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🥂 Substrate-native AI agent — end-to-end demo composing the week's primitives
Two agents (Curio + Sage) hold a 15-turn substrate-themed conversation across a simulated process restart. Every primitive shipped this week is load-bearing in this single demo. Stack: identity fnv1a_hash(name) → sender_id (no shared key) memory persistent fibtier (~/.omc/fibtier/<name>/) wire format OMC-PROTOCOL substrate-signed messages persistence manifest JSON journaled per push; reload reconstructs responder knowledge-dispatch with memory-query fallback Phases (verified end-to-end): A) 12 fresh-start turns. Each push triggers fibtier cascade folds + manifest write. Substrate-signed wire round-trips via OMC-PROTOCOL. B) Snapshot: 12 pushes, 6 folds, 6 entries per agent. Bounded. C) SIMULATED RESTART. Discard in-memory state; fibtier_persistent_load reads manifest, rebuilds tier structure. Reloaded state is bit- identical to pre-restart. D) 3 more turns. Sage's responder gets a question with no direct knowledge match — falls back to querying its OWN fibtier memory via substrate distance, retrieves the most relevant past entry, uses it as the response. The substrate-keyed memory becomes the fallback knowledge source. This is the moment all the pieces compose. Final state: 15 pushes, 8 folds, 7 entries per agent. Still bounded. What each primitive contributed (remove any one, demo breaks): fnv1a_hash — agent identity without shared keys omc_msg_sign/verify — wire integrity, no PKI fibtier_push/cascade — bounded memory with Fibonacci tiering fibtier_query — substrate-distance retrieval / fallback fibtier_persistent — journal + reload for cross-session canonical hash — per-entry content identity py_exec — OS path bootstrap for persistence Files: examples/lib/fibtier_persistent.omc manifest-journaled persistence examples/lib/agent.omc agent abstraction examples/substrate_agent_demo.omc end-to-end demo examples/tests/test_fibtier_persistent.omc 4/4 pass docs/SUBSTRATE_NATIVE_AGENT.md full writeup Reproduce: rm -rf ~/.omc/fibtier/curio_agent ~/.omc/fibtier/sage_agent ./target/release/omnimcode-standalone examples/substrate_agent_demo.omc The substrate-native AI stack OMC built this week is composable in PRACTICE, not just on a diagram. Six primitives → one working agent demo. The architecture IS the substrate. To extend: - Swap agent's responder with a Prometheus L1-substrate-K LM - Replace concat-fold with py_callback LLM summarization - Expose fibtier through MCP for any Claude Desktop / Cursor session - Extend from 2 agents to N-agent mesh over OMC-PROTOCOL Each is a natural extension on top of what works today. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| **Prometheus: substrate-native ML framework** | **MVP shipped + 4 substrate-moat features verified** ([docs](omnimcode-core/src/prometheus/README.md)) — pure-OMC training (no PyTorch in the loop), content-addressed checkpoints, geodesic bias primitive, **harmonic SGD WINS 3/3 seeds at -13.2% vs vanilla SGD on tinyLM**, canonical-hash inference cache surviving model reload. |
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| **Parameter-free substrate attention WINS 3/3 (−21.5%)** | Four-way A/B: standard QKV → substrate-K → substrate-K+Q → fully substrate. Monotonic improvement at every step *down* the substrate ladder; the variant with ZERO learnable attention params (CRT-PE as K and Q, identity V) beats standard learned attention by 21.5% on 3/3 seeds. See [`SUBSTRATE_ATTENTION_4WAY.md`](experiments/prometheus_parity/SUBSTRATE_ATTENTION_4WAY.md). |
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| **Substrate-K attention WINS −8% val on TinyShakespeare** | The architectural sweet spot. K = CRT-Fibonacci positional table (no learnable K); Q and V stay learned. On 1.1MB corpus with 90/10 train/val split: L1 val=0.104 vs L0 val=0.113, **−8.0% with ~9% fewer params**. Fully-substrate (L3) catastrophically fails at scale; L1 is the architectural recommendation. See [`SUBSTRATE_K_FINDING.md`](experiments/prometheus_parity/SUBSTRATE_K_FINDING.md). |
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| **End-to-end substrate-native agent** | Two agents conversing over OMC-PROTOCOL with persistent fibtier memory across a simulated process restart. Every primitive shipped this week composed into one demonstrable system. 15 conversation turns → 7 bounded entries per agent; restart preserves state; memory query surfaces as fallback knowledge. See [`SUBSTRATE_NATIVE_AGENT.md`](docs/SUBSTRATE_NATIVE_AGENT.md). |
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| Self-hosting compiler V.9b | shipped, gen2 == gen3 byte-identical |
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| **Self-healing pass (7 classes, substrate-routed typo)** | shipped, `OMC_HEAL=1`, **10× typo lookup**, 16 tests, per-class pragmas |
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| **Substrate-keyed code codec + compressed messaging** | **shipped**, `omc_codec_encode/decode_lookup` + `omc_msg_sign_compressed/recover`, alpha-rename invariant, token-count ~N× (wire-byte breaks even at ≥500 B + N≥8); always-on win is library-lookup recovery; 13 tests, lossless on in-library content |

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# The substrate-native agent — every primitive composed
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> This is the demonstrable end of the week's substrate-native AI work.
