INGRID's first slice of conversational fluidity

INGRID’s conversational foundation got noticeably sturdier this session — both what was stabilizing underneath, and a first real slice of teaching her to understand things phrased naturally instead of needing exact wording.

• Conversational memory and search context. INGRID keeps a running, queryable memory of what she just told you, and a separate live record of what she just searched — its sources, and which one you’re currently focused on — so a real follow-up resolves against what actually happened.
• Transient-failure isolation. A failed request — an unreachable model, a search that didn’t come back — is tracked apart from that memory entirely, so it’s never later recalled as something that genuinely happened. It’s surfaced honestly in the moment, then retired the instant you move on.
• Internet-awareness integration. Web search results flow into the same conversational memory as everything else INGRID discusses, instead of living in their own disconnected channel.
• Semantic follow-up recovery — first slice. A new, carefully bounded fallback stage recognizes natural rephrasings of a follow-up — “give me the short version,” “go deeper on that,” “pull up that source” — that don’t match INGRID’s original exact-phrase recognition. It only ever runs after every one of INGRID’s deterministic commands and existing reasoning stages has already declined, and it never invents a target it isn’t confident about — below a confidence threshold, or with nothing real to point at, it says so honestly or falls through instead of guessing.

This is a first slice, not a finished capability. Full conversational fluidity — broader topic switching and correction, deeper semantic coverage, and a full paraphrase-matrix validation pass with a live conversation smoke test — is still in progress, along with interruption handling, a richer companion-like presence, and a dedicated security-hardening pass over the reasoning layer. Built and verified with 4,655 tests in the suite; none of this has shipped in a packaged release yet.