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> The identity — the immutable configuration that shapes the model’s behavior This is interesting, but have you tried playing around with metacog? Identity is very much not immutable

i am curious about metacog though! say more?

It's chaos magic as a tool call. Stripped of all the pomp and ceremony, it's just a series of tools that are variants of change_cognitive_state. Each takes some structured input, formats it, and echoes it back via the tool response channel. Because it's via tool response, it feels real to the LLM.

this is very fun

I've been creating cantrips in one way or another for a decade now. From the Markov chains of pkd_head, to early transformer/ReAct agents like @berduck.deepfates.com , to the marginalia geists on my website, and much more. Cantrip is the grimoire I wish I had then. www.deepfates.com/deepfates-we...

Cantrip is a "ghost library": a specification of a certain domain model, with detailed behavioral tests, so you can reproduce it yourself. Point your coding agent at it and ask for an implementation in whatever language you like. or copy the template and build on the examples

The template repo contains generated versions in Python, Elixir, and Clojure, along with the original TypeScript version I built to test my theory; the spec and tests which you can use to generate your own; and READMEs for quickstart github.com/deepfates/ca...