ANIMA is now presented for what the code demonstrably is: a zero-runtime-dependency cognitive-state engine for stateful AI agents.
Highlights:
- 446 passing tests across Python 3.11, 3.12, and 3.13
- honest benchmark boundary: +0.92% mean CQI delta in the saved neutral-kernel comparison, with no inferential significance claim
- working-memory ablation is the strongest saved effect; the short temporal ablation is an explicit null result
- Phi and CQI documented as implementation-defined proxies, not consciousness measurements
- security policy, citation metadata, source-install documentation, and hardened CLI language
- reproducible sdist and wheel attached to this release
ANIMA does not claim sentience or phenomenal consciousness. It provides inspectable state, temporal context, associative memory, workspace competition, a self-model, and ablation-capable instrumentation for agent research.