sica-fondt/docs/bus-topology.md

Gen.03 — concentric bus topology (DRAFT — captured live, correct freely)

Two rings around a membrane. Outer organs ride Ichor up to Ada; Ada is the gate; behind it the inner-brain bus carries the inner organs (Hermes among them). The world is outside; nothing reaches the inner ring without crossing Ada.

External (world: user / network)
  │
  ▼  outer bus — ICHOR (Pony)
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ OUTER ORGANS                                             │
│   • stomach / economy organ  (small-model operated;      │
│       digests external input → RAG context)              │
│   • microagents                                          │
│   • SAE  (sparse autoencoder)                            │
│   • MoRAG = GoDAGRAG                                     │
│       (Graph of Directed Acyclic Graphs of RAGs)         │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
  │
  ▼  ADA (D1) — the membrane / border (screens, provenance, rate)
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ INNER ORGANS          inner-brain bus = ADA-routed       │
│   • soul (B2)                                            │
│   • metacog (C2)                                         │
│   • Hermes   (the OpenHermes agent — a peer here)        │
│   • drive-box (A1)                                       │
│   • COBOL ontological structures (E1)                    │
│   • mini-rag   (the brain-side RAG — inner, NOT MoRAG)   │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Layers

1. External — the world (user / network). Reaches in only via the outer ring.
2. Outer organs — stomach/economy (small model), microagents, SAE, MoRAG / GoDAGRAG.
3. Ichor (Pony) — the outer bus; carries the outer organs up to Ada. (Already scaffolded in src/ichor/.)
4. Ada (D1) — the membrane between outer and inner; also routes the inner bus. Screens everything crossing (blocklist / provenance / rate — Trust_Boundary). Native COBOL (Interfaces.COBOL) + C interop.
5. Inner-brain bus — Ada-routed (decided; not Pony). Native path to the COBOL organs.
6. Inner organs — soul, metacog, Hermes, drive-box, COBOL ontology, mini-rag. Hermes is a peer here, not a separate core.

The two RAGs (do not conflate)

• mini-rag — INNER, brain-side RAG.
• MoRAG = GoDAGRAG — OUTER, the Graph of Directed Acyclic Graphs of RAGs.

The deck (B1) — it's just integers + a table

• Shuffle kernel: 169 × 2 = 338 integers, shuffled + randomized. Pure RNG/permutation → Fortran (native to the Ada inner bus; integer arrays are its home turf).
• Lookup table: the card meaning (names, phases, synestries) is static data keyed by the integer → COBOL indexed records (fits the COBOL ontology, native to Ada) — not JSON.
• So the deck is a Fortran shuffler + a COBOL table, both native on the Ada bus.

Language map (settled / proposed)

Component	Language	Status
Ichor (outer bus)	Pony	built
Ada (membrane + inner bus router)	Ada/SPARK	decided
deck shuffle	Fortran	proposed
deck lookup table	COBOL	proposed
COBOL ontology (E1)	COBOL	given
drive-box (A1)	R	existing
MoRAG / GoDAGRAG	Haskell or Crystal	open
Hermes	OpenHermes agent (external model)	given

Corrections baked in (vs earlier wrong models)

• Hermes is an inner organ on the inner bus — not external, not a separate core.
• Ichor is the OUTER bus (organs → Ada), not the brain bus.
• Inner bus is Ada-routed, not Pony.
• mini-rag (inner) ≠ MoRAG/GoDAGRAG (outer).
• The deck is integers + a table; no fancy ADT language needed.

Open / to place

• MoRAG / GoDAGRAG language (Haskell vs Crystal vs other).
• Each outer organ's hand-off shape to Ada.
• Where the stomach/economy organ sits exactly and what its small model is.