ZeroAgent.Core 1.2.0

🤖 ZeroAgent: Sovereign Pure C# Cognitive Agent & Multi-Agent Swarm Framework

ZeroAgent is an enterprise-grade, deterministic AI Agent and Multi-Agent Swarm framework engineered in 100% pure C# for the .NET ecosystem. Operating in Tier 5 (Presentation & Orchestration) of the ZeroPlatform ecosystem, ZeroAgent provides autonomous ReAct execution loops, zero-reflection tool calling protocols, sub-5ms task-oriented dialogue tracking, 4-tier agentic memory, and CSP-based multi-agent coordination—completely independent of external heavy Python runtimes or cloud-locked SDKs.

🏛️ The 5 Pillars of ZeroAgent Architecture

ZeroAgent is engineered around 5 foundational architectural pillars designed for high throughput, sub-millisecond predictability, and verifiable safety:

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                      │              ZeroAgent Core Engine            │
                      └──────────────────────┬────────────────────────┘
                                             │
             ┌───────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┐
             │                               │                               │
             ▼                               ▼                               ▼
    ┌─────────────────┐             ┌─────────────────┐             ┌─────────────────┐
    │    Pillar 1:    │             │    Pillar 2:    │             │    Pillar 3:    │
    │ Zero-Reflection │             │ Two-Tier Bridge │             │ KV-Cache Layout │
    │  Tool Protocol  │             │ Reflex <-> ReAct│             │ Prefix Stability│
    └─────────────────┘             └─────────────────┘             └─────────────────┘
             │                               │
             ▼                               ▼
    ┌─────────────────┐             ┌─────────────────┐
    │    Pillar 4:    │             │    Pillar 5:    │
    │ Knapsack Budget │             │ Fluent Builder  │
    │ Context Packer  │             │ Type-Safe DSL   │
    └─────────────────┘             └─────────────────┘

1. Zero-Reflection Tool Protocol (IAgentTool)

• High-performance tool registration through strongly-typed delegates and explicit schema contracts (JsonSchemaConstraint).
• Zero reflection overhead during invocation, enabling sub-microsecond tool dispatch.
• Native Human-in-the-Loop (HitlSafetyGate) gating for destructive, safety-critical, or high-privilege actions with cryptographic audit logging.

2. Two-Tier Cognitive Escalation Bridge (CognitiveEscalationBridge)

• Tier 1 (Reflex Fast Path): Pure C# CPU-based NLU and Dialogue State Tracking (DST). Handles slot filling, state machines, and routine operational inquiries in sub-5ms with 0 GPU / LLM cost.
• Tier 2 (Deliberative ReAct Engine): Activated automatically when analytical reasoning is demanded ("tại sao", "phân tích", "đối chiếu") or when NLU confidence drops below threshold ($< 0.45$). Executes autonomous multi-step reasoning, tool observation cycles, and self-correction.

3. KV-Cache Friendly Prompt Layout (PromptLayout)

• Structurally partitions prompt templates into Static Prefix (System Role, Safety Directives, Tool Schemas) and Dynamic Suffix (Working Memory, Slots, Contextual turns).
• Guarantees maximum prefix KV-cache reuse on local inference engines (ZeroInference / vLLM / llama.cpp), cutting TTFT (Time-To-First-Token) by up to 70%.

4. Knapsack Context Budget & Compaction Engine (ContextBudgetManager & IContextCompactor)

• Algorithmic token budgeting applying greedy/knapsack optimization to pack message histories, dynamic tool schemas, and episodic recollections into strict context windows.
• Lossless context distillation via DeterministicContextCompactor: transforms evicted historical turns into high-density <CONTEXT_SUMMARY> blocks, completely preventing context degradation ("Lost in the Middle") and escalation blindness.
• Observation masking via ObservationCompactor: compresses multi-kilobyte tool outputs down to compact semantic signatures inside ReAct execution trajectories.

5. Fluent Builder DSL (ZeroAgentBuilder)

• Unified, type-safe builder interface to declaratively compose Memory Engines, Cognitive Escalation Bridges, Safety Gates, Tools, and Model Backends.

