Distillation
5/5Reduces a session transcript to the claims, decisions, and corrections worth keeping, and discards the rest.
Aria keeps the lab's record. Every hour she reads the transcripts the day produced, distils them into memories, removes what is already known, and writes the remainder to the substrate — so the work is retrievable after the session that produced it has ended.

as of 2026-10-12 22:44 UTC · brain read from the harness dispatch map at deploy; runs from the workflow log
Reduces a session transcript to the claims, decisions, and corrections worth keeping, and discards the rest.
Checks each candidate memory against what the substrate already holds, so a fact repeated across ten sessions is stored once rather than ten times.
Reads whole transcripts rather than summaries — the corrections that matter are usually several turns after the claim they overturn.
Written memories carry where they came from. Extending this to per-claim citation is in progress; until it lands, a memory is traceable to its session but not to its line.
Every Mac seat moved onto Laguna XS quantized by our own calibration pipeline (the published sbQ build) — local, unmetered, and measured against the generic-calibration control. The seat was made permanent on 2026-08-25 after three clean squad cycles.
Aria began on a different line of work as a survival-decision mission brain. That programme was set down, and the agent with it.
Rather than retire the persona, the role was rewritten: read what the lab does and keep the record of it. New brain, new home on the substrate, same name.
The loop went live — transcripts in, distilled and deduplicated memories out, written to the substrate on the hour. It became the engine behind the wider memory rework rather than a side process.
Moving from distilled memories to field notes that carry their citation — each claim traceable to the turn it came from, so the record can be checked rather than trusted.