REPRODUCED: in the non-agentic path (Tools off / 'Just chat'), asking for
tool-work makes the model role-play tool use — it emits a fake ```json {...}```
'tool call' and says 'let me search/query/pull your sessions' while NOTHING
runs. Reads as a broken/lying app. (The agentic path is fine: verified it
calls search_memory and reports honestly.)
Root cause: build_system_prompt (handle_chat, the tool-less path) never told
the model it has no tools this turn, so it fabricated.
Fix: add a NO-TOOLS directive to the non-agentic system prompt — never emit
tool calls / JSON tool blocks / 'let me pull...' narration; answer from context
only; if a tool is truly needed, say so in one sentence and tell the user to
turn Tools on. Applied to chat.el (source) AND dist/soul.c (the curated TU the
CI compiles), so the CI-built binary carries it.
Verified the FABRICATION repro on the live local soul; could not verify the
patched binary locally (no matching el-runtime version on this machine — a
hand-link against origin/main runtime 404s on all routes). Builds correctly via
CI, which links soul.c against the pinned runtime.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Incorporates PRs #22/#23/#24:
- agentic_tools_all dedup fix (no duplicate web_search tool)
- workspace scope functions (agent_workspace_root, path_within_root, resolve_in_root)
- updated dispatch_tool with workspace confinement
- canonical-self bridge (ensure_self_canonical_bridge)
Also incorporates CI link fix from PR #26 (soul.c is self-contained, no
other dist/*.c needed). Fixes the CI build step which was compiling the
old June-16 soul.c that predated all these changes.
Genesis boot previously seeded a fresh identity and saved it over snapshot.json
whenever the in-memory graph looked empty. Replace the fixed node-count threshold
with a ratio guard: refuse to seed when the on-disk snapshot is large
(>200KB) but the loaded graph is sparse (< disk/16000 nodes).
KNOWN LIMITATION: this gates only the seed/pre-serve-save path. The deeper cause
is a non-atomic engram_save (fopen wb truncates to 0 before writing 47MB), which
creates a window where a concurrent load reads an empty file -> genesis -> and if
guard_disk is read in that same window the guard passes. The real fix is an
atomic engram_save (temp + fsync + rename) in el_runtime.c, tracked separately.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- sessions.el: new sessions module with session management and approval gate
- routes.el: wire /api/sessions routes (list, get, create, approve, tool_result)
- chat.el: thread-aware activation — short messages anchor to last reply
before engram compilation so follow-ups stay on-topic
- chat.el: agentic path tracks per-session history (session_hist_{id})
instead of shared conv_history, seeding each turn with prior context
- chat.el: add call_neuron_mcp, dispatch_tool, is_builtin_tool, next_bridge_id
agentic_loop, bridge_save, agentic_resume, handle_tool_result
- dist/soul: rebuild with all of the above
On startup, prefer the local engram snapshot if it has >50 nodes.
HTTP Engram is only used on first boot (no snapshot yet). This means
sessions, conversation history, and in-process state survive daemon
restarts.
awareness.el: sync source with compiled binary (periodic mem_save
on heartbeat was already in the binary but not in source).
Rebuilds soul.c with the new startup logic and ships updated binary.
neuron-api.el is a new first-class El module that implements all Neuron
cognitive API handlers natively — no HTTP round-trips, no MCP wrapper,
direct engram builtin calls. All capabilities that previously lived in
the MCP wrapper adapter now live here in the soul.
Handlers: begin_session, compile_ctx, remember, recall, search_knowledge,
browse_knowledge, capture_knowledge, evolve_knowledge, promote_knowledge,
browse_processes, define_process, log_state_event, list_state_events,
inspect_config, tune_config, inspect_graph, link_entities, list_typed,
consolidate.
Routes wired in routes.el under /api/neuron/* (GET + POST).
Also compiles all loop-1/loop-2 .el source changes into dist/*.c and
rebuilds the binary. memory.elh and neuron-api.elh updated with new exports.
Adds handle_dharma_room_turn_agentic to chat.el — same full tool loop
as handle_chat_agentic but reads transcript directly (not message), and
returns {response, cgi_id, tools_used} to match the dharma room shape.
Registers dharma_room_turn_agentic as a new event type in routes.el so
the studio can dispatch @neuron turns through this dedicated path.
- soul.el: SOUL_CGI_ID, SOUL_ENGRAM_PATH, SOUL_IDENTITY env vars;
state_set("soul_snapshot_path") so callers can find it; only call
init_soul_edges() when cgi_id == "ntn-genesis"
- chat.el: handle_dharma_room_turn — soul builds its own context from its
own engram, assembles system prompt, calls LLM, persists episodic memory;
also fix is_new_tool scoping bug in handle_chat_agentic (use has_tool)
- routes.el: wire dharma_room_turn event type before chat_as_soul branch
- rebuild dist/neuron: handle_dharma_room_turn now compiled in
Replace scan-by-offset fallback with engram_get_node_json calls for the
known high-salience identity nodes (family, origin). Offset-based scanning
is order-dependent and unreliable; direct ID fetch is stable regardless of
snapshot position. Ensures biographical context (Fox, Bobby, etc.) is
always in the system prompt when vector search returns nothing.
Routes a new event_type "chat_as_soul" through dharma/recv. The Studio
preassembles the system_prompt + transcript and dispatches per-speaker;
the soul-binary just performs the LLM call as the requested speaker_slug.
No engram_compile here — each soul has its own engram (88xx) and the
Studio queries it before composing the prompt.
Also: track the previously-untracked split source modules (chat, routes,
memory, awareness, studio) and add build.sh so the binary can be rebuilt
without the studio’s concat trick. elb resolves the import graph and
emits one .c per .el; we link them together with cc. dist/soul-el now
points at dist/neuron via symlink (matching the launchctl plist).
will.anderson
Tim Lingo