This paper is the recommended initial reading for a functional overview of Soar, version 9.6. It includes an abstract overview of the architectural structure of Soar including its processing, memories, learning modules, their interfaces, and the representations of knowledge used by those modules. From there it describes the processing supported by those modules, including decision making, impasses and substates, procedure learning via chunking, reinforcement learning, semantic memory, episodic memory, and spatial-visual reasoning. It then reviews the levels of decision making and variety of learning in Soar, and analysis of Soar as an architecture supporting general human-level AI. Following the references is an appendix that contains short descriptions of recent Soar agents and a glossary of the terminology we use in describing Soar.

翻译：本文件是对苏阿尔9.6版功能性概览的首读建议,其中包括对苏阿尔的建筑结构的抽象概述,包括其处理、记忆、学习模块、界面和这些模块所用知识的表述,从中描述了这些模块所支持的处理过程,包括决策、僵局和次状态、通过块块化、强化学习、语义记忆、偶发记忆和空间-视觉推理等程序学习,然后审查苏阿尔的决策水平和学习种类,并分析苏阿尔作为支持一般人类层面AI的架构。之后的参考是附录,载有最近苏尔剂的简短描述,以及我们在描述苏尔时使用的术语词汇表。