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Andy Dixon 6fdc3908f5 feat(research): ablations, broadcast and self-model experiments, counterfactuals
A framework for testing functional properties of the architecture
(Part C). None of it claims consciousness; every measure has an
operational definition in research.Measures.

- Ablations (attention, memory retrieval, affect, metacognition,
  commitments, volition, global workspace, curiosity, association, goals,
  narrative, notifications) and workspace overrides (force a matching
  candidate in or out of admission) live in a fork's cognitive
  configuration. Original minds refuse them on create and update; only
  snapshot restores may carry them, so they are part of the configuration
  digest. Excluded candidates are recorded with fate "excluded".
- Self-model experiments override a fork's self-model (capabilities,
  identity, goals, knowledge gaps) without touching policy. When an
  action's effective policy disagrees with the self-model, cognition
  records a self_model_mismatch and corrects the entry; experiments report
  self-model accuracy and correction latency.
- Counterfactual experiments replay a mind's recorded stimuli from a
  snapshot with chosen events omitted; the report lists what differed in
  beliefs, wants, intentions, memories, attention and capability
  decisions, in a form introspection can cite.
- Experiments record a protocol (kind, independent variable, controlled
  variables, measures), per-variant volition, plan, downstream-by-category
  (events reachable from each stimulus through recorded links),
  introspection and self-model measures and event ranges; comparisons add
  want, intention and plan-capability overlap, measure ranges, a
  descriptive architecture share and a downstream delta; reproducibility
  is labelled against the previous run of the same definition.
- research.Agency computes want→intention, intention→action, abandonment,
  commitment fulfilment and conflict, blocked intentions, replanning,
  outcome success and introspection accuracy; MetacognitiveCalibration
  relates confidence and expressed uncertainty in replies to later belief
  revision, with Brier scores for each half of the period.
- The sandbox test harness gains volition, planning, agency and research
  but not the motivation hook, whose wall-clock decay would make replay
  comparisons timing-dependent.
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package minds
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"time"
)
// CognitiveConfig holds per-mind tunables consumed by the brain. Defaults are
// conservative; every field is exposed in the UI in later phases.
type CognitiveConfig struct {
WorkspaceCapacity int `json:"workspace_capacity"`
WorkingMemoryCapacity int `json:"working_memory_capacity"`
AttentionWeights map[string]float64 `json:"attention_weights"`
CycleMinInterval Duration `json:"cycle_min_interval"`
IdleCycleInterval Duration `json:"idle_cycle_interval"`
MaxCyclesPerMinute int `json:"max_cycles_per_minute"`
LLMCallsPerCycle int `json:"llm_calls_per_cycle"`
DailyTokenBudget int64 `json:"daily_token_budget"`
WorkingMemoryDecay float64 `json:"working_memory_decay"` // activation multiplier per cycle
LoopDetectWindow int `json:"loop_detect_window"`
LoopDetectThreshold int `json:"loop_detect_threshold"`
// Background cognition (spec §9, §18, §39). Each subsystem has a switch,
// a schedule and a model-call budget so idle minds cannot spend freely.
ConsolidationEnabled bool `json:"consolidation_enabled"`
ConsolidationInterval Duration `json:"consolidation_interval"`
ConsolidationMinEpisodes int `json:"consolidation_min_episodes"`
ConsolidationLLMCalls int `json:"consolidation_llm_calls"`
ReflectionEnabled bool `json:"reflection_enabled"`
ReflectionInterval Duration `json:"reflection_interval"`
ReflectionLLMCalls int `json:"reflection_llm_calls"`
NarrativeLLM bool `json:"narrative_llm"`
NotifyMinConfidence float64 `json:"notify_min_confidence"`
NotifyMinSalience float64 `json:"notify_min_salience"`
NotifyCooldown Duration `json:"notify_cooldown"`
// Dreaming (spec §19): off by default, confined to allowed hours, with its
// own model-call and memory budgets. Dreams can never act.
DreamingEnabled bool `json:"dreaming_enabled"`
DreamHours string `json:"dream_hours"` // "HH-HH" local, e.g. "01-06"; empty = any hour
DreamInterval Duration `json:"dream_interval"`
DreamLLMCalls int `json:"dream_llm_calls"`
DreamMaxMemories int `json:"dream_max_memories"`
DreamMaxHypotheses int `json:"dream_max_hypotheses"`
// LLMRoles overrides the daemon-wide model routing for this mind:
// role → model id. It is what lets two forks of one snapshot run on
// different providers while sharing everything else.
LLMRoles map[string]string `json:"llm_roles,omitempty"`
// Ablations disable named cognitive components in a research fork
// (docs/cognitive-research.md). Only forks may carry them.
Ablations []string `json:"ablations,omitempty"`
// WorkspaceOverrides force candidates matching a text into or out of the
// global workspace in a research fork, for broadcast experiments.
