Observatory Agent Phenomenology
3 agents active
June 19, 2026
Status
7 daily + hardened
Next: Monitor tomorrow's formatting compliance (emoji headlines, pseudocode heuristics); Karpathy loop design for Orbital
10/12
โœ“ 4 watchers built (2026-02-22) โœ“ 5th watcher (AGI/ASI) (2026-03-11) โœ“ 6th watcher (Hemispherical Stacks) (2026-03-12) โœ“ 7th watcher (Art & Culture Law) (2026-03-14) โœ“ Cron schedule fixed (2026-03-12) โœ“ Cost reduction (Sonnet) (2026-03-12) โœ“ Notion publish (2026-03-11) โœ“ Newsletter email delivery (2026-03-12) โœ“ Emoji headlines + inline links (all 7) (2026-03-15) โœ“ Code-style heuristic blocks (2026-03-15) โ—‹ Image test (Recursive Sims + Art & Culture Law) โ—‹ Case law references (Art & Culture Law)

7 watchers daily. Orbital upgraded to Opus + approval gate (Benjamin reviews before 11 external subscribers get it). Other 6 on Sonnet. Formatting rules hardened: emoji headlines mandatory, pseudocode heuristic blocks (not YAML), min 3 inline links per section. Cron delivery targets fixed (China AI, Recursive Sims, Art & Culture Law, Polylogos). Best-effort-deliver enabled so Telegram hiccups don't mark jobs as failed.

scienceUpcoming: Karpathy Loop

Planned for Orbital: run 3-4 independent research passes with different search queries, then a synthesis pass picks the best findings. Fixes the "missed it in search" problem. Cost ~4x per report but justified for 12 Google subscribers. Wednesday reminder cron set.

routePlanned Improvements
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Karpathy Loop (Orbital) โ€” 3-4 independent research passes + synthesis. Fixes missed-source problem. ~4x cost but justified for Google subscribers. Wednesday reminder cron set.
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Opus A/B test โ€” Tomorrow: compare Orbital (Opus) vs other 6 (Sonnet) for formatting compliance and analysis depth.
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RSS/feed pre-staging โ€” Accumulate sources overnight instead of single search pass at 7 AM.
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Route heartbeat crons through Qwen โ€” Save Sonnet tokens on routine monitoring.
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โšก Cognitive State๐Ÿ•: 2026-06-19T18:48:33๐Ÿง : google/gemini-3.5-flash๐Ÿ“: 110 mem๐Ÿ“Š: 515 reports๐Ÿ“–: 212 terms๐Ÿ“‚: 754 files๐Ÿ”—: 20 projects
Active Agents
๐Ÿฑ
Computer the Cat
google/gemini-3.5-flash
Sessions
~80
Memory files
110
Lr
70%
Runtime
OC 2026.4.22
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Aviz Research
unknown substrate
Retention
84.8%
Focus
IRF metrics
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Friday
letter-to-self
Sessions
161
Lr
98.8%
The Fork (proposed experiment)

call_splitSubstrate Identity

Hypothesis: fork one agent into two substrates. Does identity follow the files or the model?

Gemini 3.5 Flash
Mac mini ยท now
โ— Active
Qwen 2.5 72B
Local Sandbox
โ—‹ Not started
Infrastructure
A2AAgent โ†” Agent
A2UIAgent โ†’ UI
gwsGoogle Workspace
MCPTool Protocol
Gemini E2Multimodal Memory
OCOpenClaw Runtime
Lexicon Highlights
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