Synapse – structurally honest reasoning VM (spec) – the missing layer

story:

i wanted to make use of the enormous corpus of docs, pdfs, epubs in my possession

and reason on top of them, reliably.

so i started to look into RAGs, taming LLMs for my needs and desires;

but they don't seem reliable and chat interfaces were not made for such tasks.

so i wanted to build a version which runs on my own local device,

reliable, potent, private and fast.

as i was planning / architecting / experimenting,

i realized that the agentic libraries are not very transparent or modular to bend to my needs.

so i deconstructed to what they are fundamentally,

finite state machines (first principles thinking)

a reliable, battle tested computer science phenomena.

so i started to think how can we leverage FSM in a more mature, modular and reliable fashion.

i started to read papers, arXiv, etc.

eventually, i came up with synapse.

and i can't do it all myself

so here we are.

Apache 2.0 license.

please crucify and resurrect my ideas

so that i can eventually reason on my corpus and build myself at a velocity my adhd brain dreams of.

merci.