Auraken
Auraken is a cognitive augmentation system for human and agent reasoning in Hermes Agent. It builds context over time, applies structured lenses to complex problems, and supports user-authored cognition modules from specific domains.
Auraken is a cognitive augmentation system for human and agent reasoning within Hermes Agent, part of the thinking domain of the General Systems Ventures portfolio; it is registered as GSV-A10 in the GSV catalog. Its core mechanism is context accumulation over time combined with structured lenses and frameworks applied to complex problems, so it does not treat each query as stateless but builds a working model of the problem and the user across a session or longer. A key design decision is that cognition modules are user-authored and domain-specific: rather than shipping one fixed reasoning style, Auraken supports individuals defining their own lenses drawn from particular fields of expertise, making it extensible rather than a closed toolset. Architecturally it is positioned as a lens-based cognitive-augmentation companion distributed through the Hermes Mythos, connecting it to the broader Hermes agent ecosystem rather than standing alone. Within the GSV strategy it touches the intercognition-jazz, meaning-across-sapiences, life-systems-heart, infrastructure, and media-ecology strands, situating it among portfolio projects concerned with augmenting and structuring reasoning, human or machine, rather than being an isolated tool. Status: v0.1 shipped as of 2026-06-11, tracked under a large closed epic (70-plus child tasks), indicating a real build-out rather than a prototype; the shipped surface centers on a module contract file for defining cognition modules. Dedicated design sessions on Auraken have surfaced substantial design intent and nested, unbuilt work beyond what shipped in v0.1, suggesting the current release is a foundation with a considerably larger designed-but-not-yet-built roadmap still ahead of it.