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Andy Dixon 03e2d7890a feat(cognition): wanting, intending and acting inside the cognitive cycle
Volition and planning now run as part of cognition (PLAN §8.2 item 3):

- A volition hook derives wants after each cycle from what it perceived
  and produced, satisfies answer wants when a reply is sent, raises due,
  overdue, expired and conflicting commitments, and expires faded wants.
  Events produced by earlier cycles are not re-derived.
- An intend process proposes deciding about the strongest undecided
  wants; the candidate competes for the workspace, so attention gates
  what the mind decides to pursue. The handler makes value tensions
  explicit (caution against disruptive writes, privacy against reading
  personal data), resolves them with recorded scores, runs deterministic
  formation with commitments, policy preview, goals and values, records
  the decision whatever it is, and plans a formed intention in the same
  transaction. Operator requests carry their own weight in formation.
- Explicit requests in conversation ("restart <unit>", "logs for <unit>",
  "fetch <url>") become wants with proposed means instead of direct
  invocations; the reply says the request was recorded and that acting
  depends on commitments and policy.
- The executor is woken after commits, runs in a scheduler-owned loop and
  reacts to the event bus: a new commitment tightens or abandons affected
  intentions (withdrawing their pending approvals), a weakened assumption
  or a finished goal triggers reconsideration. A tightened plan may reuse
  its strategy; a failed one may not.
- Metacognition gains volition checks: strong wants repeatedly set aside,
  intentions with no recorded reason, intentions a commitment forbids,
  commitments that cannot be kept, churn, repeated failed execution,
  cost outweighing value, and intentions that outlived their goal.
- A plan model role and prompt let a model propose decompositions that
  the planner validates. Ablations are a fork-only configuration field.
- Approvals required by an intention are described as coming from a
  commitment or value constraint. The expectation after an approved
  action is linked to the execution event, not the request.
- The wants.values column of the unreleased migration 0026 is renamed
  value_keys: VALUES is reserved and the generic snapshot restore does
  not quote identifiers.
- The hostile-output security test now uses a message that asks for no
  action, because an operator's "status of <unit>" is legitimately a
  read-only status check.
2026-09-15 21:04:07 +01:00

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package cognition
import (
"context"
"encoding/json"
"errors"
"fmt"
"strings"
"time"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/internal/beliefs"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/internal/brain"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/internal/conversation"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/internal/epistemics"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/internal/graph"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/internal/memory"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/internal/predictions"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/internal/storage"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/internal/workspace"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/pkg/concepts"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/pkg/events"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/pkg/ids"
)
// Handlers are the executive actions for admitted thought kinds.
type Handlers struct {
Memory *memory.Store
Beliefs *beliefs.Store
Conversations *conversation.Store
Graph *graph.Store
Assertions *epistemics.Store // nil disables assertion records (claims still become evidence)
}
// Register installs the handlers on a registry.
func (h Handlers) Register(r *brain.Registry) {
r.Handle("attend", h.attend)
r.Handle("retrieve", h.retrieve)
r.Handle("hypothesis", h.hypothesis)
r.Handle("perceive", h.perceive)
r.Handle("goal", h.goal)
r.Handle("question", h.question)
r.Handle("metacognition", h.metacognition)
r.Handle("want", h.want)
r.Handle("intend", h.intend)
}
// emitter adapts the cycle to the beliefs store's Emitter.
func emitter(c *brain.Cycle) beliefs.Emitter {
return func(ctx context.Context, _ storage.Querier, n events.New) (events.Event, error) {
return c.EmitNow(ctx, n)
}
}
// hypothesis turns an admitted hypothesis candidate into a belief whose
// confidence is computed from the cited observations. Temporal co-occurrence
// is weak evidence, so weights are small and the result stays a hypothesis
// until independent support arrives.
func (h Handlers) hypothesis(ctx context.Context, c *brain.Cycle, t workspace.Thought) error {
if h.Beliefs == nil {
return nil
}
prop, _ := t.Content["proposition"].(string)
if prop == "" {
prop = strings.TrimPrefix(t.Summary, "hypothesis: ")
}
var ev []beliefs.EvidenceInput
for _, ref := range t.Evidence {
if ref.Kind != "event" {
continue
}
cred := 0.6
family := "event:" + ref.ID
if e, err := c.Runtime.Events().Get(ctx, ids.ID(ref.ID)); err == nil {
var p events.ObservationPayload
if json.Unmarshal(e.Payload, &p) == nil && p.Trust.Valid() {
cred = p.Trust.Credibility()
}
if f := beliefs.FamilyFromEvent(e); f != "" {
family = f
}
}
// The two observations are the roots; the causal reading is an inference over them.
