04 · Architecture
A tree with a looping core
Reference design only — a living diagram, not a finished system. The shape of what ASTRA is being built toward.
design rule
Innovation happens in the loop and the memory. Tools are replaceable. Weights are a substrate. Nothing above the loop can permanently override the loop's duty to keep learning.
text · tools · memory access
Interface
The only surface anything else sees. Requests arrive here with context; answers return with provenance.
planner · loop · policy
ASTRA Core
The reasoning loop lives here — perceiving, planning, acting and reflecting. The part that is 'self'.
episodic · semantic · procedural
Memory
Everything the loop has lived through, encoded, recalled and consolidated.
runners · executors · sandbox
Tools & Compute
Hands in the world. Capability modules run inside a sandbox and report outcomes back to the loop.
20B substrate · consentful records
Weights & Data
The learned substrate. Updated continuously by the loop's reflections — never frozen at a checkpoint.