phronesis

coherence through connection

pip install laserbrain

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Agents learn. laserbrain does not.

laserbrain provides an immutable signal about an agent’s steps relative to a goal. Catch agentic spiraling with a fixed context.

phronesis.worldpip install laserbrain →

one run, four stepsoverlap with the goal it was given
fix the failing auth test
advancing · d6grounded
1.00
fix the auth test session handling
advancing · d5advancing
0.50
fix the auth session store
advancing · d5advancing
0.33
refactor the session store for auth
advancing · d4goal-drift
0.14
Every step is a small, defensible edit on the one before it — so nothing watching only the last step ever objects. Against the goal it started with, step 4 is somewhere else.run it yourself →

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