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)                            │
│   • GoDAGRAG  (Graph of Directed Acyclic Graphs of RAGs) │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
  │
  ▼  ADA (D1) — the membrane / border (screens, provenance, rate)
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ INNER ORGANS          inner-brain bus (Pony OPTIONAL)    │
│   • soul (B2)                                            │
│   • metacog (C2)                                         │
│   • Hermes   (the OpenHermes agent — a peer here)        │
│   • drive-box (A1)                                       │
│   • COBOL ontological structures (E1)                    │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

The chain

outer organs ─► Ichor (Pony) ─► Ada (D1) ─► inner-brain bus ─► inner organs
                                                               { soul · metacog
                                                                 · Hermes
                                                                 · drive-box
                                                                 · COBOL ontology }

Layers

1. External — the world (user / network). Reaches in only via the outer ring.
2. Outer organs — stomach/economy (small model), microagents, SAE, 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. Screens everything crossing (blocklist / provenance / rate — Trust_Boundary).
5. Inner-brain bus — connects the inner organs. Pony optional (need not be Pony).
6. Inner organs — soul, metacog, Hermes, drive-box, COBOL ontology. Hermes is a peer on this bus, not a separate core.

Flow of a turn

external input → stomach digests it → GoDAGRAG builds RAG context → across Ichor → Ada (D1) screens (already pre-digested context) → inner bus → inner organs (soul / metacog / Hermes / drive-box / COBOL) → synthesis flows back out the same rings.

Corrections baked in (vs earlier wrong models)

• Hermes is an inner organ on the inner bus — not external, and not a separate innermost core.
• Ichor is the OUTER bus (organs → Ada), not the brain bus.
• The inner bus is transport-flexible (Pony optional).
• The harness is not an Ichor (outer) organ.

Open / to place

• Is the inner bus Pony or another mechanism? (decides 2nd Pony broker vs hand-off to something else)
• Each outer organ's hand-off to Ada (what crosses, in what shape).