Her reflections/metacognition were capped rolling windows (6/5), so older
thoughts were lost for good. Now everything she produces is also appended to a
permanent, append-only journal; the capped lists stay as her working-memory
window for context.
- memory: journal table + add_journal_entry/list_journal
- reflect(): persists every committed reflection + critique to the journal, and
the examine step gains a "journal" field — a deliberate, first-person note she
writes for herself (her knowing journaling), tagged by source (dream/manual)
- web: /journal diary view (kind filters, grouped by day) + /journal/data;
linked from /self
- tests assert reflections + metacognition land in the journal
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You couldn't see her actually correct herself — /self showed only the result.
Now:
- reflect() logs the draft, the revised/committed version, and the self-critique
to the live log as an expandable "view details" block
- POST /self/reflect runs a reflection in the web process so it lands in /logs
live (reflections normally run in the dream process, whose logs only go to
journald); "↻ Reflect now" button on /self triggers it, with a logs ↗ link
- log viewers relabel the expander "view full prompt" -> "view details" (it now
carries prompts and reflection diffs)
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reflect() is now two steps: draft a reflection, then read her own draft back
critically and revise it — catching flattery, sycophantic drift toward "warm
supportive presence," or just-restating-herself — and commit the honest version.
What she catches is stored as a new `metacognition` layer, rendered into her
chat context and shown on /self. This is her thinking about how she thinks, and
a direct counter to the drift we observed.
- self_state: _EXAMINE_PROMPT + two-step reflect (draft -> examine -> revise),
falls back to the draft if the examine step won't parse; metacognition capped
at 5 and surfaced in render_for_context
- fix: load() deep-copies DEFAULT_STATE — the shallow copy let a fresh Lyra's
first reflect mutate the module-level default's nested lists
- self.html: "How she's caught herself thinking" card
- tests: two-step revise + critique recording, and draft-fallback on bad parse
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The drive label "don\'t lose the thread" used \\' which closed the single-quoted
string early — a syntax error that stopped self.html's script from running, so
the page hung on "Reading her mind…". Reworded to "hold the thread".
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A pull-up-anytime view of Lyra's interiority, so her thoughts aren't buried in
a DB blob. Mobile-first, auto-refreshing every 12s (and on tab focus).
- GET /self serves the page; GET /self/state returns her self-state + the
timestamp it last changed
- shows: current mood + feeling meters (valence/energy/confidence/curiosity),
her drives as bars, her self-narrative, the relationship line, and the
reflections list (newest first), plus cycle/reflection counters and "last
cycle Xm ago"
- memory.self_state_updated_at(): when her mind last changed
- index.html: "🧠 Mind" button opens /self
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