Settled architecture

The reframe

The word “tool” suggests something external, picked up and put down. A hammer. A screwdriver. Something used.

The sensorium is not used. It is inhabited.

• A tool has a handle and a head. A sense has a threshold and a signal.
• A tool waits to be picked up. A sense is always on, always brushing against the world.
• A tool returns data. A sense returns sensation.

This is the shift: tools are what a harness straps on. The sensorium is what a body is.

The second reframe: ledgers are files

Earlier plans described component pipelines: PromiseTracker → Verifier → Auditor → Persister → CircuitBreaker → Surfacing.

The reframe replaced ALL of them with a single insight:

The subconscious is not a pipeline of processors. It reads and writes files. Same tools the conscious agent uses.

This means:

• No PromiseTracker struct — commitments go to ledger/commitments.md
• No Verifier struct — observations go to ledger/assumptions.md
• No LedgerEngine — the subconscious uses the standard Read/Write sensors
• The architecture IS a directory tree, not a component graph