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Jul 22, 2026·3 min read·Cognitive Substrate

The Arbitration Layer: The Brain's Traffic Cop

Even with good memories and trust scores, you still need something to decide which memories actually get used for a specific question. That is the arbitration layer.

cognitive-substrate memory-systems arbitration retrieval architecture

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