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Just Add Salt. How to Get the Right Answer.

Substrate Salt + Federation Salt + Human Salt = Right Answer.

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The Three Salt Layers

MnemosyneC answers questions through three cooperative salt layers. Each layer is attempted in order. The system escalates only when necessary.

HOT retrieval always comes first. If your substrate already has a verified answer to this question, you get it in milliseconds — $0, no inference, no API call. The substrate is the asset. It compounds with every Plow.

The Canonical Plow Pipeline

When a question enters a Plow run, it travels through the full Canonical Pipeline:

Spider
  → Sprite (question pre-processor + domain classifier)
    → 9 External Specialists (staggered swarm)
      · Wikipedia · arXiv · OpenAlex · PubMed
      · Domain-specific sources (4 additional by domain)
        → Miner (knowledge extraction + deduplication)
          → Saladin (Adversarial Fence — challenges the answer)
            → Furnace (Integrity Gate — burns inconsistencies)
              → Three Fates (Concordance — 3-voter consensus)
                → Scribe (writes verified eblet to substrate)
                  → Detective + Andon (cross-substrate verification + quality gate)

Each stage, explained plain

Spider — Crawls the question space. Identifies what sources are relevant and dispatches fetch jobs.

Sprite — Pre-processes the question for domain classification. Assigns the question to one of the 14 MMLU-Pro domains (or general knowledge). This determines which specialists are activated.

9 External Specialists — A staggered swarm of 9 parallel source queries. Not all 9 fire for every question — the Sprite’s domain assignment determines the mix. Wikipedia and arXiv fire for most academic questions. PubMed fires for health/biology. OpenAlex for research citations. Four domain-specific additional sources by classification.

Miner — Extracts candidate knowledge from Specialist results. Deduplicates. Normalizes. Produces a candidate answer pool.

Saladin (Adversarial Fence) — Challenges every candidate answer. Acts as the skeptic: “What could be wrong with this?” Filters out answers that don’t survive adversarial challenge.

Furnace (Integrity Gate) — Burns off inconsistencies. Verifies internal coherence. An answer that contradicts itself doesn’t pass the Furnace.

Three Fates (Concordance) — The 3-voter consensus layer. Three independent Shadow E-Giant™ passes from different perspective lenses (correctness · consistency · coverage) must agree before an answer proceeds. This is the Andon Cord trigger: if Two-of-Three cannot agree, the Andon fires.

Scribe — Writes the verified answer to your substrate as a new Eblet™. SHA256-stamped. Append-only. The substrate grows.

Detective + Andon — Cross-substrate verification layer. The Detective checks the new Eblet against existing substrate for contradictions. If a contradiction is found, the Andon Cord fires — the new eblet is quarantined, not written. The substrate stays clean.

Per-Domain Isolation

Each Plow question runs in its own isolated pipeline context. Domain A’s Specialists do not contaminate Domain B’s results. This is why the BP083 MMLU-Pro run achieved 14/14 domains GREEN — each domain’s questions were processed through domain-appropriate Specialist configurations.

Domain isolation also means: a failed concordance in Business does not affect Chemistry. The Andon quarantine in one domain does not cascade to others.

We Don’t Give Up on a Question

The Federated Andon Cord is MnemosyneC’s commitment that no question is silently discarded.

When a question fails concordance at Three Fates, the cooperative escalates:

Tier 1 — Local Retry

“Local pipeline could not reach concordance. Retrying with different Specialist configuration.”

• Up to 3 retry attempts with varied Specialist dispatch
• If concordance is reached: eblet written to substrate, question marked GREEN
• If all retries exhausted: escalate to Tier 2

Tier 2 — Constellation Escalation

“Local retries exhausted. Escalating to Constellation peers.”

• Question is dispatched to Constellation peers (other machines in your fleet)
• Peers have different substrate states — may already have the answer
• If any peer reaches concordance: result propagates back to your substrate
• If Constellation cannot resolve: escalate to Tier 3

Tier 3 — Human Salt / The Diagnosis

“Constellation cannot resolve. Escalating to The Diagnosis cooperative peer network.”

• Question enters The Diagnosis — human cooperative peer network
• Cooperative peers who have experienced or solved this problem respond
• 3-voter concordance at human response layer promotes answer to Seasoning tier
• If The Diagnosis resolves it: human-verified eblet written to substrate

Honest Quarantine (Tier 3 exhausted)

“The cooperative has exhausted all tiers. Quarantining. No eblet written.”

• The pipeline does not write a wrong answer to keep the substrate clean
• The question is marked as quarantined in the Plow summary
• No Andon = silent failure. With Andon = honest quarantine. The difference is everything.

2/70 questions in the BP083 MMLU-Pro run were honestly quarantined. That is the Andon Cord working as designed. We report 68/70 (97.1%) — not 70/70 — because we tell the truth about what the system knows.

The Substrate Is the Asset

Use Ask in MnemosyneC. Use Claude Desktop. Use Cursor. Use ChatGPT in your browser. Whichever surface you use, the substrate underneath compounds. Your knowledge grows. The model is interchangeable. The substrate is what makes any AI smarter — for you, for your work, for the keep.™

Every Plow run adds verified eblets. HOT retrieval on the next Ask costs $0 and takes milliseconds. The substrate gets cleaner over time, not noisier. Failed claims die. Verified+used claims persist. Used-and-verified claims become permanent Stone Tablets.™

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