Abstract
CogStack is a two-layer architecture for autonomous AI agent systems. The first layer, the persistent cognition substrate, externalizes the context produced by interactive AI sessions, compresses it into a durable memory store, and rehydrates it into subsequent stateless API calls, enabling agents to reason continuously across sessions and execution environments. The second layer, multi-vendor cognitive stacking, orchestrates agents drawn from different model providers and families so the composite system exhibits emergent properties that no single constituent produces alone — specifically, decorrelated diversity in which each agent's failure modes do not coincide with the others'. CogStack is designed as the orchestration complement to AIDL (AI Directive Language), which provides the governance grammar that bounds agent behavior and weights adjudication by provider independence. Together they form a matched two-layer system: CogStack orchestrates decorrelated cognition; AIDL governs and adjudicates it. Canonical repository: https://github.com/nielsg2/cogstack-spec. Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20529670.
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Goldstein, Niels S., "CogStack: Persistent AI Cognition and Multi-Vendor Cognitive Stacking", Technical Disclosure Commons, ()
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/10349