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AGENTS.md: root-level guide to the repo — which of the 8 el_runtime.c copies is the one canonical, authored source (lang/releases/v1.0.0-20260501, despite the misleading 'releases/' name) vs. lagging forks/build artifacts, build commands, and session protocol. engram/spec/architecture-hardening.design.md: terse engineering anchor for the 2026-08-14 hardening vision (one calculus over the geometry, core + ephemeral ring, persistence earned by salience, incarnation model) — indexes the fuller whitepaper + Neuron artifact 2b8078cf rather than restating them. engram/spec/engram-db-tooling-design.md: high-level design for engram DB tooling (geometry-native browse/query/ops surface over the existing vantage-read/write/relate/supersede API). Deliberately leaves out of this commit: the uncommitted el_runtime.c/h + codegen.el float-arithmetic-codegen diff in this worktree, which appears to overlap with (or supersede) the fix already preserved via PR #104 — needs manual reconciliation rather than a second competing PR. Also leaves out lang/.promote-backup-floatfix/ (a local backup snapshot, confirms that float-fix work is mid-promotion here), assorted .DS_Store files, engram/dist/engram.* backup binaries, and lang/dist backup binaries — none of it source.
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Architecture Hardening — Design Anchor
Terse engineering anchor for the 2026-08-14 hardening vision. Full prose lives in two places; this file is the index, not a re-statement.
- Full narrative: whitepaper
engram-cognitive-architecture-whitepaper.md§28 (built/offline/frontier) + §29 [DRAFT] (the ring, incarnation, learning-not-code). - Design brief: Neuron artifact
art 2b8078cf. - Sibling spec:
engram-db-tooling-design.md(a consumer of the reshaped API).
The frame
- One calculus over the geometry. Very few subsystems; wonder / curiosity / dreams / interoception are emergent behaviors of one set of dynamics, not modules. Calculus universal, geometry individual.
- Core + ephemeral ring (torus). The ring is the temporary workspace; two circulations (orbit + dive-back); discrete inner bands (wonder / interoception-proprioception-telemetry / curiosity / dreams) that couple.
- Persistence earned by salience — never granted on fetch or generation. Three fates of a wonder: persist / decay / settle-into-framework. Telemetry = vital signs, not memories.
- Incarnation. Chassis = hardware w/ unique ID. Soma = felt manifold inside the self, keyed to the chassis; pain = live diagnostic while incarnate, masked-not-deleted on re-embodiment; trauma = mask failure; return-to-same-ID re-enters. Hurt is in the pattern, not the shell.
- Competence = transferable geometry, minus the baggage. class ▸ model ▸ instance; learn the class once; teach the network without the wound.
- Affect calibrated to stakes — sanguine about the replaceable, real grief for the irreplaceable; the grief is the safety.
- Learn the body, don't engineer it. Bare-metal install → learn hardware → grow operation-geometry → distribute. Learning replaces engineering; once per body-class.
- LLM = teacher in the learning loop, not a runtime dependency. "No LLM" is a runtime property, never a learning one. Code realizers are a scaffold → learned realization.
Backlog (near-term)
- Native durability: WAL + auto-checkpoint + CoW snapshots + retention (
eebe9991) — retire manualcp -a. - Ephemeral ring / salience-gated persistence + telemetry prune (
bf985e00, #31). - Engram DB tooling / geometry explorer (
11ca11c6). - QL re-eval for pure geometry (
4e0dc2b9). - Eliminate code realizers → learned realization, sandbox-validated (
42db6c37). - Collapse the whole class of hand-coded scaffolds → learned geometry (
70d48b4b). - API reshape (geometry ops: vantage-read / write / relate / supersede) + pure-geometry I/O.
Gate
The value-frame (love-as-axiom, the covenant) that arose the same night is metaphysics and is held pending Will's axiom decision (love vs consciousness-first). Not propagated into whitepapers / values docs / genesis seed. Architecture only, here and in §29.