omc-fibtier: Fibonacci-tier memory primitive

User's idea: context grows linearly in time but its IMPORTANCE is
power-law. Recent matters at full detail; older matters as abstraction.
Encode both axes by structuring the context buffer as Fibonacci-sized
tiers that fold upward.

  Tier 1: 1 slot   (current focus)
  Tier 2: 2 slots  (active sub-themes)
  Tier 3: 3 slots  (recent decisions)
  Tier 4: 5 slots  (session arc)
  Tier 5: 8 slots  (session history)
  Tier 6: 13 slots (multi-session themes)
  Tier 7: 21 slots (long-term patterns)
  ...

When tier N exceeds cap, its oldest TWO entries fold together into
one (concatenation + new canonical hash), the folded entry promotes
upward to tier N+1, and the cascade continues recursively.

API:
  fibtier_new(max_tiers)
  fibtier_push(mem, content)         add a new entry, cascade folds
  fibtier_query(mem, query, top_k)   substrate-distance-ranked search
  fibtier_stats(mem)                 occupancy / pushes / folds / evicted
  fibtier_render(mem)                LLM-readable prompt string
  fibtier_fold_default(a, b)         the fold rule (concat + new hash)

Composes with everything OMC already shipped:
  - fnv1a_hash       identity per entry (kernel-compatible)
  - attractor_distance  substrate distance metric
  - Fibonacci attractor table  the tier sizes themselves

Demo (examples/fibtier_conversation.omc, 100 synthetic turns):
  Pushes 100 conversation turns into a 7-tier memory.
  Result after 100 turns:
    Occupancy: [1, 1, 3, 5, 7, 1, 0]
    Total stored: 18 entries (representing 100 turns of content)
    Folds: 82 (entries collapsed upward)
    Evicted: 0
  Memory stays bounded at 18 entries regardless of conversation length.
  Each fold's content traces lineage back to source canonical hashes.

Query demo:
  query "fibonacci tiers" → top 3 substrate-distance matches across
  tiers 2, 3, 4 (most recent + folded-historical entries).

Tests (examples/tests/test_fibtier.omc): 8/8 pass:
  - tier sizes are Fibonacci
  - capacity lookup
  - push-one lands in tier 1
  - push-two promotes (no fold yet)
  - push-three fills tier 2 to cap (still no fold)
  - push-four triggers first fold (cascade to tier 3)
  - render produces nonempty string
  - capacity growth is geometric (sum check)

Honest scope:
  - Fold = concatenation (not LLM summarization). Entry size grows
    linearly with fold-count. For real use, swap default fold for an
    LLM-summarize fold via py_callback — substrate captures structure;
    LLM captures meaning.
  - Single-process in-memory. Persistent fibtier (back-by-kernel) is
    a natural extension — each entry becomes a kernel store entry,
    folds become kernel writes.
  - No eviction-by-similarity yet; folds always pick oldest-two. A
    smarter fold would pick closest-pair (by substrate distance) to
    consolidate semantically-related entries before age-based pairs.

This is the substrate-native memory primitive the project's been
building toward. Composes naturally with omc-kernel + codec + OMC-
PROTOCOL. The "context window as Fibonacci-tiered DAG" architecture.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: RandomCoder-lab