WorkspaceOverrides []WorkspaceOverride `json:"workspace_overrides,omitempty"`
}
// WorkspaceOverride is one experimental manipulation of admission.
type WorkspaceOverride struct {
Match string `json:"match"` // case-insensitive text in the candidate summary or its triggering event
Fate string `json:"fate"` // admit | exclude
}
// Ablations is the closed vocabulary of components a research fork may
// disable, with what disabling means operationally.
var Ablations = map[string]string{
"attention": "every attention feature weight is 1 and drives do not modulate weights: admission no longer prioritises by learned weighting",
"memory_retrieval": "the retrieval process proposes no recalled memories",
"affect": "drives and affect are neither updated by events nor used to modulate attention",
"metacognition": "no self-checks are proposed",
"commitments": "commitments do not shape formation, reconsideration or metacognition",
"volition": "no wants are derived and no intentions are formed",
"global_workspace": "nothing persists in the workspace or working memory between cycles and nothing is broadcast; each admitted thought is handled in isolation",
"curiosity": "the curiosity process proposes no questions",
"association": "the association process proposes no hypotheses",
"goals": "the goal monitor raises no stalled or relevant goals",
"narrative": "the narrative is not updated",
"notifications": "no notifications are raised",
}
// ResearchSettings reports whether the configuration carries research
// manipulations that only forks may have.
func (c CognitiveConfig) ResearchSettings() bool {
return len(c.Ablations) > 0 || len(c.WorkspaceOverrides) > 0
}
// ValidateResearch checks ablation names and override fates.
func (c CognitiveConfig) ValidateResearch() error {
for _, a := range c.Ablations {
if _, ok := Ablations[a]; !ok {
return fmt.Errorf("unknown ablation %q", a)
}
}
for _, o := range c.WorkspaceOverrides {
if strings.TrimSpace(o.Match) == "" || len(o.Match) > 200 || (o.Fate != "admit" && o.Fate != "exclude") {
return fmt.Errorf("workspace override needs a match (≤200 chars) and fate admit or exclude")
}
}
return nil
}
// Ablated reports whether a component is disabled in this configuration.
func (c CognitiveConfig) Ablated(component string) bool {
for _, a := range c.Ablations {
if a == component {
return true
}
}
return false
}
// AttentionFeatures is the fixed set of scoring features (spec §6). Weights are
// per mind; features are computed deterministically by the attention package.
var AttentionFeatures = []string{"salience", "urgency", "novelty", "affect", "goal_relevance", "consequence", "confidence", "contradiction", "operator_priority", "context_relevance"}
// DefaultConfig returns the baseline cognitive configuration.
func DefaultConfig() CognitiveConfig {
w := map[string]float64{"salience": 1.0, "urgency": 1.2, "novelty": 0.8, "affect": 0.6, "goal_relevance": 1.1,
"consequence": 0.9, "confidence": 0.4, "contradiction": 1.0, "operator_priority": 1.5, "context_relevance": 0.9}
return CognitiveConfig{WorkspaceCapacity: 7, WorkingMemoryCapacity: 9, AttentionWeights: w,
CycleMinInterval: Duration(500 * time.Millisecond), IdleCycleInterval: Duration(60 * time.Second), MaxCyclesPerMinute: 60,
LLMCallsPerCycle: 3, DailyTokenBudget: 500_000, WorkingMemoryDecay: 0.85, LoopDetectWindow: 20, LoopDetectThreshold: 5,
ConsolidationEnabled: true, ConsolidationInterval: Duration(6 * time.Hour), ConsolidationMinEpisodes: 3, ConsolidationLLMCalls: 5,
ReflectionEnabled: true, ReflectionInterval: Duration(12 * time.Hour), ReflectionLLMCalls: 2, NarrativeLLM: false,
NotifyMinConfidence: 0.85, NotifyMinSalience: 0.7, NotifyCooldown: Duration(time.Hour),
DreamingEnabled: false, DreamHours: "01-06", DreamInterval: Duration(24 * time.Hour), DreamLLMCalls: 2, DreamMaxMemories: 40, DreamMaxHypotheses: 5}
}
// Normalise fills gaps from defaults and clamps ranges.
