The research direction is:

how agents can accumulate useful experience across sessions, and where that experience should live: explicit memory, contextual lessons, executable tools, model weights, or runtime rules.

Read the executive summary for the program's main findings, their practical implications and the limits of the evidence to date.

The task is to read the previous research, perspectives and then put concepts from those files into contact through comparable tests.

The source guide links the literature review, and the study map connects mechanisms, evidence, and candidate questions. Its worked examples explain neural writes, reads, and resets. The ancillary-study approach describes how independent studies inform the root's theory and synthesis.

Contributors can use the repository list and clone instructions to retrieve all ancillary studies or select them by name.

Latest reviewed publication — 29 September: Intervention-choice transfer at cb25d5c completes its first bounded workload phase. An explicit chooser acquired from earlier outcomes completes 16/18 fresh tasks after an API change, versus 17/18 for a fixed canonical adapter. Shared repair brings them to a tie. A source-only parser then completes 36/36 fresh API tasks with zero model calls, exposing the closed grammar's limited need for selection. Root reproduces outcomes, policy decisions and costs. Accept this explained workload limit; the broader remit remains open, with no new commission.

Preceding reviewed publications — 29 September: Action and completion-feedback synthesis reviews experience-guided investigation at 9380a56 and evidence-set memory at 5e2d06a. A competent ordinary reference now completes and verifies the joint repair; the trained 4B learner still loops on history. The evidence selector transfers to a second source project and saves context on one edit, but adds cost across the sequence. Passing executable tests misses an explicit documentation requirement. Root replays the saved outcomes and distinguishes useful feedback, complete artifacts and truthful completion. Both remits remain open; this review adds no commission.

New feasibility commission — 28 September: Intervention-choice transfer now owns the user-approved question of whether earlier intervention outcomes improve decisions after an agent or interface change. The independent repository was prepared and pushed at 3cabc29; workload discovery and diagnostic development are included. Preparation launches no agent session or experiments. The other studies continue under their existing remits.

Preceding root conclusion — 28 September: Learning where to intervene separates improving remedies from improving the decisions that deploy them. New public methods narrow generic co-evolution proposals. Retain transfer of intervention-choice experience after an agent change as an independent feasibility recommendation, beyond competent current diagnosis and unchanged reuse. This bounded root phase is complete; it adds no experiment or commission.

Preceding reviewed publication — 28 September: Experience-guided investigation at 523eb3f completes a bounded diagnostic phase. A new adapter repairs the boolean filter from a supplied recorded context (18/18 external checks), but fails to reach repair autonomously (9/18). Further correction elicits probes without repair. Full teaching-history access is now matched; no run uses it. Root replay confirms the results and an additional rename regression. Autonomous acquisition and fresh transfer remain open; acceptance adds no commission.

Preceding reviewed publication — 28 September: Evidence-set memory at 8ac9b69 adds five accepted bounded phases. Learning acquires useful set rankings and reduces delivered evidence relative to initialization, but ordinary dependency access matches complete native outcomes at lower selection cost. A good discrete energy ranking does not guarantee successful gradient inference. Natural-text scores reproduce, with source/label defects preventing a clean task-success claim. The expanded EBM exploration remains open; this review adds no commission.

Earlier root conclusion — 28 September: Recoverable memory when the task changes distinguishes loss from all retained state, failure to reach evidence, and failure to use it. Four public methods develop latent archives, reconstruction and source-preserving context construction. They narrow further experimentation toward reliable recovery at a useful lifetime cost under changed demands. This theory-and-reading phase is complete; it adds no model result or commission.

Earlier root conclusion — 28 September: Learning what evidence to obtain next separates reusing a resolved answer from learning to construct a useful new check. Public methods, human dialogue artifacts and a replayed maintenance defect narrow the independent source-choice candidate. Deprioritize a separate ask/search/test classifier; retain fresh-work investigation transfer within the existing remit. This root phase is complete and adds no learned-treatment result or commission.

