- message graphs

architecture/message_graph.md

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+# Message Graph
+
+```mermaid
+graph TD
+    %% Message nodes
+    SystemMsg["📋 System Message<br/>Role: System<br/>Content: Messages are nodes in a graph"]
+    UserMsg["👤 User Message<br/>Role: User<br/>Content: But messages aren't the only thing in the graph"]
+    subgraph PrevMessages["Previous Messages"]
+        PrevSystemMsg["📋 System Message<br/>Role: System<br/>Content: Edits are kept in the graph as context"]
+        PrevUserMsg["👤 User Message<br/>Role: User<br/>Content: So we can ensure they're immutable while keeping them editable"]
+    end
+    
+    %% Chat Response as a subgraph
+    subgraph ChatResponseBox["💬 Chat Response"]
+        ChatMetadata["📊 Metadata<br/>Temp: 1.0<br/>..."]
+        ChatResponseText["📝 Response<br/>Hello, Here's a subagent call: &lt;tool&gt;subagent&lt;/tool&gt;"]
+        ChatContent["Content: Hello, Here's a subagent call..."]
+    end
+    
+    %% Tool Response as a subgraph
+    subgraph ToolResponseBox["🔧 Tool Response"]
+        subgraph ToolMetadata["📊 Tool Metadata"]
+            ToolMetadataLength["Length: 3"]
+            subgraph ToolChat["💭 Subagent Chat"]
+                SubagentSystem["📋 System<br/>Content: Subagent call received"]
+                SubagentUser["👤 User<br/>Content: Process this request"]
+                SubagentAssistant["🤖 Assistant<br/>Content: Processing..."]
+                SubagentSystem --> SubagentUser
+                SubagentUser --> SubagentAssistant
+            end
+        end
+        ToolContent["Content: Subagent call output"]
+    end
+    
+    %% Graph flow connections
+    SystemMsg --> UserMsg
+    PrevSystemMsg --> PrevUserMsg
+    PrevMessages -.-> UserMsg
+    UserMsg --> ChatResponseBox
+    ChatResponseBox --> ToolResponseBox
+    
+    class SystemMsg,UserMsg messageNode
+    class ChatResponseBox responseNode
+    class ToolResponseBox responseNode
+    class ChatMetadata,ChatResponseText,ChatContent,ToolMetadata,ToolChat,ToolContent,ToolMetadataLength metadataNode
+```
+
+Messages should be a graph of immutable elements.
+
+## Why immutable elements?
+We want to train on policy
+- This means the context cannot change after we call a response.
+
+## Why a graph?
+Nodes and connections are a natural way to represent the flow of information in an agent conversation.
+
+
+## Will this be annoying to deal with?
+
+It shouldn't be! While there will be internal stuff that may look ???, for the interface, it should be as simple as your
+normal context window edits, so `message_history[2]['content'] = my_edit`, but internally we'll deal with the recordkeeping
+and how this ends up parsing into on policy training data, if requested.