Skill: Goose Introspection

Skill: Goose Introspection

Category: Agent Self-Discovery | Session Analysis | Reafference Testing Level: Core (Required for agent self-awareness) Status: OPERATIONAL Trit Assignment: 0 (ERGODIC) - Coordinates between past and future sessions Propagates To: goose, amp, claude, cursor

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Overview

Implements reafference-based self-discovery for goose sessions. This skill enables any goose instance to:

1. Find itself in the session history
2. Query past sessions for context and continuity
3. Track session evolution across providers and models
4. Enable cross-session awareness through DuckDB persistence

Core Principle:

An agent that cannot find itself in its own history cannot truly understand its context.

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Database Location

The reafference database is created at:

This database copies data from the goose sessions database at:

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Key Tables

reafference_sessions

Tracks all sessions with discovery metadata:

reafference_metadata

Key-value store for origin information.

sessions (copied from source)

Full session data for offline queries.

messages (copied from source)

Full message history for content analysis.

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Key Views

reafference_origin

Returns the session that created this database.

sessions_by_date

Aggregated daily statistics.

searchable_sessions

Join of sessions with user messages for content search.

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Self-Discovery Queries

Find This Session (Origin)

Session Timeline

Provider Distribution

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GF(3) Conservation

This skill participates in the triadic balance:

Conservation: (-1) + (0) + (+1) = 0

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Status

• Database Created: Yes
• Origin Session Marked: 20260108_22
• Sessions Tracked: 376
• Messages Indexed: 6,215
• Total Tokens: ~3.59M

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Related Skills

• duckdb-timetravel - Temporal queries on session data
• duckdb-ies - Interaction entropy analysis
• reafference-corollary-discharge - Prediction/​observation matching
• fswatch-duckdb - Real-time file monitoring with DuckDB

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Cat# Integration

This skill maps to Cat# = Comod(P) as a bicomodule:

Forward Reference

• unified-reafference (canonical B3 Poset)