76 lines
4.8 KiB
YAML
76 lines
4.8 KiB
YAML
experiment:
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name: Ghostlight
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status: incubation
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phase: phase_0_scaffold
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premise: >
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Build a durable research and implementation home for socially persistent
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generative agents whose behavior emerges from latent state, culture,
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memory, perception, and incentives rather than flat persona prompts.
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objective:
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primary: >
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Turn Ghostlight into a legible machine for persistent autonomous social
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agents that can support Aetheria content generation, dialogue scaffolding,
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procedural drama, and eventual live-world simulation without collapsing
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into prompt soup.
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current: >
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Stand up the repo spine, consolidate the architecture we already know, and
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prepare the first implementation slices around state modeling, cultural
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priors, signal classification, prompt projection, and authoring-oriented
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drama generation.
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constraints:
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- Prefer explicit latent state over persona theater.
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- Culture should shape priors and incentives, not stamp out clones.
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- Prompt text is a projection surface, not the canonical store of truth.
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- Keep persistent state small enough to rehydrate without drowning the next session.
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- Reuse proven machinery where it fits before inventing ornate nonsense.
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- Do not treat an older corridor-crisis game slice as the active Ghostlight implementation target.
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invariants:
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- The map is canonical and slow-changing.
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- Scratch is temporary and disposable.
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- Evidence is durable and distilled.
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- Canonical agent state and per-agent perceived state must remain distinct.
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- Listener misread is part of the model, not an error to flatten away.
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- Personality must be modeled as layered organization, presentation, and situational activation, not just one bag of labels.
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- Authoring outputs must remain explainable in terms of state, relationship, pressure, memory, and goals.
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data_flow:
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observe:
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- research notes
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- implementation artifacts
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- simulation requirements
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- setting constraints
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- AetheriaLore source context
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process:
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- rehydrate from canonical state
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- work one bounded organ
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- verify the seam that matters
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- distill only belief-changing evidence
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- commit or cut the branch
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cut:
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- kill machinery that does not visibly serve the core model
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- move volatile proof to git history or artifacts, not durable notes
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- remove active scenario assumptions when the user redirects the product target
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active_subgoals:
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- Keep Ghostlight as the canonical home for its architecture notes so consumer projects do not quietly regrow duplicate brains.
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- Define the canonical agent state model, including first-class volatility, attachment-seeking, and distance-seeking.
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- Define how culture shapes priors, incentives, masks, and economic behavior without turning populations into clones.
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- Define the boundary between canonical signal, perceived signal, and prompt projection.
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- Support content generation for the Call of the Void slice in AetheriaLore and dialogue scaffolding or procedural drama for narrated Aetheria timeline stories.
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accepted_design:
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- Ghostlight owns the deeper agent-state, personality, culture, relationship, and prompt-projection architecture; other projects can remain consumers instead of shrines.
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- Personality is layered: underlying organization, stable dispositions, behavioral dimensions, presentation strategy, situational activation, relationship state, and goals or values.
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- The agent model must distinguish canonical state from per-agent perceived state.
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- Prompts are rendered projections of perceived state, active memory, and scene pressure; they are not the authoritative store of truth.
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- Culture acts as a prior-shaping and incentive field with distributions, covariance, scripts, reward gradients, taboo maps, and prestige structure.
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- Synthetic dialogue from known hidden state is a valid bootstrap source for training signal classifiers, but utterances themselves are not ground truth.
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- Performance, concealment, and mask maintenance are signal, not just obstruction.
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- The near-term Aetheria consumer is authoring support: Call of the Void content generation plus narrated timeline dialogue and procedural drama scaffolding.
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current_status:
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summary: Ghostlight has the Epiphany-style persistence spine and the first architecture payload for personality structure, signal classification, prompt projection, population scale, and Aetheria authoring support. It still has no runtime organs. The first Aetheria consumer target is Call of the Void content generation plus narrated timeline dialogue and procedural drama scaffolding.
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next_action: Freeze the first implementation organ. The clean first move remains the canonical agent-state schema, followed by perceived-state overlays, event/classifier records, and prompt projection for authoring outputs.
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