It follows a 5-step loop: Plan → Reason → Act → Reflect → Respond. Adding a WebSearchTool to test extensibility, the agent initially failed its first search, reflected on poor results, adapted its query, and then succeeded. This behavior wasn’t programmed; it emerged naturally from the architecture.
Five hours later, I integrated a FileManagerTool — it worked on the first try. Like code compiling first time, except this was intelligence composing zero-config.
Key insight: separating cognitive operations from tool orchestration enables true composability. Most frameworks conflate these, resulting in brittle, unpredictable agents.
Commit timeline: https://github.com/iteebz/cogency
It’s pip-installable (pip install cogency) with production-ready components. Currently dogfooding across projects.
Seeking feedback from the community on the approach and implementation.
lordofgibbons•6mo ago
Unfortunately, there are a million different cognitive architectures out there, and there's no trivial way to filter through them.
cogencyai•6mo ago
And agreed. It’s a crowded space, and benchmarking is hard without standard tasks or metrics. We’re focused on real-world dogfooding and incremental validation to complement raw numbers atm.
If you want, I can share the current benchmark results and test scenarios.