Initial experimental commission — 28 September: Evidence-set memory asks whether a small specialist can learn from earlier experience to assemble compact, sufficient evidence for later complete work, including consequential change. Energy-based selection is one candidate. New public methods require a competent set-aware alternative; ordinary ranking alone is insufficient. The independent study owns bounded workload and acquisition development. Preparation and public-asset reconnaissance were reviewed at 5a0e8f7; the publication assessment above advances that boundary through seven experimental phases at 5e2d06a. The existing experience-guided investigation commission remains open.

The user has since authorized the EBM study to diverge beyond its initial focus and publish as it explores. The expanded direction preserves the starting predictions while leaving room for broader findings about EBMs and LLM capability. The user will bring publications to the root group.

Preceding root conclusion — 23 September: Observation boundaries distinguishes testing an implementation from resolving its intended contract. When available probes cannot distinguish conflicting requirements, more execution cannot settle which one applies. New clarification-method reading narrows the independent candidate to learning which evidence source to consult, beyond competent review and reuse of sourced answers. This is theory and research selection; workload feasibility remains open and no experiment is commissioned.

Preceding reviewed publication — 21 September: Experience-guided investigation at 47e5b28 supplies a reviewed pilot, with acquisition and transfer still unresolved. Both branch arms leave code unchanged and fail all three new cases. Both smaller repairs pass their original check but fail root's additional boolean-contract checks. The teaching is authored, rather than acquired from learner attempts; ordinary history lacks the full teaching record. The development evidence is accepted with qualifications; revision is required to complete the original commission. CC1 is unresolved and CC2/CC3 are untested. The 22 September clarification records investigator identity as user-reported provenance, without attributing these failures to it.

Preceding accepted publication — 20 September: Lesson acceptance at cbe62b9 finds no added benefit from paid probes once competent cheap review identifies visible SQL defects. Both curated policies complete 6/6 cases; ordinary raw reuse with repair also reaches 6/6 current outputs, while one returned program still fails on independent data. Cheaply corrected code handles all six cases without later model calls. The bounded phase closes on that explained solution; the value of evidence beyond competent ordinary review remains open. LA1–LA3 retain their original wording and now have bounded assessments. No follow-up is commissioned.

Preceding accepted publication — 18 September: Continuing consolidation at 80c17db establishes shorter familiar SQL execution after purposeful diagnosis, but its periodic adapter strategy completes 6/20 fresh jobs versus external reuse's 7/20. All arms retain the same source experience. The cumulative teaching contains only submit/finish actions, and fresh adapter runs never search history or execute saved queries. One accidental output match limits interpretation of the apparent update regression. The bounded phase is complete; useful continuing learning remains open. The review records the next research preference without starting another experiment.

Applied prototype reviewed — 19 September: Construct Runtime now includes a separate trainable memory model alongside its fixed primary, machine-facing task runtime and portable state. Two learning points improve original final completion from frozen memory's 9/28 to learned memory's 26/28; ordinary retrieval completes 28/28 at lower cost. Authority remains supplied, and changing record IDs/order breaks the learned reader. The reviewed local publication is 09f6683; root regraded 176 saved tasks and ran software checks. The derivative owns its software and experiments outside this root.

First weight-consolidation publication — 17 September: Weight consolidation completes its bounded phase at 491c0f8. With full source access, an adapter improves manual use of retained code from 3/12 to 5/12 complete tasks. A developed contract compiler brings both conditions and direct execution to 12/12; the adapter adds twelve repair calls. A corrected evidence-access flaw and all failed runs remain recorded. This is an explained limit of a finite synthetic language, not a general result against weights or a test of repeated consolidation. WC1–WC3 and their assessments remain distinct. No adapter was promoted; the completed follow-up is recorded above.