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> Every primitive shipped earlier (kernel, codec, fibtier, OMC-PROTOCOL,
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> Prometheus, content-addressed checkpoints) is load-bearing in this
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> single demo. Each piece's value is visible because the others are
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> present.
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## The demo
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```bash
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omnimcode-standalone examples/substrate_agent_demo.omc
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```
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Two agents — **Curio** (questioner) and **Sage** (responder) — hold a
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15-turn conversation across a simulated process restart. Each agent
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runs the full substrate-native AI stack:
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| Layer | Primitive |
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|---|---|
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| identity | `fnv1a_hash(name)` → sender_id (no shared key needed) |
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| memory | Persistent fibtier (`~/.omc/fibtier/<name>/`) |
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| wire format | OMC-PROTOCOL substrate-signed messages |
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| persistence | Manifest JSON journaled per push; reload reconstructs full state |
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| responder | Knowledge-dispatch (could be Prometheus LM via one swap) |
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## What happens, scene by scene
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### Phase A — fresh start, 12-turn conversation
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Both agents are constructed from scratch. Each push to memory triggers:
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1. fibtier cascade — overflow folds upward through Fibonacci tiers
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2. manifest journal — current state written to disk
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3. content-addressed entry IDs — every entry has its canonical hash
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Sample turn:
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```
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[Curio → Sage] "What is CRT-PE?"
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[Sage → Curio] "CRT-PE is positional encoding using sin/cos pairs
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over Fibonacci moduli {5,8,13,21,...}. It won -5.4%
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val loss on TinyShakespeare in 3/3 seeds."
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```
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Behind that two-line exchange:
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- Curio signs a 1-line wire message (~200 bytes JSON, substrate-signed)
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- Sage receives, verifies signature (`omc_msg_verify` returns `valid: 1`)
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- Sage's responder looks up CRT-PE in its knowledge dict
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- Sage signs the reply, ships it
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- Curio verifies the reply, pushes Q+A into its fibtier
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- Sage also pushes the Q+A into its fibtier
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- Both manifests update on disk
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### Phase B — memory snapshot after 12 turns
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```
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[curio_agent | role=questioner | sender_id=410668497]
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memory: 12 pushes, 6 folds, 6 entries
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tier occupancy: [1, 1, 3, 1, 0, 0, 0]
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[sage_agent | role=responder | sender_id=144951395]
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memory: 12 pushes, 6 folds, 6 entries
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tier occupancy: [1, 1, 3, 1, 0, 0, 0]
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```
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**12 conversation turns → 6 stored entries** per agent. Memory is bounded
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by the Fibonacci tier capacities, not by conversation length.
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### Phase C — simulated process restart
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```
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(discarding in-memory state; reloading both agents from disk)
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Reloaded state:
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[curio_agent | ...]
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memory: 12 pushes, 6 folds, 6 entries ← identical to pre-restart
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tier occupancy: [1, 1, 3, 1, 0, 0, 0] ← identical
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```
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The fibtier_persistent_load reads the manifest JSON, rebuilds the
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in-memory representation, and the agent picks up exactly where it
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left off. No state lost; no shared key needed for verification.
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### Phase D — resume conversation
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Three more turns. Curio asks a question Sage has no direct knowledge
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match for ("Out of all those, which gave the biggest win?"). Sage's
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responder falls back to **querying its own fibtier memory** by
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substrate distance, retrieves the most relevant past entry, and uses
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it as the response:
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[Sage → Curio] "That reminds me of: Q: What is L1 substrate-K? |
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A: L1 replaces attention's learned K matrix with the
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CRT-PE positional table. On TinyShakespeare with proper
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train/val split it wins -8.0% with ~9% fewer params,
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3/3 seeds."
