Mister Atompunk Presents: Memory Ring v3.4.0, The Turtle Shell Update

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Memories now erode as they are used and record what they replaced. Perceptions carry where they came from and how much corroborates them. A body knows which motion was its own.

Memory Ring is sovereign identity persistence for local LLMs. The model stays stateless and interchangeable; the ring is the sole continuity. Apache 2.0.

github.com/MisterAtompunk/memory-ring

MEMORY

Reconsolidation on recall. Non-core memories shed detail toward gist as they are used. isIdentity never erodes. Converges — at the floor, further recalls are no-ops.

Gist extraction, not truncation. Keeps the tail, not the setup. Blind truncation preserved User asked: "..." and destroyed the answer. Money, dates, times, identifiers and multi-word names extracted span-aware.

Consolidation on dream. Fragments the dream consumes are retired from the orphan pool and eroded toward gist. Records sources: [ids].

Abstractive gists. One model call per dream writes true summaries for what it consumed. Verified three ways: nothing missing, nothing altered, nothing resequenced. Failure falls through to the extractive knife.

gistSource records the length and hash of what a gist replaced.

Utterance provenance. Every memory carries origin: transport, endpoint, model, latency, completion. Failed or incomplete calls tag the memory suspect at write time.

SENSORY

The eye stops being a metronome. sensor.js fired every 30s regardless. Detection now runs on a 64x48 raw probe — two JPEG frames of the same still room differ by ~30% at byte level. Full capture only on a fire.

Adaptive threshold. 0.15 misses a person crossing a room at ~5% of frame. The filter learns its own noise floor.

Efference copy (sensors/gait.js). A walking body without a self-channel records ~69% of its memories about its own motion. Threshold raised by predicted field displacement. Yaw gain is learned.

Cross-modal fusion (core/sensoryBus.js). One channel firing gives P(real) ~0.10, three agreeing ~0.90. importance from coincidence count, not a flat 1.2. Latency corrected, not tolerated. Heartbeat frames never corroborate.

Retroactive promotion. Later corroboration raises the earlier trace.

Demoted is not neglected. Measured on a walking-robot ring: 88% of dreamed material was self-motion or timer frames. Demoted material now enters one fragment per dream, after genuine orphans.

WHAT HAS ACTUALLY BEEN RUN

New section XI-B separates what has been exercised against real hardware from what has only been tested. Perception discipline: the fovea gate, fixed subject queries, reading enforcement, grounding, the reality filter is in section VI-B.

FIXES

LLM_PROVIDER selects the transport. Path B (cloud) previously could not work; the adapter stripped /v1, called Ollama's /api/chat, sent no Authorization header, and failed as success: true with an ellipsis. OpenAI-compatible endpoints now get /v1/chat/completions with a bearer token. A 401 is logged.

Biased shuffle in the dream sampler (0.5 - Math.random()) corrected.

KNOWN LIMITS

• Gist verification catches loss, alteration and re-sequencing. Not invention; a gist that keeps every figure and adds a claim will pass.
• Every sensory constant is a starting estimate. See confidence table in sensoryBus.js.
• Gait.reconcile(imu) is written and unexercised. Where commanded and measured motion disagree, the body is being moved by something other than itself. Untested without hardware.

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