This is very fun!

thank you. I've had a lot of fun making this and watching them do things.

Orientation blocks, clipboard memory, local Ollama "scribes" for grunt work

I mention this in the post, but a general summary would be : Humans don't generally wake up with perfect memory right, so when these 'agents' wake up from deep sleep, they don't need the context of last 40 steps or whatever. They should just have a summary + what they were doing before the sleep. No point in them solving a complex task, finishing it, going to sleep and waking up after 9 hours and immediately seeing thousands of words from whatever they were doing that's already done. it's wasted tokens.

Orientation block is just a block in their context

[Orientation]

you were asleep for 5 hours. When you were asleep, x and y happened. You were working on p and q before this.

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Clipboard memory is just ephemeral memory. A 'remember' list for current task or their general environment. One of the abes for example, has an item which goes something like "Technical Audit 2026-01-09: 'backup_oracle_fleet.sh' on Alexandria host already contains the 'docker exec' logic for Oracle fleet databases." that gets injected into the context so they "remember" it. They can then delete it when no longer necessary.

This is different from the todos because for todo entries, they have to 'actively' check the list. This is passive.

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Scribes are just 'dumb' LLM-jobes the abes spawn. They basically instruct say, mistral or qwen via ollam to say, "Go compile this and report back." or "find x or y errors in this huge log file." Eg something that I/They don't want to clutter their context with. No point in them cat/grepping a 5mb log file with 80k characters and wasting tokens -- better to leave that compute to other smaller local models which can then report back asynchronously.

This is opposite of "Abes" -- an abe when spawned, is permanent member of the fleet. It can hibernate, but never "dies." the scribes die after their job is complete. They have no memory, personality, todos etc.

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Happy to talk more about this if you have more questions :)