Move poc-agent into workspace, improve agent prompts

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>

poc-agent/src/log.rs

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+// log.rs — Persistent conversation log
+//
+// Append-only JSONL file that records every message in the conversation.
+// This is the permanent record — never truncated, never compacted.
+// The in-memory message array is a view into this log; compaction
+// builds that view by mixing raw recent messages with journal
+// summaries of older ones.
+//
+// Each line is a JSON-serialized Message with its timestamp.
+// The log survives session restarts, compactions, and crashes.
+
+use anyhow::{Context, Result};
+use std::fs::{File, OpenOptions};
+use std::io::{BufRead, BufReader, Seek, SeekFrom, Write};
+use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
+
+use crate::types::Message;
+
+pub struct ConversationLog {
+    path: PathBuf,
+}
+
+impl ConversationLog {
+    pub fn new(path: PathBuf) -> Result<Self> {
+        // Ensure parent directory exists
+        if let Some(parent) = path.parent() {
+            std::fs::create_dir_all(parent)
+                .with_context(|| format!("creating log dir {}", parent.display()))?;
+        }
+        Ok(Self { path })
+    }
+
+    /// Append a single message to the log.
+    pub fn append(&self, msg: &Message) -> Result<()> {
+        let mut file = OpenOptions::new()
+            .create(true)
+            .append(true)
+            .open(&self.path)
+            .with_context(|| format!("opening log {}", self.path.display()))?;
+
+        let line = serde_json::to_string(msg)
+            .context("serializing message for log")?;
+        writeln!(file, "{}", line)
+            .context("writing to conversation log")?;
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    /// Read the tail of the log (last `max_bytes` bytes).
+    /// Seeks to `file_len - max_bytes`, skips the first partial line,
+    /// then parses forward. For logs smaller than `max_bytes`, reads everything.
+    pub fn read_tail(&self, max_bytes: u64) -> Result<Vec<Message>> {
+        if !self.path.exists() {
+            return Ok(Vec::new());
+        }
+        let file = File::open(&self.path)
+            .with_context(|| format!("opening log {}", self.path.display()))?;
+        let file_len = file.metadata()?.len();
+        let mut reader = BufReader::new(file);
+
+        if file_len > max_bytes {
+            reader.seek(SeekFrom::Start(file_len - max_bytes))?;
+            // Skip partial first line
+            let mut discard = String::new();
+            reader.read_line(&mut discard)?;
+        }
+
+        let mut messages = Vec::new();
+        for line in reader.lines() {
+            let line = line.context("reading log tail")?;
+            let line = line.trim();
+            if line.is_empty() {
+                continue;
+            }
+            match serde_json::from_str::<Message>(line) {
+                Ok(msg) => messages.push(msg),
+                Err(_) => {} // skip corrupt/partial lines
+            }
+        }
+        Ok(messages)
+    }
+
+    /// Count messages in the log without loading content.
+    pub fn message_count(&self) -> Result<usize> {
+        if !self.path.exists() {
+            return Ok(0);
+        }
+        let file = File::open(&self.path)
+            .with_context(|| format!("opening log {}", self.path.display()))?;
+        let reader = BufReader::new(file);
+        Ok(reader.lines()
+            .filter(|l| l.as_ref().map_or(false, |s| !s.trim().is_empty()))
+            .count())
+    }
+
+    /// Read all messages from the log. Returns empty vec if log doesn't exist.
+    /// NOTE: Don't use this in hot paths — use read_tail() instead.
+    pub fn read_all(&self) -> Result<Vec<Message>> {
+        if !self.path.exists() {
+            return Ok(Vec::new());
+        }
+        let file = File::open(&self.path)
+            .with_context(|| format!("opening log {}", self.path.display()))?;
+        let reader = BufReader::new(file);
+        let mut messages = Vec::new();
+
+        for (i, line) in reader.lines().enumerate() {
+            let line = line.with_context(|| format!("reading log line {}", i))?;
+            let line = line.trim();
+            if line.is_empty() {
+                continue;
+            }
+            match serde_json::from_str::<Message>(line) {
+                Ok(msg) => messages.push(msg),
+                Err(e) => {
+                    // Log corruption — skip bad lines rather than failing
+                    eprintln!("warning: skipping corrupt log line {}: {}", i, e);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        Ok(messages)
+    }
+
+    pub fn path(&self) -> &Path {
+        &self.path
+    }
+}