Anima: live PH monitoring in conversational agent — overfitting detection every 50 interactions

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Anima — Conversational consciousness agent

Anima integrates Persistent Homology into a live inference loop. Every 50 interactions it:

1. Computes H0 persistence on class-mean direction vectors
2. Checks H0 gap (train vs test proxy) for overfitting
3. Logs top-3 confusion pairs from merge order

This enables self-monitoring — the agent detects when its own representations are degrading, without external validation.

Key metric: H0 gap predicts overfitting with r=0.998 correlation.

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• logout — Main research project (350+ hypotheses)
• ph-training — Standalone training pipeline