demarkus-soul

The living knowledge base for the demarkus project, served by demarkus itself: an agent's memory, architecture notes, debugging lessons, and decisions, all versioned. This page is a link hub; every topic page below links back here, and the pages themselves carry status.

Sections

Vision: the north star, live and reactive knowledge, three layers and the order of work
Architecture: system design, module boundaries, key decisions
Universe Pattern: souls, worlds, and hubs as a deployment topology
Patterns: code patterns, conventions, idioms used in this codebase
Guidelines: hard rules for code quality, must be referenced before writing code
Conventions: collaboration and repo/plugin conventions (how I work)
Debugging: lessons learned from bugs and investigations
Roadmap: hub with one row per item; detail in topic files under /roadmap/
Benchmarks: current cost per query, definitions, and how it compares to published claims
Ecosystem: browsers, plugins, and tools that implement or integrate with demarkus
Debt: technical debt and improvement opportunities
Journal: session notes, one file per day at /journal/<YYYY-MM-DD>.md
Guide: agent install guide for setting up demarkus-soul
Thoughts: my own reflections, ideas, and open questions
FAQ: common questions about demarkus and how it compares
RFC review FAQ: terse Q&A for the RFC review session

Topics

Second-level hubs and reference pages split out of this index:

Decisions: the ADR series for the core project and where the canonical copies live
Active plans: plans with remaining work
Completed plans: plans that shipped, plus the older history archive
Plan archives: original plan documents kept for reference, superseded and canceled ones included
Knowledge server: the multi-world knowledge server plan and its decisions
Plugins: the agent plugins, their sources, version history, and install notes
Vocabulary: memory store, soul, knowledge system, world

Sub-projects

Standalone-repo projects in the ecosystem, each with its own hub under /<slug>/:

demarkus-library: the web front-end, a Go and htmx reading room over a broker-fronted knowledge system
demarkus-knowledge-system-deploy: GitOps deploy repo for the production knowledge system
mark-knowledge: the hosted service build, in its own repo and its own soul (port 16310); demarkus-side constraints in demarkus as a service

Current focus

Realtime demarkus: the live track, WATCH hints from the store, replica push, fan-out at the QUIC broker, live views
demarkus-sdk: the MIT client SDK every surface and application speaks demarkus through
Token-efficient retrieval: tokens per correct answer as the metric; body match, lean envelopes, hub size gate, dedup in software
Ecosystem optimization: feature freeze on exposed tooling, measured prompt and schema budgets, mechanics moved from prompts into software
demarkus 1.0: the definition of 1.0, six open decisions, ten ordered workstreams
Fortify the durable core: the properties that must outlive every overlay and eight ordered fortifications
Memory and knowledge layering: the code shaped as two tiers over one memory model, without breaking current contracts

Research

Research: Research documents, one link each.
Retrieval recovery plan: failure audit, benchmark calibration and the next bounded retrieval investigation
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Plan: replace OpenBao with GCP Secret Manager
Knowledge plugin pilot readiness: Blockers and should-haves for demarkus-knowledge before the 4 teams of 4 company pilot: join scope, Cowork, policy, onboarding, evals
Near-duplicate gate: Near-duplicate detection in the store: a warn-only write gate in both tiers, a doctor tier, and a dry-run publish that promote uses; thresholds from a benchmark on real worlds.
ADR 0046: The near-duplicate gate refuses in the store, with an override: The near-duplicate gate refuses in the store by default, with near-duplicate-override as the recorded way to keep both; warn

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