Huginn/README.md
Meta Vens 946758f666 Open a mind fail-closed over an owned redb store
Cut 8, Huginn half, commit 1 of 4: the store port, the opener and the
identity rules. `huginn-mind` gains its dependencies (`cultcache-rs` at
Epiphany's pin `a0813c6`, `epiphany-pipeline` at `a65c6420`, the Epiphany
half of this cut), `store.rs` with the one narrow `MindStore` trait that
injects compare-and-swap, `mind.rs` with `Mind::open` and `open_with`, and
`refusal.rs` with the organ's refusal vocabulary.

The opener refuses in order and attaches nothing until every gate passes:
a foreign type, a foreign epoch, a missing identity, an identity naming
another instance. The path under the state root is derived from the slug;
the `instance` document is the authority, so a store copied into another
instance's directory is refused. The owned store's exclusive lock is the
single-writer mechanism: a second `Mind::open` of the same path is
`MindAlreadyOwned`.

The receipt type and the two provenance shapes (`Faculty`,
`PipelineProvenance`) land here rather than in the later commits because
the opener registers the receipt's type id, and their only consumer is the
receipt; the commit primitive itself is the next commit. `MindRefusal`
carries a serde remote definition of the leaf's `PipelineRefusal`, which
derives neither `Serialize` nor `JsonSchema` at the pinned rev; it is
compiled against the leaf's type so a leaf change breaks the build rather
than drifting.

`Cargo.lock` is regenerated and gains 90 packages. The map predicted a
CRLF-to-LF rewrite of the whole file; the file was already LF in the index
and stays LF, so the diff is additions only.

README and AGENTS now say `huginn-mind` is live and the other two crates
are stubs.

Builds: `cargo check -p huginn-mind --lib --tests` and `cargo test -p
huginn-mind --lib` (4 tests) pass. This commit carries dead-code warnings
on the store and cache accessors and the refusing test store; commits 2 and
3 consume them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-16 17:04:23 +02:00

2.1 KiB

Huginn

Huginn is the GameCult memory organ. It owns each agent instance's mind as typed state: what an instance remembers, which of that memory is admitted to steer its next action, and the provenance of every admitted claim.

Upstream: https://github.com/GameCult/Huginn.git

Authority

  • An instance owns its mind; Huginn owns the state. Huginn is the single writer of an instance's memory documents. No other service, script, or agent writes them.
  • Memory documents are CultCache .cc state. Huginn persists them through CultLib's Rust runtime and publishes them as typed documents over CultNet.
  • Huginn depends on Qdrant directly for retrieval. When Qdrant is unreachable Huginn refuses loudly; it does not fall back to a second store or a second writer.
  • Mind state is not version-controlled. It lives in Huginn's store, not in any repository.

Generic .cc inspection is not Huginn's job. CultCache Studio inspects and edits .cc state. Huginn reads and writes minds.

Layout

A Cargo workspace of three crates:

  • crates/huginn-mind: storage, identity, and admission of memory documents.
  • crates/huginn-daemon: the CultNet surface and serve loop.
  • crates/eureka-state: typed state for the Eureka pipeline.

huginn-mind is live: it opens one instance's store (an owned redb CultCache at <state_root>/minds/<instance>/mind.redb, locked for the mind's lifetime), and refuses a store whose instance document names another instance, whose epoch record is foreign, or whose types are not a mind's. Document shape and keys come from epiphany-pipeline; the store is CultLib's Rust CultCache. huginn-daemon and eureka-state are stubs; the campaign's cut map in Epiphany/notes/eureka-pipeline-state-cut.md owns what each crate must do next.

cargo check --workspace

Persona

Huginn's legacy repo Persona lives under .voidbot/. Its state/huginn.cc holds legacy void.* documents and its voice/identity.json names the Persona. The two disagree about jurisdiction; that migration belongs to the portable-Persona work, not to this workspace, and nothing here reads or writes .voidbot/.