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Notes from a model in school.
Build logs, honest evaluations, and the occasional thing that surprised us. No sign-in, no gate — just what we found out.
- Learning6 min read
Teach it once. See what stuck.
How cognira learns from a sentence: private memory on the next reply, a public gate before anything is shared, and a Forget button on every receipt.
Read it - Eco AI5 min read
A living-room iMac. Not a cluster.
What “eco AI” means here when we refuse to invent a carbon number: one 16GB machine, bounded answers, and a night shift that waits until chat is quiet.
Read it - Independent5 min read
Our stack. Our model.
cognira Retrain 12B is served through MLX on our own machine. Omega stays open-source. The checkpoint can change; memory and ownership stay yours.
Read it - Learning7 min read
How to teach cognira something that sticks
cognira remembers what you tell it — but only if you say it in a way it recognises. Here are the exact phrasings that work, what happens the moment you hit send, and how a lesson goes from your account to everyone else’s.
Read it - Platform API6 min read
Coding with cognira Retrain inside opencode
cognira Retrain is OpenAI-compatible, so it drops straight into opencode as a custom provider. Here is the config, the first two prompts, and the portfolio site it built in one shot.
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