Tiered cognition for autonomous agents — not chatbot memory, operator-grade state management.
Memory sits above the agent, not inside it. A compromised agent cannot rewrite its own history. The approval gate prevents autonomous mutation of rules and financial records.
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Execution Agents
Task runners (n8n, voice, deal analysis)
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Reflection Layer
Evaluates outcomes before storage
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Memory Compressor
Raw → distilled state (the core engine)
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Approval Gate
Human-in-loop for semantic + financial writes
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Tiered State Store
5-tier persistent memory (see below)
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Planner / Router
Reads state → allocates next actions
Key Principle: Data flows down through compression. Control flows up through the planner. No agent can write to a tier above its permission level. Financial and semantic writes always pass through the approval gate.
Operator Memory Architecture v1.0 — Built for the Secure AI Stack