KAI Vitals Fix — Checklist & Handoff

Date: 2026-06-21

Summary: Kai's vitals were frozen/idle, not dying — diagnosis done + fixes applied; build/restart pending.

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1. What was changed

Curiosity scale fix — tools/oracle-discord/shared/drive-system.mjs

• phi_g is mean cell confidence (range 0–5), so the old 1 - Math.min(1, phi_g) pinned curiosity to 0 whenever phi_g > 1. Now normalized phi_g / 5.0 before inverting.
• Backup: drive-system.mjs.curiosity-fix.bak.txt
• Needs: Node fleet restart (NO recompile — it's JS).

rho wired to real density — src/bridge/oracle_server.rs (heartbeat)

• Was hardcoded rho: 0.0; now reads FieldState::compute(&u, 1).rho (the engine's real field-density calc).

valence — headless affective approximation — src/bridge/oracle_server.rs (heartbeat)

• Was hardcoded valence: 0.0; now a persistent Drive + NeuralOscillator accumulate valence each 5s tick, mirroring the engine tick (engine.rs:809–855).
• Reduced model: does NOT include amygdala arousal, serotonin, or language tone (those modules don't exist in the headless oracle-server process).
• Backup (covers both Rust edits): oracle_server.rs.heartbeat-vitals-fix.bak.txt
• Needs: cargo rebuild.

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2. To make the fixes live (run on the host, in order)

1. Rebuild the engine:

   cargo build --release --bin kai

2. Confirm the supervisor runs the FRESH binary target\release\kai.exe (not the stale root C:\KAI\kai.exe). Verify with:

   python C:\KAI\kai_healthcheck.py

(It warns "exe OLDER than source" if the rebuild didn't take.)

3. Restart the Node fleet (sequences the full boot — engine + bots):

   .\Start-KAI.ps1

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3. To unfreeze the lattice (phi_g / chi / cells only move with input)

The lattice has been static because nothing has been feeding it (prolonged silence). Feed it via a supported path:

Talk to Kai (each message adds/reinforces a cell). Use Discord, or POST a turn directly:

Invoke-RestMethod -Uri http://127.0.0.1:3334/api/turn -Method Post -ContentType 'application/json' -Body '{"from":"Ryan","text":"hello Kai, let''s talk about lattice physics"}'

Optional — set an objective so the ingest/research loop self-feeds (needs internet; free sources — DuckDuckGo/Wikipedia/arXiv, no keys; low-yield):

Invoke-RestMethod -Uri http://127.0.0.1:3334/api/task -Method Post -ContentType 'application/json' -Body '{"title":"Research","task":"superconductivity"}'

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4. Known remaining gaps (future items)

• valence is a reduced approximation, not full affect (no amygdala / serotonin / language tone).
• Research loop is low-yield and requires outbound internet; offline = no growth.
• Hippocampus "210k patterns" source untraced — data/hippocampus_status.json (the file the engine is coded to write) is not being written, so that figure's origin is unconfirmed. Flagged for follow-up.