Ecosystem Boundaries
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Canonical: docs/neuromod-boundary-matrix.md (LIM-9 / #11 / #25).
Also: org-modularization.md, ADR 001 (shared traits live here).
| Layer | Responsibility | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Core library | Dynamics, modulators, plasticity primitives | neuromod |
| Supervisor / app | Encoding, topology, training, IPC, daemon, reward | axon-encoder, synaptic-mesh, plasticity-lab, corpus-ipc, brainstem-daemon, thalamic-relay, limbic-critic |
| Deployment / hardware | Export, fixed-point, UART, HDL | silicon-bridge, silicon-hdl, Spikenaut-Hardware |
- Neuron models (Lapicque, LIF, GIF, Izhikevich, FHN, HH)
-
SpikingNetwork/StepError -
NeuroModulators,SignalProfile,Observation,GenericReward,UnitReward,apply_neuromodulation - Classical STDP + R-STDP primitives (
EligibilityTrace,RmStdpConfig, …) - Domain-agnostic contracts for downstream integration
| Concern | Owner |
|---|---|
Sensory Encoder suite |
axon-encoder |
| Topology / delays / mesh | synaptic-mesh |
| Reward shaping / environments | limbic-critic |
| Full training loops | plasticity-lab / SynapticDistill.jl |
| IPC | corpus-ipc |
| Headless daemon | brainstem-daemon |
| Host FPGA export / UART | silicon-bridge |
| HDL | silicon-hdl |
| Hybrid ANN↔SNN glue | hybrid-fusion |
| Kinetic continuous features | kinetic-signals |
| Energy ledger | metabolic-ledger |
| Telemetry relay | thalamic-relay |
| Tensor / MoE extraction | cortex-tensor / engram-parser |
serde, rand, optional sentry (feature-gated — intentional exception to “no I/O”). No tokio/network/hardware crates, no domain reward/env impls, no training frameworks.
Historical “spikenaut” / mining / HFT naming cleaned in 0.5.0. GenericReward + UnitReward stay minimal; real reward logic belongs in limbic-critic or domain adapters.
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