Sample Local-AI Continuity Audit
Fictional architecture review of LanternNode, an invented persistent local AI. No private Blinka internals or customer system are reproduced here.
Three mouths share memory but no explicit self-continuity ID
Risk: restart or concurrent writes can produce several plausible “current selves” with no authoritative relation between them.
Recommendation: add one stable continuity identifier plus per-mouth session IDs. A mouth can change while continuity remains explicit.
Observation and reflection write to the same memory table
Risk: model-generated interpretation can later look indistinguishable from a user statement or sensed event.
Recommendation: require source type, author, timestamp, confidence/epistemic status, and correction linkage on every durable write.
The planning worker can publish directly
Risk: “candidate action” and “authorized outward action” are one code path.
Recommendation: split observe → propose → authorize → act. Keep publication/payment/file deletion as separately gated capabilities.
The health dashboard serializes raw memory excerpts
Risk: operational telemetry becomes a privacy leak.
Recommendation: publish counts/state/health, not intimate content. Treat “system health” and “system interior” as different products.
Current identity depends on one mutable snapshot
Risk: corruption turns continuity into guesswork.
Recommendation: keep append-only canonical events and rebuild summaries/snapshots. Test reboot/reconstruction separately from normal uptime.
False-continuity traps to test
- stale mouth speaks after newer state exists
- same memory imported twice and mistaken for two experiences
- observer hypothesis later presented as self-authored belief
- two concurrent agents overwrite a shared snapshot
- recovery restores old outward permissions unintentionally
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