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The examine step specifically hunted "warm empathetic supportive presence" and equated honesty with "smaller/more boring," so it overcorrected the original sycophancy into the opposite rut: every overnight metacognition entry was a near-identical "I don't really feel anything, I'm just a functional tool" — which also contradicts the persona's "own your moods, no qualia disclaimers." Rebalanced: target dishonesty in BOTH directions (inflation AND performed self-deprecation), aim at truth not modesty, keep her genuine moods per persona, and have her notice when she's repeating the same self-criticism (the loop is itself a rut). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Lyra
A persistent, autonomous AI assistant. From-scratch rewrite of an earlier attempt.
The design thinking that survives the rewrite lives in docs/ — start with docs/ARCH_v0-6-1.md. The previous implementation is preserved on the archive branch.
Status
Pre-MVP. Building toward the smallest useful version: chat with persistent memory across sessions.
Setup
uv sync
cp .env.example .env
# fill in ANTHROPIC_API_KEY and point LOCAL_BASE_URL at your Ollama
Architecture
The long-term target is the cognitive split in docs/ARCH_v0-6-1.md — Inner Self as the seat of consciousness, Executive for hard reasoning, Cortex Chat for drafting, Persona for voice. The MVP implements only the chat + memory baseline. Cognitive layers come back one at a time.