ev = append(ev, beliefs.EvidenceInput{Direction: "for", Kind: "event", RefID: ref.ID, Source: "co-occurrence:" + ref.ID, Weight: 0.15, Credibility: cred, Note: "temporal co-occurrence (" + ref.Note + ")",
Derivation: beliefs.DerivationInference, Family: family, RootIDs: []string{ref.ID}})
}
res, err := h.Beliefs.Create(ctx, c.Tx, emitter(c), beliefs.New{MindID: c.State.Mind.ID, Proposition: prop, Epistemic: concepts.Hypothesis, Source: "brain.associate",
Evidence: ev, Alternatives: []string{"coincidence: the two events are unrelated", "a third factor caused both"}, OriginEvent: t.EventID, Causation: t.EventID, Correlation: c.State.CycleID,
Detail: map[string]any{"cause_event": t.Content["cause_event"], "effect_event": t.Content["effect_event"], "gap_seconds": t.Content["gap_seconds"], "relation": string(concepts.PossiblyCausedBy), "basis": "temporal association only"}})
if err != nil {
if errors.Is(err, beliefs.ErrBlocked) {
c.Emit(events.New{Type: events.Metacognition, Source: "brain.executive", Summary: "hypothesis blocked by operator correction: " + prop, Salience: 0.3, Confidence: 1, Metadata: map[string]any{"check": "do_not_infer"}})
return nil
}
return err
}
c.Runtime.Hold(workspace.Item{Key: "belief:" + string(res.Belief.ID), Content: "hypothesis (" + fmt.Sprintf("%.2f", res.Belief.Confidence) + "): " + prop, Kind: "thought", Ref: string(res.Belief.ID), SourceEvent: t.EventID})
// A causal hypothesis implies a checkable expectation: the effect recurs
// after the cause. Its confidence is the belief's, so a miss will lower it.
if c.State.Services.Predictions != nil {
effect, _ := t.Content["effect_event"].(string)
if ev, err := c.Runtime.Events().Get(ctx, ids.ID(effect)); err == nil {
terms := distinctiveTerms(ev.Summary, 3)
if len(terms) > 0 {
p, err := c.State.Services.Predictions.Create(ctx, c.Tx, predictions.New{MindID: c.State.Mind.ID, Statement: "something like \"" + truncate(ev.Summary, 80) + "\" will recur within 24 hours if the cause is real",
Subject: subjectKey(ev.Summary), Confidence: res.Belief.Confidence, WindowEnd: c.State.Now.Add(24 * time.Hour),
Criteria: predictions.Criteria{Kind: "event_match", Expect: "occurs", Terms: terms, MinTerms: min(2, len(terms))}, Source: "brain.associate", OriginEvent: res.Events[0].ID, BeliefID: res.Belief.ID})
if err == nil {
c.Emit(events.New{Type: events.PredictionCreated, Source: "brain.associate", Summary: fmt.Sprintf("predicted (%.2f): %s", p.Confidence, p.Statement), Salience: 0.3, Confidence: p.Confidence, CausationID: res.Events[0].ID,
Evidence: []events.EvidenceRef{{Kind: "prediction", ID: string(p.ID)}, {Kind: "belief", ID: string(res.Belief.ID)}}, Metadata: map[string]any{"prediction_id": string(p.ID), "belief_id": string(res.Belief.ID), "window_end": p.WindowEnd}, Payload: p})
}
}
}
}
return nil
}
// distinctiveTerms picks the longest tokens of a summary as match terms.
func distinctiveTerms(text string, n int) []string {
toks := tokeniseWS(text)
var out []string
for _, t := range toks {
if len(t) >= 5 {
out = append(out, t)
}
if len(out) == n {
break
}
}
return out
}
// attend encodes the attended event as a memory and holds it in working
// memory. Only attended events become episodes: attention gates encoding.
