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docs(topology): Hermes is a peer inner organ, not a separate core
Inner-brain bus carries { soul, metacog, Hermes, drive-box, COBOL ontology }
as peers behind Ada; drop the separate innermost-core layer.

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# 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).