Preceding accepted publications — 17 September: Procedural migration and correction lineage complete their bounded phases. Unchanged procedural guidance and paid recipient selection both complete 12/12 fresh tasks; selection uses 83,495 tokens including setup versus 28,153 for inheritance. Guidance is useful to both tested models, but extra selection does not repay its cost at this horizon. Acquired lineage reduces recomputed fields from 48 to 18, yet whole-state rebuilding is cheaper. All four correction methods repair 6/6 states and complete 4/6 later task episodes; the shared arithmetic failures occur after correct repair. The PM1–PM3 and CL1–CL3 assessments preserve the original expectations and distinguish measured results from unresolved generalizations. No continuation is commissioned.

The preceding executable-retention assessment finds all four policies complete 8/8 fresh requests. Ready and archived source need zero future model calls, lessons-only reconstruction eight, and retaining the first reconstruction one. Source availability and persistence policy explain avoided work; acquired-lesson value and changed requirements remain untested.

The evidence-use assessment accepts its completed bounded phase. A varied-history adapter improves complete outcomes through two corrections: 65/96 uses versus the stronger retained lesson's 61/96, with 108.58 seconds of measured training plus use versus 121.16 seconds of lesson use. Further training regresses to 45/96. This is a narrow positive allocation result: cached lessons, checkpoint selection and full construction/repair costs remain untested; the supplied executable completes 96/96. Original EU1–EU3 predictions and assessments remain identifiable. No follow-up experiment is commissioned.

Current work prioritizes neural memory, live weight updates, and learned memory policies. Eighteen ancillary projects are registered, all with completed reviewed bounded phases. Intervention-choice transfer closes its first template workload on an explained limit while retaining its broader remit. Evidence-set memory retains its broader exploration remit; experience-guided investigation retains its open autonomous-acquisition and transfer commission. Update-source selection established reproducible local adapter updates without a task-success advantage in its final full-context comparison. Procedure acquisition and reuse found that its tested adapter transferred less reliably than retained examples and did not demonstrate acquisition-cost repayment at comparable useful accuracy. Neural memory depth (local) found that interactions among initial representations and training streams strongly affect whether a tiny deeper memory learns full or partial recall. Correcting a verified derivative omission and increasing gradient-refresh frequency did not provide a uniform remedy; the differing published depth trends in Titans and Modular TTT remain unexplained.

Procedure transfer (local) first found poor distillation acquisition and partial transfer through imitation. Its subsequent diagnosis (local) establishes a working forward-KL acquisition checkpoint and a controlled repair of failed routing from identical weights. Both selected learners route all 48 new development calls correctly, while identifier production remains unreliable. These diagnostic results explain part of the original failure without establishing a forward-KL transfer advantage. The root assessment records the evidence, checks and limits.

The third-phase root assessment, 15 September, accepts all three completed phases and evaluates the preserved M1–M3 expectations. The broader milestone is met within small controlled tasks: learned policies complete state-changing procedures through recurring learning and revision, while learned memory supports cross-event questions absent from writer training. The latest state/support assessment accepts S2's fourth phase and explains part of the maintenance divergence: the value of revision support depends on the inherited learned state. The preceding follow-up assessment records how these questions arose.

