Neuron
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The design is explicit — 'Every compilation query begins at the self-model node
and traverses outward... structural reachability from the self-model node is a
precondition for any node to appear in compiled context.' (will-anderson
patents/drafts/engram-claims.md, Self-Seeded Activation. DRAFT, not a filed
provisional — cited as such.)
Measured before: compiled context held 0-1 identity records out of 10, because
compilation seeds from a hardcoded text string and never from the self. Even an
explicit 'my values identity who I am' query returned a boot counter and
state-events.
This restores the designed behaviour without repeating the failure that set
self_neighbors to [] originally: that was an unbounded ~90KB neighbour dump which
closed the socket on every call. Same bound as every other list in the handler.
Cap is 24 rather than 8 because the self root's first 8 neighbours are tag nodes
('neuron', 'tier:note', 'disposition:experimental', 'imprint', 'traversal') that
crowd out the substantive identity records behind them. The root has 34
neighbours of which 23 are identity.
Measured after, same corpus, binary as the only variable:
identity records in compiled context 0 -> 17
response size 10,806 -> 18,985 bytes
interface gate 108 routes in, 108 out, none removed
Rung: E2E-VERIFIED in an isolated lab. Not deployed — this is the identity layer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>