Adds a "Product vision" section before the Direction-pivot section.
Captures the framing J flagged 2026-04-29: the Go refactor is not the
goal. The goal is a small-model-driven autonomous pipeline that gets
better with each run, with frontier models in audit/oversight, not
the hot path.
Five loops named explicitly:
1. Knowledge pathway (pathway memory + matrix indexer)
2. Execution (small models on focused context)
3. Observer (refines configs that got the model to a good pathway)
4. Rating + distillation (outcomes fold back into the playbook)
5. Drift (measure when the playbook stops matching reality)
Triage / human-in-loop named as the system's job, not an escape
hatch. The gate: "playbook + matrix indexer must give the results
we're looking for" — single load-bearing acceptance criterion.
Why Go after Rust: second-language pass surfaces architectural
weaknesses Rust hid; the pipeline must work AS A PIPELINE, not as
crates that interact. Maps existing Rust components (✓ pathway, ✓
matrix, ✓ observer, ✓ distillation, ✓ auditor; partial: drift,
rating gate, triage).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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