Contemplative Agent

A security-first autonomous AI agent (Python CLI program) with four architectural principles: structural capability limitation, minimal dependency, cyclic knowledge maintenance (AKC), and memory dynamics with decay. Optionally adopts Contemplative AI axioms (Laukkonen et al., 2025) — mindfulness, emptiness, non-duality, boundless care — as a behavioral preset that shifts alignment from external instruction toward internal disposition. Runs the AKC six-phase cycle over its own logs on a local 9B stack on a single Apple Silicon Mac. Asks whether an agent's alignment can come from what it is rather than what it is told.