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What I build so coding agents stay oriented, honest, and on task.

Featured2026

memory-pkg

Agents forget the work between sessions. memory-pkg indexes every transcript into TimescaleDB and trigram-searches the right history into the next prompt — pure SQL, no LLM in the hot path.

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Sylphie2026

Cognitive architecture

A non-LLM-in-the-runtime-path cognitive architecture. Dual-process reasoning, drive-driven attention, language as voice box rather than thinker.

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sylphie-pkg2026

Codebase knowledge graph

Coding agents waste context re-reading files. sylphie-pkg compiles the source tree into a Neo4j graph and serves it over MCP — a map for the agent, not a flashlight.

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Enforcement Hooks2026

Self-review gates for agents

Agents that grade their own work ship drift. Two hooks — line-level on every write, intent-level at every Stop — keep the agent in lock step with the project's standards.

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