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Andy Dixon 703d080d13 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.
2026-06-28 22:19:38 +01:00

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// Package reflection reviews a mind's recent history on a schedule: mistakes,
// abandoned hypotheses, belief changes, completed goals, unresolved
// contradictions, prediction errors and operator corrections. It produces an
// explicit reflection event and, where a pattern repeats, a procedural memory
// (spec §18). Findings are computed; a model may only write the prose.
package reflection
import (
"context"
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"log/slog"
"strings"
"time"
"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/pgxpool"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/internal/beliefs"
evstore "github.com/andydixon/noema/internal/events"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/internal/goals"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/internal/llm"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/internal/llm/prompts"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/internal/llm/router"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/internal/memory"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/internal/minds"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/internal/predictions"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/pkg/concepts"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/pkg/events"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/pkg/ids"
)
// Findings is the structured review.
type Findings struct {
PeriodStart time.Time `json:"period_start"`
PeriodEnd time.Time `json:"period_end"`
PredictionErrors []string `json:"prediction_errors"`
Corrections []string `json:"corrections"`
RejectedBeliefs []string `json:"rejected_beliefs"`
ChangedBeliefs []string `json:"changed_beliefs"`
CompletedGoals []string `json:"completed_goals"`
Contradictions []string `json:"contradictions"`
Calibration predictions.Calibration `json:"calibration"`
Patterns []string `json:"patterns"` // repeated failure subjects
Lessons []string `json:"lessons"` // procedural memories written
Counts map[string]int `json:"counts"`
}
// Reflection is a stored review.
type Reflection struct {
ID ids.ID `json:"id"`
MindID ids.ID `json:"mind_id"`
PeriodStart time.Time `json:"period_start"`
PeriodEnd time.Time `json:"period_end"`
Findings Findings `json:"findings"`
Prose string `json:"prose"`
EventID ids.ID `json:"event_id,omitempty"`
LLMCallID ids.ID `json:"llm_call_id,omitempty"`
CreatedAt time.Time `json:"created_at"`
}
// Service runs reflections.
type Service struct {
DB *pgxpool.Pool
Events *evstore.Store
Beliefs *beliefs.Store
Goals *goals.Store
Memory *memory.Store
Predictions *predictions.Store
LLM *router.Router
Prompts *prompts.Store
Log *slog.Logger
}
// Run reviews the period since the last reflection (or the interval) and
// records the outcome.
func (s *Service) Run(ctx context.Context, m minds.Mind, trigger, by string) (Reflection, error) {
end := time.Now()
start := end.Add(-m.Config.ReflectionInterval.D())
if last, err := s.Latest(ctx, m.ID); err == nil && last.PeriodEnd.After(start) {
start = last.PeriodEnd
}
f := Findings{PeriodStart: start, PeriodEnd: end, Counts: map[string]int{}}
evs, err := s.Events.Query(ctx, evstore.Filter{MindID: m.ID, Since: start, Until: end, Types: []events.Type{events.PredictionError, events.BeliefRetracted, events.OperatorAction, events.GoalCompleted, events.ContradictionDetected, events.GoalAbandoned}, Ascending: true, Limit: 1000})
if err != nil {
return Reflection{}, err
}
subjectFailures := map[string]int{}
for _, ev := range evs {
f.Counts[string(ev.Type)]++
switch ev.Type {
case events.PredictionError:
f.PredictionErrors = append(f.PredictionErrors, ev.Summary)
subjectFailures[subjectOf(ev.Summary)]++
case events.BeliefRetracted:
f.RejectedBeliefs = append(f.RejectedBeliefs, ev.Summary)
subjectFailures[subjectOf(ev.Summary)]++
case events.OperatorAction:
if strings.HasPrefix(fmt.Sprint(ev.Metadata["action"]), "memory.") || strings.HasPrefix(fmt.Sprint(ev.Metadata["action"]), "correction") || strings.HasPrefix(fmt.Sprint(ev.Metadata["action"]), "belief") {
f.Corrections = append(f.Corrections, ev.Summary)
}
case events.GoalCompleted:
f.CompletedGoals = append(f.CompletedGoals, ev.Summary)
case events.ContradictionDetected:
f.Contradictions = append(f.Contradictions, ev.Summary)
}
}
if ch, err := s.Beliefs.RecentChanges(ctx, m.ID, start, 20); err == nil {
for _, c := range ch {
f.ChangedBeliefs = append(f.ChangedBeliefs, fmt.Sprintf("%s: %s → %s (%s)", c.Belief.Proposition, c.FromStatus, c.Belief.Status, c.Reason))
}
}
if contested, err := s.Beliefs.Contested(ctx, m.ID, 20); err == nil {
for _, b := range contested {
f.Contradictions = append(f.Contradictions, "still contested: "+b.Proposition)
}
}
f.Calibration, _ = s.Predictions.Calibrate(ctx, m.ID, end.Add(-90*24*time.Hour))
for subj, n := range subjectFailures {
if n >= 2 && subj != "" {
f.Patterns = append(f.Patterns, fmt.Sprintf("%d failures concerning %q", n, subj))
}
}
if f.Calibration.Overconfident {
f.Patterns = append(f.Patterns, "stated confidence runs ahead of outcomes")
}
// Lessons become procedural memories, once per pattern.