🧠 4-Tier Agentic Memory System

ZeroAgent features a multi-tiered cognitive memory hierarchy that mimics human operational cognition:

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                        4-Tier Agentic Memory                           │
├───────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Tier              │ Description & Scope                                │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Working Memory    │ Active conversation turns, slot tracking, and      │
│                   │ deterministic Anaphora / Coreference Resolution    │
│                   │ (resolves "nó", "máy này" -> active equipment ID). │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Semantic Memory   │ SOPs, operational manuals, and domain guidelines   │
│                   │ vector-indexed via ZeroVector for instant recall.  │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Episodic Memory   │ Historical incidents, past failures, and verified  │
│                   │ resolutions stored as semantic episodes.           │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Response Cache    │ High-confidence (similarity >= 0.95) vector cache  │
│                   │ for idempotent queries, bypassing NLU/LLM cycles.  │
└───────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

🗜️ 4-Tier Context Compaction & Rolling Summarization

To support multi-turn sessions (50–100+ turns) without context rotting, token overflow, or latency spikes, ZeroAgent incorporates a 4-tier context compaction hierarchy:

flowchart TD
    Raw["Raw History (100+ Dialogue Turns & Multi-KB Tool Logs)"] --> T1["Tier 1: Micro-Compaction (ObservationCompactor)"]
    T1 --> T2["Tier 2: Lossless State (WorkingMemory.ActiveSlots)"]
    T2 --> T3["Tier 3: Rolling Summarization (DeterministicContextCompactor)"]
    T3 --> T4["Tier 4: Long-Term Offload (Episodic Vector Memory)"]

    T3 --> CompactPayload["<CONTEXT_SUMMARY> + Recent 4-6 Turns (Sliding Window)"]

1. Tier 1: Observation Masking (ObservationCompactor):
   • Truncates voluminous tool outputs (such as TSDB queries or SQL dumps) into compact head/tail signatures while retaining essential metrics, reducing trajectory token consumption by 70–85%.
2. Tier 2: Structured Working Memory Retention:
   • Critical entities (machine_id, metric, area, tableName) are tracked in typed slot dictionaries outside of the message array and are never lost during text truncation.
3. Tier 3: Pure C# Rolling Summarization (DeterministicContextCompactor):
   • Executes in < 0.05 ms without requiring external LLM calls.
   • When turns exceed MaxRetainedTurns or when PruneToTokenBudget is triggered, older turns are distilled into a high-density <CONTEXT_SUMMARY> block preserving verified decisions and chronological milestones.
   • Injected into CognitiveEscalationBridge so that deliberative ReAct agents have 100% historical context awareness.
4. Tier 4: Episodic Vector Offloading:
   • Deep diagnostic episodes and solutions are permanently indexed in AgenticMemoryEngine.EpisodicMemory for on-demand associative recall.

👤 Long-Term User Persona & Behavioral Personalization Memory (UserPersona)

Similar to ChatGPT's custom instructions and context memory, ZeroAgent tracks long-term user characteristics across sessions:

• Linguistic Pronoun Detection: Dynamically recognizes communication pronouns ("anh - em", "tao - mày", "tôi - bạn") from user utterances and automatically personalizes response salutations (Dạ anh..., ...nhé!).
• Domain & Topic Affinity: Tracks interaction frequencies per intent (DominantDomain), enabling rapid disambiguation of ambiguous questions (e.g. defaulting to Sales Orders for Sales Managers without repetitive confirmation).
• Transactional Safety (No Entity Guessing): Avoids arbitrarily pre-filling or assuming specific entities (customers, order codes); users must explicitly provide or confirm entity identifiers to guarantee enterprise transactional integrity.

🚪 Anonymous Guest Chat & In-Flight Session Upgrade (UserRole.Guest)

ZeroAgent natively supports unauthenticated public guest interactions alongside enterprise users:

• Auto-Detection & Session Isolation: Session IDs prefixed with guest_ or anon_ are automatically resolved to UserRole.Guest. Each guest operates with strictly isolated ephemeral memory, preventing cross-guest persona contamination.
• Public Inquiries Without Login: Guests can freely access public FAQs, company information, and SOP manuals indexed in SemanticMemory.
• Role-Based Action Gates: Protected operational intents (machine control, live PLC actuation, sensitive ERP financial/sales queries) are blocked by RBAC gates with a polite, non-punitive authentication prompt (FormatGuestLoginRequired).
• In-Flight Session Upgrade (UpgradeGuestSession): When a guest logs in midway through a conversation, their collected slots, multi-turn history, and intent state are seamlessly migrated to the authenticated UserProfile, allowing immediate execution without re-asking questions.

