Direct conversation with Caterpillar (Hermes 3 8B + book RAG + tool gateway).
Each turn takes 3–8 min on CPU — be patient. He'll only execute tools you've granted via the capabilities pane.
Permissions Caterpillar may use
Grants are sticky — they survive worker restarts and chat sessions until you revoke them. Time-limited grants auto-expire. Caterpillar will only emit tool calls for capabilities currently granted.
Lore search (Carroll books RAG)
Search the embedded passages from Wonderland + Through the Looking-Glass. Top-K retrievals shown — same vector lookup Caterpillar performs each chat turn for grounding.
Capture cadence & retention
Per-bucket snapshot period and how long the PNG stays on disk before the janitor reclaims it. Edits go live within one tick — chart_capture re-reads on each cycle. chart_signals rows survive the janitor.
8B teacher transcripts — review & curate
Each scenario in training/scenarios.jsonl is run through Caterpillar (8B) and stored here.
Mark transcripts good/bad/edited; the curated set becomes the few-shot bank or a JSONL fine-tune dataset for the smaller runtime model.