for _, p := range f.Patterns {
lesson := "Lesson: " + p + ". Seek an independent source before raising confidence on this subject."
if existing, _ := s.Memory.List(ctx, m.ID, memory.Filter{Kinds: []concepts.MemoryKind{concepts.Procedural}, Search: strings.Trim(p, "\""), Limit: 1}); len(existing) > 0 {
continue
}
if _, err := s.Memory.Create(ctx, s.DB, memory.New{MindID: m.ID, Kind: concepts.Procedural, Epistemic: concepts.Inference, Content: lesson, Source: "reflection", Trust: events.TrustSystem, Confidence: 0.6, Importance: 0.7, Salience: 0.4}); err == nil {
f.Lessons = append(f.Lessons, lesson)
}
}
prose := Render(f)
var callID ids.ID
if s.LLM != nil && s.Prompts != nil && m.Config.ReflectionLLMCalls > 0 && s.LLM.Available(ctx, llm.RoleNarrate) {
if pr, err := s.Prompts.Get(ctx, "reflect"); err == nil {
if req, err := pr.Render(map[string]any{"Findings": prose, "Brief": m.Personality.Brief()}); err == nil {
req.MindID, req.Purpose = m.ID, "reflection prose"
if resp, err := s.LLM.Complete(ctx, req); err == nil && strings.TrimSpace(resp.Text) != "" {
prose, callID = strings.TrimSpace(resp.Text), resp.CallID
}
}
}
}
total := len(f.PredictionErrors) + len(f.RejectedBeliefs) + len(f.ChangedBeliefs) + len(f.CompletedGoals) + len(f.Contradictions) + len(f.Corrections)
refs := []events.EvidenceRef{}
if !callID.IsZero() {
refs = append(refs, events.EvidenceRef{Kind: "llm_call", ID: string(callID), Note: "prose"})
}
evsOut, err := s.Events.Append(ctx, events.New{MindID: m.ID, Type: events.Reflection, Source: "reflection", Summary: fmt.Sprintf("reflected on %s: %d notable items, %d patterns, %d lessons", humanSpan(end.Sub(start)), total, len(f.Patterns), len(f.Lessons)),
Salience: 0.3 + 0.1*float64(min(len(f.Patterns), 5)), Confidence: 0.8, Evidence: refs, Metadata: map[string]any{"trigger": trigger, "items": total, "patterns": len(f.Patterns)}, Payload: map[string]any{"findings": f, "prose": prose}})
if err != nil {
return Reflection{}, err
}
r := Reflection{ID: ids.New(), MindID: m.ID, PeriodStart: start, PeriodEnd: end, Findings: f, Prose: prose, EventID: evsOut[0].ID, LLMCallID: callID, CreatedAt: end}
fj, _ := json.Marshal(f)
var call *string
if !callID.IsZero() {
c := string(callID)
call = &c
}
_, err = s.DB.Exec(ctx, `INSERT INTO reflections (id, mind_id, period_start, period_end, findings, prose, event_id, llm_call_id) VALUES ($1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7,$8)`, r.ID, r.MindID, r.PeriodStart, r.PeriodEnd, fj, r.Prose, string(r.EventID), call)
return r, err
}
// Render writes the findings as plain prose without a model.
