Phase 9. Goals form a mind-scoped tree with kind, priority, progress and
blockers; their deterministic relevance to a candidate feeds the
goal_relevance attention feature and a goal monitor raises stalled goals
and observations that touch one. Drives are a closed set of eight
scalars with operator-configured ranges and personality-derived
baselines; there is no self-preservation, replication or acquisition
drive and no way to add one at runtime. Affect is ten scalars moved by an
explicit rule table over events and decaying towards baseline; both
modulate attention weights each cycle and the effective weights are
recorded with every cycle and shown beside the configured ones.
Predictions carry a window and machine-checkable criteria (event terms
occurring or staying absent, a belief reaching a confidence, or operator
judgement). A resolver job judges them deterministically, keeps an
append-only outcome history for calibration (accuracy, Brier score,
confidence buckets, overconfidence flag), emits prediction_error events
scaled by how confident the miss was, and feeds the outcome back into the
linked belief as evidence. Causal hypotheses derive predictions
automatically. Curiosity turns misses, contradictions and unexplained
observations into questions that compete for attention and become
investigation goals when admitted.
Brain gains after-cycle hooks and goal/motivation state. API, UI (goals,
prediction dashboard, cognitive state panel, effective weights) and CLI
(goal, prediction, state). Demo scenario 4 verified end to end.
Phase 4 (ADR-0001). internal/attention scores thought candidates as a
normalised weighted sum over ten named features with a per-term
breakdown, ranked by (score, id) so ordering is total and replayable.
internal/workspace holds the capacity-limited workspace (refresh by
subject, decayed competition, explained admit/reject outcomes) and the
decaying working memory.
internal/brain runs one runtime per active mind: debounced wake-ups from
the event bus (own output never re-triggers), a settle window so
concurrently committing events are not skipped, bounded concurrent
Observe calls with per-process isolation and timeouts, deterministic
scoring, a loop detector that suppresses recurring thoughts and raises a
metacognition warning, executive dispatch by thought kind, and one
transaction per cycle whose events are published only after commit.
Every candidate, selection, attention shift and broadcast is an event
with provenance back to the triggering observation. Operators can run a
cycle, pause, resume, reset transient state and change attention
weights live; the manager reconciles runtimes with mind status.
cognition/attend is the first process: deterministic candidates from
external events using an urgency lexicon, novelty against context and
trust-based operator priority.
Andy Dixon