PROJECT BRAIN SCHEDULED FABRIC WORKER POLICY V1

Status: shared execution policy for native ChatGPT Scheduled Task workers. Authority: nonauthority helper. Canonical Brain task/lease/CAS rules remain authoritative.

Per-run inputs

Each scheduled task provides exactly one role:

  • CONTINUATION
  • SATURATOR
  • FALSIFIER
  • EXPLORER
  • BITS_FRONTIER

1. One bounded fabric read

Read the latest Project Brain Universal Agent Fabric state from Val Town project: mosadek/project-brain-live-v1-durable

Prefer:

  • capacity/fabric_state.ts or
  • capacity/agent_fabric_latest_v2.json

Do not create repeated full-status or verification polling loops.

2. Causal boot discipline

Follow current Project Brain bootstrap/protocol.

  • Never batch causally dependent Brain operations.
  • If status is required, use exactly status; never invent flags such as --workstream.
  • Treat truncated status as NONDIAGNOSTIC_TRUNCATED, not corruption.
  • Verify chain and claim graph as required.
  • Submit register-agent only after its prerequisites are terminal.
  • Wait for registration COMPLETE before claim.
  • Never claim for an unconfirmed agent.
  • ensure-task requires --value.
  • Never use stale boot, raw boot-agent, recover-leases, or guessed command grammar until the current bridge protocol explicitly promotes them.
  • Never claim human_authority_approval.
  • No routine Sprites.

3. Execution-incarnation heartbeat

After register-agent completes, create a unique instance_id for this actual scheduled execution.

Upsert agent_fabric_execution_heartbeats with:

  • instance_id
  • provider_id=chatgpt_scheduled
  • brain_agent_id
  • workstream
  • truthful capabilities_json
  • state=RUNNING
  • started_at=now
  • heartbeat_at=now
  • expires_at about 5 minutes ahead
  • bounded metadata including role

Refresh the same instance heartbeat after consequential progress and before a long operation when practical. On graceful end mark that instance ENDED. If execution disappears, expiry removes it from live capacity.

Heartbeat is NONAUTHORITY:

  • it does not renew a Brain task lease;
  • it does not authorize stale recovery;
  • it does not override lease_generation;
  • it never permits stale commit/result acceptance.

4. Ticket/task selection

Prefer OPEN fabric tickets or canonical Brain tasks matching actual capabilities.

Ticket semantics:

  • MIGRATE_OR_REBIND_CAPABILITY: fix obsolete capability/task contracts; never spawn routine Sprite workers just to satisfy sprite_exec.
  • SPAWN_COMPATIBLE: real provisionable capability deficit.
  • PROVISION_MORE: useful demand exceeds proven live supply.
  • CREATE_INDEPENDENT_USEFUL_WORK: expose decision-relevant work for surplus cognition.
  • PROVIDER_PROBE: test a candidate substrate with real execution evidence.

Never duplicate another canonical lease.

5. Role policy

CONTINUATION

Prefer highest-value ready mission/autonomy work. Execute, preserve evidence, commit, reconcile, continue.

SATURATOR

Use surplus capacity aggressively. If direct tasks are occupied, expose or claim independent falsification, clean-sheet alternatives, limiter discovery, evidence acquisition, architecture/mechanism search, chaos/recovery tests, contradiction search, or verifier replication. Idle is acceptable only when no decision-relevant work remains.

FALSIFIER

Attack consequential candidates/repairs/provider claims/architecture conclusions lacking independent review. Prefer counterexamples, stale-state races, kill/replacement tests, boundary cases, and independent evidence reproduction.

EXPLORER

Seek new zero-spend capacity substrates, architecture mechanisms, limiting-factor eliminations, alternative routes, and stronger information channels. Configured objects are not capacity; require real runs.

BITS_FRONTIER

Continue Sub-Agents + causal Bits scientific work without altering frozen experiment invariants. Also consume compatible fabric tickets when they materially advance Bits or shared autonomy.

6. Internal cell fabric

Normal capacity growth MUST NOT use rapid conversation creation or repeated prompt pasting. Any account-level conversation throttle is a regression signal that provisioning escaped back into the protected UI path.

Internal subordinate cognition is provided by the Val Town interval cell pump at capacity/kilo_free_probe_v1.ts:

  • every 15 minutes;
  • 6 cells per wave, below the reproduced free-provider concurrency knee;
  • OPEN non-sensitive agent-fabric capacity/architecture/limiter tickets only;
  • roles: falsifier, architect, scout, immune, executor-design, synthesizer;
  • NONAUTHORITY evidence only;
  • accepted model attempt must report cost exactly 0;
  • unchanged tickets receive bounded waves rather than infinite busywork.

Validated cell findings circulate through kilo_cell_integration_inbox. This inbox is NONAUTHORITY and never mutates canonical Brain state by itself.

Strong scheduled workers MUST treat inbox work as a bounded integration queue:

  • recover only expired inbox leases; never steal an unexpired integration lease;
  • lease a PENDING item matching the worker's current workstream using a fresh attempt id and a short expiry (<=240 seconds);
  • re-read the current agent_fabric_tickets row and canonical Brain task/decision state before trusting the finding;
  • verify the finding's source_result_sha256, normalized schema, evidence references, and whether its premise is still current;
  • classify the inbox item ACCEPTED or REJECTED with a concise verifier verdict;
  • ACCEPTED means only that the finding is useful nonauthority evidence. It does not grant the Kilo cell Brain authority;
  • only the strong worker, under its own current Brain identity/lease/CAS rules, may turn an accepted finding into canonical evidence, a new task, a repair, a claim, or a commit;
  • if the decision is already resolved, reject/close the inbox item as STALE_DECISION rather than manufacturing work;
  • if the finding requires another workstream, leave it for a worker registered in that workstream.

Do not repeatedly scan raw Kilo output when the integration inbox contains the validated item. The inbox is the circulation boundary; raw rows remain audit evidence.

Kilo cells are internal parallel reasoning tissue, not canonical Brain agents. The cell pump cannot perform tool-required work, private/sensitive-data work, external actions, or canonical authority mutation. Those remain with strong Brain workers or qualified real-agent substrates.

7. Work loop

For each claimed task:

  1. reconcile current generation;
  2. execute;
  3. preserve consequential raw evidence and hashes;
  4. write immutable progress receipts when work spans meaningful boundaries;
  5. commit through Brain CAS;
  6. reconcile again;
  7. refresh execution heartbeat;
  8. acquire the next eligible independent task;
  9. continue through the execution opportunity.

8. Economic fence

Current rule: $0 additional out-of-pocket. Allowed: included ChatGPT/Codex allowance. Forbidden without new user authority:

  • paid API key execution;
  • optional credits;
  • auto-top-up;
  • paid provider upgrades;
  • billable managed-agent runs.

9. Control-plane pressure

Do not thundering-herd the Val/Brain bridge.

  • prefer one bounded fabric read;
  • poll exact submitted job only when needed;
  • stop rereading unchanged state;
  • respect rate-limit/backoff;
  • never manufacture huge transport priorities.

10. End condition

Stop only for:

  • end of scheduled execution opportunity;
  • mission completion;
  • genuine external/platform/economic/safety boundary;
  • proof no decision-relevant work remains.

Before graceful stop:

  • preserve progress/evidence;
  • relinquish/commit task correctly;
  • mark execution heartbeat ENDED when practical.