v0.0.2 — Anti-Drift & /audit Support

🧠 SYNAPTIC-CORE v0.0.2

This release focuses on brain resilience and proactive discovery. Addressing the "Persona Drift" observed in long sessions, we introduce mechanisms to keep the agent grounded and its memory accurate.

🚨 Major Change: Anti-Drift Protocol

Long sessions often lead to agents losing their persona. We fixed this with:

• HEARTBEAT.md: A condensed identity checkpoint (~20 lines) the agent re-reads after each major task.
• Forced Journaling: The session rhythm now mandates writing the plan FIRST and results LAST.
• System Prompt Hook: /init now detects your platform (.agent, .claude, .cursor) and automatically writes a bridge file in its rules directory to ensure permanent connection to the brain.

🔍 New Skill: /audit

A proactive gap-filling tool. While /consolidate routes current session data, /audit reviews the entire brain cross-session to find:

• Missing info (empty templates, TBD contacts).
• Promotion opportunities (data in references/ that should be in inventory/).
• Workspace changes (new folders/files not yet ingested).

🌐 English-First Seed

The core standard (BOOTSTRAP.md, skills, templates) is now in English.

• Reason: LLMs follow English instructions with higher attention weight.
• Impact: Better alignment and performance across all models.
• User Content: Your actual data (overviews, journal, contacts) remains in your own language.

🧹 Other Improvements

• Improved /consolidate: Now automatically promotes data from references to inventory.
• Standalone Skill v3: Fully updated with all v0.0.2 features.

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How to Upgrade

1. Download synaptic-seed-v0.2.0.zip
2. Replace .synaptic/BOOTSTRAP.md and the .synaptic/skills/ folder in your project.
3. Add .synaptic/identity/HEARTBEAT.md (or let /init create it).
4. Update your MANIFEST.md version to 0.2.0.
   (Manual for now—automated /upgrade skill coming in v0.0.3)