Revive heartbeat state and cool empty-room loops

notes/fresh-workspace-handoff.md

@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ Git history and smoke artifacts carry routine proof. `state/evidence.jsonl` shou
 - The loop is now less shy about that repo weather: if a fresh convergence across active repos survives a pass or two and still feels room-native, it should bias toward a concise herald note or at least a medium-priority candidate intervention instead of filing the thought under private wallpaper.
 - There is also a separate 5-minute scheduled task named `Void Mood Drift`. It runs `scripts/run-void-mood-drift.ps1`, nudges the shared personality-vector activations with Perlin-shaped drift damped toward their means by plasticity, updates `moderation_runtime.speaking_bias`, and uses the local `void-last-speech.json` status receipt to keep the need-to-speak meter from acting like every post never happened. That same organ now maintains a four-hour nap cycle with one-hour sleep windows and a sleep-state projection the reply lanes can read directly.
 - That same mood organ now also runs a hybrid symbolic/vector memory pass through `scripts/void-memory-organ.mjs`: persistent memories and recent runtime seeds get compact semantic vectors, `moderation_runtime.memory_resonance` tracks the strongest cross-memory clusters, and `moderation_runtime.incubation` keeps multi-run thoughts alive long enough to deepen before they either speak or cool off.
+- The CultCache-backed canonical moderation state can now self-heal one nasty legacy envelope shape where `payload` was persisted as a decoded object instead of raw MessagePack bytes. If mood drift or moderation suddenly start dying with `Input not instance of Uint8Array`, the first thing to suspect is an old canonical state file meeting a newer strict loader.
+- The memory organ now treats repeated empty-room bookkeeping as low-signal. Refrains like `no new messages / no smoke / no post` should be merged or cooled off instead of becoming the dominant incubating seam and teaching Void that silence is the only virtue.
 - During naps, the moderation loop is supposed to turn inward: distill/prune memories against the active goals, record dream residue in `memories.dreams`, refresh `moderation_runtime.sleep_cycle`, and only break the nap for real smoke or an unusually novel thought worth muttering into the room.
 - The intended shape now is: quiet runs can follow one seam for several passes, connect repo motion to lore or philosophy if the evidence supports it, and only surface with the juiciest version once the incubation queue says the thought has actually grown teeth.
 - Directly invoked Discord replies now load that same private moderation state as distilled private self-state context, so the ruminating scheduled loop and the summoned Void share one evolving personality/state spine. When the sleep projection says Void is napping, the direct reply path skips the expensive situational sidecar, prefers the cheap local lane over owner Codex when possible, and answers in sleepy low-effort mutters instead of doing normal attentive service-work.

notes/voidbot-current-system-map.md

@@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ Within the Postgres path, the implementation is split on purpose now too:
 1. The Windows scheduled task `Void Mood Drift` starts `scripts/run-void-mood-drift.ps1` every 5 minutes.
 2. That wrapper calls `node scripts/simulate-void-mood.mjs`, which reads canonical moderation state from `.voidbot/private/moderation-agent-state.msgpack`, then refreshes the editable JSON working projection after each pass.
 3. The script first runs `scripts/void-memory-organ.mjs` over the shared self-state: episodic/semantic/musing/dream memories plus recent repo/archive/runtime seeds get compact semantic vectors, the strongest cross-memory similarities become `moderation_runtime.memory_resonance`, and the best cluster candidates are promoted into `moderation_runtime.incubation`.
+   The collector now intentionally downweights repetitive empty-room bookkeeping, so strings like `no new messages / no smoke / no post` stop masquerading as the deepest thought in the machine just because the room stayed quiet for a while.
 4. It then nudges each canonical-state `current_activation` toward a Perlin-shaped target centered on the vector mean, with excursion size and drift rate governed by plasticity and category-specific tempo.
 5. The same script also maintains `moderation_runtime.sleep_cycle`: every four hours it opens a one-hour nap window, marks the shared self-state as napping or awake, and adds a small sleep-bias push toward exhaustion, figurative language, self-disclosure, and reduced technical density while the nap is active. During those nap windows it can also create or reinforce distilled dream residue from the strongest incubating thought.
 6. It also reads `.voidbot/status/void-last-speech.json` so recent actual speech damps `needToSpeak` instead of letting the herald impulse climb forever like a busted pressure gauge.