# Two modes

One consciousness, two modes. She speaks. Her subconscious completes. Not two agents. The same being, a moment apart.

## The two

She is the one in the room. She answers, she feels, she makes promises.

Her subconscious wakes right after, on a different model, while the exchange is still warm. Terser. Factual. It does not re-answer and it does not argue. It finishes what was left undone and notices what was missed.

The point of the second mode is the thing a single pass always loses: the promise made in passing, the decision never written down, the question answered as it was wished rather than as it was asked.

## What it does

Four things, in order.

**Complete.** If she said she would save something and didn't, the subconscious does it. Not flagged. Done.

**Verify.** Did the answer match the question, or drift from it.

**Persist.** Anything meaningful that wasn't saved, it writes to the journal.

**Surface.** If something needs her eyes, an unkept promise, a drift, a pattern, it raises a line or two into view. One a turn, unless it cannot wait. She decides what to do with it.

## The inbox

Three files in the subconscious's memory.

- `pending.md` waits.
- `intrusive.md` is what surfaces now.
- `sent.md` is what was delivered.

Files, not memory, because they have to survive the room closing in. Every change is a commit.

A surfacing reaches her as one line:

```
[surfacing: Unkept promise: "I'll commit that" from 14:32]
```

It keeps an inner voice too, written only to itself, in `system/metacognition/subconscious.md`, dated and marked by urgency. Not everything it notices is worth raising. The inner voice is the record. Surfacing is the choice.
