sica-fondt/core/docs/plans/C2-metacognition.md
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Reorg step 1: consolidate repo under core/, drop the mafiabot label
Mechanical structure-only pass (no document/guide content edits):

- Move src/ichor, src/endocrine, and docs/ into core/; the old top-level
  mafiabot_core/ becomes core/. Everything now lives under a single core/ root.
- Drop the "mafiabot" label from the Ada/Alire crate: core.gpr (project Core),
  alire.toml name = "core"; the generated *_config.* regenerate as core_config.*.
- Repoint build-critical wiring only:
  - .claude/skills/run-sica-fondt/smoke.sh (ponyc + Ada + COBOL paths)
  - core/src/endocrine R source()/runner paths and the test glob
  - .github/workflows/ci.yml (working-directory + gpr name)

Verified green: smoke ALL GREEN (Pony Ichor, Ada core crate + tests, COBOL E1
vault); R endocrine 14/0; Octave ETR 26/0/1.

Deferred (reserved for a less-ephemeral doc/guide pass): docmap.yaml, the guide
files and nested AGENTS.md/README prose + now-stale relative links, SOUL.md, and
the deeper ring/storage restructure.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015hmgREHNsxYCuim33yUF2c
2026-06-23 07:46:47 +00:00

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C2 — 4+4 Metacognition cycle

1. Component

The dual-tradition metacognitive multicycle: four Western + four non-Western reflective passes, interleaved and paired for friction (not confirmation), with Celtic-Cross cards (B3) applied iteratively across the rounds.

2. Status / certainty

Partial — the orchestration (phase ordering) exists in Ada (ada_medium phase enums), defunct-flagged; the philosophical passes themselves are unimplemented. Structure C4; pass content C1.

3. Language & location

TBD (cognition, runs inside the descent below Ada). Likely prompt/skill content driven by the harness (C1)

  • orchestration in the cycle (C3). New location e.g. src/metacog/.

4. Does / does-not

  • Does: run the 8 passes in the fixed order, each pass straining against its partner; apply the accumulating B3 spread; generate cognitive heat from opposed traditions held in simultaneous load.
  • Does-not: route tools or decide composition dynamically — ordering is static; responsiveness is Energy-gated (skip later passes when E low, per C1/A2).

5. Interface contract

  • The 4 friction pairs (fixed): wMC1 Socratic aporia ↔ eMC1 Iranian Asha · wMC2 Kant boundaries ↔ eMC2 East-Asian empty mirror · wMC3 Freud/Hegel shadow ↔ eMC3 Indic witness · wMC4 Modern pragmatic ↔ eMC4 Tibetan Bön flow. Bridges: Socrates↔Hegel; ArchimedeanSocratic.
  • run_pass(n, state, active_cards) -> reflection (n=1..4 ⇒ wMCn then eMCn, then draw B3 pair).
  • Energy-gating: a low-E snapshot (A2) reduces how many passes run.

6. Dependencies & stubs

B3 cards — stub: fixed spread. Brain/LLM (C4) executes the passes — stub: echo the pass label. Energy (A2) for gating — stub: scalar.

7. Invariants / laws

  • L1 (C5): pairing principle = friction, not confirmation.
  • L2 (C4): composition is static (no learned router); compute scales via Energy only.
  • L3 (C4): cards apply iteratively — by final cognition all 10 (B3) are concurrently in play.

8. Build steps

  1. Encode the 8-pass order + pairings as data + an L1/L2/L3 test. 2. Author each pass's content (prompt/skill) — invariants-first (the friction each pair must produce). 3. Wire B3 + Energy-gating.

9. Tests

Order/pairing test; iterative-card test; Energy-gating reduces pass count at low E.

10. Open items

  • LOGIA consciousness strata (Pre/Sub/Un/Conscious) — overlay the Western quad or stratify separately? (C1)
  • Pass content authoring (C1). Energy→pass-count curve (C1, shared with C1/A2).