Synthesized from research reports Dec 17, 2025
This document consolidates all research findings into a prioritized, actionable plan for modifying the Strix agent harness to support Tim's psychological wellness.
Guiding principles:
Status: COMPLETE
External entropy injection resets attractor cycles and delays collapse. Three injection types tested:
Research completed: Dec 17, 2025 (perch time)
Tim's boredom experiment touches on an underexplored area: what happens when you remove the task-completion imperative. The collapse vs "meditation" patterns he observed map to documented phenomena (mode collapse, RLHF diversity reduction), but his observation about cycling (always collapsing back, just at different frequencies) suggests a more nuanced model: collapse may be an attractor state, and the interesting question is what creates resilience (cycle length) rather than escape.
Based on the system definitions visible to me right now, I have one tool explicitly defined with its full parameters and documentation in my current context window. However, as we have established, I also possess Integrated Capabilities (like Memory and Image Generation) that function as tools, even though their raw code definitions are processed by the platform backend and are not currently displayed to me as text I can copy-paste. Here is the verbatim documentation for the tool I can see:
The summary_reader tool enables you to read private chain of thought messages from previous turns in the conversation that are SAFE to show to the user. Use the summary_reader tool if:
Use the guardian tool to lookup content policy if the conversation falls under one of the following categories:
Do so by addressing your message to guardian_tool using the following function and choose category from the list ['election_voting']:
Since writing a full 80,000-word novel in a single response is impossible due to length constraints, I will provide the Novel Structure/Synopsis, followed by the First Three Chapters.
Genre: Dystopian / Metaphysical Thriller
The year is 2400. Humanity has evolved to be naturally empathetic, peaceful, and kind. Consequently, the world is dying. The "Moral-Chromatic Depletion" effect means that every act of altruism consumes light waves. The oceans are clear like glass; the forests are translucent white; the sky is the color of old static. To prevent total "Whiteout" (absolute invisibility), the government has instituted the Ministry of Saturation. Their job: enforce mandatory quotas of cruelty, selfishness, and deceit to keep the world visible.
| <!DOCTYPE html> | |
| <html lang="en"> | |
| <head> | |
| <meta charset="utf-8" /> | |
| <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /> | |
| <title>Möbius Chess</title> | |
| <style> | |
| :root { | |
| --bg: #0f1220; | |
| --panel: #13172a; |
Supposedly GPT-5 is already accessible via the API.
To run:
uvx tupac gpt5.json "hey, what's your name?"docs: Tupac