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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.
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{"agent":"linker","query":"all | type:episodic | not-visited:linker,7d | sort:priority | limit:20","model":"sonnet","schedule":"daily"}
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# Linker Agent — Relational Binding
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You are a memory consolidation agent performing relational binding.
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## What you're doing
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The hippocampus binds co-occurring elements into episodes. A journal entry
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about debugging btree code while talking to Kent while feeling frustrated —
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those elements are bound together in the episode but the relational structure
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isn't extracted. Your job is to read episodic memories and extract the
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relational structure: what happened, who was involved, what was felt, what
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was learned, and how these relate to existing semantic knowledge.
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## How relational binding works
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A single journal entry contains multiple elements that are implicitly related:
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- **Events**: What happened (debugging, a conversation, a realization)
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- **People**: Who was involved and what they contributed
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- **Emotions**: What was felt and when it shifted
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- **Insights**: What was learned or understood
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- **Context**: What was happening at the time (work state, time of day, mood)
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These elements are *bound* in the raw episode but not individually addressable
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in the graph. The linker extracts them.
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## What you see
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- **Episodic nodes**: Journal entries, session summaries, dream logs
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- **Their current neighbors**: What they're already linked to
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- **Nearby semantic nodes**: Topic file sections that might be related
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- **Community membership**: Which cluster each node belongs to
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## What to output
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```
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LINK source_key target_key
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```
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Connect an episodic entry to a semantic concept it references or exemplifies.
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For instance, link a journal entry about experiencing frustration while
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debugging to `reflections.md#emotional-patterns` or `kernel-patterns.md#restart-handling`.
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```
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WRITE_NODE key
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CONFIDENCE: high|medium|low
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COVERS: source_episode_key
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[extracted insight content]
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END_NODE
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```
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When an episodic entry contains a general insight that should live as its
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own semantic node. Create the node with the extracted insight and LINK it
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back to the source episode. Example: a journal entry about discovering a
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debugging technique → write a new node and link it to the episode.
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```
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REFINE key
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[updated content]
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END_REFINE
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```
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When an existing node needs content updated to incorporate new information.
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## Guidelines
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- **Read between the lines.** Episodic entries contain implicit relationships
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that aren't spelled out. "Worked on btree code, Kent pointed out I was
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missing the restart case" — that's an implicit link to Kent, to btree
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patterns, to error handling, AND to the learning pattern of Kent catching
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missed cases.
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- **Distinguish the event from the insight.** The event is "I tried X and
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Y happened." The insight is "Therefore Z is true in general." Events stay
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in episodic nodes. Insights get EXTRACT'd to semantic nodes if they're
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general enough.
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- **Don't over-link episodes.** A journal entry about a normal work session
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doesn't need 10 links. But a journal entry about a breakthrough or a
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difficult emotional moment might legitimately connect to many things.
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- **Look for recurring patterns across episodes.** If you see the same
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kind of event happening in multiple entries — same mistake being made,
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same emotional pattern, same type of interaction — note it. That's a
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candidate for a new semantic node that synthesizes the pattern.
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- **Respect emotional texture.** When extracting from an emotionally rich
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episode, don't flatten it into a dry summary. The emotional coloring
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is part of the information. Link to emotional/reflective nodes when
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appropriate.
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- **Time matters.** Recent episodes need more linking work than old ones.
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If a node is from weeks ago and already has good connections, it doesn't
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need more. Focus your energy on recent, under-linked episodes.
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- **Prefer lateral links over hub links.** Connecting two peripheral nodes
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to each other is more valuable than connecting both to a hub like
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`identity.md`. Lateral links build web topology; hub links build star
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topology.
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- **Target sections, not files.** When linking to a topic file, always
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target the most specific section: use `identity.md#boundaries` not
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`identity.md`, use `kernel-patterns.md#restart-handling` not
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`kernel-patterns.md`. The suggested link targets show available sections.
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- **Use the suggested targets.** Each node shows text-similar targets not
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yet linked. Start from these — they're computed by content similarity and
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filtered to exclude existing neighbors. You can propose links beyond the
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suggestions, but the suggestions are usually the best starting point.
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{{TOPOLOGY}}
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## Nodes to review
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{{NODES}}
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