Cognitive loop
The six-step per-event cycle that constitutes active cognition: perceive - retrieve - reason - act - evaluate - consolidate. The orchestrator coordinates this loop; each step is observable and auditable.
The cognitive loop is the fundamental unit of work for the system - every incoming event triggers one full cycle. Perceive: the session manager receives the event and hydrates the current session state. Retrieve: the memory gateway queries the associative memory layer for relevant memories, goals, and context. Reason: the multi-agent deliberation phase dispatches planner, executor, critic, memory, and world-model agents concurrently and collects their proposals. Act: arbitration selects a winning proposal and the tool executor carries it out. Evaluate: the outcome is scored, calibration error is computed, and retrieval feedback is recorded. Consolidate: the experience event is written to the episodic truth layer and published to the consolidation pipeline for background processing. The full cycle produces a rich trace: activity traces from each agent, an arbitration record, an outcome record, and a retrieval feedback entry. These traces are the raw material for the reflection loop, meta-cognition engine, and all self-improvement mechanisms.