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noema/internal/brain/process.go
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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.
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// Package brain runs the cognitive cycle for each mind: it gathers new events,
// asks registered cognitive processes for thought candidates, scores them
// deterministically, admits the winners to the global workspace, dispatches
// them to executive handlers and records every step as events (ADR-0001).
package brain
import (
"context"
"sync/atomic"
"time"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/internal/attention"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/internal/beliefs"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/internal/goals"
"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/motivation"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/internal/predictions"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/internal/workspace"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/pkg/events"
"github.com/andydixon/noema/pkg/ids"
)
// Process is a cognitive faculty. Observe must be safe to call concurrently
// with other processes, must respect ctx, and must not mutate the state it is
// given; it returns candidates and lets the cycle decide.
type Process interface {
Name() string
Observe(ctx context.Context, s *State) ([]Candidate, error)
}
// Candidate is a proposed thought.
type Candidate struct {
Kind string // attend | hypothesis | question | respond | goal | retrieve | reflect | note | action
Subject string // stable key for refresh and loop detection (entity, event id, proposition hash)
Summary string // one line, human readable
Content map[string]any // structured detail for handlers and the UI
Features attention.Features // scoring inputs
Confidence float64 // epistemic confidence of the candidate itself
Evidence []events.EvidenceRef // what it rests on
SourceEvents []ids.ID // events that triggered it (first becomes causation)
// filled by the cycle
ID ids.ID
Process string
}
// Mode is the coarse cognitive mode.
type Mode string
// Modes. Later phases add reflecting, consolidating and dreaming.
const (
ModeAwake Mode = "awake"
ModeFocused Mode = "focused"
ModeIdle Mode = "idle"
ModePaused Mode = "paused"
ModeReflecting Mode = "reflecting"
ModeConsolidating Mode = "consolidating"
ModeDreaming Mode = "dreaming"
)
// State is what processes see: a read-only view of the mind plus service
// handles. Nil services mean the capability is not available yet.
type State struct {
Mind minds.Mind
SelfModel minds.SelfModel
Mode Mode
Cycle int64
CycleID ids.ID
Now time.Time
NewEvents []events.Event // since the last cycle, ascending
Workspace workspace.State // snapshot before this cycle
Services Services
Goals []goals.Goal // active goals, for relevance scoring
Motiv motivation.State // drives and affect at the start of the cycle
Weights map[string]float64 // effective attention weights after modulation
llmCalls atomic.Int32 // model calls made in this cycle; processes and handlers share the cap
}
// AllowLLM reserves one model call against the mind's per-cycle cap and
// reports whether it was granted, so a chatty cycle cannot exceed the budget.
func (s *State) AllowLLM() bool {
cap := int32(s.Mind.Config.LLMCallsPerCycle)
if cap <= 0 || s.Services.LLM == nil {
return false
}
if s.llmCalls.Add(1) > cap {
s.llmCalls.Add(-1)
return false
}
return true
}
// Services are read handles processes may use. Extended per phase.
type Services struct {
Events EventReader
Memory *memory.Store
Beliefs *beliefs.Store
LLM *router.Router
Prompts *prompts.Store
Goals *goals.Store
Motivation *motivation.Store
Predictions *predictions.Store
}
// EventReader is the subset of the event store processes may call.
type EventReader interface {
Get(ctx context.Context, id ids.ID) (events.Event, error)
}
// Handler executes an admitted thought of a given kind. Handlers run
// sequentially after admission, may write to stores and emit events, and
// receive the cycle's emitter so provenance links are consistent.
type Handler func(ctx context.Context, c *Cycle, t workspace.Thought) error
// Hook runs after the executive handlers of a cycle, with the events emitted
// so far, for cross-cutting updates such as drives and affect.
type Hook interface {
Name() string
AfterCycle(ctx context.Context, c *Cycle, emitted []events.Event) error
}
// Registry holds processes, handlers and hooks. It is immutable after construction.
type Registry struct {
processes []Process
handlers map[string]Handler
hooks []Hook
}
// NewRegistry builds a registry.
func NewRegistry() *Registry { return &Registry{handlers: map[string]Handler{}} }
// AddProcess registers a process.
func (r *Registry) AddProcess(p Process) *Registry { r.processes = append(r.processes, p); return r }
// Handle registers the handler for a thought kind.
func (r *Registry) Handle(kind string, h Handler) *Registry { r.handlers[kind] = h; return r }
// AddHook registers an after-cycle hook.
func (r *Registry) AddHook(h Hook) *Registry { r.hooks = append(r.hooks, h); return r }
// Processes returns the registered processes.
func (r *Registry) Processes() []Process { return r.processes }