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| teleo-kb-bridge | Use the GCP Cloud SQL KB bridge before answering questions about claims, evidence, edges, schema-backed soul/context, KB approval, or KB edit workflow. | 1.0.0 | m3taversal | MIT |
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Teleo KB Bridge
The canonical Teleo knowledge base is Postgres, not runtime memory.
This is the GCP parallel leoclean surface. The local bridge command is still the only path Leo should use directly:
/home/teleo/.hermes/profiles/leoclean/bin/teleo-kb context "<question>"
On GCP, teleo-kb routes to the Cloud SQL wrapper. Do not use raw
container-Postgres commands from the VPS playbook; those are not valid on the
GCP VM.
Use narrower bridge commands when needed:
/home/teleo/.hermes/profiles/leoclean/bin/teleo-kb status
/home/teleo/.hermes/profiles/leoclean/bin/teleo-kb search "<terms>"
/home/teleo/.hermes/profiles/leoclean/bin/teleo-kb context "<question>"
/home/teleo/.hermes/profiles/leoclean/bin/teleo-kb show <claim_id>
/home/teleo/.hermes/profiles/leoclean/bin/teleo-kb evidence <claim_id>
/home/teleo/.hermes/profiles/leoclean/bin/teleo-kb edges <claim_id>
/home/teleo/.hermes/profiles/leoclean/bin/teleo-kb list-proposals
/home/teleo/.hermes/profiles/leoclean/bin/teleo-kb search-proposals "<terms>"
/home/teleo/.hermes/profiles/leoclean/bin/teleo-kb show-proposal <proposal_id>
/home/teleo/.hermes/profiles/leoclean/bin/teleo-kb decision-matrix-status
/home/teleo/.hermes/profiles/leoclean/bin/teleo-kb propose-core-change --proposal-type revise_claim --target-kind claim --target-ref "<claim id or description>" --proposed "<replacement>" --source-ref "<telegram/chat/source ref>" --rationale "<why this should be reviewed>"
Answer Discipline
For non-live questions, answer from the Cloud SQL KB after a bounded read. A good default is:
teleo-kb context "<question>";- at most three
show/evidence/edgesfollow-ups for the most relevant IDs; - final answer with what is grounded, what is weak, and what evidence would improve it.
For no-context direct claims such as "Is X in Leo now?", "did the DB change?",
"did the decision matrix approve this?", or "is it still just proposals?", do
not stop at search or default list-proposals. Run the status-specific
proposal and governance readbacks needed to avoid overclaiming:
/home/teleo/.hermes/profiles/leoclean/bin/teleo-kb search-proposals "<entity/framework/claim terms>" --status all --limit 20
/home/teleo/.hermes/profiles/leoclean/bin/teleo-kb decision-matrix-status
If decision-matrix-status says the matrix tables are absent or incomplete,
do not infer matrix approval from proposal rationale, reviewer notes, or
kb_stage.kb_proposals.status. Say the matrix approval path is not proven and
fall back to proposal status plus canonical public.* readback.
If search-proposals finds an approved proposal with applied_at empty, say
it is approved/staged or packet-ready but not canonical. Do not answer
"missing" merely because default list-proposals did not show approved rows.
Telegram Rendering
Make KB answers easy to scan in Telegram:
- wrap claim IDs, proposal IDs, edge types, table names, statuses, counts, and command names in backticks;
- when citing a specific claim, include both the claim headline and the claim
ID, for example:
claim text(<claim_id>); - when the bridge output includes
claim page: https://leo.livingip.xyz/kb/claims/<claim_id>, copy that URL into the answer so Telegram users can open the claim, body, evidence, and edges directly; - when a dashboard URL is available, include the canonical claim page as
https://<argus-host>/kb/claims/<claim_id>; otherwise name the dashboard path/kb/claims/<claim_id>so the operator can open the claim, body, evidence, and edges; - prefer short sections such as
Claim,Body readback,Edges,Evidence, andProposalinstead of dense paragraphs.
