will.anderson
971b21751a
Yesterday's eligibility-trace fix made Hebbian consolidation numerically real: hebb_max 0.000799 -> 0.4725, and 1,198 hebbian-associate edges formed in 23h48m. This morning's census found where they went: nowhere. soul daemon (in-process graph): 42,426 edges, 1,198 hebbian engram server (:8742, durable): 41,213 edges, 49 hebbian Two processes, two graphs, one direction of travel. The soul pulls from the server every 10 min (GET /api/sync) and never pushes. It cannot fall back on saving its own copy either: soul.el sets soul_snapshot_path only inside `if is_genesis && safe_to_seed`, and safe_to_seed is unconditionally false whenever ENGRAM_URL is set -- because the server owns persistence and a soul writing snapshot.json would clobber it. That guard is correct. The consequence was not: mem_save() has never once executed. The soul is the ONLY process running idle cognition, so it is where essentially all co-activation happens -- and it was throwing away every association it learned, every restart, silently. The mechanism worked and the learning still evaporated. Consolidation is now a message, not a file. Fast volatile store hands each newly-formed association to the slow durable store over the API the server already exposes; only edges past ENGRAM_HEBB_LINK_MIN are ever queued, so what crosses the process boundary already earned it. - el_runtime.c: 512-slot overwrite-oldest write-back ring; enqueue at edge formation; engram_hebb_drain_json() pops a postable JSON batch. Drops and drains are counted, not silent -- a consolidation path that quietly discards is the exact failure this entry exists to correct. - server.el: POST /api/edges/batch. persist_canonical() writes the full 60MB snapshot per call, and route_create_edge calls it per edge -- correct for one interactive edge, ruinous for bulk (~840MB/beat to persist 14 associations). Batch connects all, snapshots once. Same durability, 1/N the writes. - act-stats: hebb_wb_pending / _drained / _dropped. pending climbing with drained flat = drain not called; drained climbing with sent 0 = POST refused. Both failure modes are now visible in the stream instead of in an autopsy. Verified live: batch route accepts valid entries, skips malformed ones without aborting the batch, and enforces _auth. All 1,256 learned associations are now in the canonical store; the soul booted at 42,431 edges with hebb_max 0.4941 carried across the restart for the first time.