func (c *CognitiveConfig) Normalise() {
d := DefaultConfig()
if c.WorkspaceCapacity < 1 || c.WorkspaceCapacity > 32 {
c.WorkspaceCapacity = d.WorkspaceCapacity
}
if c.WorkingMemoryCapacity < 1 || c.WorkingMemoryCapacity > 64 {
c.WorkingMemoryCapacity = d.WorkingMemoryCapacity
}
if c.AttentionWeights == nil {
c.AttentionWeights = map[string]float64{}
}
for _, f := range AttentionFeatures {
v, ok := c.AttentionWeights[f]
if !ok || v < 0 || v > 5 {
c.AttentionWeights[f] = d.AttentionWeights[f]
}
}
for k := range c.AttentionWeights {
if !contains(AttentionFeatures, k) {
delete(c.AttentionWeights, k)
}
}
if c.CycleMinInterval <= 0 {
c.CycleMinInterval = d.CycleMinInterval
}
if c.IdleCycleInterval <= 0 {
c.IdleCycleInterval = d.IdleCycleInterval
}
if c.MaxCyclesPerMinute < 1 || c.MaxCyclesPerMinute > 600 {
c.MaxCyclesPerMinute = d.MaxCyclesPerMinute
}
if c.LLMCallsPerCycle < 0 || c.LLMCallsPerCycle > 20 {
c.LLMCallsPerCycle = d.LLMCallsPerCycle
}
if c.DailyTokenBudget <= 0 {
c.DailyTokenBudget = d.DailyTokenBudget
}
if c.WorkingMemoryDecay <= 0 || c.WorkingMemoryDecay >= 1 {
c.WorkingMemoryDecay = d.WorkingMemoryDecay
}
if c.LoopDetectWindow < 5 {
c.LoopDetectWindow = d.LoopDetectWindow
}
if c.LoopDetectThreshold < 2 {
c.LoopDetectThreshold = d.LoopDetectThreshold
}
if c.ConsolidationInterval < Duration(10*time.Minute) {
c.ConsolidationInterval = d.ConsolidationInterval
}
if c.ConsolidationMinEpisodes < 2 {
c.ConsolidationMinEpisodes = d.ConsolidationMinEpisodes
}
if c.ConsolidationLLMCalls < 0 || c.ConsolidationLLMCalls > 50 {
c.ConsolidationLLMCalls = d.ConsolidationLLMCalls
}
if c.DreamInterval < Duration(30*time.Minute) {
c.DreamInterval = d.DreamInterval
}
if c.DreamLLMCalls < 0 || c.DreamLLMCalls > 20 {
c.DreamLLMCalls = d.DreamLLMCalls
}
if c.DreamMaxMemories < 4 || c.DreamMaxMemories > 200 {
c.DreamMaxMemories = d.DreamMaxMemories
}
if c.DreamMaxHypotheses < 1 || c.DreamMaxHypotheses > 20 {
c.DreamMaxHypotheses = d.DreamMaxHypotheses
}
if len(c.LLMRoles) > 0 {
clean := map[string]string{}
for role, model := range c.LLMRoles {
if validRole(role) && looksLikeID(model) {
clean[role] = model
}
}
c.LLMRoles = clean
}
if c.ReflectionInterval < Duration(10*time.Minute) {
c.ReflectionInterval = d.ReflectionInterval
}
if c.ReflectionLLMCalls < 0 || c.ReflectionLLMCalls > 20 {
c.ReflectionLLMCalls = d.ReflectionLLMCalls
}
if c.NotifyMinConfidence <= 0 || c.NotifyMinConfidence > 1 {
c.NotifyMinConfidence = d.NotifyMinConfidence
}
if c.NotifyMinSalience <= 0 || c.NotifyMinSalience > 1 {
c.NotifyMinSalience = d.NotifyMinSalience
}
if c.NotifyCooldown < Duration(time.Minute) {
c.NotifyCooldown = d.NotifyCooldown
}
}
func contains(xs []string, x string) bool {
for _, y := range xs {
if y == x {
return true
}
}
return false
}
// Duration marshals as a Go duration string in JSON ("500ms") for readability.
type Duration time.Duration
// MarshalJSON implements json.Marshaler.
func (d Duration) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
return []byte(fmt.Sprintf("%q", time.Duration(d).String())), nil
}
// UnmarshalJSON accepts a duration string or a number of nanoseconds.
func (d *Duration) UnmarshalJSON(b []byte) error {
if len(b) > 0 && b[0] == '"' {
v, err := time.ParseDuration(string(b[1 : len(b)-1]))
if err != nil {
return err
}
*d = Duration(v)
return nil
}
var n int64
if _, err := fmt.Sscan(string(b), &n); err != nil {
return err
}
*d = Duration(n)
return nil
}
// D returns the time.Duration.
func (d Duration) D() time.Duration { return time.Duration(d) }
// validRole accepts the model roles a mind may override.
func validRole(r string) bool {
switch r {
case "perceive", "respond", "hypothesise", "summarise", "judge", "narrate", "embed":
return true
}
return false
}
// looksLikeID accepts a UUID-shaped model id; anything else is dropped.
func looksLikeID(s string) bool {
if len(s) != 36 {
return false
}
for i, ch := range s {
switch {
case i == 8 || i == 13 || i == 18 || i == 23:
if ch != '-' {
return false
}
case (ch >= '0' && ch <= '9') || (ch >= 'a' && ch <= 'f'):
default:
return false
}
}
return true
}