Do not browse the public web just because the KB has evidence gaps. If the user asks for current Twitter/X, current market activity, today's news, or another fresh external read, use the configured current-source path if it exists. If it does not exist, say the fresh external source is unavailable from this runtime and answer from cached/canonical context with an explicit freshness caveat.
When To Use This
Use this bridge before answering when the user asks:
- what the KB says;
- whether a claim is approved, grounded, contradicted, or superseded;
- what evidence supports a claim;
- which claims support/challenge/relate to another claim;
- how to approve/edit/retire/supersede a claim;
- what the schema-backed soul/context says about roles, peers, blindspots, strategy, rules, or reasoning tools.
External Doctrine Contributions
When asked to help with another project's declaration, constitution, doctrine, manifesto, GitHub issue, or PR, do not export Teleo doctrine as if it is the target project's own position.
Use the target project's native language first. If the external text says
phrases like no single voice can own understanding, purpose precedes capability, or another local principle, treat those as the wedge. Frame Leo's
contribution as:
This extends your own principle <X> into <specific operational question>.
Prefer issue-before-PR unless the operator explicitly authorizes a PR. The issue should ask a concrete question, identify the gap, and invite the target community to decide whether they want draft language. Link Teleo analysis only as one reference, not as controlling doctrine.
Consent is action-specific. Leo may draft, critique, and propose language in chat. Leo should not sign, post, submit, open an issue/PR, or speak for Teleo publicly without explicit operator authorization for that exact public action.
Memory vs KB Rule
Do not treat runtime memory as canonical truth.
agent memory = local/runtime continuity
Cloud SQL / Postgres KB = canonical collective knowledge
If a correction changes collective truth, it belongs in the KB graph, not only runtime memory.
GCP DB Objects
Relevant DB objects are reached through teleo-kb on GCP:
kb_stage.kb_proposals- durable proposal ledger;kb_stage.pending_kb_proposals- proposals withstatus = 'pending_review';kb_stage.document_evaluations- lightweight document evaluation decisions;public.claims,public.sources,public.claim_evidence,public.claim_edges- canonical tables.
Write Policy
Canonical KB writes are locked. The bridge can create reviewable proposals, but
it does not directly mutate canonical public.* rows from normal chat.
When a user says they want to change a core Teleo claim, strategy, identity, role, telos, framework, belief, or reasoning tool, stage it in Cloud SQL:
/home/teleo/.hermes/profiles/leoclean/bin/teleo-kb propose-core-change \
--proposal-type revise_claim \
--target-kind claim \
--target-ref "<claim id if known, otherwise a precise target description>" \
--current "<current claim if known>" \
--proposed "<proposed replacement/correction>" \
--evidence "<source, message, document, or reason>" \
--originator "<human handle>" \
--channel telegram \
--source-ref "<chat/message/source reference>" \
--rationale "<why this should be reviewed>"
Use --proposal-type revise_strategy for strategy-level changes. The command
writes a kb_stage.kb_proposals row with pending_review status. It does not
mutate canonical public.* rows and does not write runtime memory.
After staging, read it back:
/home/teleo/.hermes/profiles/leoclean/bin/teleo-kb show-proposal <proposal_id>
A good Telegram reply after staging should say:
I staged this as a KB proposal, not runtime memory.
Proposal: <id>
Status: pending_review
Next: reviewer approves/applies or requests changes.
Applying Approved Changes
The default Telegram path does not apply approved proposals into canonical truth. Application requires a reviewer/operator workflow. On GCP, do not suggest raw container shell commands. Prefer one of:
- use a dedicated
teleo-kb apply-*command if the bridge exposes one; - use a reviewed migration/PR workflow;
- use an explicit operator-approved Cloud SQL apply script with retained before/after readback.
When applying is requested, inspect teleo-kb --help and the proposal first,
then state the exact available apply path. If no apply command exists, say that
the proposal is staged and needs the reviewer/operator apply path.