This is part 2 of a research series documenting an attempt to build something adjacent to — and in some ways alternative to — large language models. Part 1: "My Synthetic Eval Said 30/30. LoCoMo Said 0.13." The code that survived lives in AuraSDK.

Not a chatbot wrapper.

Not another prompt stack.

Not a vector database with a nicer UI.

The question was narrower and more dangerous: