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Scaling the ivory tower.

The kinoSoft research lab. The tower is the image: knowledge is guarded on every floor, and you reach it only by climbing. The current exhibit is oczy, a plastic world-model agent that learns by changing, not by retrieving.

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the thesis

The keepers of the tower were never the point.

An ivory tower is a place where knowledge is guarded — by whoever decides what counts as real. The image predates language models. It is every advisor who held the keys, every canon that refused a sense.

kinoTou builds the climber: a plastic world-model agent where experience becomes state, state becomes fast weights, fast weights become slow priors, and the raw trace is forgotten after consolidation. Not an LLM with memory added later — a single continuum from input to behavior.

The work here is not retrieval. It is changed dynamics: memory that survives because the organism became different, not because it stored a string. The tower is climbed one floor at a time.

six floors, one organism

The Tower

The same agent, drawn as six floors. Each floor is an organ — and a thing it gatekeeps: who steers, who remembers, who admits, who forgets. Read what each floor is today and what it must become.

  1. VI
    Belfry
    Plastic Cortex
    gatekeptsteering — who gets to bend the prior
  2. V
    Throne
    Identity Hypernetwork
    gatekeptselfhood — who the organism is becoming
  3. IV
    Observatory
    World-Model Critic
    gatekepttruth — what counts as prediction error
  4. III
    Scriptorium
    Neural Hippocampus
    gatekeptmemory — what deserves to be written
  5. II
    Gatehouse
    Skill Immune Cortex
    gatekeptadmission — which trajectories are poison
  6. I
    Cellar
    Experience Autoencoder
    gatekeptforgetting — what survives compression

exhibits

Currently exhibited

The lab's active artifact. Open the door to read the architecture goals, the organ contracts, and the experiment log.

exhibit 01→

oczy

Plastic World Model Agent monorepo.

Experience → fast change → replay → compression → slow change → forgetting raw trace. The original thesis remains open; the live program now tests a meta-trained cortex controlling a frozen language organ through fixed-shape state.

21 research projects9 experiment programsmeta_cortex/v2 active
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ascent log

Notes from the climb

Select entries from the lab notebooks. The full record lives in the oczy repository.

2026-06-24

The cliff collapses

raw_hidden steering at scale 0.001 produces clean on-manifold leaning toward the corrected sense. The binary cliff of the random projection — no-op until ~30, then crash — is collapsed to a usable linear regime.

cortex
2026-06-23

Architecture review pass

NeuralHippocampus scoring 1.000 above the Oracle 0.844 was a measurement artifact — internal bookkeeping, not surfaced learning. A schema drift (correction vs corrected_answer) silently killed replay in the ranker.

review
2026-06-25

Exact-token uptake

A fixed text prefix prepended to the prompt achieves exact-token uptake ("vertical" appears) where the residual cvec only achieved domain shift. The prefix is the practical fact-recall surface today.

lm-binding

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kinoSoft is a research lab, not a consultancy. We take on a small number of deep collaborations on plastic agents, metabolism architectures, and the steering problem. If you are building something that should learn by changing, write.

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