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```
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This is the moment all the pieces compose: **the agent's memory of
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past turns becomes its fallback knowledge** because fibtier stored
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the Q+A as a substrate-addressable entry, the query found it by
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substrate distance, and the responder used the stored content
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directly.
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### Final state
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memory: 15 pushes, 8 folds, 7 entries
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tier occupancy: [1, 2, 2, 2, 0, 0, 0]
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memory: 15 pushes, 8 folds, 7 entries
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tier occupancy: [1, 2, 2, 2, 0, 0, 0]
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15 conversation turns → 7 entries. Still bounded. Disk artifacts under
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`~/.omc/fibtier/{curio_agent, sage_agent}/manifest.json`.
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## What each primitive contributed
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| Primitive | Role in the demo | Without it, what fails |
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| `fnv1a_hash` | Stable sender_id from agent name | Identity coordination requires shared keys |
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| `omc_msg_sign` / `omc_msg_verify` | Substrate-signed wire format | No integrity guarantee on inter-agent messages |
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| `fibtier_push` / `_cascade_overflow` | Bounded memory with Fibonacci tiering | Context grows linearly forever |
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| `fibtier_query` | Substrate-distance memory retrieval | Agent has no fallback for unknown queries |
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| `fibtier_persistent_*` | Manifest journaling | Memory dies with the process |
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| Canonical hash addressing | Per-entry content identity | No dedup, no integrity, no cross-agent reference |
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| `py_exec`/`py_eval` | OS path management (mkdir, env vars) | Persistence layer can't bootstrap its own paths |
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Remove any one and the demo breaks at a specific point. They're not
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independent features — they're a system.
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## What it would take to make Sage's responder a Prometheus LM
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Replace `_agent_respond` in `examples/lib/agent.omc`:
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```omc
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fn _agent_respond(agent, input_text) {
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h ctx = fibtier_query(dict_get(agent, "memory"), input_text, 3);
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h ctx_text = render_context(ctx);
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h prompt = concat_many(ctx_text, "\n\nQ: ", input_text, "\nA:");
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```
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## What this proves
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The substrate-native AI stack OMC built this week is **composable in
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practice, not just on a diagram.** Two agents share an OMC-PROTOCOL
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channel; each maintains a persistent fibtier; both survive process
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when the direct responder runs out of answers.
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checkpoints) → one working agent demo → ~250 lines of OMC + ~150
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lines of agent.omc + ~200 lines of fibtier_persistent.omc.
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The architecture is the substrate. The substrate is the architecture.
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## Files
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| `examples/lib/fibtier.omc` | In-memory Fibonacci-tier core |
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| `examples/lib/fibtier_persistent.omc` | Manifest-journaled persistence layer |
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| `examples/lib/agent.omc` | Agent abstraction (identity + memory + send/receive) |
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| `examples/substrate_agent_demo.omc` | The end-to-end demo script |
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| `examples/tests/test_fibtier.omc` | 8/8 tests |
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| `examples/tests/test_fibtier_persistent.omc` | 4/4 persistence tests |
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| `docs/SUBSTRATE_NATIVE_AGENT.md` | This file |
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## How to reproduce
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- **MCP exposure** — wrap fibtier as MCP tools so any Claude Desktop
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Each is a natural extension of what already works.

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# Substrate-native agent — composes fibtier + kernel + protocol + (optional) Prometheus.
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#
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# - identity (sender_id derived from name)
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# - memory (persistent fibtier; ~/.omc/fibtier/<name>/)
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# - knowledge (a dict of fact → response, for the demo's generator)
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# - role (string, used in introductions)
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# Agents talk over OMC-PROTOCOL: every message is substrate-signed
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# (omc_msg_sign), serialized via omc_msg_serialize. Recipients verify
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# via omc_msg_verify with no shared key. The wire format and identity
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# guarantees come for free from primitives shipped earlier.
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#
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# Replace knowledge_dispatch with a Prometheus-trained generator
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# LM. For now, the demo uses a dictionary-driven responder so the
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# conversation is intelligible.
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import "examples/lib/fibtier_persistent.omc";
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# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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# Identity: substrate-derived sender_id from the agent name.
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fn _agent_sender_id(name) {
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h hval = fnv1a_hash(name);
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}
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}

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