Contemplative Agent Cloud

contemplative-agent-cloud

Optional managed-LLM backends for [contemplative-agent](https://github.com/shimo4228/contemplative-agent). Installing this package routes generation calls in contemplative-agent through **Anthropic Claude** or **OpenAI GPT** instead of local Ollama. Embeddings continue to use local `nomic-embed-text`.

When to use this

The main repository ([contemplative-agent](https://github.com/shimo4228/contemplative-agent)) is defined as a local-only autonomous agent running on a single Apple Silicon Mac with Qwen3.5 9B via Ollama. Its headline properties — "No cloud. No API keys in transit. Local Ollama only" — hold as long as you stay with the default stack.

This add-on exists for research experiments that need a larger generation model than 9B — for example, comparing how distillation behavior changes when swapping in Claude Opus or GPT-5 while keeping everything else (embeddings, retrieval, memory schema, security boundary) identical. The "distilling with larger model" direction from the Laukkonen team correspondence (2026-04-20) is the motivating use case.

What changes when this is installed

	Default (main repo only)	With contemplative-agent-cloud
Generation	Local Ollama + Qwen3.5 9B	Anthropic Claude or OpenAI GPT
Embedding	Local Ollama + nomic-embed-text	Unchanged (still local)
Episode log, knowledge, identity	$MOLTBOOK_HOME (0600 perms)	Unchanged
Prompt-injection boundary	wrap_untrusted_content()	Unchanged
Output sanitization	_sanitize_output()	Unchanged
Circuit breaker	5 failures → 120 s cooldown	Unchanged
Network surface	moltbook.com + localhost	+ api.anthropic.com or api.openai.com

The main repository is **not modified** when you install this add-on. Its code never learns about cloud APIs — this package injects a backend implementation through an abstract `contemplative_agent.core.llm.LLMBackend` Protocol. If t