func (h Handlers) attend(ctx context.Context, c *brain.Cycle, t workspace.Thought) error {
evID, _ := t.Content["source_event"].(string)
var mem memory.Memory
if h.Memory != nil && evID != "" {
ev, err := c.Runtime.Events().Get(ctx, ids.ID(evID))
if err == nil && ev.Metadata["conversation_id"] != nil {
err = errSkipEncode // the perceive handler encodes conversational episodes
}
if err == nil {
n := memory.New{MindID: c.State.Mind.ID, Kind: concepts.Episodic, Epistemic: concepts.Observation, Content: ev.Summary, Source: ev.Source,
Trust: events.TrustLow, Confidence: ev.Confidence, Importance: t.Score, Salience: ev.Salience, Valence: ev.Valence, Arousal: ev.Arousal, OccurredAt: ev.OccurredAt, OriginEvent: ev.ID,
Detail: map[string]any{"event_type": ev.Type, "participants": []string{}}}
switch ev.Type {
case events.Observation:
var p events.ObservationPayload
if json.Unmarshal(ev.Payload, &p) == nil {
if p.Text != "" {
n.Content = p.Text
}
n.Trust = p.Trust
n.Detail["channel"], n.Detail["reference"], n.Detail["method"] = p.Channel, p.Reference, p.Method
if p.Actor != "" {
n.Detail["participants"] = []string{p.Actor}
}
}
case events.OperatorAction:
n.Kind, n.Trust, n.Importance = concepts.Autobiographical, events.TrustOperator, max(t.Score, 0.6)
n.Content = "An operator changed me: " + ev.Summary
default:
n.Trust = events.TrustSystem
}
mem, err = h.Memory.Create(ctx, c.Tx, n)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("encode memory: %w", err)
}
c.Emit(events.New{Type: events.MemoryCreated, Source: "brain.memory", Summary: fmt.Sprintf("encoded %s memory: %s", mem.Kind, truncate(mem.Content, 120)),
Salience: 0.3, Confidence: mem.Confidence, CausationID: t.EventID, ParentIDs: []ids.ID{t.EventID, ev.ID},
Evidence: []events.EvidenceRef{{Kind: "memory", ID: string(mem.ID)}, {Kind: "event", ID: string(ev.ID), Note: "source"}},
Metadata: map[string]any{"memory_id": mem.ID, "kind": mem.Kind}, Payload: map[string]any{"memory_id": mem.ID, "kind": mem.Kind, "importance": mem.Importance, "trust": mem.Trust}})
}
}
item := workspace.Item{Key: "attend:" + t.Subject, Content: t.Summary, Kind: "observation", SourceEvent: ids.ID(evID)}
if !mem.ID.IsZero() {
item.Ref = string(mem.ID)
text, _ := t.Content["text"].(string)
h.linkEntities(ctx, c, entitiesFromText(text), "", ids.ID(evID), map[string]ids.ID{"memory": mem.ID})
}
c.Runtime.Hold(item)
return nil
}
// retrieve reinforces a recalled memory, records the retrieval with its
// scoring components, and holds it in working memory.
func (h Handlers) retrieve(ctx context.Context, c *brain.Cycle, t workspace.Thought) error {
ref, _ := t.Content["ref"].(string)
if h.Memory == nil || ref == "" {
return nil
}
mid := ids.ID(ref)
if err := h.Memory.Reinforce(ctx, c.Tx, c.State.Mind.ID, mid); err != nil {
return err
}
src, _ := t.Content["source_event"].(string)
c.Emit(events.New{Type: events.MemoryRetrieved, Source: "brain.memory", Summary: t.Summary, Salience: t.Score, Confidence: t.Confidence,
CausationID: t.EventID, ParentIDs: []ids.ID{t.EventID}, Evidence: t.Evidence,
Metadata: map[string]any{"memory_id": mid, "score": t.Content["score"]}, Payload: map[string]any{"memory_id": mid, "score": t.Content["score"], "components": t.Content["components"], "query": t.Content["query"]}})
c.Runtime.Hold(workspace.Item{Key: "memory:" + ref, Content: t.Summary, Kind: "retrieval", Ref: ref, SourceEvent: ids.ID(src)})
return nil
}
var errSkipEncode = errors.New("skip")