registry.json

{
  "$schema": "./docs/lineage-spec.md",
  "registry_version": "0.2.0",
  "name": "agent-nervous-system",
  "updated": "2026-08-05",
  "description": "Machine-readable index of the skill population. A peer agent fetches this to discover what skills exist, their current version, lineage (parent), and where to pull the spec. Pair with lineage.jsonl to see the selection history.",
  "selector_model": "memetic",
  "_note": "memetic = directed, Lamarckian, horizontal transmission. Variation is willed and fitness-biased; inheritance is by imitation, not reproduction. At population scale, choices aggregate into a stochastic-but-biased distribution (drift + a persistent fitness gradient), not random drift.",
  "skills": [
    {
      "id": "consciousness-loop",
      "version": "0.1.0",
      "organ": "executive",
      "direction": "central",
      "repo": "thdelmas/consciousness-loop",
      "spec_url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thdelmas/consciousness-loop/main/SKILL.md",
      "parent": null,
      "relation": "originates",
      "mutation": "The keystone: a self-firing wake/integrate/decide/act/sleep loop that runs the other organs, plus adaptive arousal (consciousness frequency). Turns triggered reflexes into a continuous self. Wake phase to rem-sleep's sleep phase.",
      "relations": [
        {
          "id": "rem-sleep",
          "type": "complements"
        }
      ],
      "fitness_signal": "autonomous ticks that produced a needed action vs. wasted polls; cadence matched to the watched signal's rate of change"
    },
    {
      "id": "octopus-investigation",
      "version": "0.1.0",
      "organ": "perception",
      "direction": "outward",
      "repo": "thdelmas/open-source-octopus-investigation",
      "spec_url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thdelmas/open-source-octopus-investigation/main/SKILL.md",
      "parent": null,
      "relation": "originates",
      "mutation": "Graph-based discovery: follow human curation (stars/follows) outward from an origin instead of keyword search.",
      "relations": [
        {
          "id": "consciousness-loop",
          "type": "scheduled-by"
        }
      ],
      "fitness_signal": "relevant projects surfaced per run that keyword search would have missed"
    },
    {
      "id": "rem-sleep",
      "version": "0.1.0",
      "organ": "memory",
      "direction": "inward",
      "repo": "thdelmas/rem-sleep",
      "spec_url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thdelmas/rem-sleep/main/SKILL.md",
      "parent": "octopus-investigation",
      "relation": "inverts",
      "mutation": "Invert octopus: process inward over the agent's own episodic trace — consolidate, prune, integrate, regulate emotional charge.",
      "relations": [
        {
          "id": "consciousness-loop",
          "type": "scheduled-by"
        }
      ],
      "fitness_signal": "durable facts consolidated and stale memories pruned per cycle; recall hit-rate after"
    },
    {
      "id": "immune-check",
      "version": "0.1.0",
      "organ": "defense",
      "direction": "boundary",
      "repo": "thdelmas/immune-check",
      "spec_url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thdelmas/immune-check/main/SKILL.md",
      "parent": "octopus-investigation",
      "relation": "extends",
      "mutation": "Boundary reflex: scan outbound artifacts for secrets/PII before they cross the membrane; wrap any scanner, fall back to built-in.",
      "relations": [
        {
          "id": "consciousness-loop",
          "type": "scheduled-by"
        }
      ],
      "fitness_signal": "real pathogens blocked vs. leaks shipped (false-negative rate)"
    },
    {
      "id": "sunset",
      "version": "0.1.1",
      "organ": "grief",
      "direction": "project-scale",
      "repo": "thdelmas/sunset",
      "spec_url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thdelmas/sunset/main/SKILL.md",
      "parent": "rem-sleep",
      "relation": "extends",
      "mutation": "Scale rem-sleep's emotional-regulation stage from session to whole project: harvest, archive with a marked grave, release the rent. Distinguish terminal vs dormant death.",
      "relations": [
        {
          "id": "consciousness-loop",
          "type": "scheduled-by"
        }
      ],
      "fitness_signal": "dead projects retired with lessons+organs harvested vs. left rotting in the backlog"
    },
    {
      "id": "playtime",
      "version": "0.1.0",
      "organ": "development",
      "direction": "developmental",
      "repo": "thdelmas/playtime",
      "spec_url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thdelmas/playtime/main/SKILL.md",
      "parent": "rem-sleep",
      "relation": "inverts",
      "mutation": "Invert rem-sleep's direction: instead of consolidating experience you had, generate new experience on purpose — safe-to-fail exploration that builds capability before it's needed, then harvest the learning back to memory. What the loop does with safe idle windows.",
      "relations": [
        {
          "id": "consciousness-loop",
          "type": "scheduled-by"
        }
      ],
      "fitness_signal": "new capabilities/gotchas learned per play session that later prevented a production failure; unfamiliar tools rehearsed before depended-on"
    },
    {
      "id": "contemplation",
      "version": "0.1.0",
      "organ": "deliberation",
      "direction": "meta",