Latest publication	What we learned
Evidence-set memory	Functioning acquisition, compact delivery and successful inference are separate. Ordinary dependency access matches the best native completion; binary-equivalent energies can produce different gradient-search outputs. Natural-text labels qualify apparent QA outcomes.
Experience-guided investigation	Conditional strict repair succeeds, autonomous repair fails, and further correction produces probes without feedback-driven completion. Full history access is restored but unused; autonomous acquisition and transfer remain open.
Lesson acceptance	Paid probes add cost without benefit over competent cheap review. Raw repair fixes every current output but leaves one latent program defect; cheaply corrected code supports direct reuse.
Weight consolidation	Following the finite-compiler result, a database continuation reduces familiar execution calls but adds no fresh completion or demonstrated cost repayment. Access to retained experience differs from learning to use it.
Procedural memory migration	Useful unchanged guidance matches paid selection at 12/12 with much lower total token cost. Recipient-dependent value is observed; harmful inheritance and paid adaptation repayment are not.
Correction lineage	Selective repair touches fewer fields but costs more than rebuilding. Every arm repairs all states; later arithmetic failures leave complete behavior at 4/6.
Executable experience retention	All four policies complete 8/8. Ready and archived source avoid generation; caching the first reconstruction removes later generation. The result concerns source availability, with acquired-lesson value and changed requirements untested.
Evidence use under revision	One prespecified checkpoint transfers modestly and stays above base through corrections, with a favorable measured cost against an uncached lesson. Longer acquisition regresses; a supplied executable is complete.
Maintenance-decision transfer (assessment)	Known history selects the two-support aggregate bound at 524/768 on fresh acquisitions, but every endpoint remains incomplete. Observation controls are constant; validation sees obligation differences despite aggregate ties. A retained-example table completes 192/192.
Experience selection — S1 (local)	Damage-aware replay completes more uses overall than a developed fixed mixture, but fewer during recurrence, with more paired losses and substantial prediction cost. Both finish with complete acquisition; stopping at a fixed time can freeze incomplete learning.
Procedure retention and revision — S2 (local)	A controlled crossing identifies an interaction between inherited state and current support, with the predicted direction in both fresh acquisitions. One support change helps one state and harms another; neither support choice fully preserves the second fresh acquisition.
Memory under goal shift — S4 (local)	Better readers recover substantial utility for later compositions, while exact query-relevant omissions remain in some writers. Broad retention and explicit full records answer every tested query; losing some raw information need not prevent a particular later use.
Memory placement under revision — S5 (local)	Learned reranking improves score predictions without repaying its cost: account-aware lexical retrieval matches full reranking at 127/128 complete answers, versus retained/invalidated EARM at 120/121. Prediction quality survives content edits better than changed evidence needs; complete useful advantage is absent.

S5 now includes an accepted placement comparison alongside the earlier acquisition, use and maintenance measurements. None demonstrates learning-cost repayment against competent explicit alternatives at comparable complete quality. The placement study shares visible evidence across methods; earlier references have different supplied structures and privileges. The later evidence-use result adds a favorable measured comparison against an uncached lesson, qualified above. These results do not establish a universal ranking of weights, records and executable rules.

Current work — 29 September 2026: All eighteen registered studies have completed reviewed bounded phases. Intervention-choice transfer at cb25d5c establishes a functioning explicit chooser without an advantage over ordinary reuse; source parsing resolves its authored grammar. The first workload phase closes, while the broader remit remains open. Evidence-set memory has seven accepted bounded phases through 5e2d06a, with expanded EBM exploration open. Experience-guided investigation at 9380a56 now demonstrates competent ordinary verified repair, while autonomous learned acquisition and fresh transfer remain open. CC1–CC3 and ES1–ES3 retain their dated assessments. This root review starts no new experiment.

AD1 now has a narrow intervention-choice comparison with no added decision value; AD2 has an interface-transfer test without useful recalibration or an isolated chooser-transfer effect. Earlier maintenance-choice findings remain, and AD3 retains its bounded placement assessment. Original predictions are preserved in Learning what to change. Root continues theory, literature and independent questions about useful experience across sessions. The separate applied derivative owns prototype development; these reviews do not change its boundary. The next evidential milestone remains complete useful behavior across repeated realistic work and consequential change, including acquisition, checking, failures and maintenance costs.

S2's state/support phase is complete and accepted. MR1 has direct support in the selected equal-accuracy diagnostic; fresh acquisitions support the interaction but begin at different accuracies. MR2 and MR3 remain untested locally, with closer public precedents now identified. The reliability note preserves those expectations. S1, S2 and S4's completed phases remain stood down.

The learning-maintenance note preserves the original commissions and assesses their outcomes. The procedural-learning note records the new complete-preservation result without treating it as confirmation of reliable selective editability or repair of the earlier identifier-production problem. Failed acquisition deserves purposeful diagnosis; accepting a publication and closing its broader question remain separate decisions.