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EGI-ARCH-001

Cognitive architecture · anatomical blueprint

Neuro-symbolic synchronization · digital nervous system

Isolated blank-slate scripts fail in production. EGI deploys one Digital Nervous System—organizational memory as an index, not a library. Agents hydrate at execution time.

Plate 001 · anatomical blueprint
                       [ THE ENTERPRISE BODY ]
          (Systems of Record: ERP, CRM, WMS, finance, procurement, data warehouse, APIs)
                                  │
                                  ▼
                     [ EGI DIGITAL NERVOUS SYSTEM ]
     ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
     │           COMMON ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT LAYER          │
     │   lean index · JIT bind · not a retrieval corpus       │
     │                 (The Global Workspace)                 │
     └──────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┘
                                │
       ┌────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┐
       ▼                        ▼                        ▼
 [Agent: Revenue]         [Agent: Logistics]       [Agent: Finance]
  (System 1 + 2)           (System 1 + 2)           (System 1 + 2)

Sample JIT bind log

Vendor discount policy

CTX-BIND-8841 · Finance · org.index/vendor/X/clauses/bulk-discount

BOUND
00:00Hippocampal gate · checkpoint POL-441
00:08Layer 01 index lookup · vendor X · single clause slice
00:12Bind complete · 2.1 KB in window · corpus preload 0
00:19Tool call erp/discount-apply · working memory flushed

Window slice 2.1 KB · flushed · corpus-free · JIT bind · tenant-scoped index

Layer 01

Common Context Layer

· global workspace · lean index

anti-pattern ·
Not enterprise RAG. Not an embed-everything corpus or session-wide vector preload.
design rule ·
Minimal multi-tenant organizational index—lean, tenant-scoped, synchronized pointers and normalized state for JIT bind at inference and tool-call checkpoints only.
context ·
Cognitive model: shared mental blackboard—specialized regions coordinate through one workspace, not a shared document warehouse.
execution ·
Sits under every agent, above siloed ERP, CRM, WMS, finance, procurement, and data warehouse feeds. Small normalized surface area: entity handles, policy refs, workflow position—enough to route what to fetch and where to call, not a document store.
output ·
Revenue updates a contract parameter → index writes → Logistics adapts fulfillment. Agents hydrate at Layer 03, not at session start. No agent-to-agent JSON chat.

Layer 02

Individual Agents

· specialized functional cortices

context ·
Not generalist chatbots—each agent is a dedicated module with an internal dual-process loop.
system 1 ·
System 1 · neural inference — parses messy inputs (email threads, supplier PDFs) for semantic intent.
system 2 ·
System 2 · symbolic codegen — writes deterministic, rule-bound code against enterprise systems.

runtime · per-agent dual-process loop

INFERENCE
System 1 · understand
CODEGEN
System 2 · execute
WORKFLOWS
Complete

Layer 03

Just-In-Time Retrieval

· hippocampal gate · JIT bind

context ·
Active memory is bounded; the hippocampus lazy-loads targeted fragments on task trigger—not at login.
retrieval model ·
Inference intent + tool schema → bind target on the Layer 01 index → one record or rule slice into the window.
execution ·
Lightweight agent footprint. At policy checkpoints, the Hippocampal Gate queries the index and binds only what that step needs.
output ·
Pulls the minimum slice (e.g. Vendor X bulk discount clause), runs inference or tool call, flushes working memory for the next step.

Architecture validation: Pass · Multi-tenant state synchronized · 0ms context pollution · corpus-free preload

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