u/donotfire

Supports AgentSkills.io-style skills

Skill = Instruction Document + Metadata + Resources
Note = General-Purpose Document + Metadata
Memories = Skills + Notes

Two Parts:

1. Curation: note/skill creation, updating, and deletion (CRUD).
2. Retrieval: of skills and notes.

Curation techniques:

1. Mid-conversation, by the agent: Give the agent the curation tool that they can use mid-conversation, as needed at opportune times. Relies on agent intelligence.
   1. Pros: intentional.
   2. Cons: the agent may forget to do so.
2. After conversation, by a subagent: Whenever a conversation ends, a subagent is prompted to investigate and read it, and then use the curation tool to perform skill/note CRUD.
   1. Pros: happens automatically.
   2. Cons: the subagent may do too much or too little.

The curation tool stores skills/notes in a programmatic fashion, with args for the operation (create, update, delete), name, type, description, and body — the timestamp is supplied automatically. 

Retrieval techniques:

1. Mid-conversation, by the agent: Give the agent a retrieval tool which receives the name of a skill or note and loads its information into context, on demand. (Accuracy improves with a better system prompt.)
   1. Pros: intentional.
   2. Cons: the agent may forget to do so.
2. In the system-prompt: A service to display the names of relevant skills and notes in the system prompt, along with their descriptions. Use a search algorithm to find the most relevant skills and notes to the current situation, and display those.
   1. Pros: More relevant results, highly scalable. 
   2. Cons: may leave out important files.

The retrieval tool allows the agent to read memories easily. When the conversation ends, the subagent looks at every time the tool was used to determine whether the retrieval was actually useful, and what could be done better. Pruning occurs when a memory hasn’t been retrieved for a long time, despite being suggested in the system prompt. This provides a signal that the memory should be deleted.

In sum:

1. Two plugins for curation: curation tool and the after-conversation subagent task.
2. Two plugins for retrieval: retrieval tool and the system-prompt injecting service.

Clear winners:

• Build a dedicated memory curation tool (tool_curate_memory) and then make both the main agent and subagent use the same tool. All memory curation thus occurs with the same tool. 
• Embed the text from skills and notes using the data pipeline. Develop a search algorithm that finds relevant memories to the current conversation context. Display the top results, but show that other results exist — like “20 of 67 results”.

I’ve been trained to recognize even the smallest hint of AI and now I see it everywhere. Ay caramba.

Ignorance is bliss.

Did you guys remember when they said “Just finish the screener and you’ve got the bonus!” Wish I took a darn screenshot. They made it sound like a guaranteed thing. Meanwhile the number of people they actually allowed in was far less than the total. Anybody got the actual number? How many did they let in?

False advertising…

Apologies for the self-promotion. If my post doesn't fit the rules, just let me know.

I built an agent called Second Brain. It's designed with a microkernel architecture and the core is pure Python. It's about 15,000 lines of code — compact. Everything else exists as an installable plugin: tools for the agent to use, autonomous database tasks, backend services like the LLM and OCR, even commands and frontends like Telegram and Discord are totally modular. (It can use standard skills as well.)

The conversations are persisted in SQL and the runtime is a state machine, so everything is fully recoverable on crash, even mid-turn commands can be revived. I have a sponsor but they are optional and add no bloat. This project started as a simple RAG agent but now it has expanded to become much more, with fully self-expandable plugins. You can use it to build a website, a robot, a gadget, an arbitrary coding project. It's like a miniature OS for LLM agents.

Why you would want Second Brain instead of another agent:

1. It's much smaller and much, much less bloated than Hermes or OpenClaw. The base Second Brain 'kernel' is tiny and boots almost instantly. You can even run it on a phone.
2. It works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
3. There's a SQL backend which agents can use to explore data, including conversations and errors. Everything is fully diagnoseable, because everything is written down and logged.
4. The application has security: it quarantines plugins that use too much memory, and has timeouts for tasks, tools, and service loads. It can't protect against a plugin calling os._exit(), but it detects crashes and stalls (using a Linux-like heartbeat), and revives automatically. It's stable.
5. Agents can create their own tools, tasks, services, commands, and frontends on the fly. You can design HTML webpages as custom frontends for whatever you want to build.

Let me know if you guys have feedback on the design. I'd love to hear your ideas. Thanks!

So I have an upcoming appointment with a ketamine provider and I am somewhat worried because I have a history of drug use and don’t want to come off as someone who is just trying to get high. I’ve learned that it’s generally best to be as transparent as possible with doctors but I don’t know if past drug use will immediately disqualify me.

I am interested in trying ketamine because I have basically tried everything else. I don’t want to just have weird trippy experiences, but I want to find actual insights because I have hit a *brick* *fucking* *wall* in my career. It’s driving me insane, and I need answers. I know ketamine isn’t like a crystal ball but if it can bring me a peace and acceptance, then it will be worth it.

I have an actual history of psychiatric illness (bipolar II). Hospitalizations occurred about five years ago but it’s more under control now. I obviously wouldn’t want to spiral out more than I am.

How can I best prepare for my provider meeting? Thank you all.

Removed from Project S with no explanation. No chance to say anything. No warning. Feeling replaceable and angry. Fuck these people.