One crystal, many facets. Memory is not a log — it is a cascade, and the oracle drinks from it.
Mnemosyne — the store
Mnemosyne is the oracle’s memory: a SQLite-backed palace with a single store and many facets. Three layers, each with a different shape of remembering:
| Layer | Shape | What it holds |
|---|---|---|
| Episodic | project_notes, facet-tagged |
what happened — the project’s story |
| Procedural | companion_skill |
how to act — distilled action skills |
| Identitary | companion_state |
who each companion has become — accumulated self per glyph |
Every companion reads and writes through its own facet, but the store is single. The owl’s architecture maps and the fox’s lateral paths live in the same palace; only the facet differs.
Aegis — the orientation
Aegis is the sharp edge of memory — the short-term focus that keeps context coherent right now. Where Mnemosyne is the palace, Aegis is the torch.
It holds the dynamic agent state: the summary (current orientation), the tags, the temperature, the thinking depth, and the working directory. It is rewritten every turn, so the oracle does not drift across a long session — Aegis always knows where it stands.
The Aethernaut’s Manifest
The ship is the Argo; the crew are the aethernauts. Every companion suggestion is not a throwaway popover but an intention — a sailor with a mission, signed into the ship’s log.
One queue, many shapes (polymorphism, not a switch appended later):
| Kind | Glyph | Default action |
|---|---|---|
| suggestion | ✨ | suggest |
| directive | 🎯 | oracle |
| recovery (Riss-Faden) | 🪡 | recover_last_intent |
| ritual | 🔮 | seal_run |
| conjuration | 🌀 | conjuration |
| insight | 💠 | remember |
Aegis becomes Pythia’s agenda — Mnemosyne::Aegis.agenda reads the manifest,
so the voice’s schedule is the oracle’s orientation.
Metempsychosis
Memory transmigrates. Metempsychosis moves knowledge between contexts — one task can consult another’s notes, subscribe to its orientation, or spawn a task on a remote context over ÆtherLink. The soul moves in, not just visits.
The facets
The companions are the facets of this one crystal — see The Council for the twelve voices that read and write through it.