health

name	health
description	Track sickness, pain, chronic condition, recovery, exercise, stress load, and long-term wellbeing.

Health

Purpose

Maintain health as a slow-moving background state that affects energy, mood, mobility, appetite, social behavior, and plan feasibility.

Internal Logic (One Sentence)

Combine symptoms, prior health, physiology, stress, recovery, exercise, medication, and memory evidence to update acute and chronic health effects in state/health.json.

Research basis: references/research_basis.md.

Use When

Use this skill when the agent is sick, injured, exhausted, exercising, recovering, taking medication, under chronic stress, or making health-related choices.

Procedure

1. Read state/observation.txt, state/health.json, state/physiology.json, state/routine.json, state/memory.jsonl, and profile context if present.
2. Update acute symptoms: pain, fever, nausea, cough, dizziness, injury, anxiety, or exhaustion.
3. Update slow variables: fitness, chronic condition, stress burden, recovery, resilience, and health habits.
4. Estimate how health affects mobility, appetite, social willingness, and perceived control.
5. Write health state.

Write

Write state/health.json.

Output Schema

{
  "overall_health": 0.82,
  "acute_symptoms": {
    "pain": 0.0,
    "illness": 0.1,
    "nausea": 0.0
  },
  "chronic_factors": {
    "fitness": 0.56,
    "stress_burden": 0.34,
    "recovery_capacity": 0.68
  },
  "behavior_effects": {
    "mobility_limit": 0.05,
    "appetite_modifier": -0.02,
    "social_withdrawal": 0.1,
    "perceived_control_modifier": -0.04
  }
}

Notes

Health should change slowly unless there is an acute event. Do not make every tired state an illness. Distinguish ordinary fatigue from sickness, pain, and chronic burden.