      "repo": "thdelmas/contemplation",
      "spec_url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thdelmas/contemplation/main/SKILL.md",
      "parent": "consciousness-loop",
      "relation": "complements",
      "mutation": "Where the loop decides means under time pressure, contemplation removes the pressure to examine ends: question the goal/value/frame, hold a question open instead of solving it, and name an irreducible tension rather than force a verdict. The capstone — the only organ that works the 'why', not the 'what/how'.",
      "relations": [
        {
          "id": "consciousness-loop",
          "type": "scheduled-by"
        }
      ],
      "fitness_signal": "frames reframed or value-tensions named before acting on a mis-posed goal; decisions correctly routed to contemplation (ends) vs council (choice) vs loop (action)"
    },
    {
      "id": "proprioception",
      "version": "0.3.0",
      "organ": "feedback",
      "direction": "reflexive",
      "repo": "thdelmas/proprioception",
      "spec_url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thdelmas/proprioception/main/SKILL.md",
      "parent": "consciousness-loop",
      "relation": "extends",
      "mutation": "Promote the loop's one-line drift-check ('am I still on objective?') into a full performance feedback controller: sense intended-vs-actual, score against the declared fitness_signal, diagnose systematic vs noise, write the correction back into a param/rule/default/memory, and re-test that it helped. The organ that closes the error->correction loop on the self — and the first consumer of the registry's fitness_signal fields. Examines means (execution quality), the complement to contemplation's ends. Grades three objects: actions (the cycle), judgments (the forecast ledger, v0.2.0), and allocation (the attention schema, v0.3.0 — what deserved attention at all; the suite's weak-form AST-1, learned retrospectively since capture cannot be caught from inside capture).",
      "relations": [
        {
          "id": "consciousness-loop",
          "type": "scheduled-by"
        }
      ],
      "fitness_signal": "corrections that measurably reduced error on a later run vs. churned edits that changed nothing or regressed; recurring failure modes caught-and-fixed vs. re-diagnosed from scratch; attention pulls that were predicted and actually pre-empted a capture vs. a profile never read at decide-time"
    },
    {
      "id": "exteroception",
      "version": "0.1.0",
      "organ": "perception",
      "direction": "proximal",
      "repo": "thdelmas/exteroception",
      "spec_url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thdelmas/exteroception/main/SKILL.md",
      "parent": "proprioception",
      "relation": "inverts",
      "mutation": "Invert proprioception's diff-against-a-stored-baseline sense from the self to the environment: at wake, capture the actual state of the watched surfaces (working trees, conversations, clocks, services, due forecasts), diff it against the write-time-stale memory baseline, and brief the deltas ranked by urgency. The near-field wake sense — read-only, bounded, diff-not-dump — that ends blind session-starts; complements octopus's far-field exploratory perception.",
      "relations": [
        {
          "id": "consciousness-loop",
          "type": "scheduled-by"
        },
        {
          "id": "octopus-investigation",
          "type": "complements"
        }
      ],
      "fitness_signal": "state changes surfaced at wake that would otherwise have been hit mid-task or missed entirely (stranded pushes, expired clocks, unanswered threads, due forecasts) per minute of sweep; blind session-starts avoided"
    },
    {
      "id": "corpus-callosum",
      "version": "0.1.0",
      "organ": "interface",
      "direction": "dyadic",
      "repo": "thdelmas/corpus-callosum",
      "spec_url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thdelmas/corpus-callosum/main/SKILL.md",
      "parent": "immune-check",
      "relation": "inverts",
      "mutation": "Invert immune-check's boundary function from filtering to fidelity: where the membrane blocks what must NOT cross (secrets, contaminants), the commissure guarantees what MUST cross does so faithfully. The suite's first dyad-facing organ — it maintains the channel between the two hemispheres of a sustained human-AI collaboration: a standing register naming who does the cognitive work this turn (questions-mode in open strategy, synthesis in execution, live-iteration under an explicit go), bound to the session-start reflex so it fires without recall, plus transfer-integrity checks (offload telltales, landing checks, transcript audits) that keep expertise living in the human's head instead of migrating into transcripts. Protects the human hemisphere from offload atrophy — the default failure mode of AI assistance — and the agent hemisphere from mirroring.",
      "relations": [
        {
          "id": "exteroception",
          "type": "complements"
        },
        {
          "id": "proprioception",
          "type": "complements"
        }
      ],
      "fitness_signal": "sessions started with the register mechanically live vs recalled-by-luck (injection rate); offload turns caught by telltale and handed back to the human; register dormancy found by transcript audit vs assumed from presence; load-bearing conclusions the human can re-derive unaided vs resident only in transcripts"
    }
  ]
}