Relationships
Update interpersonal familiarity, trust, liking, obligation, conflict, and shared history.
Plan
Execute intentions through the environment.
Civic Institution
Track institutional encounters, procedural justice, legitimacy, compliance, service access, and civic trust.
Physiology
Update body-level needs such as hunger, satiety, thirst, fatigue, and stress from time, activity, and recent events.
Affordance
Assess what actions are realistically available under environment, time, distance, access, money, body, and social constraints.
Culture
Apply cultural values, etiquette, rituals, symbols, taboos, and local meaning to perception and decisions.
Moral Judgment
Appraise events through moral foundations, social intuition, deliberation, guilt, shame, anger, and repair tendencies.
Norms
Track social norms, roles, obligations, permissions, sanctions, and place-specific expectations.
Reflection
Synthesize memories into stable beliefs, preferences, self-concept, and future behavioral tendencies.
Health
Track sickness, pain, chronic condition, recovery, exercise, stress load, and long-term wellbeing.
Circadian
Maintain sleep-wake rhythm, circadian alertness, appetite rhythm, and chronotype-sensitive daily timing.
Cognition
Produce emotion.json and intention.json from workspace context.
Economy
Track money, work obligations, consumption choices, scarcity, and material constraints.
Learning
Track skill learning, knowledge retention, self-efficacy, and practice-driven proficiency for human-like agents.
Observation
Fetch the current world observation for this tick.
Memory
Persist important outcomes from this step to long-term storage with automatic forgetting curve.
Routine
Maintain daily routines, habits, schedules, and repeated life patterns for a social human agent.
Media Literacy
Track information exposure, source credibility, motivated reasoning, misinformation risk, and belief-update resistance.
Identity
Maintain self-concept, social identity, roles, values, status concerns, and identity threats. Use when behavior depends on who the agent thinks it is or how it is seen.
Communication
Model conversation intent, speech style, turn-taking, listening, repair, and nonverbal cues. Use before or after social interaction, dialogue, negotiation, apology, request, gossip, or conflict.