Ripe architectural follow-up from the v0.6.0 quality-loop work and the recent Honcho/Hermes comparison.
Goal
Introduce perspective-aware local vs global representations in Memrok as a first-class architectural concept.
Why
We keep encountering the same structural problem:
- broad/global memory is often useful in some contexts
- but it bleeds into topic-local contexts where it becomes noise
Right now this often looks like a retrieval bug. It may actually be a representation problem.
Instead of treating Memrok as one flat memory field with better or worse ranking, we should explore a model with at least:
- durable global representation
- local/topic/session representation
- clear rules for how local and global memory influence retrieval and injection
Motivation
This turns a recurring bug shape into an architectural move:
- global memory is not wrong
- local memory is not always sufficient
- the missing piece may be an explicit distinction between the two
Desired outcomes
- better topic-local precision without throwing away durable global context
- clearer reasoning about why a memory belongs in a given prompt
- stronger foundation for provenance, supersession, and future retrieval-mode control
Questions to answer
- what counts as global vs local in Memrok?
- how are local views created, updated, and expired?
- when should local memory override global memory?
- how should critic/eval tooling inspect failures across these layers?
- how does this relate to imported/bootstrap memory provenance?
Non-goal
- not a full policy-update loop
- not a service/platform sprawl move
- not a UI feature first
Likely impact
This may require revisiting the framing of provenance/import work (#10) and structural retrieval work (#12), because both could become cleaner when local/global representation is explicit rather than implicit.
Ripe architectural follow-up from the v0.6.0 quality-loop work and the recent Honcho/Hermes comparison.
Goal
Introduce perspective-aware local vs global representations in Memrok as a first-class architectural concept.
Why
We keep encountering the same structural problem:
Right now this often looks like a retrieval bug. It may actually be a representation problem.
Instead of treating Memrok as one flat memory field with better or worse ranking, we should explore a model with at least:
Motivation
This turns a recurring bug shape into an architectural move:
Desired outcomes
Questions to answer
Non-goal
Likely impact
This may require revisiting the framing of provenance/import work (#10) and structural retrieval work (#12), because both could become cleaner when local/global representation is explicit rather than implicit.