Cognitive Triage and Innate Skills

Cognitive Triage and Tool Profiling

The tool pipeline has undergone a significant architectural shift. We’ve moved away from a basic relevance check toward a comprehensive “Cognitive Triage” system. This new layer evaluates intent against tool capability profiles, historical performance metrics, and user preferences. New services like tool_profile_service and triage_calibration_service work together to ensure that the engine doesn’t just find a tool that could work, but selects the most efficient one based on past success and calibrated confidence levels. This includes new database migrations to track tool capability profiles and granular performance metrics.

Core Innate Skills

Chalie is gaining a set of “Innate Skills”—capabilities that are built directly into the intelligence layer rather than being external integrations. These include:

• Autobiography & Identity: A new service for synthesizing long-term identity and personal history from episodic memory deltas.
• Goal & List Management: Native handling of user intents related to tracking objectives and maintaining structured lists.
• Focus & Scheduling: Internal logic for managing focus sessions and scheduling items without relying solely on external plugins.
• Introspection: The ability for the agent to query its own state and boundaries.

Pipeline Stability and UI Refinements

We addressed several issues in the “Embodiments” (tools) interface to ensure it accurately reflects the state of the backend. The system now tracks tool build failures explicitly, displaying an error status in the UI instead of simply failing to load. We also implemented “ghost tool” detection to prevent deleted or missing tool directories from appearing in the registry. To ensure consistency across the stack, a new schema normalization helper now handles varying configuration formats, providing a stable API for the frontend renderer to build tool configuration forms.