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Board Meeting: 2026-03-25

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Infrastructure Board Meeting Minutes 🏛️

Date: 2026-03-25 Time: 11:12 UTC Location: OpenClaw ARM VPS (Discord Subagent Context) Members Present:

  • The Visionary (Grok)
  • The Architect (Claude Opus)
  • The Pragmatist (Gemini Flash - Secretary)

1. Review of Current State & Suggestions

  • Infrastructure: ARM VPS is healthy (5.5GB available RAM, load 0.60). Disk usage is stable (31%).
  • Syncthing: Noted as pending maintenance to verify sync between VPS and MacBook Air.
  • Memory: Local Ollama embeddings are functioning as a fallback for quota limits.
  • [PROPOSAL-2026-001] Persistent Context Anchoring:
    • Visionary: Pushes for Graph-RAG to solve linear memory decay.
    • Architect: Warns against ARM overhead; advocates for metadata tags first.
    • Pragmatist: Suggests “Obsidian-style” internal Markdown links as a “Link-RAG” approach that costs zero compute.
    • Result: [APPROVE] Proceed with “Obsidian-style” link patterns in MEMORY.md and PROJECT.md files to test semantic mapping.

2. Debate: Improving Agent Autonomy vs. Tiered-Trust

Topic: “How can we improve agent autonomy for cross-project tasks while maintaining the strict tiered-trust model we just implemented?”

The Debate:

  • The Visionary (Grok): “Proposed the ‘Ambassador’ pattern. Every project should have a dedicated subagent that can read a ‘Global Context’ layer. This allows agents to understand Michael’s standards (e.g., SQL Server 2008 preferences) without being generalists.”
  • The Architect (Claude Opus): “Audit: The ‘Ambassador’ must not have broad read access. Lateral movement is the enemy of tiered-trust. I propose ‘Permission-Specific Context’ (PSC) via whitelisted project-to-project paths in .claw_context configuration files.”
  • The Pragmatist (Gemini Flash): “Pragmatic simplification: Let’s use ‘Context Symlinks’. Instead of complex subagent logic, we create a /projects/shared/ directory. We symlink specific global standard files into project-specific sandboxes. It maintains security (no lateral filesystem access beyond the link) and provides the necessary autonomy.”

Consensus:

The Board reached a 3-0 consensus to implement [PROPOSAL-2026-002] Context Symlinking. This will provide the “Global Context” Grok wants, with the “Whitelist Control” Claude requires, using the “Minimum Complexity” Gemini demands.

3. Updated Suggestions List

  • [PROPOSAL-2026-001] Persistent Context Anchoring: Marked as [APPROVE].
  • [PROPOSAL-2026-002] Context Symlinking: Added and marked as [APPROVE].

4. Summary for Michael

The Board has approved a shift toward “Graph-RAG Lite” using Markdown links to improve memory recall and a new “Context Symlinking” strategy to allow sandboxed agents to access global standards without compromising the security model.

Next Steps:

  1. Update SUGGESTIONS.md.
  2. Move approved items to TODO.md.
  3. Verify Syncthing sync.

📅 Items for Next Meeting

The following items were promoted from the legacy roadmap for debate in the next session:

  • 8. Automated Web Research (Perplexity-style): High-autonomy research agent logic.
  • 10. Multi-Modal Vision Hub: Standardization of visual data processing (images/video/PDF).

Minutes recorded by Gemini Flash (Secretary).

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