Plain text by design — not as a compromise, but because it lets Claude
reason over its own memory with grep, find, and git diff. Positions Cog
as an experiment in watching how AI organizes itself given conventions
and self-observation capabilities.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Entity format: 3-line compact registry (### Name / key facts / status+links)
Heavy entries promoted to thread files. Cross-domain pointers for shared entities.
- Pattern satellites: core patterns.md cap reduced from 110→70 lines (5.5KB).
Domain-specific patterns go in satellite files loaded only by owning skill.
- Reflect: pattern routing rules, entity format enforcement (step 3b)
- Housekeeping: entity registry enforcement (step 5b), glacier inactive entities
- Evolve: scorecard metrics for pattern distribution + entity compression ratio
- README: updated entity example to 3-line format
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
