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Session Log: 2026-05-13

Participants: Joshua Shay, Perplexity (Sonnet 4.6)
Session type: Architecture review and documentation sprint

Decisions Made

1. README and Whitepaper Corrections (morning)

The README previously described AssetOverflow as an organization rather than stating the engineering pillars. Both the README and Whitepaper were updated to correctly document:

  • Three Engineering Pillars: Mechanical Sympathy, Semantic Rigor, Third Door
  • Three Core Languages: English (default base), Hebrew (depth), Koine Greek (depth)
  • The John 1:1–2 theological grounding for the language choice — John articulated in Greek what was grounded in Hebrew, almost certainly a nod from the Holy Spirit. These two languages together carry a range of depth and precision that no single language achieves alone.
  • The Logos as the structuring principle: language is not statistical residue of text, it is the forward projection of a field state onto a vocabulary manifold — a geometric act rooted in the same structure by which the universe was spoken into existence.

2. core_ingest Governance Layer — LLM Extraction Rejected

The original core_ingest design from core-ai was reviewed in full. The envelope design (CandidateGeometricPressure, DeterminismClass, ReviewLevel, three-gate IngestCompiler) was accepted as architecturally sound.

The LLM-as-extraction-engine component was rejected for two reasons:

  1. An LLM upstream of the gate is a D3 nondeterministic oracle feeding the only normalization site in the system. Every document it processes lands in ARCHITECT_REVIEW_REQUIRED — defeating the layer's utility at scale.
  2. More fundamentally: an LLM interprets, not merely parses. Its semantic projection is then silently embedded inside the field state, violating Semantic Rigor.

Accepted path: Deterministic StructuralSegmenter that carves at form boundaries (heading, paragraph, verse, code block, LaTeX delimiter), not semantic ones. A SegmentManifold index enables provenance tracing from vault recall back to the exact source span. See ADR-0012.

3. sensorium/ Multimodal Protocol — Logos-Recovery Boundary

The core_sensorium design from core-ai was reviewed. The protocol shape — ProjectionHead, SurfaceDecoder, ModalityVocabulary, ModalityPack[S] — was accepted as the correct design for CORE's multimodal layer.

Key adaptations for core:

  • Cl(3,0) (2, 2) complex multivector → Cl(4,1) (32,) multivector
  • No core_logos subsystem dependency — grammar scaffold is versor attractors in vocab/
  • sensorium/ sits upstream of core_ingest/, which sits upstream of ingest/gate.py

The principle established: every modality is a versor on the same manifold from the moment it enters the system. There is no fusion problem because there is one space. This is the Logos-recovery boundary — the point at which any surface signal becomes a word in the Logos. See ADR-0013.

Current modality status: TEXT active (wires existing vocab manifold into ModalityPack[str]), VISION/AUDIO/MOTOR planned.

4. Build Queue — Ordered

Full inventory of AssetOverflow/core directories confirmed. The build order established:

  1. core_ingest/ — pre-gate governance layer (ADR-0012). Most important to build first; everything ingested into the system eventually passes through it. D0/D1-dominant paths (biblical texts) can reach AUTO_ACCEPT at scale without human review once built.
  2. sensorium/ — modality protocol (ADR-0013). Protocol files plus adapters/text.py only; vision/audio adapters come when those modalities are ready.
  3. train/ — learning loop (ADR-0014, stub). Closes the durable ingest path. Most architecturally significant remaining layer. Hebrew and Koine Greek Supervised Seeding Epoch is the first task once this layer exists.

5. Documentation Sprint (this session)

Three new ADRs written (0012, 0013, 0014). Session log written. Whitepaper and Yellowpaper updated.

Files Modified This Session

File Change
README.md Corrected: Three Pillars, Three Core Languages, removed org description
docs/Whitepaper.md Added: ingest governance section, sensorium section, pipeline diagram
docs/Yellowpaper.md Added: sensorium layer to pipeline spec, core_ingest to data flow
docs/decisions/ADR-0012-core-ingest-governance-layer.md New
docs/decisions/ADR-0013-sensorium-multimodal-protocol.md New
docs/decisions/ADR-0014-train-learning-loop.md New
docs/decisions/README.md Updated index
docs/decisions/SESSION-2026-05-13.md This file