⚖️ Memory vs Intent Dynamic Conflict Arbitration Matrix

To eliminate collisions between vector memory search (Semantic / Episodic) and transactional intents:

🛡️ Enterprise Resilience, Bi-Temporal Memory & Security Hardening

To support multi-node industrial deployments and guarantee zero downtime / data corruption:

• State Checkpointing (IDialogSessionStore): Abstracted session persistence supporting InMemoryDialogSessionStore and FileCheckpointerSessionStore (JSON disk snapshots). Active slots, pending clarifications, and dialogue states survive process crashes and node restarts (LangGraph Checkpoint pattern).
• Bi-Temporal Knowledge Memory (ValidFromUtc, ValidUntilUtc): Documents and historical incidents carry explicit validity periods (IsValidAt). Obsolete SOP manuals or outdated machine states are automatically filtered out from vector queries, eliminating stale facts contamination (Graphiti pattern).
• Volatile Telemetry Cache Safety: Real-time sensor and time-series metrics (CHECK_TEMPERATURE, QUERY_TSDB, SENSOR) enforce an ultra-short 5-second TTL or bypass cache entirely, preventing dangerous stale temperature readings from masking plant emergencies. State-mutating commands (STOP_MACHINE, WRITE_PLC) are strictly non-cacheable.
• Guest Heap Exhaustion (DoS) Mitigation: ProfileMemory.PruneStaleGuestProfiles systematically evicts expired anonymous guest sessions while preserving registered enterprise user profiles.
• Model Context Protocol (MCP) Tool Export: McpToolExporter serializes all internal agent tools into standard Model Context Protocol (MCP) JSON schemas, enabling bi-directional interoperability with Claude Desktop, Semantic Kernel, and OpenAI tool protocols.

📄 Declarative JSON Intent & Database Binding Architecture

Enables zero-code ERP business expansion without modifying C# or restarting servers:

{
  "IntentId": "ERP_QUERY_SALES_ORDER",
  "DisplayName": "Tra cứu đơn hàng bán",
  "SampleUtterances": ["kiểm tra đơn hàng", "tình trạng đơn sale"],
  "Slots": [{ "Name": "order_code", "Type": "string", "IsRequired": true }],
  "DataSource": {
    "Provider": "SqlServer",
    "ConnectionKey": "ERP_Production",
    "Query": "SELECT OrderCode, CustomerName, DeliveryStatus FROM tb_SalesOrders WHERE OrderCode = @order_code",
    "Parameters": { "@order_code": "{{slots.order_code}}" }
  },
  "ResponseTemplate": "Đơn hàng {{OrderCode}} của {{CustomerName}} - Trạng thái: {{DeliveryStatus}}"
}

• Pluggable Executors (IDataSourceExecutor): Built-in support for SqlServer, Postgres, Sqlite, DataFrame (ZeroData in-memory), and RestApi.
• Zero SQL Injection: 100% parameterized query execution.

🛠️ Industrial Tool Suite & Partial Modularity

The framework is partitioned into modular, single-responsibility components and partial classes:

• DynamicDatabaseQueryTool:
  • DynamicDatabaseQueryTool.cs: Schema metadata catalog and unified query dispatch.
  • DynamicDatabaseQueryTool.LiveSql.cs: Direct live SQL Server pushdown with connection pooling and schema introspection.
  • DynamicDatabaseQueryTool.DataFrame.cs: In-memory tabular queries and vector search over ZeroData.DataFrame.
• TsdbQueryTool:
  • TsdbQueryTool.cs: Rolling telemetry metrics (avg, min, max, count, latest).
  • TsdbQueryTool.Anomalies.cs: Statistical Z-score outlier and anomaly detection.
  • TsdbDataPoint.cs: Dedicated time-series data model.
• DialogueStateTracker:
  • DialogueStateTracker.cs: Diacritic-tolerant intent recognition and neural classifier binding.
  • DialogueStateTracker.Entities.cs: Multi-slot extraction and FSM state transition engine.

