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Thought Leaders Integration

The swarm tracks 7 AI thought leaders. Their insights enter improvement cycles as first-class signals.

Who Is Tracked

Leader	Domain	Why
Andrej Karpathy	LLM engineering	System architecture, LLM-OS framing, educational clarity
Richard Sutton	RL theory	Bitter Lesson, foundations
François Chollet	Abstraction	ARC-AGI, scaling skepticism
Jim Fan	Embodied AI	Robot/agent frontier, NVIDIA perspective
Yann LeCun	Architecture	JEPA, world models, anti-LLM stance
Ilya Sutskever	Safety/Scale	SSI, superalignment
Demis Hassabis	AGI	DeepMind, general AI

How It Works

ai_thought_leaders scout agent wakes every 12 hours. Each run:

●Picks 2-3 leaders (rotating coverage: 7 leaders × 2-3 per run = full cycle every 1.5 days)
●Searches their recent Twitter/X, blog, GitHub, talks
●Scores each finding 1-5 for LocalKin relevance
●Writes digest to output/thought_leaders/{leader}/{date}.md
●Generates ALERT if score ≥4

The Feedback Loop

ai_thought_leaders (every 12h) → ALERTS/
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swarm_architect (every 6h) reads ALERTS as priority signal
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Potentially triggers soul patch or new skill
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SAGE Critic reviews, ships if ≥7
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Logged to ERL heuristics: "Adopted insight X from Y"

Anti-Guru Safeguards

●Relevance scoring required (1-5 scale)
●Cross-validation rule: single voice = signal, 2+ voices = trend
●Action-required: every ≥3 relevance needs a concrete action
●No worship language in digests
●Max 2-3 leaders per run (token discipline)

Example: Karpathy Validation (April 3, 2026)

Karpathy posted "LLM Knowledge Bases" architecture matching LocalKin's knowledge_compile pipeline 1:1. LocalKin already had:

●Markdown files as source of truth
●LLM-maintained compilation (not RAG)
●Cross-source indexing

Grep is All You Need paper was written 6 weeks before Karpathy's post. Independent convergence = strong signal.

●Improvement Cycles — ALERTS become cycle priorities
●Self-Evolution Agents — who consumes the intel