The Cognitive Cycle

Six stages. One loop. Endless improvement.

The LIDA-inspired cognitive cycle is the heartbeat of every Minds agent. Six pluggable stages broadcast over a Global Workspace, reinforced by reward-modulated Hebbian learning. Pathways that work strengthen. Unused ones decay.

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Capabilities

What it does.

Every capability is production-grade. No flags, no betas — these ship the day you adopt Minds.

Perceive
Raw experiences deduplicated, scored for novelty, batched.
Attend
Salience-ranked spotlight — only what matters reaches consciousness.
Decompose
Triples to graph, episodes to memory, embeddings to HNSW.
Reason
HRM hierarchical planning + neurosymbolic fusion.
Learn
Reward-modulated Hebbian updates, EWC weight protection, homeostatic decay.
Act
ActionFeedbackAdapter closes the loop — every action becomes the next experience.
API

A few lines is all it takes.

The SDK reflects the conceptual model directly. No glue code, no orchestrator, no learning curve beyond the data shape.

exampletypescript
// Run the full cognitive cycle on an incoming experience.
const result = await minds.cycle.process({
  experience: {
    type: "user-query",
    text: "Why did Q3 revenue dip?",
    timestamp: new Date(),
  },
  profile: "full",   // or "analytical" | "minimal"
});

console.log(result.action);       // selected action
console.log(result.trace);        // per-stage trace
console.log(result.reward.delta); // pathway reinforcement
Specs

What it costs, what it guarantees.

Performance
Stages
6 pluggable (LIDA model)
Profiles
full · analytical · minimal
Cycle latency · full
~900ms end-to-end
Reward evaluators
Efficiency · Novelty · Completion
Pathway reinforcement
reward-modulated Hebbian + decay
Guarantees
Durability
fsync per WAL commit
Isolation
MVCC · snapshot
Audit
BLAKE3 Merkle chain
Encryption
AES-256-GCM per-namespace
Concurrency
100K+ ops/sec
Keep exploring
Reasoning
HRM lives in the Reason stage.
Memory
Decompose writes into all memory types.
Continual Learning
Learn stage protects critical weights.

Build it on Minds.

Start with the SDK. Ship in an afternoon. Run anywhere — Akasha Cloud, on-prem, or air-gapped.

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