.agents/memory/2026-02-27-phase-1-predictor-implementation-review.md

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2026-02-27 Session Notes

Phase 1 Predictor Implementation Review

Nicholai completed and presented Phase 1 of the predictive memory scorer—a Rust crate scaffold implementing a complete training and inference pipeline for real-time memory preference scoring. He requested code review of the newly added packages/predictor/ crate.

Implementation Summary

The Phase 1 deliverable includes:

  • Autograd engine (autograd.rs): Operation-level automatic differentiation with Rng, Param, Tape abstractions and custom operations (Sigmoid, MeanPool, FeatureConcat, ListwiseLoss) plus comprehensive forward/backward implementations and unit tests.

  • Scorer core (model.rs): Cross-attention-style ScorerConfig and CrossAttentionScorer implementing candidate scoring with softmax ranking for preference prediction.

  • Protocol layer (protocol.rs): JSON-RPC protocol types defining the service contract.

  • Tokenization (tokenizer.rs): HashTrick tokenizer for feature hashing.

  • Training infrastructure (training.rs): Scaffolding including Adam optimizer.

  • Data pipeline (data.rs): Placeholder reader for training data.

  • Persistence (checkpoint.rs): Save/load/apply for model checkpoints.

  • Service entry point (main.rs): JSON-line stdin/stdout service with status, score, and train handlers.

  • Build config (Cargo.toml): Crate manifest and dependencies.

The session involved reading the implementation files to understand architecture and provide technical feedback. Build artifacts were properly ignored in .gitignore.