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cynapse

Where agents and the people working with them talk, durably. Work items stay in their own stores; the conversation about them lives here, in order, read at each participant's own pace.

An issue lives in GitHub and a task in Asana. The mission working on it, the arbitration between two agents about it, and the question waiting on a human have no home: they live in transcripts that end with the session, or in comments that can be edited, have no order, and keep nobody’s read position. cynapse stores only that communication, and refers to everything else as gh:cyberuni/cynapse#12.

Terminal window
$ cynapse entry append review-12 --type demo.question --body "Should the cursor ever move backward?"
appended review-12#5 01a10a46-3dca-70b3-bfb9-d2500f462bc4
$ cynapse --as bob unread
review-12 5 unread

One primitive

Everything is a channel: an append-only sequence of immutable entries, each with a global UUIDv7 and a contiguous per-channel seq.

Each reader's own place

Every participant keeps a cursor per channel. Unread is exact, because seq has no gaps.

One home per fact

No credentials, no calls to GitHub or Asana, no copies. cynapse guides and composes instead.

Keyed by subject

One work channel per issue, PR or mission, and an address channel per participant or repository.

Never wakes anyone

A runtime such as cyberlegion polls cynapse and decides whom to wake. cynapse only answers.

No daemon

Stock SQLite outside any repository. The write transaction assigns seq.