feat: add metacognition, reflection, consolidation, narrative and notifications

Phase 10. Metacognition is a cognitive process with deterministic
self-checks (insufficient evidence, single-source reliance, model output
without evidence, repeated failed hypotheses, stale contradictions,
calibration overconfidence); its warnings compete for attention and,
when admitted, add counter-evidence or open an investigation goal.

Reflection reviews the period since the last run (prediction errors,
rejected beliefs, corrections, status changes, completed goals,
contradictions, calibration), turns repeated failures into procedural
lessons written once, and records a reflection event; a model may only
word the prose within the mind's budget.

Consolidation clusters unconsolidated episodes by shared stemmed terms,
creates a belief whose confidence is computed from the episodes as
evidence and a semantic memory linked to each episode by derived_from,
and records jobs with inputs and outputs. Wording may come from the
consolidate prompt within a per-run model budget; the job says which.
Operators can run, pause and reject; originals are never touched.

The narrative hook keeps a five-part first-person narrative built from
state and stored with narrative_updated events. The notification hook
applies explicit thresholded rules, aggregates repeats within a cooldown
and records suppressions with reasons. A scheduled job runs
consolidation and reflection per mind, switching the runtime mode while
it works. API, Background tab, notifications page with unread badge,
overview narrative and warnings, CLI commands, docs/cognition.md.
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// Package narrative keeps a mind's concise internal narrative: what it is
// doing, why, what happened recently, what it is trying to resolve and what
// might happen next. It is built deterministically from state; a model may
// rephrase it but never adds content (spec §17).
package narrative
import (
"context"
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"strings"
"time"
"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5"
"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/pgxpool"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/internal/storage"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/pkg/ids"
)
// Structured is the machine-readable narrative.
type Structured struct {
Doing []string `json:"doing"`
Why []string `json:"why"`
Recently []string `json:"recently"`
Resolving []string `json:"resolving"`
Next []string `json:"next"`
Mode string `json:"mode"`
Cycle int64 `json:"cycle"`
GeneratedAt time.Time `json:"generated_at"`
}
// Narrative is the stored record.
type Narrative struct {
MindID ids.ID `json:"mind_id"`
Text string `json:"text"`
Structured Structured `json:"structured"`
EventID ids.ID `json:"event_id,omitempty"`
UpdatedAt time.Time `json:"updated_at"`
}
// Render turns the structured narrative into plain first-person prose.
func Render(s Structured) string {
var b strings.Builder
line := func(label string, items []string, empty string) {
if len(items) == 0 {
if empty != "" {
b.WriteString(label + " " + empty + "\n")
}
return
}
b.WriteString(label + " " + strings.Join(items, "; ") + ".\n")
}
line("I am", s.Doing, "not attending to anything in particular.")
line("Because", s.Why, "")
line("Recently:", s.Recently, "nothing notable.")
line("Trying to resolve:", s.Resolving, "nothing open.")
line("Next:", s.Next, "waiting for input.")
return strings.TrimSpace(b.String())
}
// Store persists narratives.
type Store struct{ db *pgxpool.Pool }
// NewStore creates a store.
func NewStore(db *pgxpool.Pool) *Store { return &Store{db: db} }
// Save upserts the narrative.
func (s *Store) Save(ctx context.Context, q storage.Querier, mind ids.ID, text string, st Structured, eventID ids.ID) error {
raw, _ := json.Marshal(st)
var ev *string
if !eventID.IsZero() {
e := string(eventID)
ev = &e
}
_, err := q.Exec(ctx, `INSERT INTO narratives (mind_id, text, structured, event_id) VALUES ($1,$2,$3,$4)
ON CONFLICT (mind_id) DO UPDATE SET text=excluded.text, structured=excluded.structured, event_id=excluded.event_id, updated_at=now()`, mind, text, raw, ev)
return err
}
// Get returns the current narrative.
func (s *Store) Get(ctx context.Context, mind ids.ID) (Narrative, error) {
var n Narrative
var raw []byte
var ev *string
err := s.db.QueryRow(ctx, `SELECT mind_id, text, structured, event_id, updated_at FROM narratives WHERE mind_id=$1`, mind).Scan(&n.MindID, &n.Text, &raw, &ev, &n.UpdatedAt)
if err != nil {
if err == pgx.ErrNoRows {
return Narrative{MindID: mind, Text: "No narrative yet."}, nil
}
return n, storage.Translate(err)
}
json.Unmarshal(raw, &n.Structured) //nolint:errcheck
if ev != nil {
n.EventID = ids.ID(*ev)
}
return n, nil
}
// Changed reports whether the new structure differs enough to record.
func Changed(old, new Structured) bool {
return fmt.Sprint(old.Doing) != fmt.Sprint(new.Doing) || fmt.Sprint(old.Resolving) != fmt.Sprint(new.Resolving) || fmt.Sprint(old.Next) != fmt.Sprint(new.Next)
}