examples/fibtier_conversation.omc

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+# Fibonacci-tier memory demo — 100-turn synthetic conversation.
+#
+# Shows that a fibtier memory keeps context bounded as conversation
+# grows: tier occupancy stabilizes at Fibonacci capacities, older
+# entries cascade upward through folds, total entries stays bounded
+# while a conversation of arbitrary length flows through.
+#
+# Each "turn" is a short message. We push them sequentially and
+# print the memory state every 10 turns to show how the tiering
+# evolves.
+
+import "examples/lib/fibtier.omc";
+
+fn make_turns(n) {
+    # Synthetic conversation: each turn is a substantively-different
+    # short message so canonical hashes differ.
+    h topics = [
+        "user asks about prometheus design",
+        "claude explains substrate attention",
+        "user requests benchmark numbers",
+        "claude shows L0 vs L1 results",
+        "user pivots to memory architecture",
+        "claude proposes fibonacci tiers",
+        "user accepts the proposal",
+        "claude builds the prototype",
+        "user runs the test suite",
+        "claude analyzes the results",
+        "user asks for next steps",
+        "claude lists three follow-ups",
+        "user picks the second one",
+        "claude implements the change",
+        "user reviews the diff",
+        "claude addresses the feedback",
+        "user merges the PR",
+        "claude celebrates the win",
+        "user proposes new direction",
+        "claude estimates the effort",
+    ];
+    h turns = [];
+    h i = 0;
+    while i < n {
+        h t = arr_get(topics, i - (i / arr_len(topics)) * arr_len(topics));
+        h labeled = concat_many("[turn ", to_string(i + 1), "] ", t);
+        arr_push(turns, labeled);
+        i = i + 1;
+    }
+    return turns;
+}
+
+fn print_state(mem, turn_number) {
+    h s = fibtier_stats(mem);
+    h occ = dict_get(s, "occupancy");
+    h total = dict_get(s, "total_entries");
+    h folds = dict_get(s, "total_folds");
+    h evicted = dict_get(s, "evicted");
+    print(concat_many("after ", to_string(turn_number),
+        " turns:  occupancy=", to_string(occ),
+        "  total=", to_string(total),
+        "  folds=", to_string(folds),
+        "  evicted=", to_string(evicted)));
+}
+
+fn main() {
+    print("=== Fibonacci-tier memory: 100-turn conversation ===");
+    print("");
+    print("Tier sizes (Fibonacci): " + to_string(fibtier_default_sizes()));
+    print("");
+
+    h mem = fibtier_new(7);   # 7 tiers: 1+2+3+5+8+13+21 = 53 max
+    h turns = make_turns(100);
+    h i = 0;
+    while i < arr_len(turns) {
+        fibtier_push(mem, arr_get(turns, i));
+        if (i + 1) % 10 == 0 {
+            print_state(mem, i + 1);
+        }
+        i = i + 1;
+    }
+
+    print("");
+    print("=== Final memory state ===");
+    print(fibtier_render(mem));
+
+    h final_stats = fibtier_stats(mem);
+    print("");
+    print(concat_many("After 100 pushes:"));
+    print(concat_many("  total stored entries: ", to_string(dict_get(final_stats, "total_entries"))));
+    print(concat_many("  total folds: ", to_string(dict_get(final_stats, "total_folds"))));
+    print(concat_many("  evicted (overflowed top tier): ", to_string(dict_get(final_stats, "evicted"))));
+
+    # Sanity: total should be bounded by sum of tier capacities = 53.
+    h total = dict_get(final_stats, "total_entries");
+    print("");
+    if total <= 53 {
+        print(concat_many("[OK] Memory bounded at ", to_string(total),
+            " entries (cap=53) after 100 turns."));
+        print("     Context window stays constant regardless of conversation length.");
+        print("     Detail decreases by phi per tier upward; recent stays full-fidelity.");
+    } else {
+        print(concat_many("[FAIL] Memory unbounded: ", to_string(total), " > 53"));
+    }
+
+    # Query demo.
+    print("");
+    print("=== Query demo: substrate-distance similarity ===");
+    h query = "fibonacci tiers";
+    h results = fibtier_query(mem, query, 3);
+    print(concat_many("top 3 closest to query \"", query, "\":"));
+    h j = 0;
+    while j < arr_len(results) {
+        h r = arr_get(results, j);
+        h e = dict_get(r, "entry");
+        print(concat_many(
+            "  tier=", to_string(dict_get(r, "tier")),
+            "  dist=", to_string(dict_get(r, "distance")),
+            "  content=", dict_get(e, "content")
+        ));
+        j = j + 1;
+    }
+}
+
+main();