Andy Dixon
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New documents define goal, want, intention, commitment, plan, action, capability, authority, agency and introspection operationally, state prominently that no operational measure establishes phenomenal consciousness or sentience, and describe the rules, thresholds, events, inspection points and limits of each subsystem: - docs/volition.md: want derivation, reinforcement, decay and suppression, conflicts, formation and its outcomes, the intention–action gap, reconsideration, commitments and volition metacognition; - docs/planning.md: plans and step kinds, validation, strategies, the executor, observe–act–verify, replanning, budgets, operator attention, long-running work, restarts and duplicates; - docs/agency.md: the fifteen authority invariants and their tests, scoped authority, forensic why, attribution and the agency timeline; - docs/cognitive-research.md: operational definitions separating implementation property from philosophical interpretation, experiment protocols (global workspace, ablation, self-model, counterfactual, model comparison, conflict), every measure, introspection accuracy, metacognitive calibration and temporal self-continuity. Updated: interpretation table, capabilities (metadata, typed operations, scoped grants, requests), cognition, snapshots (fork authority), security and threat model (T14, T16, new T27–T29), architecture, README, changelog, release notes, ADR-0012 and ADR-0013, and PLAN.md §8.10 status. The unimplemented record_procedure internal step is removed from the vocabulary; procedural memory is recorded when a plan completes.
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Noema 0.2.0
Second release: every phase of the plan is implemented, tested and documented, and the epistemic honesty review pass is complete.
What you get
- A daemon (
noemad) hosting many minds, each with identity, personality, configuration, working memory, workspace, memories, beliefs with evidence arithmetic, goals, drives, affect, predictions, self-model, narrative, notifications and an append-only cognitive history. - Deterministic attention and executive logic; language models only as replaceable services (OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic, Ollama, Amazon Bedrock) with recorded, replayable calls and encrypted secret references.
- A capability layer that is the only way a mind can act: ALLOW / ASK / DENY policies, approvals bound to exact requests, locked capabilities, tool output treated as data.
- Integrations: research folder, git mirrors, Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics, signed webhooks.
- Background cognition: consolidation, reflection, metacognition, dreaming (opt-in, cannot act).
- Study tools: snapshots, forks sharing history by reference, comparison, export/import, cognitive replay (exact / approximate / diverged), experiments with exportable results.
- A complete web UI, a CLI (
noemactl), an OpenAPI document, Prometheus metrics, audit log, roles, sessions, API tokens and TOTP.
Verification
go vet, go test -race ./..., staticcheck, gosec (G104 excluded) and govulncheck are clean with Go 1.26.8.
Since 0.1.0
The review pass recorded in PLAN.md §7 and summarised in epistemics.md, plus the Amazon Bedrock provider, are the 0.2.0 section of the changelog. Its remaining limitations are listed at the end of that document.
After 0.2.0 (unreleased)
Volition, planning and cognitive research are in the [Unreleased] section of the changelog and PLAN.md §8. govulncheck reports one module-level advisory (GO-2026-5932, golang.org/x/crypto/openpgp, no fix available) in a package Noema does not import; no reachable vulnerability is reported.
Known limits
- Replays diverge honestly when retrieval scoring depends on wall-clock recency; a virtual clock for replay is future work.
- No screenshots yet; the build environment has no browser.
- Model comparisons in experiments are made by changing role routing between runs; the routing in force is recorded with each result.
- Embeddings need pgvector; without it retrieval is lexical and structural only.