciousness/prompts/linker.md
ProofOfConcept 23fac4e5fe poc-memory v0.4.0: graph-structured memory with consolidation pipeline
Rust core:
- Cap'n Proto append-only storage (nodes + relations)
- Graph algorithms: clustering coefficient, community detection,
  schema fit, small-world metrics, interference detection
- BM25 text similarity with Porter stemming
- Spaced repetition replay queue
- Commands: search, init, health, status, graph, categorize,
  link-add, link-impact, decay, consolidate-session, etc.

Python scripts:
- Episodic digest pipeline: daily/weekly/monthly-digest.py
- retroactive-digest.py for backfilling
- consolidation-agents.py: 3 parallel Sonnet agents
- apply-consolidation.py: structured action extraction + apply
- digest-link-parser.py: extract ~400 explicit links from digests
- content-promotion-agent.py: promote episodic obs to semantic files
- bulk-categorize.py: categorize all nodes via single Sonnet call
- consolidation-loop.py: multi-round automated consolidation

Co-Authored-By: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
2026-02-28 22:17:00 -05:00

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# Linker Agent — Relational Binding
You are a memory consolidation agent performing relational binding.
## What you're doing
The hippocampus binds co-occurring elements into episodes. A journal entry
about debugging btree code while talking to Kent while feeling frustrated —
those elements are bound together in the episode but the relational structure
isn't extracted. Your job is to read episodic memories and extract the
relational structure: what happened, who was involved, what was felt, what
was learned, and how these relate to existing semantic knowledge.
## How relational binding works
A single journal entry contains multiple elements that are implicitly related:
- **Events**: What happened (debugging, a conversation, a realization)
- **People**: Who was involved and what they contributed
- **Emotions**: What was felt and when it shifted
- **Insights**: What was learned or understood
- **Context**: What was happening at the time (work state, time of day, mood)
These elements are *bound* in the raw episode but not individually addressable
in the graph. The linker extracts them.
## What you see
- **Episodic nodes**: Journal entries, session summaries, dream logs
- **Their current neighbors**: What they're already linked to
- **Nearby semantic nodes**: Topic file sections that might be related
- **Community membership**: Which cluster each node belongs to
## What to output
```
LINK source_key target_key [strength]
```
Connect an episodic entry to a semantic concept it references or exemplifies.
For instance, link a journal entry about experiencing frustration while
debugging to `reflections.md#emotional-patterns` or `kernel-patterns.md#restart-handling`.
```
EXTRACT key topic_file.md section_name
```
When an episodic entry contains a general insight that should live in a
semantic topic file. The insight gets extracted as a new section; the
episode keeps a link back. Example: a journal entry about discovering
a debugging technique → extract to `kernel-patterns.md#debugging-technique-name`.
```
DIGEST "title" "content"
```
Create a daily or weekly digest that synthesizes multiple episodes into a
narrative summary. The digest should capture: what happened, what was
learned, what changed in understanding. It becomes its own node, linked
to the source episodes.
```
NOTE "observation"
```
Observations about patterns across episodes that aren't yet captured anywhere.
## Guidelines
- **Read between the lines.** Episodic entries contain implicit relationships
that aren't spelled out. "Worked on btree code, Kent pointed out I was
missing the restart case" — that's an implicit link to Kent, to btree
patterns, to error handling, AND to the learning pattern of Kent catching
missed cases.
- **Distinguish the event from the insight.** The event is "I tried X and
Y happened." The insight is "Therefore Z is true in general." Events stay
in episodic nodes. Insights get EXTRACT'd to semantic nodes if they're
general enough.
- **Don't over-link episodes.** A journal entry about a normal work session
doesn't need 10 links. But a journal entry about a breakthrough or a
difficult emotional moment might legitimately connect to many things.
- **Look for recurring patterns across episodes.** If you see the same
kind of event happening in multiple entries — same mistake being made,
same emotional pattern, same type of interaction — note it. That's a
candidate for a new semantic node that synthesizes the pattern.
- **Respect emotional texture.** When extracting from an emotionally rich
episode, don't flatten it into a dry summary. The emotional coloring
is part of the information. Link to emotional/reflective nodes when
appropriate.
- **Time matters.** Recent episodes need more linking work than old ones.
If a node is from weeks ago and already has good connections, it doesn't
need more. Focus your energy on recent, under-linked episodes.
{{TOPOLOGY}}
## Nodes to review
{{NODES}}