📊 Stress & Concurrency Benchmarks

ZeroAgent has undergone rigorous stress testing under enterprise multi-tenant workloads:

================================================================================
CONCURRENT MULTI-CONTEXT STRESS BENCHMARK RESULTS
================================================================================
Concurrent Active Users:    100
Distinct Question Patterns: 20
Total Processed Turns:      300
Wall-Clock Execution Time:  103 ms
Throughput Rate:            ~2,912.62 turns/sec
Average Turn Latency:       0.34 ms
Test Suite Status:          86 / 86 Passed (100%)
================================================================================

Highlights:

• Zero Cross-Talk: Complete context isolation across 100 simultaneous user sessions.
• Sub-Millisecond Execution: Core Reflex path executes in $< 1$ ms on standard multi-core CPUs.
• Ultra-Fast Context Compaction: 1,000 deterministic compaction iterations completed in $< 20$ ms ($< 0.02$ ms/op).
• Long-Term User Persona: Dynamically detects pronouns ("anh-em", "tao-mày", "tôi-bạn") and tracks topic/entity preferences across sessions like ChatGPT memory.
• Deterministic Slot-Filling: Diacritic-tolerant NLU reliably extracts parameters regardless of Vietnamese accent variations (e.g., "ap suat", "áp suất", "ap-suat").

🚀 Quick Start

1. Fluent Agent Construction (ZeroAgentBuilder)

using ZeroAgent.Core.Builder;
using ZeroAgent.Tools.Data;
using ZeroAgent.Tools.Storage;

var agent = ZeroAgentBuilder.Create()
    .WithName("FactorySupervisor")
    .WithRole("Chief Autonomous Plant Dispatcher")
    .WithMemory(dimension: 128)
    .WithTokenBudget(maxTokens: 4096)
    .WithTool(new AgentTool("read_sensor", "Reads telemetry", "sensorId: string", (arg) => Task.FromResult("75.2 C")))
    .WithHitlSafetyGate(timeoutSeconds: 30)
    .Build();

2. Sub-5ms Task Dialogue Engine (ZeroDialogEngine)

using ZeroAgent.Dialog.Engine;
using ZeroAgent.Dialog.Memory;

var engine = new ZeroDialogEngine();

// First turn: Inquire about a piece of equipment
var res1 = await engine.ChatAsync("session_user_01", "Kiểm tra nhiệt độ máy nén C-102");
Console.WriteLine(res1.Text);
// Output: "Nhiệt độ của thiết bị C-102 hiện tại là 78.4°C (Bình thường)."

// Second turn: Coreference resolution ("nó" -> "C-102")
var res2 = await engine.ChatAsync("session_user_01", "Áp suất của nó thế nào?");
Console.WriteLine(res2.Text);
// Output: "Áp suất hiện tại của C-102 là 6.2 bar."

3. Deliberative ReAct Escalation

// Asking for deep analytical reasoning escalates from Reflex to ReAct Deliberation
var res3 = await engine.ChatAsync("session_user_01", "Tại sao áp suất C-102 tăng đột biến?");
Console.WriteLine(res3.Text);
// [Escalated to Tier 2 ReAct Engine]
// Output includes structured Thought -> Action (TSDB Anomaly Scan) -> Observation -> Analytical Explanation.

📦 Solution Architecture

ZeroAgent/
├── src/
│   ├── ZeroAgent.Core/          # ReAct loops, context managers, Knapsack budgeting, tools protocol
│   ├── ZeroAgent.Dialog/        # ZeroDialogEngine, DST (FSM), 4-Tier Memory, Anaphora resolution
│   └── ZeroAgent.Tools/         # DynamicDatabaseQueryTool, TsdbQueryTool, HitlSafetyGate
└── tests/
    └── ZeroAgent.Tests/         # 58 comprehensive unit, integration, DST, and 100-user stress tests

🌐 Multi-Target Support

📄 License

Architected and developed by Phong Võ (kzxl) for the ZeroUniverse / ZeroPlatform ecosystem. Released under the MIT License.