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Compose the AIgent's body state by reading existing signals. Lazy compute. Never polled. Reports the five pressures + recommended reflex.
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| name | body-check |
| agent | none |
| description | Compose the AIgent's body state by reading existing signals. Lazy compute. Never polled. Reports the five pressures + recommended reflex. |
| allowed-tools | Read, Bash |
| user-invocable | true |
| triggers | ["body check","body state","how am I doing","check pressure","context pressure","memory pressure","somatic check","vital signs"] |
Reports current body state by reading existing signals — does NOT maintain a separate state. Computed on invocation, optionally cached to memory/BODY_STATE.json for the session.
memory/HEAT_INDEX.json → attention/decay statememory/usage_log.md → token pressure (latest entry vs trailing 5)memory/DECISION_LOG.md + DECISION_OUTCOMES.md → decisions due (30/60/90 day intervals)memory/ACTIVE_PRIORITIES.md → tier-1 / modememory/DELEGATION_TRACKER.md → open delegationsmemory/MEMORY_CANDIDATES.md → staged backlog countmemory/HESTIA_SWEEP_LOG.md → last Hestia sweep date (v0.4.4)--full)Matches memory/BODY_STATE.json _schema block exactly. See system/15_somatic_layer.md for field definitions and pressure thresholds.
Read memory/HESTIA_SWEEP_LOG.md. Find the most recent ### YYYY-MM-DD entry (matches ^### (\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}) regex). The newest matching date becomes hestia_last_sweep as ISO8601 (<date>T00:00:00Z). If no matches, hestia_last_sweep = null.
Priority order — first match wins:
context_pressure: critical → recommend capsulememory_candidate_backlog > 10 → recommend digesthestia_last_sweep is null OR more than 7 days ago → recommend sweep (v0.4.4)decision_reviews_due > 0 → recommend (no action, surface in /open)none/open (auto, briefly)/close (to inform the close protocol)Do NOT run on a hook polling cadence.
The capsule verb, invoked explicitly — reconcile from the live memory, write a resume-ready capsule, then stop. Mid-session checkpoint or completion capsule; a rolling best-effort version of the same write also runs automatically on every Stop event via daemons/stop-capsule-writer.mjs.
The resume verb, invoked explicitly — load the newest valid capsule by created_at, re-ground against live memory, then ACT on waiting_on. Mid-session or on explicit ask; the post-clear boot fires the same procedure automatically via daemons/resume-verb.mjs.
Run the volunteering ledger before declaring work done. Forces surfacing of what changed/didn't, what was noticed-but-not-fixed, what was guessed, and what tradeoffs were made on the principal's behalf. The standard - the principal should never be surprised later by something the agent knew at the time.
Capture a confident agent claim (Phase 1) or resolve one as right/wrong (Phase 2) in vault/memory/TRUST_DECAY.md. Builds the longitudinal record of agent calibration over time. Pairs with /honesty-check (which should reduce Phase 1 frequency) and /diagnose (which surfaces causes that often reveal Phase 2 events).
One evidence-gated pass that sequences /dream, /reconcile, /sweep-now, and /digest over your own vault, with a /system-check gate and a ledger-review pass over the measurement layer (Honesty Ledger, Trust Decay, Failure Modes). Stays exactly as human-gated as the legs it calls -- stages, never auto-applies. Skips a leg gracefully when there is nothing to do; every leg that runs leaves an evidence line.
Dispatch Hestia to run all 3 vault sweeps (DELEGATION_TRACKER stale items, HEAT_INDEX dormant flips, broken wikilinks) and append the result to HESTIA_SWEEP_LOG.