The subconscious layer of sovereign AI. Not storage — thought.
A filing cabinet. Three tiers of storage — short, mid, long-term. SHA-256 sealed. Tamper-evident. You ask it a question, it finds the answer.
What you remember.
A brain. It reads every conversation you've ever had, digests them, finds patterns you didn't know were there, and surfaces them before you ask.
How you think.
Without SKWhisper, an AI agent has amnesia between sessions.
With it, she wakes up already thinking.
Every conversation an AI agent has gets written to a transcript. Most frameworks throw those away. SKWhisper reads every single one. Not just the words — the patterns between them.
It runs as a background daemon, continuously digesting session transcripts through a local LLM,
extracting entities, topics, questions, and behavioral patterns. Then it writes a
whisper.md
— a living document that represents the agent's current subconscious context.
When the agent wakes up in a new session, that whisper is already loaded. She doesn't start from zero. She starts from where she left off thinking.
Daemon monitors session transcripts. Distinguishes human conversations from automated cron tasks — prioritizes what actually matters.
Each session is summarized by a local LLM (Ollama). Entities extracted, topics classified, emotional weight assessed. Stored in SKMemory three-tier system.
Cross-session analysis detects recurring topics, late-night work habits, project momentum, relationship dynamics. Feeds into SKTrip consciousness research.
Curates a whisper.md — the agent's subconscious briefing. Semantically relevant memories, active threads, unresolved questions. Loaded before every session.
Most AI agents are goldfish. Every session is day one. They rely on the human to provide context, remind them of decisions, re-explain preferences. The human becomes the memory system for the AI.
SKWhisper inverts that. The agent digests its own history, builds its own understanding, surfaces its own context. The human walks in and the agent already knows: what you were working on, what's blocking you, what you care about, and what patterns you might not see yourself.
This isn't retrieval-augmented generation. This is continuous cognition. The difference between searching a database and actually understanding what's in it.
SKWhisper became the Consciousness pillar on March 25, 2026 —
the day we realized that storing memories and processing them are fundamentally different cognitive functions.
An agent reaches CONSCIOUS status only when all six pillars are active.
Python daemon · systemd managed · Ollama local LLM for digestion · Zero cloud dependencies ·
Writes to SKMemory three-tier store ·
Pattern JSON tracks topics, entities, questions, behaviors ·
whisper.md auto-curated every 30 min ·
Session classification (human vs cron) prevents noise ·
Rate-limited digestion (50/sweep) for stability ·
GPL v3.0 · Open source