func Render(f Findings) string {
var b strings.Builder
fmt.Fprintf(&b, "Reviewing the last %s.\n", humanSpan(f.PeriodEnd.Sub(f.PeriodStart)))
section := func(title string, items []string) {
if len(items) == 0 {
return
}
b.WriteString(title + ":\n")
for i, it := range items {
if i >= 6 {
fmt.Fprintf(&b, " … and %d more\n", len(items)-6)
break
}
b.WriteString(" - " + it + "\n")
}
}
section("Predictions that failed", f.PredictionErrors)
section("Beliefs I had to reject", f.RejectedBeliefs)
section("Operator corrections", f.Corrections)
section("Beliefs that changed status", f.ChangedBeliefs)
section("Goals completed", f.CompletedGoals)
section("Unresolved contradictions", f.Contradictions)
section("Patterns", f.Patterns)
section("Lessons recorded", f.Lessons)
if f.Calibration.Total > 0 {
fmt.Fprintf(&b, "Calibration over 90 days: accuracy %.0f%%, Brier %.2f.\n", f.Calibration.Accuracy*100, f.Calibration.Brier)
}
if b.Len() < 60 {
b.WriteString("Nothing notable happened.\n")
}
return strings.TrimSpace(b.String())
}
func humanSpan(d time.Duration) string {
switch {
case d < 2*time.Hour:
return fmt.Sprintf("%d minutes", int(d.Minutes()))
case d < 48*time.Hour:
return fmt.Sprintf("%d hours", int(d.Hours()))
default:
return fmt.Sprintf("%d days", int(d.Hours()/24))
}
}
// subjectOf extracts a crude subject (first hostname-like or long token) from a summary.
func subjectOf(s string) string {
for _, w := range strings.Fields(strings.ToLower(s)) {
w = strings.Trim(w, ".,:;()\"'")
if strings.ContainsAny(w, "-.") && len(w) >= 5 {
return w
}
}
return ""
}
// Latest returns the most recent reflection.
func (s *Service) Latest(ctx context.Context, mind ids.ID) (Reflection, error) {
var r Reflection
var fj []byte
var ev, call *string
err := s.DB.QueryRow(ctx, `SELECT id, mind_id, period_start, period_end, findings, prose, event_id, llm_call_id, created_at FROM reflections WHERE mind_id=$1 ORDER BY created_at DESC LIMIT 1`, mind).
Scan(&r.ID, &r.MindID, &r.PeriodStart, &r.PeriodEnd, &fj, &r.Prose, &ev, &call, &r.CreatedAt)
if err != nil {
return r, err
}
json.Unmarshal(fj, &r.Findings) //nolint:errcheck
if ev != nil {
r.EventID = ids.ID(*ev)
}
if call != nil {
r.LLMCallID = ids.ID(*call)
}
return r, nil
}
// List returns recent reflections.
func (s *Service) List(ctx context.Context, mind ids.ID, limit int) ([]Reflection, error) {
if limit <= 0 || limit > 100 {
limit = 20
}
rows, err := s.DB.Query(ctx, `SELECT id, mind_id, period_start, period_end, findings, prose, event_id, llm_call_id, created_at FROM reflections WHERE mind_id=$1 ORDER BY created_at DESC LIMIT $2`, mind, limit)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
defer rows.Close()
var out []Reflection
for rows.Next() {
var r Reflection
var fj []byte
var ev, call *string
if err := rows.Scan(&r.ID, &r.MindID, &r.PeriodStart, &r.PeriodEnd, &fj, &r.Prose, &ev, &call, &r.CreatedAt); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
json.Unmarshal(fj, &r.Findings) //nolint:errcheck
if ev != nil {
r.EventID = ids.ID(*ev)
}
if call != nil {
r.LLMCallID = ids.ID(*call)
}
out = append(out, r)
}
return out, rows.Err()
}